The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-03-21

dictment for violation of the espion-
age act and almost as many more vot-
ed for man who made his main cam
paign on the fact that he was the per-
sonal candidate OF Senator LaFol-
lette we are inclined to believe that
about forty percent of the loyalty of
Kenosha county is mighty near to the
ragged edges which lead into disloy-
atty.
Kenosha has eamoufaged herself in
to believing that the disloyal and
doubtful element of her population was
made up Of very small percent. The
primary election should open the eyes
of these people.
The men who got behind the little
curtain on Tuesday and marked vote
against the administration of the gov
eminent are not to be considered
twenty karat loyalists.
We have not been unaccustomed to
the people selecting men entirely I'M
fitted for Office but we had some lin
gering hope that with something like
a thousand Kenosha boys either OH
a battle front or on the way to it that
these boys would claim the support of
blood brothers at home even though
the national honor and national success
In a world war might meet with luke
warm reception. We would just a
little rather not have the boys who are
making the supreme sacrifice for us
know how Kenoshs voted on the pri-
mary election. We feel that they
might have the feeling that home sup
port was lacking for them in Kenosha
and that Kenosha was decidedly I'M
mindful that big movements go for
ward to make it possible for them to
have every possible backing.
However the primary election in
Kenosha and throughout Wisconsin is
the new challenge to loyalty. 1t is
the challenge of the bolsheviki the
same kind of challenge that the boil
sheviki gave in Russia "Give up the
nation if it mar be necessary but save
the revolution
There is the one hope and that is
that the small vote in Kenosha county
on Tuesday permitted this element to
come into control or into near control.
There is the further hope that the in
dication of this primary will stir Ken
osha county to action. That men and
women who believe in their country
first and all the time are going to be
taught the lesson that they can not
sit idly at home and let the other half
rule.
The result of this primary should be
a clarion call to men to get behind
the boys in the trenches and to get
behind them in no uncertain manner.
If the men Of Kenosha county do not
arouse themselves the vote on election
day is going to be a duplication of
the vote on the primary
If the socialist and the half heart
ed Republicans are to have their way
in Wisconsin it will be mighty short
time before Wisconsin is lining up
with Russia-ready to compromise with
the Hun and ready to surrender iber-
ty and life and the future of her chill
dren for the sake of peace with dis
honor.
The issue has been more clearly
stated in Wisconsin again. It is loy-
atty against mediocre sentimental
cowardice. There can be but one de-
cision for loyal men.
AS we have said on many occasions
it is no longer call to partisanship
but a call to patriotism.
1t is call to you and to me and
every man that would support the
nation and that would throw about
our own boys who have gone to a
fighting front the protection that they
deserve and must have to win the war.