The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-02
ALDERMEN NOURISH BOOMS
More Than a Dozen Men Who Are Well
known in City Being Mentioned in
Connection With Nomination for
Mayor at the Spring Campaign.

These are the days of buzzing poll
teal bees, the days of budding hopes Of
prominently mentioned citizens and
81 that goes to make up the prelimin-
airy discussion of candidates for city
Offices. Of course it will be sixty days
nearly before the petitions for candi-
dates can be put in circulation but
committees on public safety" are busy
and candidates are in the making for
every Office in the gift of the people.
The makeup of the council next year
is going to show a lot of changes if all
things that can be heard are to be be-
lieved. Alderman Gus Kisten who has
been something of feature in the coun-
Gil is the first to come out with the an
nouncement that he will not be candi-
date for reelection. Alderman Gus =
simply says 81 IN through" 1t is gem
orally believed that the remaining mem
bers of the council will either seek re-
election or seek to break into the high
er class Of the official directory There
is going to be lot of candidates for
mayor next year if the stories that are
floating about the store box forums are
to be believed just at present. Ellis
Present Honor" has admitted that
there has been such decided call for
him to seek reelection that he is going
to be forced to accede to the demands
of his constituents and make the race
again. One real feature of the cam
paign of 1916 is that there is not going
to be any more of the old Gorman-Scho-
ley controversy in nominating candi-
dates for mayor. Former Mayor Cor
man has become fully at home in the
office of the postmaster, the best politi-
cal job to be handed out in the city and
he is not showing any active interest in
who serves over across the way in the
mayor IS office. The elimination of Post
master German from the primaries will
take off the sheet right at the start
what has been real feature Of primary
campaigns in Kenosha for a good many
years.
The clans are lining up candidates
just The same and lot of new timber
is being mentioned in connection with
the mayorality. It is limited that DR..
George f. Adams might be induced to
shy his castor into the ring for political
preferment. This is not given the per-
sonal sanction of DR.. Adams but there
is a lot of Adams talk about the city
and it comes from a lot of different
places.
Some men who have served the city
and served it well are being mentioned
as possible candidates. Charles III.
Pfennig who served term as mayor
and then served in the legislature with
honor is being urged for recall to the
city hall by some of his political friends
and he has taken the matter under con-
sideration. Dan o. Head is another one
of the former mayors who is being talk
ed of among the men who are supposed
to draw political strings in the city.
The former mayor has been advised by
his friends that they may draft him for
service again and he also is thinking the
matter over. Then there is Alderman
Edward j. Sullivan of the first ward.
A rugged campaigner he is picked by
some of the wise ones. Alderman ks
zen is also a possibility and Alderman
john Joachim of the seventh ward has
asked the question "Why not9n AL
derman Gundlach is also said to have
his eye on a place at the head of the
ticket and while the senior alderman
from the second ward, Conrad Shearer,
asserts that there is nothing doing, his
friends have already got real little
boomlet under way for him. Then there
is Herb Thomey out in the ninth ward
former president of the council and
Peter Pirsch who also held this distin-
guished honor on several occasions are
both mentioned in connection with the
nomination. Just now it is beginning
to look as if there might be real re-
call started in favor of Joslp phi G. Rhode
former alderman of the second ward
and man who gave about as much red
blood to the work of serving the city
as any man who ever sat in the council.
Now that is some galaxty from which
TO choose and it is declared that the
choice is going to be about the hardest
one ever put up to the people of Ke-
nosha.
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