The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-07-13
Will Renominate Them


GUS in the matter of giving more than
one or even two terms to an official who
has done his duty satisfactorily and
proved his fitness for the place to which
he was elected. This has been the policy
OF the party for more than one reason
On the one hand it is recognized that the
labor and expense incident to a canvass
for the nomination and the subsequent
election, an expense which helps the
party in way as we'll as the candidate
is too great to ask the successful official
to yield his place to successor from
his own ranks without some sort of a
rebate as it were. He must make the
canvass for the election anyway and the
party has relieved him from the expense
OF making the canvass for the reno nina.
ton.
Then on the other hand, in spite of
the American feeling that any Ameri-
can citizen is capable of holding almost
any office under the heavens without
any further qualifications than his citi-
zenship, there are moments when an
extra bit of rare good sense domin ates
the minds of voters and party managers
alike and it is conceded that man who
has learned the ropes and has shown
himself to be good official is better
and more competent man for the place
than a raw recruit, especially since at
that time it seems to be borne in upon
their minds that the man who is in the
office has not exactly lost his qualities
of American citizenship from the fact
that he has been serving as an official.
This year the republicans are not OBJ
liged to take this matter into considera.
ton in the case of the sheriff. who re-
tires under the limitation of the law
which prevents him from holding the
office for more than two consecutive
terms. Sheriff Monroe L. Scougale has
been popular and obliging official and
will retire with the hearty good will of
republicans generally thruout the
county. Then for obvious reasons re.
publicans are not considering the claims
Of republican clerk or prosecuting at.
torney to denomination this year.
There are no such officials in the county.
There are however three of the more
important Offices which are now filed
by republicans who are not only can
didates for denomination but are at the
same time deserving candidates. These
three gentlemen are, Judge Matthew
Bush, judge of probate; Richard +. Kay
county treasurer; and j. d. Royce,
register of deeds.
The first named office, that of judge
of probate, it is almost needless to say,is
one ofthe very most important in the
entire county and should be filled by a
man who has more than passing know
ledge of the workings of the law in the
matter of the probating of wills and the
necessary legal steps in the settlement of
estates brought before him for settle
ment. 1t is place, too where man of
the utmost integrity is required, place
where the greatest injustice could be
done by a trickster and wrongs be in
llicted upon the widowed and orphaned
which could never be repaired. Judge
Bush has made the work of the Office
all that it should be. He has attended
10 its duties faithfully and performed
them satisfactorily to all who have deal
ngs with him. 1t is an Office where in
experience and incompetence would be
most likely to bring heavy losses on
those who could i'll afford to meet them.
And today there is scarce a thot either
inside the republican party or without it
Of suggesting any other name than that
Of the tried and trusted Judge Bush.
For register of deeds. the present pop
nlar official cannot be improved upon.
Shiawassee has for years been fortunate
in her registers and it is safe to say
that no county ever had better regis
ter than the present one, Jay ID. Royce,
and he was a successor of another
equally as good who was reelected for
the fourth term by the republicans of
the county. Mr.. Royce is now filling
out the last year of his second term.
year which has been probably the hard.
est ever experienced in the history of
the office thru the extra work demanded
of the office by the state tax commission.
That the extra work was cheerfully
done, and we'll done too, goes without
saying. Mr.. Royce has been success
In the office from the moment when he
first entered upon its duties and we'll
deserves the denomination and re.
election which he is sure to receive.
The quietest little man of all, but
one who can always be and always is
on for advice and help, the
man whom every one of his friends
always feel sure where to find and al
ways knows how he will be met by him,
is the man who is just rounding out mis-
first term as county treasurer, Richard
+. Kay or just simply "Dick" Kay, as
he is known from one end of the county
to the other. A better trio of county
officials never existed and the last, tho
the least in point of avoirdupois. is by
No p,aans least in anv other regard