The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-12
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ADDISON Man Has Biggest Meeting Of
Year in Kenosha and Talks to More
Than Six Hundred People in Street
Talk Saturday Might.

Burt Williams, of Madison, Demo
cratic candidate for governor of the
state, made his appeal for support to
the people Of Kenosha on Saturday
night when he spoke to the biggest po-
litical meeting Of the year at the cor
ner of Wisconsin and Market streets.
The candidate gave up much of his
time to the discussion of track elevation
and the vacation Of streets for such
elevation and he found in the Kenosha
crowd decidedly responsive audience.
Mr.. Williams blamed existing conditions
on Governor Philip because he asserted
that the Governor had not taken steps
to repeal certain legislation passed years
ago which gave the Railroad Commission
certain powers in connection with order
ing street vacations for elevation pur-
poses. AS Mr.. Williams had seen con-
siderable experience before the Railroad
Commission in connection with the Eau
Claire case he spoke with lot of init
mate knowledge of the commission 8
workings.
Had Governor Philip had the in
terest of the taxpayers at heart, he
could have included in the call for the
special session of the legislature, de-
mand for the repeal of the Railroad
Grade Separation law, under the terms
of which the people in many towns and
cities in this state are being called to
contribute millions of dollars in taxes
for the benefit of railroad corpora
TONS" said Mr.. Williams
y "By securing the repeal of this law
now, = he continued, Governor Philip
would have saved the taxpayers of his
own city of Milwaukee over million
dollars which they are being forced to
pay toward the elevation of the tracks
of the st. Paul Railroad Company. He
would have saved the people of the
city of Eau Claire over 100000; the
people of the city of Kenosha from be-
ing forced to vacate dozens of streets,
and various sums of money to towns
and cities"
The people Of Milwaukee, Governor
Philipp's own city, have protested in
vain through their city authorities
against this form of legalized robbery;
Eau Claire business organizations and
hundreds of citizens are in indignant
revolt against the operation of this law;
the city authorities of Kenosha are
fighting with their backs to the wall to
save streets from being vacated for the
benefit of the Northwestern Railroad
Company, and loss of the use to the
public of many of their streets; while
the people of the city of La Crosse
openly charged that the expense of grade
separation there has been unduly excess
sive and burden upon the people"
"Were this law repealed at the spec
ial session of the legislature, these or
ders of the Railroad Commission would
not go into effect in Milwaukee, Eau
Claire, Kenosha, and other places. Lit
tie wonder is it that these railroad com
panies, beneficiaries to the tune of mil
lions, gladly come forward and pay into
the state treasury total of $4,000
of their November taxes, five weeks in
advance. Thus the state is enabled
through the generosity of the railroad
companies to continue to pay it's bills
and Governor Philip, a so-called bust
ness governor, is saved the humiliation
Of having 2 it heralded throughout the
country just befroe election that the
state of Wisconsin has gone broke. The
interest on this money, something over
$4,000, is but small pittance compared
to the millions which the railroads
received at the expense of the people of
the state, and which Governor Philip,
by his failure to act in this emergency,
is perpetuating as charge upon the or
binary taxpayer. F"
The Democratic candidate spoke
briefly on national issues strongly de-
claring for the election of Wilson. He
made no reference to the work that is
being done in his behalf by the RepubA-
can paper at Madison. He spoke of
William F. Wolfe, the Democratic can
didate for United States senator, mem
tioning him as the author of the present
state Democratic platform. The nearest
he came to urging the election of Wolfe
was at the end of his address when he
stated that the entire Democratic party
ticket was worthy of the support of the
people of the state.