The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-03-01
SECOND Term
FOR GOVERNOR?
FRIENDS SAY HE MUST REMAIN
IN OFFICE. BUT HE DE-
cLAREs HE WON'T
RUN.

frankly applaud his position in a ma
jority OF big questions OF state and
these admit that he cannot hope 10
carry through the work he has begun
within a period of two years. That the
term about every one i'm a position Of
political influence already is assuring.
He says he will not be handicapped i'm
what he has undertaken TO do by the
suspicion that he may be actuated in
a desire To continue himself in office.
Fact Is Governor Osborns avowed
| fight against the railroads alone would
be sufficient ground TO warrant the
voters in demanding his retention. He
cannot possibly hope 10 strengthen out
the taxation tangles into which Mich
igan has been led through the mistakes
of years and the only partial reform
| Legislation of recent administrations.
He has invited the railways to carry
out the threats they have been tenta-
lively putting forth. Almost everyone
in official positions at the capital is
satisfied that a fight will come and
that it will be no 1S-month affair.
Michigan, they point out, will demand
that the governor stick to the executive
office until he has cleared up this little
matter and many others.
Rehabilitation Will Take Time.
This is only one of the big things
he has set out to do. The mine tax
question is involved in about the same
I INT ha
determined to give Michigan a business
administration. Now Michigan hap
pens to be in the position of a semi
bankrupt corporation. 1t is more than
5000, 900 in arrears. 1t takes more than
Is months to bring a very ordinary
lprivate corporation out of a much less
serious financial slump than that in
which Michigan has fallen through the
desire of years to make political capital
out Of the low rate budgets. When
Governor Osborn's second year is at an
end he will hardly have begun the
work of setting the state upon the
business basis that is the goal of his
ambition.
Insurance Commissioner G. A. Palm
er was approached on the second term
proposition. He threw up his hands.
II don't know how it's to be done"
he said. But it will have to be. I'm
satisfied on that score. Now II don't
know whether I ought to tell this, but
put it up to him. And believe me.
made him promise not TO kick me out
of the office before l approached It,
Now l fatter myself I'm a pretty
good friend of the governors, but I'm
glad l exacted that promise. He didn't
kick me out, but that's about all can
boast Of He put il up TO me fiat. He's
for one term all right And what we're
to do don't know. Argue with him
that he can't carry out his program
and he comes right back with the as
sertion that he'll get IL so well started
that the right man can finish il. Now
leave IL to you, who is there that car
finish Chase Osborns administrative
program so well as himself? In just
six weeks of his term the talk is heard
I all over the state that he must serve
a second term. Yet he refuses to lis
; ten.
Elect Him Anyway.
II can see only one way. Go ahea,
and elect him first and make him ac
cept afterward. l don't believe hel
, refuse under those circumstances
They will never get a second tern
a promise out of him. He wants TO d.
= his work under circumstances tina
. will be conclusive proof that he intend
q to complete it i'm two years and ste
Gown"
, The governor has refrained from dis
: cussing the little unpleanantness wit
the state senate for publication. Blu
his closest friends are responsible 70
\ was willing to accede to a truce wa
due to the fact that there might be
, suspicion he wished to pose as a po
4 litical martyr i'm order to create senti
lent for a second term.
, The governors friends have realize
), from the first there was no reason 70
, his one-term announcement. They ar
q gued with him on that score and OBJ
tained only the reply
\ 1T is right. / must have the con
Hdence of the people if l am to sue
), coed in this program of real reform
:, And / cannot have their entire conf
q ldence so long as there can be douh
= that / am actuated by any desire TO
future political support"
A Hard Worked Governor.
. And just there the matter stands
+, The governor is not and will not be
candidate for another term. Alread
= he is working like trojan on hi
!, Iplans to get the reforms so well be
= gun that he can leave them at the en-
of his second year satisfied that who
= ever comes next will have no difficult
: carrying them to completion. n
!. Michigan governor ever put in NOR
: hours in the executive office. He
there from o'clock i'm the mornn
until midnight or later when in IN
:, lefty.
He has no secrets. The private OF
!, fee In the executive suite always
. wide open. The newspaper men M
: told to come right in any time. An