The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-03-14
FIGHT WAR IN WISCONSIN
Loyalty Candidate Declares That Real
Victory for Kaiser Will Be Defeat of
Loyalty Candidate in Wisconsin
Urges All to Vote Tuesday.

Congressman Irvine L. Lenroot of
Superior, loyalist Republican candidate
for the United States Senate, was the
guest of Kenosha today, but on &C
count of the storm he could not meet
speaking engagements which had been
arranged for him and instead he
held an informal reception at the
Hotel haywood where he was greet
ed by many Kenoshans
He kept hoping against hope that
the rain and the floods would let up
long enough for him to make at least
one address in Kenosha, but the
weather conditions forced him to
remain storm-bound at Che hotel
A committee of local Republicans
met Mr.. Lenroot at the station this
morning and arranged for the informal
reception which continued until Mr..
Lenroot left for Racine.
"I am very sorry that the rain-storm
prevents my speaking at the factories
today" said MI. Lenroot. "Mr.
Davies and Mr.. Mccarthy, the Demo
cratic candidates for United States
senator, have both been here appealing
for support upon their records concern
ing labor questions 1t was not my
intention to make any appeal upon my
record. In an ordinary campaign
might do so for, like Mr.. Davies,
am the son of a blacksmith / have
never had the benefit of college e5,laI
cation and I know what it is to work
with my hands. In every contest that
I have had in my congressional dis
trict / have had the endorsement of
the officials of the American Fedora
tion of Labor. In my nearly ten years
of service in Congress I have support
ed every measure seeking to secure
justice to the laboring classes, but
am not asking for support in this cam
paign upon that ground. The one and
only issue in the campaign is loyalty
to our government and our flag. I
have heard it said occasionally that
there is some question about the atti-
tude Of labor in this campaign. This
is a SANDER upon the laboring men of
Wisconsin, for I am sure that they are
as loyal and patriotic as the business
man, professional man or the farmer.
In every great crisis in our history
it has been the man who works with |
his hands who has been the strength |
of the republic. It was he who fought |
the War of the Revolution, and made |
this republic possible. Tt was he who
fought the War of the Rebellion and |
preserved this Union, and it is he
again, in the greatest crisis Of our
history, who can be depended upon to
preserve the liberties and opportunities
which have been won in the past.
Tt is in the interest of labor and
every other, class Of our people that
this war shall be fought on until it is
won. We are fighting for peace; we
are fighting to make this the last great
war in the history of the world; we
are fighting to preserve the liberties
and opportunities which we now enjoy.
No man is more interested in this than
the man who works with his hands, |
either in factory or behind the plow.
A vote next Tuesday for Mr. Thomp-
son can only serve to prolong the war
because If he is nominated it will en-
courage Berlin to believe that disscn-
ton exists in the United States and
that considerable portion of our peo-
pie are in sympathy with them and
not with our own country. Kenosha IS |
boys are most of them now upon the |
soil of France. They may even today
be fighting the German foe. They may
at this hour be giving up their lives
for their country. It is possible that
while they are doing this the voters
back home here in Kenosha will on
next Tuesday fail to support and sus-
tain by their votes the boys over
there The next great battle in this
war will not be fought on the western
front, in Flanders or in France. 1t
will not be fought upon the Italian
front. It will be fought on the soil
of Wisconsin, in the United States, |
next Tuesday. A victory for Mr..
Thompson will be regarded as a Ger
man victory and defeat for the
United States, but if every man viii
do his duty now, will 60 to the polls
next Tuesday and cast his ballot for
the United States, then the United
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