The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-02
What's Left To Do.

Never, or not for many years, have
the republicans of Shiawassee county
approached so near an election day with
so much cause for satisfaction as they
have today. There is but Que thing
now VIII ich can possibly permit the de-
feat of single republican candidate.
If large number of republicans should
fail to go to the polls next Tuesday
there might be one or more democrats
elected. That is, however, their only
hope. The only thing then that now
needs to concern republicans is to make
sure that no republican who by any
possibility can get to the polls on Tues
day fails to do so. What's left to do,
and all that's left to do, is for every re-
publican to get out to vote.
The above is no idle talk. 1t has
been for years the practice of the dem
ocrats to unite their work largely on
one or two candidates whom they |
thought the most likely to be elected |
and to let the rest shift for themselves |
as best they might. Usually, and es-
pecially of late years, they have united
on the Office of sheriff, and for several |
times lately, thanks to the detection of |
republican votes for one cause and an
other, they have been successful.
Today they find themselves in differ
ent position. The candidacy of John
A. Watson, the republican nominee for
sheriff, has been an eye-opener for
them. Everywhere republicans are
enthusiastic for him, and his clean cut,
business like bearing-earnest and sim
cere, and yet at the same time genial
and warm in his intercourse with every
one he meets-has made hosts of friends
for him on every hand A we'll authen-
ticated report that the leading demo
Gratis already concede his election by a
big majority has leaked out.
But the one man game still prevails
with the opposition to a certain extent.
This time, altho' still keeping up the
pretense OF the fight on sheriff, prob.
ably in the hope that the republican
vote may not be gotten out for some un-
known cause next Tuesday, THE TIMES
has good reason for believing that aquiet
but very strenuous effort is being made
to defeat the republican candidate for
treasurer, Mr.. Chas. w. Shipman, of
Venice township. What excuse can
possibly be given to induce any repub-
lican of this city, or any other part of
county, to vote against candidate of
the character of Mr.. Shipman, is be-
yond the power of the uninitiated to
understand. Mr.. Shipman is man
who has served his fellow townsmen in
various responsible positions for many
years, and his acquaintance with coun
ty affairs has become intimate and
thorough from his service on the board
of supervisors at different times as we'll
7 as from the very nature of the man
himself, whose characteristic is to go to
the bottom of things and know for
himself. The county funds will be
; safe in his hands, and not only that,
but County Treasurer Shipman will be
one of the pleasantest and most oblig-
ing of the county officials.
AS to the other candidates on the
county ticket, there is not the slightest
ray of hope among the opponents ofany
of them. Not an iota of interest of q
practical sort is apparent anywhere in
the democratic camp, not even the for
lorn hope that some unheard of and I'M
looked for thing Will keep the republi-
cans away from the polls in sufficient
numbers next Tuesday to enable them
to elect a sheriff or treasurer furnishes
them with any incentive for work here.
Their only forlorn and even now prac-
tically abandoned hope therefore de-
ponds absolutely on what republicans
themselves do in the matter of getting
out to vote.
But there is measure of satisfaction
for republicans quite aside from the
certainty that the success of their en-
tire ticket now depends on nothing
; more than their getting out to vote
next Tuesday. 1t is a matter to which
THE TIMES has referred before. It
, embraces not only the personnel of the
ticket which Shiawassee county repub-
licans placed in the field this fall but
the manner in which they placed the
ticket there. There has been much
dissatisfaction with the old convention
methods 1t was claimed and in many
! instances with much truth, that nomi-
nations were manipulated, and were
, made in many cases contrary to the will
a of the mass of the republican voters.
r This year for the first time the republi-
{ can voters, each man for himself. voted
: for the candidate he wished to see nom
mated. The men who are leading the