The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1907-10-11
HE OWOSSO TIMES
EDMUND O. DEWEY. EDITOR.
OWOSSO, FRIDAY OCT. ii. 1907
Earle Candidate for Governor.


Lansing, Oct. Estate Highway
Commissioner Horatio S. Earle, of
Detroit, formally declared himself a
candidate for governor Tuesday.
More than that he promises to be a
very active one and he has already
framed up more issues than have
been injected into state campaign
for many years.
Earle has been quietly at work for
some months mapping out his cam
gaign and shaping an organization to-
gether. He proposes to stump the
state single handed or meeting other
candidates in debate if they will lock
horns with him. That he has made
Roadway is shown by the fact that
politicians all over the state are TAX
ing notice of his work.
Good Roads the Issue.
Good roads will be Earle's founda-
ton stone and his ideas promise to
make the coming campaign a most
interesting one. While he does not
say so. Earle's movements indicate
that he Is figuring on having as his
opponents Gov. Warner and Auditor
General Bradley.
81 am first for convict-crushed
trap rock to be sold to townships,
counties, villages and cities at so
cents ton for surfacing roads,
freight to be paid by the state" he
said.
Then I'm in favor of the 'ad valo-
rem tax system for all the property
in the state, telegraph, telephone
lines and all.
No More Land Office.
"I'de give away Michigan's farraw
COW. That's the state land business,
it's just needless expense as it is at
present conducted. Deed every acre
OF this land now held by state back
to the county, with the exception of
what should be set aside for a forest
reserve. Make it obligatory upon
the county to use the money raised
by the sale of the land in the future
to build common earth roads through
the land SO that settlers can go in
and have roads to use.
NOW we have two-cent fare bill,
thanks to the travelling men, there Is
another thing that is more important
than low rates and that is better
equipment. Yes, / want it under
stood that don't belong to the De-
mentia Anti-Corporation Hypocryta
society, I'm not against the corpora
tons, but they should be regulated in
q spirit of fairness and justice, but
regulated none the less.
Another plank I'm standing on is
Better and Buster Michigan and II
believe this can best be brought
about by the formation of a state
board of trade, to be composed of
one member from each county in the
state, to meet once every three
months, in different parts of the state
giving the members "a chance to see
what there is in Michigan that needs
developing.
Abolish Game Department.
II favor the abolishing of the state
game and fish department. The prin-
cipal duty that seems to devolve up
on It is creating sentiment for some
political aspirant. Let the sheriffs of
the counties look after the game and
f1sh. They won't do It? Well, there
arc ways to make them. Give the
complainant who will secure the con-
viction of the unlawful hunter or
fisherman one-half the fine and I'll
venture to say that it will work out
all right. If this department were
abolished and the state taxlands were
decided back to the county, / believe
It would result in a saving to the
state of fully 100000 a year.
Create state forest reserves and
place them i'm charge of the state land
commissioner. His trespass agents
would protect the timber and guard
against fire at the same time. The
counties would be in charge of the
other land and employ fire wardens
as they saw At.
81 am in favor of single tax on
all property and unalterab!y opposed
to double taxation on any.
'If am governor I'll see to 1t that
everybody works for the state who
draws pay for working or they'll quit
or get some unpleasant notoriety.
No empleye of the state will be allow J
ed to spend the states time booming
my candidacy or the candidacy of +,