The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-09-26
DON'T NEED A SURVEYOR
To Locate Hubbell, Crystal Falls, Sen
ators Charles Smith or Michael
Morairity, According to
Grand Rapids
Press.

Inc GranQ hap1uS freSs, generally
opposed to Senator Smith, has this to
say of Senator Charles Smith and Sem
ator Moriarty, of Crystal Falls:
Hubbell, an enterprising village, 10
Gated four rods northwest of a water
tank on the Mineral Range railway in
Houghton county, is celebrated for
smelling works, stamp mills and Char
lie Smith. Outside of smelling ore and
stamping the principal occupation of
the villagers, backed up by the district
is that of sending Charlie Smith to the
senate. They have just assembled and
nominated Charlie for the umpeth-um-
peth- time. Going to the senate has
got to be a habit with Charlie and it
seems to be as hard to break as the
tendency toward cigarettes or highballs
in other persons.
They say all signs fail in dry wealth
er, but such is apparently not the case
in and around Hubbell. 1t has certain
ly been as dry as covered bridge in
that locality recently and forest fires
have borne picturesque evidence of it,
but one sign has not failed; the sign
that Charlie will again be in the state
senate to represent the iron and copper
interests and to teach embryo "box-
ers" some of the fine points in the man.
ly art of self-defense, although he is
boxer" himself only when occasion
demands.
Charlie represents his district as his
district wishes to be represented. He
is familiarly known as Calumet &
Hecla Charlie" The stamp mills and
smelling works and the steel trust re-
ceive due attention and that suits the
rank and file of voters in his bailiwick.
The full dinner pail travels merrily to
the works each morning, everybody
there is satisfied and it is no ones busi-
ness.
Charlie is an honest politician,
which is rara avis in this day and gen
GRAFTON. Everybody knows why he
plays an open game for table stakes
and doesn't deal off the bottom. If
any person objects to Charlie as sena-
tor that person has the privilege of de-
feating him he can.
Crystal Falls, also of the upper PEN
insula, is quarter size smaller than
Hubbell, but it is equally noted. 1t
has produced the finest crop Of hair in
the world and it decorates the archi-
tecturally accurate dome of thought of
Hon. Michael Horace Moriarty, better
known as "Merciful Mike" There are
only four crops of hair on this planet
that can hoped to be catalogued in the
same volume with Mikes and they be-
long to Ebert Hubbard, Richard Le-
Gallienne, Ignatz Paderewski and DR..
Munyon. Mikes hirsute adornment
has theirs beaten to whisper, howev-
er, and. Crystal Falls holds its head up
proudly in the galaxy of famous muni-
cipalities.
The raising of hair being his regular
oc cupation, Mike goes to the state SEN
ate as his recreation. Saturday he was
nominated for the steenth time and
there will be no opposition at the
polls. There is-some sense in that kind
Of politics, from Moriartanese stand
point, and there, as in Hubbell, eve ry
body is satisfied.
Mike is the common or garden varie-
ty of politician, but by main strength
and awkwardness generally manages to
drop on the popular side of the fence,
although upon one or two memorable
occasions in the strenuous days of John
ny Baird and AL Dougherty he found
himself suspended by the slack of his
trousers from the top of picket-in
chancery as it were. But bygones are
bygones and for the last twenty-five or
thirty sessions Of the senate Mike has
been all that his constituents would
have him be and has demonstrated that
his head is frequently an asylum for
thought and not merely hothouse for
the propagation of capillary alfalfa.
Crystal Falls folks get their religion,
politics, weather forecasts, social eti-
quette and kitchen receipts from Mike
as does the village Of Hubbell from
Charlie and the general trend of
opinion is that both communities, as
well as the Calumet and Hecla and the
steel trust, might look further and fare
worse.