The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-09-16
"TOO MUCH AT STAKE"
SO SAYS JUDGE MORSE TO A
COMRADE
Whom He Voted to Turn Out of Omce---
Democratic Office Seekers Preferred to
Veterans---The Boys In Blue not En-
thusiastic Over Morse.

made his appeal to them, they over
looked his desertion to the ranks o,
their political haters, they believed hi
promises to retire from partisan poll
tics, and they saw only his Republican
record and his sleeve made empty by a
Democratic bullet. They rallied to his
support and elected him, only to find
that they had been grossly taken in.
He has reveled in the mire of partisan
politics ever since and he has spurned
the very claims of comradeship, which
he himself set up. To one of the COM
rades who supported him for justice of
the supreme court, he said: 81 couldn't
vote to keep you in, there's too much
at stake" He bitterly opposed the
election of Comrade G. E. Bell1nap to
congress, from his own district, and
openly refused to vote for him. The
boys IN blue understand the utter self
ishness of Morse's comradeship and are
not tumbling over one another in
eagerness to support him.
Edward Voorhees,, of Ionia, proprie-
tor of the Ionia overall factory, was in
Lansing the other day, where he eX-
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November 10.
"What's the political outlook in Ionia
county?' was asked of Mr.. Voorhees,
by State Republican reporter.
81 must say it looks decidedly Repub-
lican.'
"What are Mr.. Ellis chances up that
way?''
''He won't carry the county"
"And Morse?'
swell, now, the judge is a personal
friend of mine, but l think he made the
mistake of his life in accepting the
nomination. He is certainly making a
big mistake in supposing he can hold
the soldier vote. In one township
where the Republicans have made a
canvass, out of 80 veterans 80 pledged
themselves to support Rich. dom t
believe Morse can carry the county"
"We all like Ben. Morse" said an
Ionia county veteran to the Lansing
Republican quite recently. "He is
smart, and he was a good soldier; and
many of us strained a point and voted
for him for Judge because he was a
comrade, would fill the position well,
and we believed it would give him a
steady position at good pay, as long as
he wanted it, But Ben. has thrown it
away and jumped into politics, and he
now comes to us as Democrat, and
not as soldier. He will be disap.
pointed. We respect him for what he
was, but he can't lead the old soldiers
OF Ionia county into the Democratic
camp. will not vote for him, and /
don't know of Republican soldier in
Ionia county who will" 'Nor l." said
another veteran; ''and much less since
he openly refused to vote with his old
comrades for Charlie Belknap. Ben.
couldn't expect it."
From the above it is apparent that
Judge Morse cannot rely upon the
soldier vote in his own county. If not
in the county where he is best known,
how can he expect to secure that vote
in other counties? And indeed, WHY
should Judge Morse depend upon the
soldier vote?
He represents the party whose
Vaccinations made the war dread
necessity.
He represents the party who declared
that war failure.
He represents the party that vilifed
the soldier all the time he was fighting
at the front.
He is championed by the Detroit Free
Press, the sheet that threatened the
soldiers with a ''fire in the rear" if
they presumed to march in defense of
their country.
He deserted his party because he
failed to secure the Republican nomi-
nation for State Senator in 1s7O-and
what old soldier respects deserter?
He secured many an old soldiers
vote for Justice of the Supreme Court,
upon the plea that it was a non-politi-
cal Office and upon the promise that if
elected to 1.-THE would be out of politics
afterward; but ever since elected to the
Supreme Court he has kept his fingers
in the Democratic pie, and looked we'll
after the appointment of his henchmen
with the Cleveland administration at
Washington.
He is so extreme a parts an that
when asked if he would vote for his old
comrade, Bellxnap, for Congress, he an
swered, "No, not for my own father.
if on the Republican ticket"
He has so little regard for that COM
radeship which he once more seeks to
wi ~ w iiio wv PiOhO oilbU, dlbtI duNlS-
ing his soldier friends in Grand Rapids,
whom he was addressing, that they
ought all to vote regardless of party
for BellSnap If he came up for office, he
refused to do so and condemned such
action as wrong.
He refused to vote for Gen. r. A.
Alger, Col. G. b. Grant, Judge Long
and Capt. Edward Cahill, neither will
he vote for Gen. Benjamin Harrison,
nor for comrades Stanley w. Turner
and John Berry on the state ticket.
When asked to vote for Judge Morse
and indorse his one-sided idea of COM
radeship, every veteran should reply in
his own words: 81 oAN NOT VOTE TO
LET YOU IN. THERE'S TOO MUCH AT
STAKE" The American system Of pro-
lection, which has made this nation
great, and strong, and glorious in the
eyes of foreign countries, is at stake.
No aid and comfort should be given TO
that party which seeks to establish
British and confederate free trade in
this country. The claims of comrade-
ship cannot avail man who has
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