The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-04

The campaign is in its CLOSING
stages. The candidates and the SPELL
binders are speeding up In the final
squirt. The claim bureaus are busy
and the state chairmen are preparing
To issue their official predictions.
What is more important the people
have pretty well made up their minds
what they are going to do. For that
matter they had them made up some
weeks ago. The outcome of the pri-
mary determined the lines on which
the campaign would be waged. The
issues were all issues with which peo-
pie were long ago familiar; the can
didates were well known to them. The
principal appeal that has been new to
the voters has been made on the basis
of essentials. Today results at
the polls are due more to the slowly
developing trend of popular thought
than 10 any psychological and emot-
ional wave given impetus by political
speakers, no matter how impressive
their powers.
Mr.. Hemans has made a vigorous
and courageous campaign. pretty much
single handed too. But has he proved
that the people of the state would
gain any advantage for themselves by
electing him governor of Michigan?
The Mining Journal believes that he
has signally failed TO do so, and that
the logic of the situation is so wholly
against him that his election would
clx 1,n IA,
speedily to be done and set much of il
back two years.
one thing looms up in the political
situation i'm Michigan that admits of no
doubt. That thing is the certainty
depite the seeming concern of some of
Representative Townsend's good
friends-that the legislature of Mich /
igan will be overwhelmingly Repub-
lican. Mr.. Hemans has been chary i'm /
the extreme about promises as to the /
things he would perform i'm the event !
of his election. This is perhaps be-
cause he has fun well realized that he /
would be as powerless for construc- I
tive legislation, if elected, as he would .
he If he were defeated and returned I
to honorable retirement at Mason. Mr.
Hemans' selection as governor i'm con-
junction with the election of a Repub- /
lican legislature would saddle the .
state with an inharmonious govern
ment and a divided responsibility. and .
would hold out little or no hope of .
constructive legislation and progress
along the lines of work to which it is .
expected and hoped that the legis-
lature viii devote itself.
The other alternative-the election
of Mr.. Osborn To cooperate with a
Republican legislature to carry out the
platform pledges and to move forward .
along other lines that have been in
dicated in his addresses-offers a much .
more alluring prospect. 1t would give
the state a homogeneous government. |
and centered responsibility. In the
event of failure to realize the fairI
promises made there would be no ques-
tion about who should be blamed. I
Governor and legislature would work /
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istration which will go back to the |
days of Austin Blair for rivalry.
We are glad To call particular at
tention TO the presence of Governor |
Osborn in this city and section today |
and tomorrow.
Those who are fortunate enough to |
know this brilliant Knight of the |
North, love him for his courage. his |
genius, his intellect and his cap
acity.
He is altogether the biggest man
whom the state has had chance to
elevate to the governorship in many |
years. 1t is the duty Of the voter, who |
would cast an intelligent ballot on No /
vember Sth, to become acquainted with |
the personality and purposes of this |
dynamic reformer