The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-22

Lieut.. Gov. L. II. Kelley at MI
Pleasant wednesday night practically
announced that the tide against the
perpetuation OF Warnerism was rum
ming so strongly that desperate tao
tics had to be adopted In last-chance
effort to stop it, comments the Sagi-
nav Courier Herald. He did this by
making a speech intended To convey
the impression that he had cut loose
from the Warner administrations sup
port. burned his bridges behind him
and started out on his own hook and
on his own record to secure the nomi-
nation for governor.
1t was Lincoln who in homeiy
phrase pointed out the danger of this
sort of thing in politics-"swapping
horses I'm the middle of the stream.
So II Mr.. Kelley were really honest In
his announced determination to sever
his close relations with Warnerism,
or if it were possible for him TO do
so. he would stin be taking an enor-
nous risk For Mr.. Kelley's record,
ability. prestige and qualifications for
the high office OF governor OF Michi-
gan, divorced entirely from the War
ner support, encouragement and sim
ews Of war as contributed by the state
administration through its hordes OF
job holders, form less than ncgligi-
BILE quantity. Mr.. Kelley was picked
as the runner up OF the Warner adj
ministration long ago-or as the heir
of the present governor, to be the re-
cepient of the present state admins
tration's support. as the figure head
To hold together IL possible the state
/ job holders machine for two or four
or six years more, with a prospective
United States senatorship for Cover
nor Warner dangling temptingly i'm the
dim background.
Gov Warmers public utterances
have proved this; he has plainly an
nounced his open support of his fidus
achates, his captain i'm the legislative
and primary battles, the personal de-
fender and apologist of his political
acts. and the chief pigment mixer and
picture painter Of the Warner admin
istrations performances for the past
six years. Mr. Kelley's own utter
ances have proved this, too; all his
many speeches at the winter and spring
Republican banquets have been devot-
ed wholly TO the difficult job of defend
ing and apologizing for ,Warnerism,
from the looted -tate treasury and eX-
cesslve state taxation 10 the latest ap-
pointment to state office made for the
quid pro quo of working day and night
for the nomination of Kelley for the
gubernatorial succession.
OF a truth, without the aid OF the
governor and the state job holders
union, held together with the power
fully cohesive glue of lust for the Of
fees, Mr.. Kelleys ambition to be gov
ernor of Michigan would stand in the
TO smile at. Lieut. Gov. Kelley has
been and still is a part and parcel of
Warnerism-and he can't get away
from 1t, he can't cleanse himself of
it by public ablutionary act and
make anybody with the common gar
den variety OF political intelligence be-
lieve that he has repented reformed
and entered upon a new and cleaner
political life.
Therefore his forced attempt to ell
inmate warnefism brought on by the
swift rising opposition of the voters
Is futile. Lieut-Gov. Kelley cannot
evade IL, no matter how his bosses
may scheme to push the incubus away
He has been so much of IL. striven SO
desperately to make IL appear so grea,
and glorious. that his candidacy must
stand for what IL started out to be
and must remain--a candidacy to per-
petuate indefinitely the life OF the
Warner state political machine.
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