The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-20
OSBORN SPEAKS
OF STATE NEEDS
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and. | believe. unreas onable.
BE Frank With the People.

BE FRANK WIN the People.
''rhe candidates Of both parties
should be frank with the people. Cam
didates usually deal In generalities
with the people. believe they should
tell the people what may be expected
OF them. what they will try TO do
themselves II elected 20 Office. l be-
lieve i'm the people, I shall believe in
them next September after the votes
are counted whether they shall choose
me for their candidate or not. If they
believe ! am not the man carry out
their policies, that am not the
man TO take the AK to the tree.
shall believe SO, too. If l am not
chosen. shall help elect the man you
do choose. The man at Lansing is not
a governor. He is your general man
ager and you are in the corporation
he serves.
"The defeated candidate should be
just as good a sportsman as the cam
didate for the football team who fails
10 make the team. He still stands by
the team, and the defeated candidate
in this race should be just as good n
sportsman as the boy who plays foot
ball. / believe when we become
little used TO the sledge hammer tao
tics OF the primary reform we shall
all feel pretty good. After all this
campaigning Is over with. whether !
am governor of Michigan or not,
shall be a better citizen and, good
citizenship IS OF greater Importance
than being governor. There are in
Michigan I believe 10000 men who are
better qualified to be governor than ]
am. but 1 don't believe they are yet
in the race.
First Cut Railroad Rates.
81 believe as railroad commissioner
I was the first man i'm Michigan to cut
down railroad fares on the great trunk
lines and If am elected governor If
Michigan l shall do my duty as I see
it, fairly and squarely and fearlessly.
II trust the people and I believe the
people should choose more OF the off,
GERS. I believe the members of the
presidents cabinet should be elected
believe the state railroad commission
ers should be elected. The people don't
go wrong when they understand what
is before them. Sometimes they are
fooled but not often. / trust them TO
do the right thing.
Who Should Be Governor.
you ought to consider the candi-
date for governor as IL you were the
stakeholder in great corporation
You ought to demand as your manager
a man who is honest enough ana
courageous enough TO do just what
you tell him. Each year the expenses
of this state arc bound to increase but
the valuation of the property OF the
state should Increase in proportion
We have $4,000. 900 acres of land in the
state and but 100000 acres in farms
Thcre is ROOM Cor many moreDpersons
to 1.-Two here and thrive here. There Is
no use in the, United States govern
ment developing lands in the west
when we have. here in Michigan To-
100000 acres which need no develop
ment." "a.
In closing Mr., Osborn paid beau
tiful tribute to the Woodmen and said:
Il believe every man should belong to
some church.. II makes him q better
man and a better citizen" He closed
with the pretty sentiment of Kingsley
which he recited eloquently and when
he sat down was forced to rise and
bow his thanks several times to the
storms of applause.