The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
The Registers Office.

For great many years Shiawassee
county republicans have always had pop
ular for candidate register of dseds. The
present year is no exception. Two years
ago the candidate for this Office was en-
phatically popular candidate and was
known to be such before the campaign
was begun. Two years ago before that
even there were large number of men all
over the county who thot enough of j. ID.
Royce so that 1t might have seemed no
temerity to say at that time that he was
popular candidate. Tho at that time he
was not as widely known as he has become
since, his record during the first campaign,
when he ran for the first county Office for
which he had ever been nominated showed
that the opinion of the friends who knew
of his good qualities were right and be
proved indeed popular candidate. Two
years ago he was nominated for a second
term by acclamaticD, the record OF his first
term having given him such hold on the
esteem of his fellow republicans of the
county that the nomination was carried
with the keenest enthusiasm. His popu-
larity has not decreased since that time.
The republican county convention renom-
mated Jay ID. Royce this year for register
of deeds with the same enthusiasm as be-
fore, fully confident that when the votes
are counted next November his majority
will have shown handsome increase over
that of both the former years.
But the names of the late Charles Ho,-
man, of N. A. Finch, and w. Il. Bigelow,
Mr.. Royce's predecessors in the Office of
register Of deeds are enough not only to
prove the statement made as to the popu-
larity of the candidates whom the repub-
lican party has had for this Office but they
are also enough to tell of the quality of
work which has been done In that Office.
1t Is doubtful IL there Is another county In
the state which has been so favored with
men of such unusual ability IN this i'm
portant (ffice for SO many successive years
and the denomination of Mr.. Royce not
fortune within the power of the voters Of
the county but 1t has already in fact in
sured the continuance of that same good
fortune. No one as well as those who
may have lived In some county where the
Office of register of deeds has been In the
hands OF less competent men than the
above list of able men who have served
this County, can realize what the full mean
ing of such state of affairs is. The
records of this Office are the guarantee that
the titles to homes, farms, and business
blocks alike are secure. 1t Is matter of
the utmost Importance to the investor and
the owner of the small home alike The
security OF every farm aud home In the
county depends in some measure upon the
records which must be- kept In the Office of
the county register ul deeds. In lrss
fortunate counties much trouble and hard-
ship has sometimes prpn caused by the
failure of IT," officials responsible for the
proper c''pduct Of the affairs 1T this Office
10 do their Iull duty In Shiawassee
county there has neve bern heard the first
indication o. su"h difficulty.
There Is little need OF multipl, lug words
10 favor OF Jay ID. Roycr. His reputation
aud his circle Of friends have both spread
steadily from the village of Byron where
his boyhood days we're spent and where he
lived and worked and made friends for the