The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-09-30

or fraternal organization which was do
ing work which amounted to anything
that was not run by a machineg Have
you church in Owosso or a lodge
which is not kept up by some few
courageous leaders who spend their
time and energy in working for that
church or society? Yet what do they
represent but machine? Every So
ciety or other organization which has
ever accomplished anything has dohe it
through the leadership of these few.
men who make up it's machine. You
wouldn't care to belong to an organiza-
ton which had no leaders would you,
yet they are merely for their erganiza-
tion its machine just as the party lead
ers are called the party machine.
And look at the men vino in this same
way have made the history of the re-
publican party Lincoln, Grant, Nc
Kinley, and Roosevelt, the men who
have been the leaders of the party. the
members of its machine, if you please,
are you not proud of them and of their
party9 Why the whole glorious history
of the republican party is but the re-
suit of the work of such leaders who
have studied and thought through
many long night vigils during fifty
years to devise the wisest plans for the
great party whose policies were in their
keeping and for TIE country whose well
fare was in the hands of their great
party That is what machine is. 1t
is the little band of workers and leaders
who burn the midnight lights to devise
plans for keeping their party off the
rocks of misrepresentation, out on the
safe waterways, toward the Nharbors of
prosperity and human welfare Ma
chine Show me the organization which
ever accomplished any good without
machine!
But who is Mr.. Ferris, to be asking
republicans to vote against that splen-
did man Fred M. Warner because there
is machine in the republican party,
or in other words because there are
workers in the republican partyin this
state who are willing to work together
for the good of the party and stateY Go
back to the national convention in St.
Louis which nominated Judge Parker.
Does anyone think for one minute that
the delegates from this state of Michi-
gan were unanimous in their choice for
Judge Parker? He is ignorant indeed
if he does. But what happened? When
the vote of Michigan was called for the
vote of every Michigan delegate to that
great convention was cast for Judge
Parker because Dan j. Campau, the
boss of the Michigan democracy, and
the democratic state machine, compell-
ed the delegates to cast them for him.
What about machines! What machine
was it that took that big hearted man
Justus S. Stearns-a man who carried
on his pay rolls every one of his en-
ployees who went to the sSpanish-Amer-
ican war and looked after their families
while they were away-what machine
was it that took him and played on his
feelings and desires to lead the people
of Michigan on platform of his own,
and made him kneel before itself and
swear allegiance to the democratic
party, all the while letting him believe
and letting the delegates to the state
convention believe, and giving it out to
the entire state of Michigan for the
people to believe that it was going to
make Mr.. Stearns the nominee for gov
ernor of the state of Michigan? What
machine then, after humiliating Mr..
Stearns to this extent and assuring it.
self that it had safely placed him where
he could do nothing for the republicans
in this campaign, then deliberately
threw him out of the window and told
the convention that its members were
there to nominate the schoolmaster
from Big Rapidsg What machine car
ried the Michigan democracy around
like this2 1t was no more nor no less
than Dan j. Campau! Vote against
Fred M. Warner because there is ma.
chine in the republican party And Mr..
Ferris, the absolute creation of the
worst machine ever seen in Michigan
politics asking the voters of Michigan
to do SOL And Warner, the man of
whom the Scripps papers said when he
had finished his work in the state SEN
ate, that he was man who had at no
time been controlled by the machine"
Now wish to say few words about
the other subject which is causing Mr..
Ferris so much trouble. that of primary
reform. Do the republicans of Michi-
gan wish to put this state in class
which is occupied by three southern
democratic states alone out of the entire
membership of the union. The demo
cratic platform calls for the abolition of
all conventions, ward. city, township,
county, district. and state and vet the
only states where this has been done are
Texas, with democratic majority of
10000, Florida, with a democratic ma
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