The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-24
CANDIDATES WORK IN Vain
Farmers Too Busy With Crops and City
People Too Busy Going Swimming and
They Suggest That Well Enough
Be Left Alone for Year.

The politicians in the county are get
ting worried. With the primary cleo
tion little over two weeks away there
is absolutely no interest in politics.
The farmers are out working the land
and the people il the city are going
swimming and it is easier to do pretty
nearly anything else than get man to
stop either occupation long enough to
be civil to primary candidate.
The country has been pretty well
posted by the candidates, but the peo-
pie have no time to read political an
nouncements and they seem to look
upon the man who insists on having
them talk the matter over as a nuisance.
Former Governor McGovern IS trip
through the county on Thursday showed
great lack of interest. At Somers he
talked to twenty people, at Salem only
few more and the meeting which was
scheduled for Wilmot was called off on
account of the fact that there was not
as large crowd as there had been at
the other two towns.
A lot of people in the county haven t
the remotest idea who is running for
office and what IS move, they don It
seem to care. "Let well caustl aIoapet'
is the answer that lot Of the poIlti.
clans have been getting all over the
county and the people seem to think
that this is the solution. IF some fell
low could get up and move not to have
an election this year, he would get
mighty close to unanimous vote. From
reports received, it is evident that this
condition prevails all over the state.
It is admitted that men who have been
long in political life have spoken to the
smallest crowds in the history of poll
tics in Wisconsin. Scarcely any one of
the candidates has been bold enough to
attempt to hold a meeting in hall and
even street meetings find crowds which
will listen for only a few minutes. The
people have shown in a lot of ways that
they are not interested.
The twenty candidates whose names
will be on the primary ballot on Ke-
nosha are discouraged, but they are
keeping right at it. They are going
from town to town and village to vii
lage, going out into the fields to see the
farmers, but even then they get little
satisfaction. Efforts to form organiza-
tions for the candidates have met with
rebuff all over the county. There does
not seem to be any greater interest in
the national election than there is in
the state and county fights. Candidates
are declaring now that if something
can not be done to start some interest
that the vote cast at the primary cleo
tion will be the smallest ever cast at
any election in this county.
The state candidates are fighting
hard to get an issue and it has ended
in personalities. People seem to be
well satisfied with the present admin
istration and Mr.. McGovern and Mr..
Hatton are working in vain to stir up
dissention and discord. Even Senator
LaFollette who has always been con-
sidered something of political lion :"
is talking to hundred people or less
in many places where he places his
"soap box"
Of course when the primaries are
over and the political expenses begin
to get into circulation it is just possible
that little more interest will be shown.
Right now the candidates are getting
desperate. There are a lot of fights for
places on the primary ticket but the
interest in them seems to be limited to
the candidates.
Saturday was the day for the fling
of expense accounts and many of the
candidates have filed their accounts
The expenditures have all been along
the line of printed matter for the dec
Grafton of the blank walls and personal
cards which the candidates are using
in their trips to the various portions Of
the county Not single man in the
race in this county has political
manager.