The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-07-20

At the second ward caucus held Wednes-
day evening in the Odd Fellows hall. Odell
Chapman, who has, In his articles In the Ar
gus. claimed to be an honest man and
straight in politics. and Immediately after
calling another man liai, put in two ballots
at once, and was seen by the chair
man and teller ard on request Of d. M. Es.
tey and George M. Dewey, IT,, the ballot
was rejected, the voters being requested to
hand their ballots to the tellers thereafter.
THE TIMES desires to ask the voters Of
this county what they think Of this kind OF
political work?
At7:3O on caucus evening Odell Chapman
marched at the head of delegation from the
front of the "Blue Front" saloon to the eau
Gus, and the delegation included men of sew
eral parties. These men voted at the eau
Gus as the dive gangs are voted in cities.
After the caucus fifty or more of the crowd
marched to the saloon and soon after were
on the street yelling in disgraceful man.
ner until midnight. Democrats and others
not entitled to do so voted at this
caucus. Men from three wards voted in the
second ward.
If the republicans of Shiawassee care to
continue this manner of conducting their pO-
litical campaigns let this class of people run
the conventions. If not, let the better ele-
ment turn out. If there is any satisfaction
to the Bliss men in the county convention of
yesterday The TINES is glad they have it.
If all democrats who took part in the re-
publican caucuses of Wednesday evening
vote the republican ticket this fall, Owosso
will give 800 or more republican majority.
Grand Rapids Eagle: Fred A. Maynard
has won the the nomination for attorney
general SO completely that no other name
than his is seriously considered. He will be
nominated in the convention by reclamation
and spontaneous applause.
In the forthcoming (AugusD number Of
The Forum there will be three striking arti-
cles treating of the three recent startling
manifestations of crime-the great railroad
strike and its causes; the assassination of
Carnot; and the police revelations in New
York. Discussions of these subjects are
grouped under the general title. 1.-THE Senti-
mental Dealing with Crime and its In
crease;" and following these is fairly
startling review of the recent worldwide
increase Of crime, by Mr.. Henry Charles
Lea, of Philadelphia. These make one of
the most noteworthy groups of strong and
timely articles that has ever appeared in our
periodical literature.
The Lansing correspondent of the Detroit
Evening News discusses the gubernatorial
situation in long letter Monday. After
showing what the Pingree people are doing
he says:
"This little play leads up to the express
sive, IL not altogether elegant, remark that
IL Col. Bliss does not know that the one
term aggregation is playing him for suck
er, the meanwhile pulling his leg, he will be
fully aware of this fact by the time the state
convention is held at Grand Rapids. The
one term club, as every one in Lansing,
where its operation can best be observed,
can readily see, is Pingree club pure and
simple. While 1t is in a sense anything to
beat Rich with its officers, yet Pingree is
getting the long end of the deal, Bliss being
permitted to gather up such crumbs as drop
from his honor's table. This is amply
shown by the fact that President Turner
and all his local followers are working in
the local field for Pingree delegates, while
Bliss is being worked for what delegates he
may be able to capture and deliver to Pin
gree as second choice.
So far as the one term club is concerned,
the Saginaw candidate is, although he may
not realize 1t, permitted to do his own hust.
ling. In parceling out the counties between
Pingree and Bliss, it has been observed
that the former has been assigned such
counties as give promise of electing anti.
Rich delegations, while the colonel is per.
mitted to do his hustling for the most part
in counties where Rich is as solid as rock.
Shiawassee and Saginaw are the only ex.
captions to this rule"
From the Detroit Evening News
Lansing, Mich, July 14.-The Rich con.
tingent here are losing no sleep over the re.
| suit Of the county conventions thus far held
Up to date conventions have been held In
Alpena, Arenac, Iron, Muskegon, Mont
calm, Clinton, Chippewa and Schoolcraf
counties and in all a total of sixty delegate.
have been selected every one of whom Il
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