The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-09-17
BRE|TMEYER ON THE
STUMP HAS TIME
Of HIS LIFE
PARK COMMISSIONER THOROUGH
LY ENJOYS CAMPAIGNING
MADE rs SPEECHES WEpNEs.
DAY NIGHT.

| The greatest fun OF his lifetime Is
the mayoral canvass now being made
/ by Philip Breitmeyer. The park com.
missioner has the faculty OF seeing
the best side of things and he enjoys
getting out among the people in all
parts OF the city. getting acquainted,
talking, making friends. speeding from
place to place.
Men who have been through many
campaigns pronounce him a wonder as
a campaigner Despite the fact that
he is busy all day with his affairs as
vate business affairs, he takes up
each evenings series OF meetings with
yes, OF n young lawyer handling his
first big case.
Instead OF firing, he grows more en-
thusiastic as the time goes On and,
by the time that everyone else Is
sleepy and grouchy, he is just getting
more into the spirit of the thing.
Breitmeyer's one striking char.
acteristic is his open frank
be winning him the most support, and
when he says that he likes his work
one cannot but believe It. After six
weeks OF the hardest campaigning. he
Is as fresh as school boy and as
merry, He never loses his dignity or
his good humor.
Wednesday evening was q typical
Breitmeyer evening. He made 10
ssx.., oil he 81
and received hearty reception every
where. His talk is far from the stere-
otyped line.
Il am not going to make any prom
ses," he says. You do not want
promises. you want man who Will
do something.
II have been in public life only two
years-and | am glad that 1t has been
no longer. | do not believe that
man should spend his whole life in
politics. Even the best wheel wears
out and the man who has held public
Office too long loses his usefulness.
You know now whom you Will vote
for for mayor. But feel that 1t is
the duty Of a candidate to show him
self TO the people to let them know
what kind OF a man he Is. II | am
the kind OF man you want, you will
vote for me-
The evening tour started with a
meeting in Isadore Mellen's on Hast
ings-st.. at which about 20 were pres
ent. Many of them were old friends
and they received him with cheering
words. Next were two meetings at
Fourth and Merrick.aves. and on Ly-
sander-st.. near Sixth-st. Then came
a jump TO John StasiniewicZ's saloon
and grocery out St. Aubin-ave., where
a hundred Poles and Germans were
waiting.
In his speech, Stasiniewlcz told the
people that they should vote for the
man that would not break promises
and who wouldp look out for their in
terests. He contrasted the action OF
Mayor Thompson in dropping Polish
clerks with the liberality with which
Commissioner Breitmeyer went down
into his own pocket to furnish money
that idle men might get work on the
Belle Isle canal.
In another meeting on JOS Campau.
ave-. Breitmeyer made a hit with the
crowd by the way In which he took
snuff with an old friend. Then he
took in few house meetings In the
eastern portion OF the city, shaking
hands and making his talks brief.
Speaking In Steng's hall, in the upper
end OF the Thirteenth ward, he dwelt
on the necessity for cooperation and
harmony In the city government. He
told his hearers that no one man is
big enough to settle the street railway
problem. but that II must me handled
with the best thought OF the commun-
ity and voted on BY the people before
conclusion is reached He was
given a reception by party OF young
women outside and shook hands with
all Of them.
Away out Fort-st., in the Eighteenth
ward, Breitmeyer ran into a dance. He
made little talk, and then the girls
swarmed around him to get his
badges.
AT No. 1885 Fort-st. q man some
what under the influence OF liquor ask.