The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-05-14
SEEKS SUPPORT IN KENOSHA
Coming of the Attorney General Into
the Field Is Said to be the Work of
the McGovern Faction-Hun Urged
to Run For Second Place.

Republican leaders in Kenosha were
advised today that the state campaign
is to be even more complicated by the
entrance of Attorney General Walter
Owen as a candidate for the office of
governor. Owen is said to be the Nc
Govern candidate for the Office and
sweeping changes in announced candi-
dacies are forecasted as a result Of lis
announcement.
He will announce his candidacy with
in few days. For several weeks his
friends have been urging him to become
la candidate and he told some of them
Sunday that he had decided to enter the
field. He will probably not be opposed
by a bull moose candidate. At least
Governor McGovern, who is regarded
as having considerable influence with
the moosers, will, it is understood, use
his good offices to prevent the moosers
from running ticket against Owen.
Charles H. Crownhart, of Superior,
chairman of the state industrial com
mission, who some time ago said he
would become candidate for the re-
publican nomination for governor if he
believed that the party demanded it,
will withdraw his tentative candidacy
in favor Of Owen.
Efforts are being made by Owen s
friends to induce Assemblyman Merlin
Hull of Black River Falls, who is also
a tentative candidate for the republican
nomination for governor, to withdraw
and run for the republican nomination
for lieutenant governor on the Owen
ticket, with the assurance of the La
Toilette support for governor four
years from now. Mr.. Hull, it is un-
derstood, has been approached with
this proposition, but is not inclined to
accept because he has received such en-
couraging assurances of support for the
nomination for governor, especially in
the northern part of the state, that ne
believes he might win the major nomi-
nation if he continues in the race.
Former State Senator A. w Sanborn
of Ashland, who has been urged by
many friends to become candidate for
the republican nomination for governor,
will, it is understood, support Owen
Sanborn may be slated as the harmony
candidate for the republican nomination
for attorney general,
Former State Senator W. H. Hatton
Of New London, who is an announced
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton for governor, will be asked to
withdraw in favor of Owen, but the
prospects of his doing so are not espe-
cially encouraging, according to i'm
pressions prevailing in the Owen camp
However, the men behind the Owen
candidacy hope to induce Hatton to !
pull out in favor of their candidate.
In return for the efforts of Governor
McGovern to keep the bull moosers
from bringing out ticket against
Owen, the friends of the latter, who
are the La Toilette men, ere to keep
their hands off the fight for the re-
publican nomination for United States
senator. Governor McGovern is conf |
dent that he can beat Lieutenant Gov
ernor Thomas Morris for the nomina-
tion for senator. All he asks is that
the La Toilette machine be kept neu-
trail. The La Toilette men, it is said, |
are beginning to realize the futility of |
trying to put over the nomination for
Morris. Every effort to get the Morris
candidacy to moving has failed. His
constitutional convention, antitrust,
anti-stalwart and other campaign shibo-
leths have fallen fiat.
Another condition Of the reported