The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-08-31
PRESENT GOVERNMENT OR SOCIALISM
Expodes New Political BombsheIl When He Answers
Blaine Propaganda and Defines Real Issue
as Danger of Socialism.

the Republican nomination for gov
ernor Of Wisconsin, in a stirring
speech before thousands of interested
listeners at Library park defined the
real issue of the campaign as the
question Of whether or not our present
form of government is to continue or
Is to give way to the state socialism.
He declared that he stood for our pres
ent constitutional form of government
while his opponent John J. Blaine and
Senator LaFollette represented the
other side of the argument.
Morgan answered other issues which
have been raised in the campaign by
Blaine but declared that these were
largely propaganda used as Smoke
screen" to conceal the real issue of
the primary campaign.
Time to Talk Plain.
"The time has come for some plain
talking in this campaign" declared
Attorney General Morgan as he delved
into this leading issue Of the cam
paign. aio4 taf
"The Republican primary presents
an astounding spectacle. Instead of
an ordinary party contest in which
men who are real Republicans, adher
ing to the principles Of that party,
contend for the Republican nomination
we find the issue far more grave. This
is no struggle for personal party lead
ership, no mere struggle of partyism.
This is a contest between the cham
pions Of our present form of represen-
tative constitutional government and
the foes of that form of government
under which America has become a
great nation offering asylum to the
oppressed and Wisconsin has become a
great state with happier, more pros
porous and until recently more uni
versally contented people than any
other geographical unit of similar size
on the face of the globe.
"That this momentous struggle hap
pens to take place in the Republican
primary is a mere incident. If the
Democratic party was stronger in
numbers then the Republican party
in Wisconsin this struggle would be
staged in the Democratic primary and
the issue would be fought there.
Surely the leaders of the radical
slate of candidates cannot be consid-
cred Republicans by an ordinary test
of party principles.
''LaFollette and Blaine are the chos-
en- leaders of the radical slate, the big
&c
hope to lead into the Republican pri-
mary molly horde Of Socialists non
partisan leaguers who would impose
upon us a program Of state Socialism
destructive of the moral economic and
political integrity of Wisconsin, to
supplant our present plan of consti-
tutional government.
"That is the burning issue in the
Republican primary, our present form
of government or state Socialism for
Wisconsin.
''Blaine may tell you in the two
years he has been governor our consti-
tutional form of government has not
been changed, Fraser, Non-Partisan
league governor Of North Dakota, said
the same thing in his 1918 campaign
after he had been governor of North
Dakota for a year and a half.
'Both told the truth and the reason
in each case. was the same. Fraser
did not have control of the state sem
ate of North Dakota in the 1917 SEES
sion of the North Dakota legislature
and Blaine did not have control of the
Wisconsin senate in the 1921 session
of the WISCONSIN legislature, in fact,
he even lost the control he had of the
assembly very early in the session,
when some of our sound hard headed
farmers who were elected with the
Non-Partisan league Endorsement dis
covered that the Nom Partisan league
was only cloak for state Socialism.
"Take the case of Henry Stokes of
jefferson county, an honest frugal and
progressive farmer who lives near Wa
Prloo Henry mistook the league for
a real farmers organization like the
equity society or the farm bureau and
he joined,
"Imagine3 Woodworking, frugal
farmer finding himself in an organiza-
tion managed and controlled by state
Socialists who wanted to do away with
private ownership and fix things so
Henry couldn't leave his big farm,
which he worked so hard to earn, to
his children when he died.
"of course, Henry turned on that
outfit when their actions in the leg
islature scraped some of the wool off
and showed the wolf under the sleeps
clothing.
81 am tired of the deceit and hypo-
crisy of this whole gang. They are
no more Republicans than Victor Ber-
ger is Republican. Progressive Repub-
Leans nothing. They are radicals who
care nothing for either the Republican
, party or the Democratic party. They
have no love or reverence for the con-
stitution and they care nothing about
those sound principles of government
to which Wisconsin owes. her great
ness. Rightnow let me expose few
Of the false issues of these radicals
and show you what they are trying to