Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03
VOTE TICKET STRAIGHT
No Occasion For Any Republican to
Hesitate
FROM GOVERNOR TO CORONER
Let GFatiOt Roll up an Old Time Republican
Majority

Chase S. Osborn, the Republican
nominee for governor, is the foremost
citizen of the 500" Mr.. Osborn is
one of those men who have had a
good college education, but above all
have taken a complete course i'll the
university of hard knocks, and have
thrived under its tuteage Mr.. Os-
born's ancestry is of good Hoosier
stock. He was born near Lafayette,
Indiana, and got his college education
in that state. He was always an inde-
pendent, self-reliant fellow and early
in life started out in his own wagon.
He was a cub reporter on a Chicago
paper for while, then went to Mil
waukee. He purchased a newspaper
of his own in Florence, but in 1887
moved to the 500" which city has
been proud to claim him ever since.
He has been prominent in the bust
ness affairs of the 500" for many
years, and has lately received much
recognition from the people of Michi-
gan in the way of state Offices He
was railroad commissioner and regent
OF the university for several years, still
holding the latter position. Though
not the most eloquent of orators, he
is a forceful speaker and a man of
most excellent business qualities. The
state will have clean administration
under his guidance.
John 9. Ross is a Muskegon man
whom his home city and vicinity are
supporting solidly for his election as
lieutenant governor. He has pledged
himself publicly to be absolutely i'm.
partial i'll the appointment of COM
mittees, which is such an important
function of his office, and announces
that he will distribute the positions
fairly, not favoring any particular
clique to the detriment of others. This
is of supreme Importance to fair and
honest consideration of the questions
that come before the senate and it
speaks extremely we'll of Mr. Ross
that he has taken the decided stand he
has.
As candidate for supreme justice
he Republicans of Michigan have
chosen as their candidate a man who
is Michigan man through and
and who is, moreover, man
with scarcely an equal in efficiency
in law, particularly the Michigan
statutes Mr. Bird was born at Clay
ton, down in the loyal county of
Lenawee, during the time when the
north was defending the principles
which the greatest leader of the Re
publican party, Abraham Lincoln, had
1t was in 1862 during
the early years of the civil, war that
'he future supreme justice of Michi-
gan first saw the light. Since that
time Mr. Bird has always lived in
receiving his high school
education at Adrian, where he also
was graduated from Adrian college.
In November. 1888, he was admitted
TO the bar and since that time he has
been engaged in the profes
sion of law, except during the years
when he served the safe and his county
in official capacities. In 1895 he re-
ceived his first recognition from his
county, being elected prosecuting at
torney, retaining that office for four
years. Some ten years later the Re-
publicans of the state recognizing in
him man of legal ability nominated
him as their candidate for attorney
general He was chosen for this |
office for three terms in succession, i'll
1908 receiving twice as many votes as
his nearest competitor. In Lawyer !
Bird, the Republicans present a man
who. on account of his faithful SER
vice in the past and his unexceled
egal knowledge and ability, cannot
Dut obtain the support of the voters
Of the state
The office of secretary of state, as
we all know, is an Office in Importance !
second to none but that of governor in
out the plans of the admins
ration. Therefore, when it is possible
% obtain for that office a man of
many years experience in conducting
he affairs of that department the
electors are especially fortunate Such
man is Frederick c. Martindale of
Detroit. Mr. Martindale has had the
experiences of self-made man. After
,eing graduated from the Detroit high
school he taught school for several
,ears and then took course in the
Detroit College of Law and was adj
nitted to the practice in 1897. He
formed a partnership
With Mr.. Henderson, and now the
aw firm of Henderson and Martindale
s one OF the well-known firms of the
Michigan metropolis. Mr.. Martin
lale has served the state both in the
louse of representatives and in the