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


states as Ohio, New York, Massachus-
sets, Maine. Indiana, Illinois, Wiscon-
sin. Iowa and all the rest of the great
states of the union which typify prog
ress and political liberty, to get in step
with these southern democratic states
with political ideas and practices CEN
turtles behind the rest of the worldg
Not all cities or villages are corrupt
because there is corruption in Detroit
or Grand Rapids. And there are many
cities and villages and counties in Mich
igan which do not wish to give up hold
ing their conventions. Then why must
a system be forced on eighty-three
counties because there is corruption in
two or morei And. too, how does
the farmer fare under the new plan the
democrats are telling him he should
have? Go to Grand Rapids and see
what was the result of this same law
there when the primary reform election
plan was operated few days ago.
Every candidate nominated was taken
from the city of Grand Rapids. Not
one single candidate from the town
ships Do the farmers like that sort of
a thing? Yet it is exactly what is made
possible and more than that, probable,
under the operation of the primary law
On the other hand it opens up the big
gest graft to the newspapers and to the
cheap sort of scheming ward heeler
which was ever exposed. Don't you
think that it will be better to adopt this
system gradually and not foist it upon
the entire state all at once? You may
not like it very we'll when you get more
acquainted with it.
Mr.. Colgrove then referred briefly to
the well known record made by the
democrats the last time they obtained
control of the state government when
they stole the Organization of the SEN
ate, gerrymandered the state and robbed
President Harrison of five electoral
votes although the state gave him ma
jority of many thousands. That is the
brilliant record of the democracy when
in control of the state government.
The records of the republican party are
written in some thirty useful public in
situations which care for the blind, the
deaf, the fatherless, of the state; which
educate our young people, and which
safeguard our people and their homes
in every way. Then although all these
beneficial institutions cost much look at
what, comes from the system of taxation
developed by the republicans during the
years they have controlled the state.
Why, when you take into consideration
all of the money which was paid into
the state treasury last year by this en-
tire county for all the state expenses,
prisons, insane asylums, the different
institutions of public instruction the
soldiers home, etc, there will still be
$26, 900 returned to the county from the
state treasury more than the entire
amount which the county turned over
to the state as soon as the money now
tied up by the M. G. Ry. suits is secur-
ed. Think of it, instead of the state in
situations costing money to the coun-
ties, the state collects so much more
from the railroad and other corpora
tions than the total expenses of carrying
on these. institutions, that it turns back.
to the counties into the primary school
fund far more than the counties con-
tribute fol, the state expenses. Why
last year $119, 900 more was paid by the
state to thirty. one counties alone of the
eighty-three than they paid to the state.
What contrast between this record
and the one left by the democrats fifty
years ago when they were compelled by
the votes of the people to turn over the
state to the republicans At that time
the state was in debt for bonds to the
amount of $4,000, 900 which had been
sold to make internal improvements
such as canals, etc. And vet this record
is possible and true in the face of the
added expense of many new boards and