The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-10-30
Committee Declares That 1t Cannot Support
Candidates Who Failed to Support
National Republican Ticket.
COUNTY G. @. P. CANDIDATES MARKED
Entire County Ticket from State Senator and Assem-
bIyman Through the List is Endorsed in
the Marked Ballot.

nection, however, with the issuance
of the marked sample ballot, the
executive committee was authorized
to take this step when seventeen OF
the twenty-five members of the Repub-
| lican county committee signed the fol
! lowing resolution:
Feeling that we cannot support any
candidate on the Republican ticket
who is not supporting the National
Republican ticket, we the undersigned
members Of the Kenosha County Re-
publican committee, recommend that
sample ballots be marked and circulat-
ed for all Republican candidates for
county offices who have declared that
they are supporting Calvin Coolidge for
President, and Charles G.. Dawes for
Vice President.
eve also recommend that the presi-
Dental electors pledged to vote for
Calvin Coolidge for President, and
Charles 6. Dawes for Vice President
be also marked on this sample ballot
eve also recommend that the name
of Martin Lueck, candidate for Gov
ernor, be also marked on such sample
ballot"
Endorse County Candidates.
All of tho Republican county candi-
dates are endorsed by this marked
ballot of the Republican county com
mittee as follows: State Senator
George w. Hull; Assemblyman, First
District, Conrad Shearer; Assembly
man, End District, Dow j. Vincent;
County Clerk, Charles L. Holderness;
County Treasurer, Thomas S. Scott;
Sheriff, John Hacker; Corner, Joseph
Friend; Clerk of the Circuit Court
George Stevens; District Attorney
Lewis w. Powell; Register of Deeds,
Bert L. Shaw; Surveyor, A. S. Covell
No action is taken either on any
state Offices except that of governor
or on the office of congressman.
These marked ballots are now being
sent out to Republican voters of the
county and will be circulated until the
time of the election.
Shows Tendency Towards Lueck.
The action of the Kenosha County
Republican committee shows the
tendency which is gaining ground
among Republicans of the state to
support the candidacy of Judge Martin
! Lueck for governor, maintaining that
he more nearly represents the princi-
pies of the party than does Governor
Blaine, the Republican candidate.
The Kenosha County committee is
the first in the state to take this ac-
ton, but it anticipated that similar
steps will be taken in other counties
by regular Republican committees.
/
Movement Is Statewide.
While Kenosha is the first county
where the county committee has acted
| by large majority to- endorse Lueck
the G. O. P. tide for Lueck has become
the outstanding factor of the state
campaign. A survey conducted by a
Milwaukee paper among the cities of
the state indicated that everywhere
the Republicans are turning to the
Democratic nominee.
| Briefly, Republicans are taking the
! stand that Governor Blaine has for
feited all right to Republican support
by reason of his reputation of the
Coolidge Dawes ticket along with his
open alliance with the new party
movement.
But they go beyond this point of
protest by specific reference to Judge
Lueck as the only hope against high
taxes and relief from a state gov
eminent which has become machine
controlled.
| The Republican movement for the
Democratic nominee for governor is
a protest against Blaineism on the one
hand, and a positive call to Republi-
cans to vote for Judge Lueck on the
other.
Republicans are not simply for the
| Democratic nominee because they are
opposed to Blaine They emphasize
that Judge Lueck has made an impress
sive campaign and their Endorsement
of him extends to the principles he is
advocating, both with respect to his
economic program and investigation of
charges of official corruption and mis-
conduct at Madison.
| 1t is doubtful whether the state ever
has witnessed an independent move
ment of such proportions.
Interviews from leading Republicans
| in nearly every county declare that
Blaine has "read himself out of the
Republican ranks" by going without
the state to campaign against the ma
tional Republican ticket. Dispatches
from Racine, New London, Fond du
Lac, Sturgeon Bay, Menominee, Hori-
con, Black River Falls, Oshkosh, Wau-
kesha, Eau Claire and several other
cities show that sentiment among the
Republicans is turning rapidly towards
Lueck for governor.