The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-10-14
REPUBLICAN TREAT AT OVID.

Large Audience Listened to Grant Fell
lows, who Reviewed the Political Situa-
ton in Bright Speech, at Times Re-
plete with Humor, but always Full of
Common Sense.
The republicans of Ovid who braved the
threatening weather Monday night and met
In the opera house In that city, were given
rich treat by Grant Fellows, of Hudson,
president of the Michigan League of Re-
publican Clubs.
The meeting was very well arranged,
and In this respect was q credit to Ovid re-
publicans who had engaged q band to au-
nounce the hour Of meeting, and looked out
to see that the opera house was In readi-
ness for the occasion. The meeting was
called to order by Mr.. Lynd, of Ovid, who
introduced the St. Johns Amphion Quar-
tette. This quartette, composed of II.
Bross. John Collins, Henry Washburn, and
Harry Walsworth, of st. Johns, captured
the audience at once. II. NJ. High then
introduced Mr.. 8. Reece Smith, of st.
Johns, republican candidate for pr0secut-
ing attorney of Clinton county.
Mr.. Smith Is young man but by his
easy bearing showed the people that he Is at
home when speaking In public and showed
qualities which would tend to make him
careful, paipstaking attorney for the cOun-
ty. Mr.. Smith. in turn, introduced Mr..
Grant Fellows, the speaker of the evening,
and right then and there an evening of en-
tertainment began.
And yet 1t wasn't all fun either. There
were doses of common sense which were
far more than homeopathic in size, but it
must be confessed that Grant Fellows GER
tainly knows how to sugar coat his COM
mon sense with most delicious humOr. 1t
would be useless to attempt to reproduce
here Mr.. Fellows exact phraseOlOgy or to tell
all which he talked about, butt enough
will be given to outline what he regards as
the important issues in this cOmpaign and
as as FAR possible 10 give some ldea OF MI
FELLOWS way Oh putting thinks'
AT the outset MI. FELLOWS lius'ra'eu
the dlncuity experienced tnis iail ny To-
publican speakers IN nnding out wnat ISSUES
the democratic unlon'siiver-peopies ieaderS
are going to attempt 10 contest IN THIS cam
paign. This Is not very strange, however,
for even they do not seem to know Tor them
selves, Tor when ID Grand hapids the otner
day a reporter for the democratic sheet came
TO interview him. the hrst questions the re-
porter asked was whetner or not MI. rel
lows knew what the democratic issue would
be this year. The democratic editor who
was trying to find out what his own politi-
cal issue Is, was doomed to disappointment,
however, when Mr.. Fellows told the reporter
that he did not know what the democrats
would hnd TO make an issue on but ne
thanked the Lord that he did not belong to
a party that had to scratch around every
two years to IND an issue, but to party
which one could tell where to lind every
time.
| The democratic issue had, however, al
| ways been made up of fault finding. In
'S4 they had figured out the amount of sill
yer in the treasury, and estimated 1t to be
enough to give ST. rs to every man, woman
and child in the country. This must be
distributed among the people they said and
Cleveland was elected. Some people are
yet waiting vet for the distribution to be
made. In 'sS they were complaining chief
ly about the protective tariff and when the
Mckinley bill became a law they immedi-
ately began to see people who were being
robbed Everything was to be made more
expensive by this tariff. Tin cups were to
be so costly that they would become orna-
ments. In fact it became such mania
with some people that they became as bad
croakers as the old man, who on being told
by his wife that he was dearer to her than
ever, grumbled out yes, that darned Nc
Mckinley law is maxim everything dearer.
The people, like person who, if told so Of
ten enough, will begin to think he is really
sick when he isn't at last began to think
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