The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-28
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1918.
Kenosha Biennial Joke.

Kenosha never did take her political
life seriously and this year is no ex-
ception to the rule. The city is play
ing it's "biennial joke" on itself and
Is forgetting all about the Importance
of the coming primaries and election.
True a few men who feel a civic
pride and willingness to do some.
thing for the home town have an
nounced themselves as candidates for
Office but in every ward Of the city i'm
portant offices are going begging just
because the people who should be in
terested in the government of the city
feel that they are too busy to look at
ter their own business.
Looking down the list of petitions
which have been issued one is struck
by the fact that only very few men
representative of real affairs in Keno
sha are named as candidates.
The condition emphasizes the failure
of the primary law. In the old days
of conventions the parties saw to it
that candidates were put up for the
various offices and what was more they
took pride in having their party"
represented by the best available
timber. Under the primary system
no one is looking after getting can
didates into the field and as result
the election in lot of wards is 60
ing by default. OF course there are
men who want to be aldermen because
the Office of alderman pays small
salary. In many cases the men who
arr seeking the Office are worth just
about the amount that the Office pays
and no more. This is not true of all
the candidates. There are some of
the candidates who feel that they have
a real call to render duty and they
would be candidates for the office even
though there was no salary attached
to the positions.
The time for fling primary petit
tions expires on next Monday. The
call is now to red blooded men who
really want to have Kenosha go ahead
and who want to get men on public
boards who will bring intelligence and
business methods to the management
of these boards.
There is still time to secure the no
mination of this class of men for office
but if they are to be nominated and
elected immediate action must be TAX
en- now. If the lists for the primary
close on next Monday without any real
civic patriots listed among the can
didates there is 10 chance to remedy
this trouble. There will be no added
entries to the lists after the primaries
have been held. There is no provis-
ion for independents candidates under
the non-partisan election law.
The good citizen must see his real
duty In the next two or three DAYS.
He must satisfy himself that the best
possible man has been named for the
various ward Offices and if he finds that
this is not the case he should see to it
that petitions are taken out for the
right kind of men. The men who pur-
sue politics as a vocation will see to it
that full quota Of the men they want
primaries The people must have at
least one representative in every ward
and one representative for every Of
fee.
Carelessness on the part of the PEG
pie themselves has repeatedly made
possible the election of men unfit for
office
This is one of the crucial years in
the history of Kenosha and to meet
the demands of the city there must be
real interest shown by the real people
of the city. The primaries and the
election can not be allowed to go by
default.
You must appoint yourself a com
mittee of one to look after the inter.
ests of your home district. If you
fail in this duty you viii be respon-
sible for the election of men who will
be interested in their own political
ambitions rather than in the best in
terests of our own Kenosha.
If you have good man running
for Office in your ward go to him anc
give him your promise of support. Il
you haven't a good man running fol-
Office see to it that one is made {
candidate before the week is over
DOn't wait for some one else to dc
this work. The other fellow is pro
baby waiting for you. Best of al
get your neighbors together and de
eide on the right man and make it {
community proposition to see that hi
is on the ticket and elected.