The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-10-10
Says. BRE|TMEYER
SHIFTS ON STREET
GAR QUESTION
MAYOR wHAcks OPPONENT FOR
vActLLATIoN AND WARNS
AGAINST. ELEcTlNo "YIELplNo,.
PLEASANT, AFFAsLE MAN."

Friday evening was one OF compare
tive rest for the mayoral candidates
Thompson had but one meeting. while
Breitmeyer took In two. and attended
a social session Of Odd Fellows.
The mayors lone meeting was in
Fett's hall. adjoining the saloon at
JOS. Campau- and Canfeld-aves. A
crowd OF workingmen, mostly Germans
and Poles. filled the small hall and
listened most attentively while the
mayor talked about the street railway
question and about his opponent. In
beginning, Mayor Thompson touched q
little on racial matters, saying that he
was not German because he had no
choice OF parentage. but that he had
dono the NEXT best thing by marry
Ing q German wife.
He accused Breitmeyer of shifting
about from one position to another
on the street railway question, first
springing q plan to allow the D. u. r.
6 per cent ON its investment. then
shifting to three-cent fares. and finally
saying that the question has become
stale.
This = the opinion OF the man who
wants 70 ut In Pingree's chair on the
eve OF the day when the d. U. R. fran
chiSes expire and the question mus,
be settled" said the mayor. He II
mistaken about the question being
stale. He win hear from me about IT.
and he win hear from the people about
Il ut election time. tt
The d. u. R win not concede three
cent fares without . fight. Cheap fares
viii not be achieved by smiles, and II
viii not avail US TO have q mayor who
IL . good fellow. There II hard
fight ahead. which will test the endur.
ance. the patience and the civic vir'
tue OF our citizens. The d. u. r.
wants an easter mayor In the chair. a
yielding. pleasant, affable mayor who
won't make a disturbance. who will
talk harmony and an ideal partnership
between the d. U. r. and the city"
Whacks Breitmsyer for 0loatino.
Thompson then criticised Breitmeyer
for his remarks about the Cleveland
situation. saying that 1t Is fine at.
titude for q candidate for mayor to
take. Ito gloat over the possible TALL
ure Of sister city to achieve three
cent fares"
He told Of his congepial position as
city treasurer two years ago with no
troubles to worry about. and his com.
ing into the mayoral fight to defeat
the Codd.Hutchins ordinance. The
audience took readily to the mayors
argument and applauded when he said
that Breitmeyer's record has been q
nullify.
:, Commissioners Breitmeyer was greet.
ed by 400 men at the meeting of the
"Bright-Mayor' club at No. 40 Broad
way. He told the men present that II
Is foolish for any one man to pretend
to -eb able to force q settlement ol
the street arilway question. He de-
clared his belief that tn QUESTION should
b settled by the mayor and council
working together In harmony, not by
having q mayor and council fighting
each other and accomplishing moth
ing. In the tet meeting on Baker-st..
near Twenty-second-st.. Breitmeyer
said:
When I started campaigning. de-
cidec that 1t might beas well not to
devote all my time to a discussion
of the street railway question for the
reason that for many years every
politician has made capital OF 1t and
has sought to impress the people with
the idea that he is going 10 accom-
plish something wonderful In the way
OF settling It."
The last stop was In Riverside Tenn
Die OF Odd Fellows, where a non-polit-
ical address was made.
Flowers Flags Mayor.
Charles Flowers went after 'Thomp-
son again OH <the street railway ques-
tion, quoting Mayor Pingree's, unfa-
yorab;s. comments on the franchises
for which Thompson voted.
Thompson wants to keep his
friends, cohorts and pets in fat jobs, "
declared Flowers. HE wants every
department to be under his control.
He is gradually building up, a Tam
many organization as bad as that
which rules New York. and he would
soon have his grip on every branch Of
the city government. His reelection
would enable him to do this thing and
that il his chief ambition, and not the
glory ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of the city"