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Finally this year he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Wisconsin in the September primary. His opponent would be Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, "stalwart'' (regular) Republican, plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler''), candidate for a second term. Intense, eloquent, bushy-headed like his father, Brother Phil inaugurated his Progressive leadership by trying to drive a spike of corruption into the candidacy of Governor Kohler. Last year he signed a court complaint, helped to amass evidence, that Governor Kohler had grossly violated the Wisconsin Corrupt Practices Act by excessive campaign expenditures to secure...
Last week Governor Kohler went on trial at Sheboygan, after carrying his case in vain to the State Supreme Court on technicalities of jurisdiction (TIME, Feb. 17). The courtroom scene generated political impulses that fanned over the whole State. The trial marked the commencement of the 1930 campaign. If Brother Phil could put Governor Kohler out of office by this trial, it was agreed that a LaFollette would again be Governor of Wisconsin...
Wisconsin law limits campaign expenditures to $4,000 per person. The Progressive charge prosecuted by special attorneys for the State was that Governor Kohler had spent some $100,000 through himself, his family and his plumbing factory. The Governor's attorneys contended that Mr. Kohler's personal contribution to his campaign was only $2,194.17, that his mother and sister had helped him as individuals but not as his political agents, that his company's employes all worked for him entirely independently of their connection with the corporation...
...worth of goods per year in Texas, its manufacturers became alarmed. George F. Kull, secretary of the Wisconsin Manufacturer's Association, hastened to Austin, conferred animatedly with Texas' Governor Dan Moody. Mr. Kull pleaded for peace. Governor Moody, bighearted, invited Wisconsin's Governor Walter Jodok Kohler (plumbing fixtures) to come to Texas as his guest, to inspect with him the disputed Rio Grande valley land. If Governor Kohler could not come, Governor Moody asked him to send "a committee of businessmen whose word will bear weight...
Last week Wisconsin Progressives won a victory when the State Supreme Court threw out the Kohler defense. The Court ruled that he could be tried under the Corrupt Practices Act. If his expenditures were illegally large, his election was void and therefore, never having been Governor, he was not impeachable...