The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-03
WARNER ANSWERS
WITH TWO LIES
AND SLANlER
" ARTHUR HILL.
sAcINAW MAN POINTS OUT
THAT SERIOUS CHARGES
AGAINST GOVERNOR ARE uNRE-
FurEp-HoT SHOT FOR BIRD.
ARTHUR HILL.

Arthur Hill. OF Saginaw. spent Thurs
day night In Detroit. Ire Is on his
way to California to- continue his visit,
I which he interrupted TO return TO tes-
tify before the grand jury In respect
10 charges made against him by GOV
ernor Warner in connection with the
last senatorial campaign. Relative 10
the governors reply To the philippe
launched against him by Mr.. Hill, the
latter said to The Times:
Il charged the governor with en-
tering into a ''barn-yard conspiracy
With his diary and food commissioner,
the well-known CRATER. Bird. ami
others TO secure the senatOrship for
himself; with having sent a letter TO
4 the legislature asking II TO adjourn
a for week to investigate rumofs
which imputed to me illegal and COR
rupt practices, yet giving no hint as
TO what these rumors were, though
appealed to by me and my friends to
n do SO.
Il charged him with delaying until
Il Jan. 12 the taking OF his oath OF offics
B so as not to be disqualified for the
& senatorship. II the legislature should
elect him.
81 charged him with political graft.
VI with dipping his hands into the state
treasury for his own personal benent,
our first governor to be so accused as
recall the history OF the state.
"a 81 charged him with being mixed
up still further with this Bird In loans
from the Glazier bank. this being the
" Bird who got $4,000 through the gov
ernors bank. OF what | look upon as
state money, used partly In the erec-
\ ton Of q building rented In part to
the state.
"a al charged him with breaking the
Y laws OF the state, which II Is MS Of
4 fetal duty to execute.
"a SThe governor answered these
charges in his characteristic manner
with two lies and a SANDER, as fol
lows:
VA Mr.. Hilrs letter embodies moth
ing that has not been published
many times The only comment !
N care to makers that the lngham
county grand jury investigated all
the matters referred to by Mr..
Hill and saw At. In the discharge
~ OF its sworn duty. TO indict close
NJ friend OF the Saginaw candidate
" for United States senator on
charge OF offering a member OF the
state legislature money II he would
vote for Mr.. Hill who has been
compelled to admit that he fur
nished candidates for the legisla-
ture money TO use In their cam.
paigns Just before they we're likely
TO be called upon to vote for Unit
ed States senator.
"First--the grand jury did not In
vestigate my main charge that
while the governor had In published
interviews stated II would be wrong
TO be: candidate for senator against
men who had helped him, as soon as
he saw I might be elected he aimed at
me an infamous charge and then re-
fused to state the facts upon which II
was based so I might defend myself
against IL. The jury did not investi-
gate his base hypocrisy In delaying
the taking Of his oath OF Office until
Jan. IL. as II because OF Illness, but
really because he had been advised
that IL he took IL he could not get the
necessary certificate OF his election TO
present in washington.
Second was not compelled to ad-
NIT that furnished money for legis-
lative candidates TO use In campaigns,
for l had frankly stated the fact to
the public before the senatorial cleo.
ton In the following interview print
ed In a Detroit newspaper:
| will state that like the other
senatorial candidates | very nat
urally contributed to the Repub-
Ifcan state committee fund, and
In few cases assisted county
committees where the contest
was close. AS TO the legislative
nominees. 1 did what each OF the
other candidates did, directly or
through their friends, that is, +
gave to them such support as ]
thought necessary and proper. l
even did this where the district
was close as between Republican
and Democrat. where the nomi-
nee was known to be pledged to
another candidate.
Il had to play the game according
TO the rules. for when I tried TO
amend them. Warner and his friends
voted me down.
The governor does not refer 10 my
charge that he forced the fight on
me; that his appointees were using
large sums of money In Bay and Mid
land counties, at my very door, to
defeat those favorable TO my candi.
dacy and that his deputy labor com
missioner is now his chief representa-
tive In his 'third-term- cam
paign In my section OF the state"
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