The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-09-30
REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN OPENED.
One OF the Most Satisfactory Meet
ings ever held in Owosso-
Mastery and Convincing
Address by Hon. Phil.
:. lip 7. CoIsrove.

Republican Club Organized with Large
and Enthusiastic Membership.
No one who attended the meeting at
the opera house in this city Monday
evening is in any doubt as to whether
the campaign has been opened here or
not. The address of Hon. Phillip T.
Colgrove, of Hastings, settled that ques-
tion effectively, and, incidentally, the
address settled a number of doubts in
the minds Of some voters who had been
disturbed by the efforts of the followers
of the great and only Campau machine
to confuse them. At the rate at which
Mr.. Colgrove disposed of the only issue
which the Michigan democracy at pres
ent seems to think worth while, the
democratic machine will have to hunt
up new issue before October is half
over.
Preliminary to the address of the
evening the meeting was called to order
by Chairman Bigelow for the purpose
of completing the organization of the
Republican Club for whose membership
some hundreds of the republicans of
the city had enrolled themselves. Up
on motion of Neil R. Walsh, DR.. A. M.
Hume was unanimously chosen presi
dent of the organization. Mr.. w. G.
Cadwallader moved that DIR. A. l..
Arnold be made the vice president and
this too was ratified by acclamation. In
a similar way George G. Reineke was
chosen secretary on motion of Geo. T.
Campbell, and A. d. Whipple was made
treasurer by acclamation on motion of
E. o. Dewey. The newly made presi-
dent was called to the platform and
after neat speech in which he accept
ed the Office and thanked the members
of the club for the compliment extended
him, he introduced the speaker of the
evening.
1t used to be, said Mr.. Colgrove, that
the spell binders of the campaign were
sent into the country to address the
farmer. Now twelve million farmers
are supplied daily with the daily papers
and the best magazines of the country.
and more than that they find time to
read them too. The result is. that in
stead of being obliged to conduct their
campaigns of education in the country
districts the committees have reversed
the method of procedure and are send
ing their speakers to the city districts.
The city voter has come to a situation
where under strenuous republican times
he has hard work to find any where
near the time to read, get posted, and
think about political problems that his
brother in the country enjoys. And
this is one of the results of republican
policy too.
These twelve million farmers who en-
JOY the benefits of rural free delivery
are served by twenty-five thousand ru-
raj mail carriers. When the republican
party looked into this matter of rural
free delivery it found that the preced-
ing democratic administration had not
cared enough for the farmers interest
to so much as expend the appropriation
made by congress for the purpose of ex-
perimenting and determining the FEAST
bility of the plan. In fact so backward
was the administration about giving
this boon to the rural communities that
without making the trial called for the
postmaster genenal under the Cleveland
administration had reported adversely
upon the plan and recommended that
no further expenses be incurred in the
matter. Had the democratic party re-
mained in power up to the present time
there would be no rural free delivery in
the country today.
/ am glad to speak to You, said the
speaker, after you have been addressed
by the democratic candidate, whom l
cannot help thinking of as Dan. j.
Campau's bubble, good school master
and one of whom, and of whose school,
we are all proud. Proud of him as
such, because as such he stands for him
self and for what he has made himself,
not what the worst machine ever in the
state Of Michigan has made of him. His
previous political experience has been
limited to running for two offices so far
as know, that of mayor and of con-
gressman for his district. In this run
ming he was defeated by so many thous-
ands that it is useless to attempt to re-
member the number. And now in a
strange campaign he is trying to dis
tract the people and make them believe
that there is but one issue before the
state today, primary reform and the
machine.
Now wish to say few words about
machines. Some people say that they
do not like Fred Warner because Of the
machine. Well in the first place it was
Fred Warner who led the machine into
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