The Detroit times., 1908-10-23
HEMANS TO SPEAK
At GRAND LEDGE
RALLY, TUESDAY

and prolonged applause. In short. Mr..
Hemans created a most excellent i'm
preston.
Made Ingenious Appeal.
To pry up Republican votes In the
upper peninsula. Mr.. Hemans made
| ingenious appeal by outlining the evils
that grow out OF lopsided party gov
eminent. Tie said that the party sys-
TEN of government was necessary and
inherent In republic, and that tho
best results for the government were
obtained when there was a tolerably
even balance OF power between two
great parties. This IL thing which
has been lacking in Michigan these
many years. The state has witnessed.
he said, one party growing stronger
and the other party growing weaker
through several decades, and the re-
suit has been deterioration in govern
ment. Speaking Of the upper PENN
sula In particular. Mr.. Hemans said
1t suffered materially and in loss OF
influence through It's hidebound devo.
ton TO one party. and Its lack OF indie
pendence. He said that the upper
peninsulas Republican majority has
come to be taken so much as q mat.
ter Of course that the upper peninsula
never gets anything but some place
way down on the ticket In reward for
It. Let the upper peninsula surprise
the lower Michigan leaders by failure
to turn out the usual Republican vote
for the one year. and, he said. there
would be a noticeable scurrying north
tn xrrhot
the upper peninsula wanted before IL
would restore the old conditions.
Extravasanes Main Point
Mr.. Hemans' principal point In his
Indictment of the Republican party
was the extravaganza, which he al
legged has attended its conduct OF state
affairs in late years. He said that in
the II years since Michigan became a
state there has been expended by the
state for governmental purposes $751;
0O0,000 or this 325 100000. or approx
imately q third, he stated, has been
expended In the past eight years. and
OF this $25,000,QD0, s15.000.000 In the
past four years. He said that II was
not the appropriations that he found
fault with, but the expenditures from
the general fund, and gave II an his
opinion that a non-partisan commits
sion OF three independent business
men would point out ways In which
the people OF the state could be saved
$500 900 annually. Mr.. Hemans de-
MED that Gov. Warner was entitled 10
any credit for the increased disburse-
ments from the primary school fund,
and called attention TO the governors
recommendation that steps be taken
to hold the disbursement from this
fund to $3.50 per capita, the money
In excess Of this amount TO be divert
ed TO the state university, the agricul-
tural college and normal schools.
GETS at Third Term Reasons"
The four reasons Gov. Warner ad-
vanced why he should be given a
third term, namely, to pass an anti
| lobbying bill, to secure an improved
primary law. TO pass q bill taxing
telephone and telegraph companies as
other property is taxed and to, pass
a bill against stock watering, came In
for Mr.. Hemans' attention. The anti
! lobbying measure he dismissed as a
matter of no consequence The cure
I for corrupt practices ut Lansing, he
said, was the election OF incorruptible
men To the legislature. He said he
did not believe that the registration
OF lobbyists would prove a cure-all for
the conditions complained of. In re-
gard To the primary bill he asserted
that he, man who had stood for the
principle all the time, could assured.
ly be trusted to do as we'll by II as
man who had been for II but half the
time. Mr.. Hemans then made the
charge that the stock watering bill
was killed by the committee on rail-
ways In the senate, to which II had