The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-04-02
A GOOD WORD
FOR OSBORN.
500 News Suggests Him as q
Good Gubernatoriai
Candidate.
POSITION ON ALL QUESTIONS
POSITION ON ALL QUESTIONS
Il One Which Would Meet With
Favor Among all Branches
of the Party.

superficial observer that the repub-
licans OF the upper peninsula have
not displayed any wild enthusiasm
over either OF the present candidates
for governor. In almost every upper
peninsula paper during the past
month or so, editorials have APP
pearsd suggesting that the field is
still open for strong, capable man,
whose candidacy stands for no ultra
cult nor for any particular element
In the party. Should some man
whose capacity to fill the executive
chair was universally recognized,
whose record was good and whose
name would enthuse the rank and
file of the party be put forward by
his friends, the opinion seems to be
general that support from oil quar-
tiers OF the state would come to him
unsolicited and with enthusiasm and
his candidacy would relieve the stu
alton OF great deal of embarass.
ment.
With these expressions in mind
and a somewhat familiar knowledge
OF the widespread character Of the
sentiment which prompted them, The
News suggests the Hon, Chase S.
Osborn as an ideal candidate for
governor having to a marked degree
the qualifications outlined above.
However, we wish to be clear on enc
point before proceeding further, Mr..
Osborn Is not candidate for any
Office, and what is said in these col
umns is said entirely without his
knowledge or consent. Notwith-
standing this, The News cannot re-
frain from making the suggestion
that the candidacy OF such man as
Chase S. Osborn would do more than
anything else to clear up the present
rather dubious situation.
On the great issue of the present
campaign Mr.. Osborn would be free
from the embarrassment to which
both Mr.. Warner and Mr.. Stearns are
subject. The former because Of his
we'll known hostility to primary
reform and his conversion which
was OF the death-bed repentance
order, and Mr.. Stearns because OF
his recordin the past two campaigns,
particularly that OF five years ago,
which detracts materially from a
general belief 10 his sincerity in his
present, almost too ardent, cham
pionship of the reform measure.
Mr.. Osborn's stand upon the pri-
mary reform has been uniformly
sane and conservative. In his be-
lief in the fundamentals underlying
the reform he yields to none, but he
has favored and still favors con-
servative course which will give the
people the right to select their can
didates and still retain the valuable
and essential portions of the present
party organization.
The situation demands q man, not
an .opportunist, a personality, not
the representative of any special
organization. To both requirements
Mr.. Osborn measures up to the full.
Should he become candidate OF his
party in the approaching campaign,
It would be a most welcome rever-
sion to those happy days when the
Office sought the man, and not the
man the Office.
1t is our belief that should the
upper peninsula go down to the state
convention behind the candidacy of
such man as Chase S. Osborn the
chances for general landslide in
favor OF the north country man
would be more than even. They
certainly would be infinitely greater
than they we're four years ago.