Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-08-05
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and RACKS high as member OF the
bar MIR Dodds is a clean, able man
and a good lawyer and would make
splendid representative for the elev-
enth district in congress.
GRATIOT COUNTY
The Clarion believes that Francis
H. Dodds, Of Mt. Pleasant is the
logical candidate for congress from
this district.
We have carefully considered the
matter and feel that no other candi-
date can so well serve the people OF
the county and district as Mr. Dodds
We believe him TO be honest, thor
oughly capable and a representative
of the highest tvDe of republicansm.
The Clarion gives him its most cor
dial and hearty support.
+ H. Dodds, of Mt. Pleasant, can
didate for congress in this district,
was in town Thursday. Mr. Dodds IS
a pleasant man to meet and will UNI
doubtedly be nominated TO represent
this district at the September primar-
les.
The object of the primary law, il
it has any object, is that the rank and
file may have a voice in placing in
nomination candidates for congress,
thus selecting from their own num-
Der, instead of leaving the nomination
to a convention of men, against whom
the cry has always been made, are
politicians. In this respect the prim-
arr law was supposed to be so great
an improvement. that the man who
makes politics a business and cares
not a fig for the wishes or welfare
of the people would be reegated to
the shade. We believe the above is
the only point in the primary law
If the voter does not exercise his
right, now that we have this improved
method, the primary law becomes a
useless affair, and the politician still
rules the nomination, as surely as be-
fore. Taking it for granted the voters
of the nth congressional district were
in earnest when they adopted the new
system, what is their duty in the COM
ing Primaries2 In the candidacy of
Covell, we have a man that does not
allow his feet to get cold outside of
some county, state, judicial or con-
gressional position. For the past 20
years he has fed at the public trough,
from Prosecuting Attorney of Benzie
county, in 1880, representative in the
state legislature from 1866, state
senator in 1867, then district attor-
ney for the next ten years at a salary
of $500 per year, and which job he
now holds, while endeavoring, as he
has for the past six years, to climb
into congress. Surely Covell belongs
to that class known as the politician
onto his job. He has been we'll taken
care of politically, has he notl Would
he not come under the head of the
machine politician, and the class of
hangers-on that obtain political pre-
ferment by wire pulling? To get rid
of just such men and their methods
the primary law was conceived. That
men of the people, clean, capable and
deserving might be selected. In the
latter class, Frank H. Dodds stands
prominent, and if the primary law,
with the plain people back of it, do
not shelve Covell September first,
then, indeed, is the primary method
inefficient and as bad as packed con-
ventions, and the voters who should
make the law an Improvement are
sadly lacking in their duty.
st. Louis Independent.
Frank II. Dodds is a capable man
naturally, one who can accomplish
large things easily, and a man of in
fiuence among his fellows. OF broad
education and deliberate in judgment,
he is in a mental way splendidly
equipped for the place. His long
legal training and active practise OF
the law the better equips him TO solve
intelligently the difficult questions
that confront our national law max
ers. He is recognized as one OF the
ablest attorneys in this part of the
state. He is clean morally, honesty
and truth are sacred principles of his,
and he is exalted in his purpose to
serve his fellowmen. He deserves the
place politically. He has never asked
for public office, but has always
been an enthusiastic worker and a
ready counselor in the Republican
party He is in the prime Of his man
hood, but well schooled in life's ex.
perience, and seeks the place not so
much from selfish motives as to have
opportunity to do hard and persistent
work in the cause of his country, state
and district
st. Louis Republican