The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-03-28

Congressman Irvine L. Lenroot, Re
publican candidate for United States
senator, turned the other cheek tx
President Wilson in Kenosha on Mon
day night when he sounded the key
note Of the Republican senatorial cam
paign in big meeting at the ArmOry
He declared that regardless of the
partisan stand which might be taker
by the President to secure Democratic
success in Wisconsin, that he was go
ing to stand firmly behind the admin
istration in the policy to win the wal
regardless as to whether he was &
member of the House of Representa-,
tives or of the United States Senate.
Congressman Lenroot was given g
most cordial welcome in Kenosha and
his address was enthusiastically re-
ceived by a crowd of nearly seven
hundred people.
In his keynote speech Mr.. Lenroot
did not abuse any one, yet he handled
the issues Of the campaign in q man.
ner to show that he knew just what
he was talking about. He strongly
urged the loyalty of the people and
a battle to the death against socialist
rule in Wisconsin.
He spoke for the Liberty Loan is.
sue, declaring that regardless of poll.
tical ambitions he was going to give a
part Of his time in every address in
the campaign to urging the Liberty
Loan in order that America might be
able to put her full force into the
movement to win the war.
MIR. Lenroot said in part:
"It would not be fair to Judge all
those who voted for Mr.. Thompson in
the primary as disloyal Edmund
Burke said, you cannot indict whole
people,, and / refuse to believe that
there are more than 10000 disloyal
voters in Wisconsin. 1t is plain from
an analysis Of the returns that a very
large percentage of their vote was
given him upon other Considerations,
and that all such will be cast for either
Mr.. Davies or myself in this election.
! said in the primary campaign, in
sofar as / could direct it, this would
be a campaign of election and not of
denunciation, all parties should unite
in getting the facts about this war to
the voters of Wisconsin.
The facts leading mp to our entry
IN thn NOV ora nnx,y favu,1;o~ ~ an ox,J
there is but one question before us
today and that is Shall this war be
won by America or shall it be won by
Germany?' 1T has reached such a
stage that it must be one or the other.
But what does the Socialist candidate
propose. He would Immediately with
draw our army from France as the
very first step to secure world liberty.
We might as well understand that to
withdraw our troops from France now
would mean but one thing, the hauling
down of the Star Spangled Banner
and raising in its place the flag of
Germany.
I quote from the editorial in the
Milwaukee Leader Berger alone can
be trusted if elected as equally against
Germany, militarism and allied i'm
perialism. ELECT me- Mr.. Berger
says, and I viii stop this war, then
lick the Kaiser by making speech at
him in the Senate just like Lenine and
Trotsky did in Russia.
The most autocratic power that the
world has ever known is the present
autocratic power of Germany. The
Socialists assume to be the special
champions Of the large masses who toll
for their daily bread and yet, strange
to say, the best friends the Kaiser has
in the world today, outside of Ger
many because aiding him most, are
Socialists. This is especially true in
Wisconsin. We should, however, rec
ognize that not all Socialists are of
this mind. There are thousands of
Socialists as patriotic as any Republic
cans or Democrats and they are Loyalty
supporting the government in this
crisis, for they see that which Mr..
Berger does not, that the triumph of
Kaiserism means the death of liberty
everywhere.
Although President Wilson in his
zeal for Democratic success in Wiscon-
sin may be willing to over-step the
bounds of fairness and although /
might quote from his own speeches
prior to entering the war indicating a
lack of vision, am ready to defend
his patriotism at all times and since
our entering the war he has pursued
a straightforward, consistent course
with a definite objective and in this
course / shall support him in the fut
ure as I have in the past. 1t is proper
to say, however, that if it had not been
for Republican support and Republican
leadership, freely and ungrudgingly