Charlevoix county herald., 1910-11-05

And so he has gone throughout his
life. He has cheered where 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 10 do IL elected governor.
Thrives on OPPOSITION.
He can appreciate both commenda-
ton 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 i
Canada. but whom he eventually out
Unanswered and shot. lie 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 brilliant glow
over the shadowy spots.
Once Chase S. Osborn would have
gone 10 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. lie
forgot.
Faithful to Friends.
He has been always willing to help
a friend in need. Always ready to
forget dhe 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
mole filial devotion to his mother than
| Chase S. Osborn. That mother, now
nearly SO 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 a good boy. She lives in South
Bend, Indiana. and all unknown 10
him. She travelled to Jackson last
spring TO hear her big boy talk. And
newell his speech that night, ne says
himself, was the poorest OF his cam
paign. There before him sat the
mother 50 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 poor at
tempt. But to the mother it 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 Ill 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
r family, Of the big boys he has reared
| He is proud that they have been sue
l cessful in their college days and that
!. they are growing up to be the kind o.
Z men he would like them to be. He is
/ proud that never yet has blot beer
cast upon his name. He is proud ant
1 Jealous, too, of his honor and his name
g He is proud that years and years ago
D he first of any man in Michigan
s started a boom for William Alder
e Smith for United States senator. III
d is proud that while they laughed a
5 him then, his boast and his prediction
8 is now O fact
t Chase S. Osborn is a man OF moods
d Today he loves the whJl and excite
y ment of the campaign. He loves t
e talk. He knows he can be interesting
d He loves 10 appear before an aud
t. encc, loves to talk to them on an
s. subject that comes to his mind, love
e to moralize to them and loves thel
e applause.
@ Tomorrow he hears the call of tn
l. wild. He longs for the solitude OF tn
t. forest, the smell of tie pines, tn
howl OF the wolf, the boot of the ow
Is Tomorrow he quietly drops from civ
ilization With buckskin moccasin
n on his feet, heavy sweater or Maci
Of inaw jacket, fur cap, with his rin
Il on his shoulder, he opens the door
his Deerfoot Lodge up In the wilds
lg the Upper Peninsula. For days b
,e tramps the woods, quietly as an II
ID dian, guided by the north star {
n night, by the sun or the bark on th
Is trees in the day.
o. 1T does one good to get right OF
Is among the things God made" he say
W 81 love to be where no man ever we
VS. before"
s. Then the mood again changes. I
lie feels the charm of his library. h
le books. his writing desk. Shut l
lie there, he reads and absorbs mo-
III knowledge. He writes book.
at Again comes the wanderlust
W takes him TO the ice neluS oI u
~ north, to the desert Of sand. 1t cal
All him to mines of Lapland, to the SOM
ed of Italy, to the flowers OF Japan.
Then he comes back again. fill'
70 with new thoughts, new ideas, ne
knowledge. He appears once more B
so fore the crowd and with all his d
ne manic energy tells the people VIII
no he has learned, and striking his Fl
GU into his palm, drives home thong
which he hopes will do somebo
20 some good.
Sd Perhaps he is called to a polite
conference. May be it is the pre-
'er dent who wants to discuss somethi
with him, as has often been the cas-
perhaps it is the governor; perha
Try IL is but the county committ'
Ter Whether IL IS the preslueht Oh !