The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-07-09
Farce Comedy is Outdone at
Meeting of the Council
Monday Evening.
BAIT" HIS HONOR
Mayor Delivers an Apostrophe to the
Flag and Defends Plan to Keep sa-
loon Open Until Eleven O'Clock on
Sunday-No Action on Licenses.

Theatres in Kenosha will probably
adopt the plar of making no bookings
for the first and third Mondays in the
month as with picture show, vaude-
vile and lecture all united running at
the city hall on those nights with free
admittance to every one the theatres
can not hope to cope with the attrac-
ton offered in the meetings of the COM
mon council. The aldermen and the
mayor offered another strong vaudeville
bill on Monday evening and crowd of
three hundred, the capacity of the coun-
Gil chamber, was kept laughing and
shouting for three hours at the antics
of His Honor and the aldermen who
baited him. There was political argu-
ment in which the question at issue was
Which is the better-a good Socialist
or bad Republican or a Democratic
Then the mayor had a Fourth of July
grafton bottled up in him somewhere,
and he just had to get it out and over.
The Staat Verband also came in with
an effort to have the aldermen agree to
a violation of the state law and the city
ordinances and these things all put to-
gether brought an entertainment so va
| ricd that the meeting was declared to
be session of thousand laughs. The
fame of the Kenosha council is being
spread around and men from New York
and Chicago were at the session last
night just to see how things were pulled
off.
The excitement started early in the
evening when petition was presented
seeking to bolster up the demand Tor a
saloon licenes at Petersen s Park. At
torney Stewart spoke and then A. F..
Miller, property owner, responded and
he responded so vigorously that there
was lot of applause. The mayor de-
livered an ultimatum that he would per-
nit no more applause from the lobby,
and for a second the clapping hands
were stilled, but Alderman Kisten
promptly took the floor and declared
that if Kenosha people desired to APP
lplaud in the council chamber that was
their right and his retort was promptly
greeted with applause.
The council took no action on the Pc
dersen license or on the license for the
saloon at the corner of Rowland avenue
and Selleck avenue and the committee
was given two weeks more to consider
these applications without division Of
the aldermen. 1t was also announced
that the places would be given no per-
NIT to operate pending the decision Of
the council.
The fur began to fly when the local
branch of the German National ALI
ance, known as the Staat Verband, sent
a petition to the council asking that it
be given permit to operate the bar at
Anderson s Park on German Day.
August 9th, and that further permission
be given to continue the selling of in
toxicants up to eleven CLOCK at night
Former Alderman Stemm addressed the
council on the question at length and
the mayor made strong plea that the
permission be granted It was Just
about this time that the argument over
1.-The Socialists and Democrats and Re-
publicans was pulled off between the
mayor and Alderman Kisten. The al
derman from the fifth declared that the
Stats Verband was an organization con-
ceived by Socialists and that the sole
purpose of making the petition to the
council was to put the aldermen on rec
ord as being favorable to not enforcing
the law. The mayor in hot retort de-
clared that "a good Socialist was lot
better than bad Republican or bad
Democrat. Then he got off lot of
eloquence in regard to non-partisan
elections and a non partisan council.
but the oratory did not seem to help
things at all. There was some vigorous
side-stepping on the part of the alder
men. Kisten demanded that the council
go on record as opposing the prayer of
the petition, but some of the aldermen
thought that it would be better to file
it and it finally went to the discard
with lot of other things on which the
council declined to take action.
I The Germans will get no permission
to keep the place open after hours, but
It was made pretty plain that if this
permission is granted similar Sundays
will be devoted to the observance of
Polish Day. Lithuanian Day, -
"Croatian Day, y Irish Day, = ssDan-
ish Day. lin two sections) and it is
, just possible that the council will find a
day when the American born can get a
, drink after hours.
i The Fourth of July grafton delivered
by the mayor was brought about by the
failure of the janitor to raise the flag
} over the city hall on the Fourth of
July. The janitor had good and valid
defense. He asserted that there was no
rope on the flag pole and that he had
asked the mayor to have one placed
There. The mayor side stepped and de-