The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-05
Laurium Department
KUHN-FELLOWS
FIGHT Is CLOSE
THE ATTORNEY. oENERALsHiP
DEPENDS ON WHAT THE UN-
INSTRUCTED DELEGATES
WILL DO.

Reports from around the state indi-
cate that the fight between Grant Eel
lows of Hudson and Franz Kuhn Of
Mt. Clemens for the nomination as at
torney general is exceedingly close,
and that the result is now in doubt,
says the Detroit Journal.
The most significant development OF
| the past week has been the certainty
that John L. Bird will have opposition
for denomination as justice of the SUI
preme court, II Mr.. Fellows should be
nominated.
The first fight in the convention.
| which will be held at Detroit Thurs
day. will undoubtedly come on the
question OF organization. A determin
ed effort will be made by the Kuhn
people TO have the committee on or
ganlzation and order of business ar
range the order Of nominations SO
that the attorney general will be
named early in the convention. If
| Kuhn is nominated then, all will be
peace and the other nominations will
be simply a matter of presenting the
names and calling the roll. But If Mr.
Fellows should be the winner Mr. Bird
will be opposed.
The opposition will be either Judge
Perkins of Grand Rapids or Judge
Sharpe Of West Branch. possibly both
OF them until II can be seen which de-
velops the most strength in the con-
vention.
The reason for the proposed action
is that both Mr.. Fellows and Justice
Bird are residents of Lenawee county
and party precedent is against having
too many candidates on the state
ticket from the same section. The
matter is further complicated by the
fact that Justice Blair of Jackson is
also from the Second congressional
district, which includes Lenawee.
Right now all predictions as to the
outcome of the Fellows Kuhn fight
are worthless. There will be 1900
delegates i'm the convention which
makes 651 necessary for a choice.
Both Mr.. Fellows and Mr.. Kuhn have
approximately 500 delegates each. Eel
: lows has more instructed delegates.
} because his workers in each section
worked for instructed delegations.
while the Kuhn people were content
) that their friends controlled the coun-
, ty conventions and selected the dele
gates.
Kuhn's greatest strength is in the
support of Wayne county, which has
1872 delegates. and in Kent, which has
sxty-five. The Kent delegation is not
instructed for the attorney general and
e few of the votes will go to Fellows,
|. but the big majority OF the delegation
( is for Kuhn. There are about 800 del
egates which are split among John
O'Keefe, of Saginaw. Charles Sweet
G of the Fourth district, and Will NJ
Smith. of st. Johns.
The result hinges on where they
will go after IL is shown on the first
or second ballots that their men are
out of il. Some of them have declared
for either of the leading candidates
as second chaice but the bulk of these
delegates have not expressed second
% choice and which way they turn viii
decide the outcome.
Senator William Alden Smith is now
working on his speech which he vii
deliver to the convention as temporary
IS chairman. While. of course. the text o.
the speech is unknown, from converse
tions the senator has had with politi
clans from various sections of tn
"a state. there is no question but that !
- will be progressive in tone. Thi:
doesn't mean that the Grand Rapid
"A senator is going to follow the line o
some of the western radicals. but tina
he will be in line with the New Ma
tionalism," to use the most recen
Teddyism. President Taft will be Civ
on full credit for what he has accom-
plished and there will be a kind wore
for the tariff.
The platform to be adopted by tn
convention will be in strict accor
with the utterances of Senator Smit
O5 and also of Chase s. Osborn. candi
= date for governor. and George p. Codt
who will preside as permanent chair
man after Senator Smith opens tn
10 convention. Both Mr.. Osborn and NJ
Codd will talk along progressive lines