The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-11-04

And so he has gone throughout his
life. lie has cheered where a cheer
was merited. He has criticized with
all his energy when criticism seemed
to him warranted. That Is what he
did in his campaign. That is what he
promises TO do IL elected governor.
Thrives on Opposition.
He can appreciate both commenda-
tion and criticism. He has been
through the mill. Today he looks
back with pride upon the obstacles he
has surmounted. They are TO him just
like the bull moose which kept him
freed for three days in the wilds of
Canada, but whom he eventually out
Unanswered and shot. He has had his
life of hard knocks and today laughs
at them. He has had his sorrows
which have left their imprint indeli-
bly, upon him. He has had his vic
tories. These cast a brilliant glow
over the shadowy spots.
Once Chase S. Osborn would have
gone TO congress, but for the treach-
cry of men whom he had made. They
kept him at home. He was panied,
not because he lost, but because his
friends had proven false. But that is
all forgotten. He wept not at all. He
forgot.
Faithful to Friends.
He has been always willing to help
a friend in need. Always ready to
forget the man not his friend. This
friendship. this love of his friends is
probably born of the love he bears
his mother. No boy or girl shows a
more filial devotion to his mother than
Chase S. Osborn. That mother, now
nearly S3 years OF age, knows this.
The affection OF the son is returned
by the mother. She is proud of her
big boy, the eldest Of eight children.
She knows he is a smart boy as well
as q good boy. She lives in South
Bend, Indiana, and all unknown to
him, she travelled TO Jackson last
spring to hear her big boy talk. And
newell his speech that night, he says
himself, was the poorest of his cam
paign. There before him sat the
mother so years of age, straining her
eyes and ears to catch every word
and every move of her boy. And he,
when he saw the loved mother, was
overcome. His speech was a poor at
tempt. But to the mother 1t was the
grandest she had ever heard and she
went back to her home happy as only
a mother can be.
Let that aged mother be i'll ever so
little. Politics, governors, everything
Is forgotten. Chase S. Osborn takes
the next train--a special train II
necessary-and hastens to the moher
who needs him.
And Chase S. Osborn is proud. No
man is more proud han he. What is
he proud of? He Is proud of his own
family, of the big boys he has reared.
He is proud that they have been sue
cessful in their college days and that
they are growing up to be the kind OF
men he would like them to be. He is
proud that never yet has blot been
cast upon his name. He is proud and
jealous, too, of his honor and his name.
He Is proud that years and years ago,
he first of any man In Michigan,
started q boom for William Alden
Smith for United States senator. He
is proud that while they laughed at
him then, his boast and his prediction
Is now fact.
Chase S. Osborn is man of moods.
Today he loves the wh1l and excite
ment OF the campaign. He loves TO
talk. He knows he can be interesting.
He loves to appear before arr audi
ence, loves to talk to them on any
subject that comes to his mind, loves
to moralize to them and loves their
applause.
Tomorrow he hears the call OF the
wild. He longs for the solitude of the
forest, the smell Of the pines, the
howl Of the wolf, the boot of the owl.
Tomorrow he quietly drops from CIV
ilization. With buckskin moccasins
OH his feet, heavy sweater or Mack
inaw jacket, fur cap. with his rifle
on his shoulder, he opens the door of
his Deerfoot Lodge up in the wilds OF
the Upper Peninsula. For days he
tramps the woods, quietly as an In
dian, guided by the north star at
night, by the sun or the bark on the
trees in the day.
1T does one good to get right out
among the things God made" he says.
81 love to be where no man ever was
before"
Then the mood again changes. He
feels the charm OF his library, his
books, his writing desk. Shut up
there, he reads and absorbs more
knowledge. He writes a book
Again comes the wanderlust. It
takes him to the ice fields OF the
north, to the desert of sand. 1t calls
him to mines of Lapland, TO the songs
Of Italy, to the flowers of Japan.
Then he comes back again. filled
with new thoughts, new ideas, new
knowledge. He appears once more be-
fore the crowd and with all his dy-
manic energy tells the people what
he has learned, and striking his fist
into his palm, drives home thought
which he hopes will do somebody
some good.
Perhaps he Is called to a political
conference. May be 1t is the presi-
dent who wants to discuss something
with him. as has often been the case;
perhaps Il is the governor; perhaps
IL is but the county committee.
Whether II Is the president or the
county committee matters not. II his
opinion is asked, it is given honestly
regardless OF whether II is the word
the interviewer wants or the reverse.
IF my opinion is good for any
thing. II must be my honest convic-
tion," he says. mo man asks an
opinion who Just wishes to be fiat.
tered"
Ana Cbosa G Ochor, is a MAN 80