The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-05-11

"It matters not who is president
of the United States or what his
foreign policy may be. His policy
must be our policy. Let us stand
together and support the president
regardless to how much we may
differ from him. There is only
one flag here and we are going
to follow the flag no matter who
may carry it,.
This was the appeal to patriotic
support of the president made by Gov
ernor Emanuel L. Philip when he
spoke to the people of the western part
of Kenosha and Racine counties at a
great meeting held at the Yorkville
church on Monday evening under the
auspices Of the Union Grove CONNER
cial club.
The governor was never given
more cordial greeting in any part Of
the state. The church was filed with
five hundred men and women, repre-
senting the farming community and
the villages Of that section of the two
counties. 1t was a non-partisan meet
ing and men of all parties joined in
applauding the patriotic sentiments of
the state 8 chief executive. The Hon.
j. S. Blakey of Union Grove, presided
at the meeting and on the platform
with the governor were many Of the
representative men of the two coun-
ties. On the reception committee Ke-
nosha county was represented by Judge
G. E. Randall of the municipal court,
District Attorney Alfred l.. Drury and
County Clerk Russell I'll. Jones.
The talk of the governor was q
neighborly talk. 1t dealt much with
the cooperation of neighborliness
which the governor held was so neces-
sary to the success Of the smaller COM
munities in the state. He talked poll
tics, but he did not intrude any politics
of factionalism on the people. He
made no reference to his contest with
the senior senator and insisted that in
Wisconsin the doctrine of hate had
been already preached too long. The
governor insisted that he was not
out campaigning.
''I do not believe that I would like
to be governor even of Wisconsin for
a steady employment" he said. cit
matters not what you do or how well
you do it, there is always lot of peo-
pie who had made up their minds to be
dissatisfied and there is no chance of
pleasing them. If you save the people
money in their tax bills these people
insist on calling you tight wad and
if you spend the money of the people
be it spent ever so wisely, you at once
become 'spendthrift.' The one hope
is that Americans always praise their
dead statesmen and I am going along
with that comforting assurance that
some time when I have been gathered
to my fathers some one will be able
to find something that I did, or at
tempted to do, which will warrant
me receiving some praise from my
fellow citizens"
The governor declared that in his
administration of the state he had
sought to simplify the government and
that in this manner he had been sue
cessful in reducing the expense Of
maintaining the state Offices He as
serted that regardless of what any one
may claim that the state was not broke
but that on the other hand it had more
than $3,000,000 in the general fund and
that he felt confident that the most Of
this money would be there at the end
of the fiscal year on July LIST. He as
serted that the taxes levied for the
state had been reduced this year by
more than 100000 and that they had
been reduced without the loss Of any
efficiency in any department of gov
eminent.
The government declared that the
state in the past had simply acted as
collecting agencies for the highway
fund, but that this year the state aid
to highways would be real for it will
be paid out of the general fund with
out calling on the people to pay it in
as a special tax first. He spoke at
length on highways and declared that
along with the problem of building the
highways must go the greater problem
OF maintaining them. He declared
that it was foolish for the people of
Wisconsin to expend great sums for
the Improvement of roads and then
make no provision for the protection
of the capital invested.
He made strong plea for the schools
In the rural district. He declared that
the "most neglected thing in Wiscon-
sin was the rural cross roads school. -
This school hash t moved forward an
inch in the last thirty-fve years. de-
clared the governor. He declared
that the demand today was for the