The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-07-21
JAMES O'DONNELL'S
CANDIDACY
WOULD LIKE THE NOMINATION
FOR GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN.
HAS ALWAYS WORKED FOR THE
SUCCESS OF HIS PARTY.
His Platform Would be to Reduce Use
less Expenditures.

less Expenditures.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Jackson, Mich, July 15.-The follow
ing letter explains itself:
To the Editor of The Detroit Free Press:
In last Sundays edition of The Free
Press there was published little item
headed "O'Donnell's Queer Ideas-He
Expects Gratitude From Gov. Pingree
and His Workers"
The item said / did not like the idea
of being left out of the entry list for the
governorship 1t further AYERS that
have been writing letters to men in the
Pingree camp reminding them that
was candidate and that would stay
to the finish.
The article states my letters indicate
my belief that the Pingree men owe it
to me to give me their Support. l have
written no letters for that purpose, but
have written and felt from the manner
in which 1 supported Gov. Pingree
after his nomination on two occasions,
that perhaps his friends would look
kindly upon my candidacy. The ar
ticle carries the impression that strong
effort was made in 1896 by the anti
Pingreeites to induce me to withdraw
from the feld-that enough of nay votes
would go to Col. Bliss to nominate him,
but that l would not give up, and the
result was Gov. Pingree's nomination.
am little surprised at such state
ments from The Free Press as it gener-
ally is quite correct, but the official
ballots of the Grand Rapids convention
when Mr.. Pingree was first nominated
will show that 1 was not responsible
for the governors nomination. Strong
efforts were made by Gov. Pingree's
friends to have me withdraw in his
favor, and l was promised a large po-
Utica reward for the future-not how
ever by Gov. Pingree, but by his de-
voted friends, notably Albert Pack and
Sybrant Wesselius, but remained in
the field
In the Grand Rapids convention tire
CURED All votes to nominate and on
che first ballot Col Bliss and myself
polled totafof 800; lacking 4S of the
required number. +Onthe second ballot |
the vote for the colonel and myself was
s75 lacking AZ. On the third ballot the
total was 397, lacking 90. On the fourth
ballot the combined vote of Col. Bliss
and myself was 372, lacking 45 of being
enough to nominate. You will see that
ia all the balloting if Col. Bliss and l
had united forces it would have been
to nominate either of us by
the strength we then had even If we
could have controlled the votes of the
delegates favorable to us, which was
not to be expected. On the fourth
ballot Gov. Pingree was nominated by
449 votes and on that ballot ten of my
supporters went to him and fifteen of
Col. Bliss friends joined the governors
iOrces
would here say that l expected
long contest, and believed that in the
end / would be successful, as there
were delegates from many counties
who, if the convention had been pro-
longed beyond five or six ballots, would
have come to my support after having
voted as they thought their constituents
desired as first choice, but the early
settlement of the question on the fourth
ballot prevented the reinforcements
that l had expected.
make this statement in justice to
myself and you will see from the figures
in the convention that 1 could not make
any claim on the supporters of Gov.
Pingree for assistance now on the
theory that had placed him in nomi-
nation. loyalty supported his candi-
dacy before the people, and did all
could with voice and pen to promote
his success and that of the whole re-
publican ticket When have been a
candidate in a convention and some
one else has been nominated / have
ever felt in honor bound to do what /
could to promote the success of the
nominee. have supported the republi-
ban party without variableness or
shadow of turning since | have taken
IN interest In politics.
am frank to say that am a candi-
tate for the republican nomination for
governor next year and shall ask J
he people to place me at the head of
he republican ticket. / believe the $685.,