The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-09-18
a TONIC FOR WISCONSIN,.

A TONIC FOR WISCONSIN.
The address of General Dawes in Milwaukee
the other night should prove an excellent tonic
for Wisconsin He spoke straight from the
shoulder and his address was an Innovation IN
that it sought to fight the political mountebank
in his own baliwlck.
For too many years the political charlatan
has been getting away with it IN Wisconsin,
and the call of General Dawes to fight nm is
one which, if heard, will mean much for the
future of Wisconsin. y
Juggling figures and distorting facts, the
political charlatan has found his way easy In
Wisconsin because the men who know that he
is liar have not been willing to meet him on
his own ground and tell him just what he is.
For twenty years people of Wisconsin have
been unwilling to defend themselves against
these political mountebanks and the campaign
of personal libel and political falsehood has
gone on unchecked. These men have made their
way over the state and built up a political ma
chine based entirely on unsupported assertions
and not Handicapped by established facts
State commissions and state boards have
been wrecked for the sole purpose Of preventing
opposition to the charlatan. The state tax COM
mission raises an honest hand to check. .unsupz
ported and untruthfuI statements, and the
head of the commission is slated for the pof1t1-s
cal axe, senatordares to tell the Governor OF
the state that he has been unfair with the peo-
pie and he is ordered to show cause why he
should not be removed from the library COM
mission a district attorney doing his duty UNI
der his oath is ordered to show cause why he
should not be removed in order to make it pos
sible for the executive of the state to make a
bitter attack against an organization which
does not support him politically, the state
board of control is wrecked in order that it may
be better controlled by the political king pin
and even the strange hold of politics is wrap
ped about the board of regents of a state uni
versity that political machine may be made
stronger and made to function better.
Knowing fully the falsehood that they are
preaching, these politicians have gone right
ahead with security that no one will call them
to account and prepared to heap personal
abuse upon anyone who might seek to demand
that the facts be made known.
Certainly this rule of falsehood in the state
has reached it's limit, ard certainly the time
has come when the continuance of it should
be fought by honest men and women who have
courage enough to insist that the government
of the state is "problem to be solved and a.
game to be played ess.. sae. @gxnasg5ssg :
The remedy for this condition rests with the
four-hundred Wisconsin men and women who
failed to vote at the primary election. More
than five thousand voters in KenoSha county
never went near the polls on primary day.
They were too busy doing something else to
think of the welfare of their state and their
neglect of their first duty of citizenship con
tributed much to the forging of the chains
held by political mountehanks about Wiscon-
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General Dawes has declared that there is
to be real fight against socialism and radical
ism in Wisconsin. The fight can be led by Gen
eral Dawes and others from the National COM
mittee representing great party, but the
real fighting must be done by the men and wo-
men of Wisconsin who are willing to make a
little sacrifice in order to redeem the state
from the control of men who have advanced
themselves politically through campaigns of
falsehood and through the wrecking of the
state institutions sesees
Every plan should be followed to carry the
fight to these people. The conditions in Wis
consin should be proclaimed at every school
house and at every cross roads and these men
should have notice served on them that their
rule by personal libel and political falsehood is
over.
WHY NOT GIVE THEM A CHANCE.