The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-03-25
NAY FILE CONTESTS LATER on
Same Question Being Raised All Over
the State and Attorney General Does
Not Seem to be Ready with Opinion.
No Contests in Sight Here Now.

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account of aliens voting? This ques-
tion was asked all over Kenohsa Tues
day night and this morning. The ques-
ton remains unanswered. Even the at
torney general, who had been most
handy with kilograms in the last two
days OF the campaign and on primary
day, has not seen fit to vouchsafe a
new opinion following the decision Of
the Supreme Court which took away
from first paper residents the right to
vote after it had been offered to them
in the opinion of the attorney general
The best information that can be given
III answer to the question is that the
primary will stand until some defeated
candidate seeks to contest the result.
Lit is admitted that such candidate
will have grounds for a contest which
will take decision from the Supreme
Court. It is not thought that sin
gle nomination in Kenosha was af-
fected by the voting of the aliens on
first papers The telegram from Mad
ison which stemmed the tide of alien
votes came just in time to stop hun
dreds OF first paper voters in Kenosha
and In most of the wards q large ma
Jority of the men who sought to vote
on first papers were stopped by the
decision of the supreme court. A can
vass of the wards shows that some 1876
first paper votes got into the ballot
boxes before the attorney general re-
versed himself. In the fifth ward alone
there were eighty of these votes cast.
In the eighth there were 25 and an
equal number of first papers were
shown for votes in the fourth ward. The
third and seventh wards each reported
three first paper votes. In the ninth
ward the election officials did not fol-
low anybody decision, but held to the
law and allowed no one to vote on first
papers in the morning or afternoon.
The question of the invalidating the
election has been raised in practically
every city in Wisconsin where there is
a foreign population and it is expected
that contests of the result of the pri-
mary will be multiplied in these cities
and there will be no use of contest on
the part of any Kenosha candidate in
courts for a decision.
Aliens in Kenosha had hoped to con
troll the election and it is probable that
this would have been the effect in at
least three of the wards had not a stop
been put on the voting Of these men
early in the afternoon There had been
plans made to vote scores of first paper
men in the closing hours of the primary
and it had been expected that these
votes would change the result. 1t is
certain that Emil P. Mueller. than
whom no better man ever sat on the
Common Council, would have been de-
feated if the alien vote had been per-
mitted to continue without the stav
from Madison Molinaro, the italian
candidate in this ward, received MANY
votes of men of his own nationality
and it was easy to see that these men
were interested only in his nomination.
Scores Of the ballots cast for Molinaro
for the aldermanic nomination bore no
other mark on the ballot.
Up to a late hour today no defeated
candidate in Kenosha has shown any
intention to file contest of the pri-
mary, but this contest may be filed at
any time within the next ten days.
Should such a contest be filed the pres
ent aldermen, school commissioners and
county supervisors would retain Office
until the contest had been decided and
their successors regularly elected and
qualified.
The effect of the decision of the SUI
preme Court is that aliens with first pa
pers are barred from voting at any
election in Wisconsin and there will be
no reason for any doubts to be raised
as to the issue in the future.
The cutting out of these voters from
the city election will have an impor-
tant bearing in many of the wards of
Kenosha.
Tt Is announced that the call of the