The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-05-25
M|cH|GAN'S attorney GENERAL.
Shiawassee Confident that She
has the Winning Candidate.
Hon. Frank n. Watson-A Leader In
the Legal Professional Most
Faithful Party Worker.

Hon. Frank n. Watson-A Leader ID
the Legal Professional Most
Faithful Party Worker.
HIS PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS EVER SIG.
ONDARY TO THOSE OF THE PUBLIC.
Justly Popular IN Political, Social, and
Fraternal Circles.
Two years ago Shiawassee presented
to the republican state convention a
candidate for the attorney generalship.
Today she is more than ever united and
enthusiastic in pressing the claims OF
the same loyal republican son, urged
on by the memory of the friendly and
well nigh successful reception with
which he was met at the former state
convention altho he had been candi-
date'for the honor but the short space
of one month, while both of his rivals
for the nomination had been many
months making their canvass for the
place. They again press his candidacy,
therefore, in the belief that the three
hundred thirty-three votes, which were
cast for him in the last convention,
sixty more than one of his rivals
was able to secure, will be more than
doubled in the coming convention, and
they base this belief not only on the
significant strength which he developed
in the last, but also on the peculiarly
honorable and fair course taken by him
before he would permit the use of his
name in connection with the nomina.
ton this year, and last, but by no
means least, on the record of the two
years of faithful service for the party,
of rich added experience in his profess
sion, and of growth in everything
which makes man valuable to the
state which two years in the prime of
life must mean to every public man,
and which have since that time passed
so auspiciously over his head. In short,
Shiawassee goes before the party today
feeling that every reason with which
she urged forward the nomination of
Hon. Frank Fl. Watson two years ago
is even more potent and more pertinent
today, and the expectations she has of
the way in which her candidate will be
received this year are corresponding
higher and her enthusiasm for his
correspondingly greater.
1t is generally recognized by republi-
can leaders turnout the state, perhaps
even more this year than two years ago,
that the man who represents the state
of Michigan for the next two years as
its legal advisor should be a man OF
more than ordinary breadth of ex-
perience and legal ability. The dele
gates from this part of the state feel
that they are joined by those from all
over the state in insisting that the man
who occupies that position should be a
man who has had experience not only
In the routine work of his profession
but one who has himself had hand in
the formation of laws for the state, that
he may be better enabled to Judge of
their meaning and have clearer idea
of their constitutionality; that he should
have had broad experience in other
lines; that he should be man who has
served the public already with distinc-
ton, even tho in positions seemingly of
little Importance which may have even
demanded sacrifice of his own bust
ness to enable him to carry out, but
where, nevertheless. he has shown his
interest and used his talents as the adj
visor and attorney for the public and
they demand, too, that evidence of
executive ability which can be so well
shown in the work of organizing a
party for a hard campaigns work, be-
lieving that the man who will show
executive ability in such work will not
fail in that respect when the location of
his office is changed and he is working
as the advisor of the state instead of as
the leader of his party in his home
In all of these respects, the
of Shiawassee and sur
rounding counties maintain that Mr..
Watson stands out as preeminently the
logical candidate not only of this
county and district, but of the entire
state as well.
Mr.. Watson was born in Shiawassee
November Ia, 1857, and is there
fore native of the county which now
asks for his recognition as well as of
the state from which it asks it, He
graduated from the Corunna high
school, and later entered the law Office
of Judge Hugh McCurdy for the study
of law. He also spent some time study
ing in the Office of the late ex.Prosecut-
ing Attorney A. r. Mcbride and was
admitted to the bar in 1881, after pass
ing an unusually creditable examina.
ton. He at once began the practice of
law and soon after formed a partner
ship with Odell Chapman with whom
he has been associated ever since. He
quickly took prominent place in legal
affairs in the county, winning recogni-