The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-24
Voice of the People
A POLITICAL MEDLEY.

"A EOLl11OAL mEDliE1.
After close defeat or an April fool
on election day, / am constrained to
express my thanks to A. P. Kraus, John
T. Tighe, Louis Rhodes, Bertha Mooney,
James Welsch and many others who
worked for me in the somewhat heated
campaign. But since the defeat / have
received so many compliments from the
best of citizens that l think l feel bet
ter than | would have, had / won the
elections So, friends, please do not
feel sorry for me.
No doubt if you read this, some will
think me a fanatic, visionary, sorehead
or unbalanced, but / do not think you
call" will.
sixty years tried TO represent the
town of Brighton on the county board
for the past ten or fifteen years. Dur
ing the past three years l have tried to
reduce taxes by cutting salaries and
eliminating unnecessary officials, but
did not receive much support from my
colleagues. But l know from referen-
dunn how my constituents felt on such
Legislation. Someone has said shat
high taxes and a colossal army Of off,
Gals have wrecked every civilization
recorded in history"
/ think he was about right. Maybe
he put it little strong. I hope ouc
civilization will not meet a similar fate.
] was greatly pleased the way the
salary raise for members of our legis-
lature was voted down by over 10000
votes after the governor of the state
and our two Representatives in the leg
islature and nearly the solid press of
the state howled long and loud for it.
But it cannot be they were subsidized? ?
Then again / am surprised to think
some of my best friends think it was
unreas enable for the county board to
reduce the salary of the district attor-
ney from $4,000 to $4,000. Ny recon-
mendation was to reduce it to $500.
l think one member of the county board
wanted to raise it to $4,000 and made
motion to that effect-and it is q
wonder that it did not pass.
One journalist made the statement
"that the good attorneys of !Kenosha
could not afford to take the Office, for
he was pretty sure the legal practice
for at least half dozen of them was
So, 900 each per year" But could not
think so. Therefore 1 went to some
trouble to look up the amount of each
attorneys income tax for 1923 and
found it to run from $113 the highest
to 0 the lowest. SO l feel good over
that. l found the names of 26 attor-
neys in Kenosha, SO If you would Like
to see the list, call on me.
On April /, 1924, the voters of the
town of Rochester, Racine county, vot-
ed on few political questions, as fol-
lows:
SPECIAL BALLOT
do you favor reducing the pay Of the
county supervisors from SIS to 81 per
day? Yes, IL no, 81.
2-Do you favor reducing the pay of the
town officers from 81 to % per DAY
Yes, Il; no, 81.
3-Do you favor an appropriation for
county fair? Yes, "a; no, ".
do you favor an appropriation for a
poultry fair? Yes, IS; no, IS.
5-Do you favor an appropriation for a
county nurse? Yes, 81; no, ".
6-Do you favor an appropriation for SUI
pervising teacher Yes, 10; no, 10.
7-Do you favor an appropriation for a
county agent? Yes, So; no, ID.
S-Do you favor an appropriation for new
court house or expensive additions to the
present court house2 Yes, Z; no, SO.
| 9-Do you favor an appropriation for a
probation officer Yes, "a; no, IA.
10--Do you favor houses for patrolmen
Yes, Is; no, 88.
lido you favor an appropriation for the
Racine city library? Yes, 10; no, 70.
12-Do you favor an appropriation for the
Rochester library? Yes. Al; no, AZ.
1 am pleased with the way they voted,
but Brighton voted on the same ques-
tions a year ago, but voted about 500
stronger in the same direction.
1 think this is medley enough for
this time. Yours for economy and
justice, w. V. GULL.