The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-08-05


The prosecuting attorneyship brough
out two candidates, Chas. nj. Hamper
of Owosso. and Will J. Parker, of CO
runna. MIR. Parker had been in tn
} office of the prosecuting attorney as al
assistant for almost four years and il
some ways would have been considere,
the logical successor to the Office. Th
contest was an open one, however, ant
Mr.. Hamper, who had been candidate
two years ago up to the day Of the con
vention when he withdrew in favor o
the present prosecutor, certainly hat
a right to aspire to the Office The re
suit of the balloting showed him to bt
the choice of the majority of the dele
gates present. His ability is unques
toned and there is no reason for antici
pating any choice on the part of the
voters in November other than that
made by the delegates Tuesday. On
the other hand the result of the bal.
lot was in no way discredit to the de.
feated candidate, Mr.. Parker, who is a
clean cut young man who will yet be
heard from in the years. to come.
The great contest Of the day however
centered about the nomination for sher-
| if. Of the seven candidates whose
names appeared in the report of the
tellers after the first ballot had been
taken any one might have chosen and a
good sheriff have been named. After
the first two or three ballots however
it became apparent that the contest was
between Mr.. Rollo p. Bigelow, of Owes
so, and Mr. Chas. w. Mimic, of Durand.
The Durand candidates plans then APP
peared to be the better laid, he forging
ahead until after the fifth vote was an
nounced, when Mr.. Bigelow withdrew
in the interests Of harmony and Mr..
Mimic was nominated by large MAORI
ty on the sixth ballot. Here again, the
same good spirit was shown, all rally
ing about the successful candidate with
assurances Of success. 1t was a splen-
did list from which to select and as said
above, it seemed that no mistake would
be made if any one of the list were chos-
EN-. Mr.. Mimic is the youngest of the
men who were candidates for the nomi
nation but he has record as a very
effective hustler. and he has the assur-
ances of support from the party work
ers in every part of the county.
The fact is that the republicans of
Shiawassee county have abundant rea-
son for feeling pleased at the work done
by their delegates at Corunna Tuesday.
The leaders named by the convention
are leaders not merely in the sense of
having their names at the head of the
county ticket but in the work of the
party as we'll. They are loyal republi-
cans in every sense of the word. They
are men of the right stamp in other
ways too. Those who already have
official records have in countless ways
shown themselves to be competent,
painstaking officials who deserve the
which they have won. The
new men are genial and competent and
are hustlers. No one can deny that they
give every appearance of having the
best of Office making material in them.
They are all right. But so are the men
who were not nominated!
1t is easy enough to be mighty good |
fellow after convention has nominal
ed one, but it takes mighty good |
fellow indeed to brace up under the |
of being defeated by |
another fellow, and that is what the |
candidates of Tuesday /
have done. 1t is the only thing their
best friends would have expected of |
them anyway, but it proves their metal
to the others who did not know them so
well. The defeated candidate is always
entitled to no small degree of credit but
the defeated candidates of last Tuesday
have already shown by adopting it that
they know the best way in which
to forget their own disappointment,
viz, by getting right at it and
hustling for the other fellows at once.
And that, too, is the kind of work
which will elect the entire ticket next
November.
Col G. V. r. Pond, special agent of
the rural free delivery service, has just
the establishment of the
county system in Saginaw county. The
new plan will give the county GO routes,
serving 6,792 families and covering 1897
miles. Less than $50 families will not
have the service in the entire county
and none of them is more than half
mile from route. But seven of the
routes are less than "a miles long. Two
Of the GO routes start from New 10th
rop in this county, while Oakley-just
over the line-has three routes. Con-
gresham Fordney is to be commended
'or his zeal in pushing the establish
nent of the rural service in this dis
riot, Clinton county also having the.
county system, while Tuscola has q pei