The Detroit times., 1910-05-20
MUSSELMAN RAPs
PARTY RADICALS
Candidate for Governor Says Deeds
of Autocrats Should Not Be Laid To
Taft or Republican Party.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May 20
The following statement has been
issued by Amos S. Musselman, canGi-
date for the Republican nomination
for governor.
Il am a Republican, but l have no
ambition to be a faction OF my party.
have no enemies to punish, no coterle
OF hangers-on to reward for their ser
vices in my campaign. II nominated |
shall be able TO make a campaign IN
which all factions of the party may
unite as Republicans, without fear Of
chastisement for their actions in the
past, and in the expectation OF seeing
worthy men rewarded for their inter
est and fidelity to the welfare OF the
state.
Michigan Is right now in condi-
ton of insurgency. This falls cleo
ton will tell to the whole United
States whether Michigan, the staunch
old Republican state, is to remain Re
publican or is to turn down the prin'
ciples OF the great party organized
under the oaks Of Jackson. Upon
Michigan the eyes of the world are
centered. Michigan rejecting the Re
publican party, will give notice to the
world that the industrial policy which
has made America prosperous, is to be
cast aside and that the great influence
she exerts on the financial affairs or
the world will be for return OF that
condition which brought ruin upon SO
many irifustfies ANA eaifsed SO much
suffering and hardship in the dark
days Of 1893
Because we have some individual
cases OF autocracy at the national cap
ital against which the country has
Justly cried out in anger, 1t Is not fair
that their deeds should be charged up
against President Taft and the Repub-
lican party. The tariff has been re-
vised-not so much as might be hoped
for In some directions, but at least
the president worked hard to carry out
the promises OF the national party
platform. Another attempt may be
more successful and the revision
downward where needed may be more
marked But at this time Michigan
should not forget that II is to the Re-
publican party that the nation owes
Its prosperity and that high prices
with everybody at work and earning
money are far more to be desired than
low prices and no work, hence no
money to pay for even soup bone.
Under present conditions the
higher prices paid for commodities
in the cities. In general go to the
farmer, who Is today prosperous as
he never has been before, and eventu-
ally the money Of the farmer returns
to the city for those things which he
cannot raise on his property. With
the farmer prosperous, the city must
be. Wheat at $1.25 a bushel and all
the factories In the city running and
paying out their money to workmen
with which to buy -four Is a better
condition than wheat at so cents a
bushel, and the factory man walking
around the streets with no money
for bread and the wheat rotting In the
bins Of the farmers.
IT stand for Republicanism in Its
purest form. l believe Michigan, the
old Republican state, wishes to remain
Republican. believe the Republican
party should unite upon a man for
governor who can unite all the fac
tons with which II Is now torn. A
renovation may be necessary at the
capitol, but that renovation should
not be carried to that degree OF in
.surgency, that the good with the bad
should be thrown upon the junk heap.
whatever Is good should remain.
Whatever is bad and only such,
should go. But in keeping the good
we shall be able to accomplish more
for the state and it's people, and
hence for the Republican party: while
in casting out the bad we shall merely
purify the system Of state government
and the Republican party.
"It is upon this principle am
standing for the nomination for gov
ernor of Michigan. am a Repub-
lican and always have been. II l can
not be nominated by Republicans as a
Republican, have no wish to serve
at all. I do not wish to be nominated
on a platform OF retention OF all, both
good and bad, neither do wish to he
nominated on a platform of such radi.
cal insurgency as TO clean out all
both the good and the bad. Michigan
and the Republican party Jointly must
be considered. I stand for both"