The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-09-10
LENROOT OUTLINES
ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN
Senator Lenroot Tells Kenoshans That Real
Issue is Whether Coolidge Administration
Is To Be Upheld.
SUPPORT
WILCOX
Points to Roy p. Wilcox as Candidate Whose Nomina-
ton Will Endorse Coolidge and Condemn
ring at Madison"

~ 81 didn't leave the Progressives
either" he interjected. "They left me-.
When they tried to make everyone be-
lieve that everyone successful in
: business was their enemy, | could not
you wage-earners that these poll
ticians are not especially interested in
your welfare. The last thing they
want to see is to see you satisfied;
they want you to be dissatisfied so
that they can use that to secure your
votes"
Describes Back Room Conference.
With whitening sarcasm, Senator
Lenroot then drew a most interesting
picture of how young LaFollette was
picked as the Progressive candidate
He said he imagined this conference
was held behind closed doors with
John ]. Bla;ne, Herman Ekern and
Little Bobbie LaFollette sitting in and
Congressman John Nelson there as
secretary to record the minutes of the
meeting.
II can almost hear Governor Blaine
moving that young LaFollette be the
candidate for senator in this cleo
tion," said Senator Lenroot. "Then
Secretary Nelson put the question:
Blaine votes Aye; Herman, Aye;
Robert out of modesty is not voting
and Secretary Nelson declares the
ayes have it and Young LaFollette is
named
81 can imagine then that our gov
ernor said, But there's a little more
business to come before this meeting
and then l can almost hear Bobbie
move that Blaine be the candidate for
senator next year. Herman votes
Aye; Bobbie votes Aye; Blaine
doesn't vote and Secretary Nelson de-
clares the Ayes have it. Then / can
almost hear Bobbie speak again and
move that Herman be the candidate
for governor next year. Blaine votes
Aye; Bobbie votes Aye, and Herman
is silent, while Secretary Nelson again
declares that the Ayes have it. There
candidates were selected not only for
this year but for next year too, and
only three men had anything to say
about it,"
He declared that Governor Blaine
had confirmed the statement which he,
Senator Lenroot, had made at the
Oshkosh convention that these three
offices were parcelled out by the tri-
umvirate when he announced his can
didacy for governor several days ago.
Issues Challenge to Blaine.
"While l am on this subject / will
reiterate the challenge l made to
Governor Blaine last night at James
ville," said Senator Lenroot. II de-
clared that if during the next year
Governor Blaine would tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth about his administration, l
would not make a single speech in my
campaign next year. Since he has
paid me the compliment of talking
about me more than anyone else in
this campaign, showing that he is
thinking more about John ]. Blaine
than about Little Bobbie, l will go
further in this challenge tonight. If
Governor Blaine will tell the whole
truth and nothing but the truth about
me, I'll agree not to make speech
in the campaign next year for it will
not be necessary-he will be doing the
campaigning for me"
Returning to the question of how
Wilcox and LaFollette were picked
for the race, Senator Lenroot de-
clared: which is the greater viola
ton of the primary law, if there is
any violation: a secret meeting of
three where a candidate is handpicked
or conference, such as the one at
Oshkosh, where six hundred and
eighty delegates from all over the
state had a part in naming the candi-
date"
Discuss Economy Question.
Launching into the discussion of
national questions, Senator Lenroot
took up the question of the economies
brought about by the Coolidge admin
istration as contrasted with the in
creases in costs of government in the
state of Wisconsin.
"What has this administration at
Madison, which has now been in
power for four years, done for you in
Kenosha?" questioned Senator Len
root. HAS it improved your circum-
stances? Have your taxes been low
cred? Have you received any benefit
from it2 oh, yes, know one class
which has benefitted-those who Sc
cured appointments and jobs under
Blaine, but there has been no one
else. And believe me, you have to
pay the bill for that, tool"
Senator Lenroot then showed what
hat been done by the Coolidge adj
ministration in cutting down nation
al expenses in spite of the paying of
billion dollars year in Liberty
Bonds, the paying of four billions and
more for care of the wounded and dis
abled, and in spite of the passing of
the soldier bonus bill. In the ordi-
nary expenses of government, such as
are carried on both at Washington
and Madison, he declared that the Re-
publican administrations had cut
down the cost 40 per cent, while at
the same time the costs of govern
ment at Madison increased 81 per
, cent.
''That is the difference between
constructive government az Washing
ton and so-called Progressive gov
, eminent at Madison" he stated.
Income Tax Reduction.
Senator Lenroot took Young LaFol-
lette to task for his statements re-
garding proposed raising of the ex-
} emption for federal income taxes. He
J showed the big reductions in income
taxes which had been made by the