The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-06
HONESTY IN POLITICS DE-
MANDED.

DtO. DCWCy ldNOICQ Us Will Tic lOl
lowing in the last issue of the OwossG
TINES: - 1,.t.. y,
George M. Dewey, editor of tn.
Owosso TINES, last week published
what he termed an open letter te
Mr.. George w. Loring, of Cwosso
in which he characterized Mr.. Lor
ing with being anything but an hon
orable man. The venom of the edi.
tor of the TINES eliminated in his de.
feat as delegate to either the county,
congressional district or state conven.
tions recently held, hence his attack
upon Mr.. Loring as the source of his
discontinue, as Mr.. Loring was one
of the many Republicans of Owosso
and Shiawassee county who exercised
the privilege Of free American citi.
zens in opposing Dewey in his aims
to lead the Republican party in this
county and congressional district.
Mr.. Loring is an honorable business
man and an active Republican, too
well known in the county to be injur.
ed in the least by such an attack"
The above from the Shiawassee
American is characteristic of the Lor-
ing clique. In my open letter to Mr..
Loring said nothing about his bust
ness qualifications. l cared nothing
about them. l was dealing simply
with the corrupt political methods
adopted by him to dictate the party
policy of the Republicans, and ne had
thought that Mr.. OaOea aVas too Aon0r-
able a man to be tie tool Of saeh poA,h-
cal seapegyaees, or TO apologize for their
action. But for the information of
Mr.. Owen I desire TO STATE that he can
not fnd man to uh0m I infimated
any desire to be a delegate TO any Of the
conventions he names, and for reasons
perfectly satisfactory to myselfat least,
1 could not have been induced to have
been participant in the work some
of those conventions had in hand, for
the reason that with my personal
views as to the obligation imposed on
a man who participates in the work
of a convention under all circumstan-
ces to endorse its action, l did not
wish to be in the conventions as a
delegate, and at the time ofthe Owes
so city caucus was not in the county
of Shiawassee. But if l had had any
desire to have been delegate to the
county convention should have been
at the caucus. Nor have | at any
time made the slightest attempt to
lead any body. That policy despise
and l despise any man who attempts
to dictate the action of other men.
The right to independent action on
matters of state policy is the inalien-
able right of every American, and no
man or set of men have any right to
attempt by dishonorable practices,
such as Loring & Co. adopted in the
Owosso city caucus, or by lying and
misrepresentation-the policy Of the
Loring clique-to accomplish any
such purpose, and the people should
set down most emphatically on any
who attempt such action, and when
they know it there is no question but
what they will do just that.
am a little surprised that Mr..
Owen should attribute my letter to
venom or jealously--for he knows 1
am not candidate for any Office in
the gift Of the people, and that my
sole object in that letter was to aid
the people in annihilating that little
clique in Owosso described by the
poet when he said:
4'For while the rabble, with their thumb.screw
creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife; 10! freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land, and waiting justice
sleeps"
GEO. M. DEWEY.
Bro. Dewey says the paragraph
above is characteristic of the Loring
clique" Now, who are the Loring
clique? Who are the political scape.
graces" for whose action Mr.. Dewey
thought US too honorable to apollo
gize?
Dewey's troubles began just after
locating in Owosso, from his natural
proneness to thrust himself forward
and above his fellow citizens. The
good people of Owosso tamely sub
mitted for time, until his dishonor-
able practices in business and politi-
cal matters became generally known,
when the Republicans of Owosso be-
came convinced that for the welfare of
the parts it was necessary to leave him
alone. This was especially apparent
after the statement made by Mr.. Dew
ey at a meeting Of the congressional
district committee at Saginaw, that
Hon. r. G.. Horr, if renominated,
would run behind his ticket several
hundred in this county, because Of
his great unpopularity in the county.
1t was for these and other good rea.
sons that the Republicans of Owosso
thought best to not send him to the
county convention, and the county