The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-10
BLAINE BITTER
IN HIS REPLY
Attacks Senator LenrOOt
In Address Before 800
People Here.
LAUDS GOVERNMENT
Spends Much of the Time of
His Address to Praise Alleg-
ed Tax Reductions Made.

Coming to Kenosha to answer the
address made hero last week by Sem
ator |. r. Lenroot, Governor John j.
Blaine addressed Q crowd of Keno
shans that dwindird from Ave hundred
to about two hundred Tuesday even
ing at Library Park, the same place
where Senator Lenroot had spoken.
The governor dealt mostly with the
tax question, maintaining that his adj
ministration had reduced taxes in
Wisconsin from $3,037 ,614 to $1,000 800
and added that not governor since
Governor LaFollette ever cut one
dollar in the states taxes until the
present administration.
There was no mention of the in
come tax and the increase in taxes
caused by the abolition of the per-
3onai property Offset, which had
cen stressed by Senator Lenroot in
his address here.
The governor quoted from the rec
ords in congress of Senator LaFrol-
lette and Senator Lenroot and de-
clared that "the greatest monument
the people of Wisconsin could erect in
honoring the memory of the late
senator would be to place his son in
the United States senate where he
will carry out the policies that his
father fought and died for"
Calls Press Prcjudiced.
1.-The only issue in this campaign
for the United States senatorship,'
the governor said, ais whether you
want to continue the record of Sena-
-, ~ aF 10
son, or whether you want to continue
the record Of the Gold Dust Twins"
the latter being used to refer to
Senator Lenroot and former State
Senator Wilcox.
He went on to answer in detail
some of he charges made against him
by the present senator "and the press
Of the state-56 papers of which never
more than two have supported me-"
He challenged the press of the state
to get the true figures In the states
tax situation and publish them" and
to tell likewise the whole truth about
the tax legislation which the last leg
islature enacted"
burden o. which the press complains
Every bit of those long lists of state
boards and commissions were voted
for by Wilcox when he was in the
legislature and now he blames me for
them. Wilcox doesn't know any
thing about finances when he charges
that industries are being stified
through the taxation program, If the
factories of the state believe they are
paying too high taxes let them pay
their employees more and they won't
have such high income taxes. This
administration has reduced the taxes
almost fifty per cent and it has been
the first time that dollar was ever
cut down since the administration of
Governor LaFollette. The trouble is
that there are too many liars run
ming loose in the state
The governor attacked Senator Lem
root for his vote on the prohibition
amendment, declaring that "prohibi-
tion today Is the curse of the nation:
it is the cause of national degeneracy
and has brought us to poisonous
liquor that has come as result of
the 18TH Amendment and the Volstead
act, both of which Lenroot supported"
Coming Back Soon.
Wilcox says he'll stand by the
president. Well, to stand by the presi-
dent is one thing and to stand against
the best interests of the people is an
other thing" he said.
He referred to the Shenandoah dis
aster in the scathing words of Col.
Mitchell, blaming the tragedy upon
the secretary of the navy "who order
ed the voyage for political purposes"
he charged.
His one purpose in coming to Keno
sha, he said, was to tell the truth, and
he also added that when he came back
hers next spring in the interests of
another campaign he would continue
to touch upon those things that Ke-
nosha county people ought to know,
and which they don't know now"
Prior to the address by Governor
Blaine, music was furnished by a
band composed of members of the
Kenosha Musicians association.