Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-03
MICHIGAN SITUATION
FOR THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR.
Roosevelt Will Get Majority of 1876, 900
Democrats Doing Prac-
tically Nothing.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, November /, 1904
The republicans are making the most OF
the last week of the campaign. Fred M
Warner, the candidate for governor, is max.
ing a special train tour up one side of the
state and down the other, 3and the schedule
calls for speeches atznearlys every station
Senators Burrows and Alger are on the
stump, and every representative is in com.
mission either in his own district on In thai
of his neighbor The candidate on the state
ticket, many of the candidates for the leg.
islature and a host Of others are also active
on the stump. In Kent county there are
twenty or more speeches scheduled for this
week, not counting the many factory an6
ward meetings. The same activity is dis
played in most of the other counties.
Cause for the Hustle.
The cause for this last weeks hustle is
not apprehension for the national ticket
but is due to a slight nervousness as to
the fate of Warner for governor. The re-
publican state convention two years ago
ADOPTED primary election reform platform
and this was indorsed by the state judicial
convention in the spring following The
legislature was dominated by machine in
huences, and ignored the platform promises
straight-out primary reform platform, and
instead adopted one that promised local
option This lodging of the issue has not
proven popular. and the democrats have
been making the most of the diSSatiSfac-
tion The local option idea is regarded as
machine trick, and there is widespread
in preston also that Warmers nominal
ton was secured by the machine influence.
The machine in this instance was originally
Senator McMillan's organization, but since
Senator McMillans death 1t has changed
very materially alike in personnel and in
method Mr.. Warmers unpopular stand on
the primary election issue and suspicion of
the machine combined will cost Warner
thousands of votes There is very little
doubt that he will be elected, but he will
fall far short of the 125,0O9 ma jority which
Roosevelt will receive.
Democrats Doing Nothing.
While the republicans are pushing the
campaign into every school district with
speakers and literature the democrats are
doing almost nothing. w. N. Ferris, the
candidate for governor, is practically the
only speaker out He is making a great
campaign but Michigan is big state for
one man to cover. His party has scarcely
the semnlance o. an organization and has
no MONEY to back him up in his efforts to
make a showing. In Kent county only one
meeting has been held during the cam
Taign, ana nothing at all Is scheduled for
this last week tefore election. In many
counties TO democratic oratory of any kind
has been heard. In the upper peninsula the
democrats have done absolutely nothing.
The only. center of real activity has been
Wayne county and the immediate vicinity.
Four of the Detroit papers are for Ferris
while Warner has only one and local con-
GltionS are also against Warner. 1t is in
terestinS to note in this connection that two
of the Ferris organs, the News and Tribune,
are also for Roosevelt while the Free
ITess is more than half committed to him.
Shaw and Fairbanks.
The big republican meeting in Michigan
this week will D. that of Secretary Leslie
NJ. Shaw in this city Thursday night This
city also had Senator Fairbanks, who was
greeted by an audience that tested the ca
nacity OF the auditorium. An equally large
audience will listen to Shaw. The close of
the CANT align here will be pyroteehnic, with
William Alden Smith and Senator Alger as
the speake rs the hight before election