The Detroit times., 1910-09-03
|EbRlDLEV MAKES.
hitter ATTACK ON
WARNER|sM
That Pack of Gray Wolves Will
Stop at Nothing" Says Eaton
Rapids Man, Regarding
Assault On Osborn.
~. Bradley Says He Was Counted
Out and Defrauded at Primaries
In 1908.

EATON RAPIDS, Mich, Sept g.
4 pr. J. b. Bradley has just returned
home from two weeks automobile
tour In the east Much has happened
40 the campaign for the governorship
(, D1nce he has been away, but the doc
tor was not long in getting full In
formation of the situation. He said:
n II am not at all surprised at the bit
Tor and scurrilous attacks that have
4 been made by the Warner-keliey
crowd upon Chase S. Osborn Haven't
~ been through ft-don't know? That
pack of gray wolves will stop at notn-
NIng to keep themselves intrenched AT
Lahsing and IN possession OF fat state
8 Jobs, which Is all they think about IN
state administration. Mr.. Osborn may
expect many more attacks and the
ourer seems his nomination the more
desperate they VIII become, ana the
more Indignantly and viciously VIII
y they assail MIN, distort every utter
ance he ever made and twist and per
vert every word he has ever said. In
the hope that they can discredit MIN.
know. because l was abused In the
same manner two years ago, To pre-
vent his nomination they Will not stop
1t fraud and crookedness. either.
II am as fully convinced as 1 am
sure that i am alive today that was
Xu0 TlknlIul nominee Oh TUG ihtpuph-
cans OF the state for governor over
Fred NJ Warner at the 1905 primaries
and many men of standing and up
rightness in this state. far shrewder
and better informed in political mat
ters than am, are fully convinced OF
Il, too.
out and defrauded OF the nomination
been able to completely show that fact
had the law not barred US from OBJ
tanning the evidence in the contest
that / brought TO obtain my right TO
the nomination. The most fragrant
violations of the law were practiced
I'm the strong Warner sections. ana we
are certain that In the count ballots
cast for me were boldly transferred
to the Warner column.
1T will be remembered that the hrst
returns showed that 1 had carried the
that he had been beaten. When II was
seen that the majority was not likely
20 be large, the returns began to be
mysterfously delayed and II was I'M
possible to get them promptly from
certain precincts. where ballot manfp-
uiation and Juggling OF returns had
been notorfously practiced In the past.
~ IL only when the margin Is small
that the election crooks can do their
work OF counting out-a big majority
IL too large task TO hope Tor success.
ft needs too many crooks TO pull on
the Job. Enough votes for me were
deliberately falsifed In the returns to
squeeze Warner through by the mar
row margin of 1,2I9 in total vote OF
100000 for Bradley, Warner and Earle.
'.And II they can. seize half a chance
they will count Osborn out, too. That
Is what his friends should be watchful
of--they can't sleep minute on the
Job That Warner Kelley gang won't
let themselves be pried loose from the
grip they have fastened on the state
administration and control OF the Re-
publican party In this state. l want
'0~Ilarr win. 4 hava haen doing all
n can for his success; / want 10 see
equare man and man Of his supreme
courage at the head OF state affairs.
and / want all my friends who fought
with me and for me In 1908. and who
were robbed with me OF the fruits OF
an honest victory In that memorable
by him In such large numbers that the
.election crooks who debauched the
ballot I'm that primary will have no
chance this time TO steal the nomina-
ton for Warmers man.
The attempt Of Warner to make II
appear that Osborn did not deal fairly
with me In the 1908 campaign made me
laugh when l read it. ! fully, under
campaign and II was satisfactory to
me- Could anything be more charac-
toristic Of Warmers dirty kind of poll
GUS way with which he treated Arthur
hill Warner would throw down his
best friend, to say nothing OF those
who were mildly friendly to him. IL u
should become necessary to keep his
grip on political power. II is sufficient
TO say that am an Osborn man. every
Inch OF me, In this campaign TO clean
up that Lansing mess Osborn is car
ryfng on the same battle that IL fell to
me to lead two years ago, and / am
with him to the end. heart and soul
IL every man who Is conscientiously
opposed to Warnerism and all that II
sfands for, will cast his vote for Os-
born Sept. 8. he will be doing the state
and his party the highest and best SER