The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-01
THE MAYORALTY.


The mayoralty campaign has been
opened in WATERFOWL, in mild way,
10 be sure: but opened to the extent
that two men have announced their
candidates. to the people.
These two candidates are the only
ones before our voters so far, although
a third person is being urged to make
the race, and it is not unlikely that he
may accede to the opportunities OF
his friends and ask for the support OF
the voters.
The two who have announced them
selves as ayowed candidates are
Charles A. Kading, the present mayor,
and Charles Mulberger, at present
state senator in the Wisconsin legis-
lature from the thirty-third senatorial
district, comprising Jefferson and
Waukesha counties.
Mayor Kading has announced in
concise, open statement to the voters
what can be expected of him should
he be retained as city executive, and
in the fact that he has no apology to
offer for the acts of his incumbancy
now drawing to close, little is left
to the imagination as to what course
he would pursue or what the people
could expect of him.
Mr. Mulberger is a popular citizen
and a good business man, and stands
high in the esteem of his neighbors
and political friends; else he would
never have been chosen to grace the
position of honor he now occupies In
the states legislative halls.
But what of the future of Water
town?
The Leader can see but one thing.
AS city executive, to return Mr.. Kad-
ing is to give a deserved compliment
to public servant who has taken the
city though a term of the greatest
business administration in it's history
the high shoot building, the acquisi-
ton of land for park purposes, street
and sewer improvements and con-
duct of law and order enforcement
commendable in the extreme.
To select Mr. Mulberger is to ex-
pertinent with an unknown quantity
in the conduct of city affairs. He has
not so far told the people that he ap-
proves or disapproves anything the
present mayor has done, and it is
doubtful il he gets any distance in his
race should he announce opposition
to the mayors past acts in school or
other public improvements.
The Hon Mr. Mulberger is our state
senator; as such he has duty to per-
form There is no use quibbling or
hawking over this phase of the stu
alton He must relinquish his sena-
torial duties if he wants to serve as
mayor of Watertown, or he must re-
linquish his mayoralty duties, SHOULD
he be elected), if he wishes to serve
in the states Legislative halls. AS
senator he was chosen over his politi-
cal opponent, Frank FOote, by a plu-
rality of 1873 votes, and by a majority
over all opposition of 644 votes, and
his constituency in the thirty-third
district comprises population of H.
404 people. OF this number 81 100 of
his constituents are residents of Wau-
kesha county, and of the remainder
approximately $4,000 reside in Jeffer-
son county outside of WATERFOWL. 1t
would appear on the face of these
facts that Mr.. Mulberger owes an allie
glance to these 81, 400 people which
he and his ill-advised friends who
urged him to make the mayoralty race
should have carefully weighed.
In view of Mr.. Mulberger's act of
deserving his senatorial post, should
he be elected to the smaller Office of
mayor of Watertown, what assurance
have the voters that he would not de-
sert the Office of mayor before the ex-
piration of his term and ask the voters
to elect him to the office of ward al
derman?
Men usually seek the higher things
of life-not the lower. If Mr. Null
berger has the ambition in his make
up which could be expected of an am
bilious man, it would appear that he is
acting in a peculiar vein in DESERVING
the higher position for the lower.