The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-04-04
CURRY VERSUS GOULD ONCE
MORE.

When the Republican Candidate
Easily Defeated his Opponent Who
was Regarded by the Democrats as
invincible.
Is history to repeat itself in the cleo
ton next Monday?
Six years ago Ira @. Curry after
having served two terms in the common
council to the very evident satisfaction
of all taxpayers and citizens generally,
was nominated by the republicans of
the city for the Office of mayor. The
democrats concluding that they must
have popular man to run against Mr.
Curry if they wished to be successful
nominated Edwin A. Gould whom they
had elected on other occasions and who
was regarded as their strongest man.
Mr.. Gould's friends worked hard to
give him a big majority, confident that
it was only question of the size of his
majority When the polls were closed
and the ballots counted it was dis
covered that the voters of the city had
decided for Mr.. Curry. If any person
thinks that the relative strength of the
two candidates has changed since that
day let him explain how it comes about
from the records of the two men since
that time.
Without wishing to question the
public spiritedness of the candidate on
the democratic ticket, his interest in the
development of the city's industries and
the making of more days work for the
men in the city who have to work for
their living-and THE TINES does not
know of many who do not have to work
in one place or another for their daily
bread-without saying anything as to
whether he has at all times stood ready
to bear his share in the work of getting
improvements, thereby furnishing some
ground for the claim that he should be
rs popular as he was six years ago, The
TIMES does insist that the record of the
republican candidate during the time
which has elapsed since then has been
SUCH as should make him more popular
today than he was then.
A. tax payer himself and therefore as
much interested as any man in the city
in the matter of keeping down the citys
expenses, he has never felt that any one
taxpayer should be niggardly, should
play the dog in the Manager act, when
the interest of the rest of the taxpayers
of the city, both large and small de-
manded that improvements for the
good of all should be secured. He has
been broad minded and public spirited
and always willing to bear his share of
any public burden without grumbling.
There is no one, even among his pOliti-
cal adversaries, who would make the
charge that if he had the choice between
making personal sacrifice for the sake
of getting an industry located in this
city which would raise the amount of
money paid out to the laboring men of
the city and to each laboring man in the
city each year. and by not making the
sacrifice lose the opportunity for the city
and her citizens, in such case no one
would charge that he would try to save
a few dollars for himself by leaving the
city to suffer.
Mr.. Curry is a man who believes in
making the most of ones self in every
way. Although before going into bust
ness he was fortunate in spending more
time in study than many, yet there is
not man in the city who is more demo
cratic from his very heart in his inter
course with his fellow citizens. No
man who knows him at all ever accused
him of thinking himself better than his
fellows, or in common language, of be-
ing "stuck mp" Genial and pleasant
with all, his personal character is above
the shadow of reproach and there is not
a valid reason why he should not re-
ceive the vote of every republican voter
in the city and as well the vote of every
independent voter who is only anxious
70 see the best man elected to the chief
office in the gift of the city's voters.
Six years ago the voters decided fer
MIR. Curry in preference to the same
man for whom the same democratic
psrty is today asking votes. The
TIMES sees no reason for doubling that