Kohler Cleared

After a 23-day barrage of political evidence a jury at Sheboygan. Wis. last week refused to believe that their Governor, Walter Jodok Kohler. plumbing tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler"). had violated the Corrupt Practice Act in winning his high office in 1928 (TIME. May 5). The Act limits campaign expenditures to $4,000. The state's prosecutors failed to prove their charge that Governor Kohler had spent $100,000 politically through his plumbing plant and the campaign activities of his employes.

The case to oust Governor Kohler from office was inspired by Republican Progressives led by Philip LaFollette, brother of Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") LaFollette, as part of their struggle against Republican stalwarts for political control of Wisconsin.

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