The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-12

| presidency had been carefully suppress
ed throughout. though Senator Sawyer's
| publicity bureau had kept the papers
full of both men In other ways. They
were the new economic conscience
! They were the new commercial philan-
| thropy. They were the new justice.
| They We're the new foe of the oppressor
and friend of the poor. Kelvin. individu-
ally. had forced Henry Breed to reduce
the price of bread permanently from
3 TO cents loaf. That was the story
that touched every mans fearful con
Germ for the poor mans pocketbook.
A dozen favorite sons were first put
I'm nomination at the convention. and
then Senator Killan. recounting the
story of the breaking up of the Stock
Exchange and Of the capture of the
railroads, the smashing of the trusts
and the reduction Of the price Of bread.
put up Kelvin's name for considera-
ton. Pandemonium broke loose as per
schedule. one of those carefully ar
ranged spontaneous outbursts so dear
to American politics. and on it's crest
The nomination OF Kelvin as candi.
date for the high office of president OF
Che United States. the youngest man
pser TO achieve that honor. became
but mere counting of long since ar.
ranged for ballots. after which the
convention much more calmly and ra.
tionally proceeded to nominate Rol.
Inns.
One-half OF the public received those
two names with gasps of gratitude;
the other half received them with
snarls of scorn, and the campaign was
on. Kelvin. refusing 10 make a mounte-
bank of himself. let his managers fight
II out. for he was busy. Out upon his
vast stretches of Long Island waste
there now sprang up long succession
of residence blocks. each surrounded
with its cement sidewalk. each con.
tanning neat little cement houses mold
ed after the Edison idea. and each
house set in n generous plot of ground.
Water, light. sewerage, parks. schools,
all were provided MS If by magic. and
the whole was made easily accessible
by the new and wonderful transporta-
ton system that Rollins had inaugural
ed at the same time.
AS soon as the work had begun to as
sumo form It's magnitude could not es-
cape the newspapers. Their first two
questions were What is this?" and
"Who is doing it," To both of these
queries Kelvin's publicity bureau had
a ready answer-light and air and
cleanliness and life for the working
man at cheaper price than he paid
for darkness and poisoned atmosphere
and dirt and death.
Kelvin. appealed TO. CURLY pointed
out that the scheme had been projected
long before his name had been men
toned for the nomination and that IL
was merely one Of Henry Breeds plans
for the use of his enormous wealth in
ameliorating the condition of mankind.
Nor did he deny that the undertaking
was expected to pay a legitimate rate
Of interest upon the outlay. He was
entirely practical. he stated. and the
inference was that he would make an
entirely practical president; also a
working president, for he was busy
right up to the time of election.
AS II arranged by Providence, n
chance to display his vigorous practi-
cality came just few days before
election. One Pellman. remembered
as a once forceful man of Wall street.
then as a "has-been," had suddenly
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real estate sensation of New York.
Working quietly. he had secured OPP
tions upon tenement house districts.
block after block in extent. Now he
announced the formation of a monster
terminal company which should take
care of all the freight and passenger
transportation entering New York and
the erection of huge structures cover
ing blocks In extent. Immediately fol-
lowing this notices of eviction were
served upon every miserable dweller
in the congested tenement districts
that he had purchased. Thousands
upon thousands OF families were rem
dered homeless, and every newspaper
blazed with the wholesale oppression.
Who then came to the rescue? Why.
Kelvin, Kelvin the disburser of Breeds
billions, Kelvin the annihilator of the
Stock Exchange, Kelvin the breaker
of trusts. Kelvin the reducer of the
price of bread, Kelvin the poor mans
friend, Kelvin the candidate for pres
ident of the United Statesl He would
furnish them free transportation for
themselves and their goods and chat
tells. He would at once install each
homeless family in n separate little
home of fits own free of moving cost.
and to avoid any suffering that might
be attendant upon the confusion would
stock each house with weeks provi.
sions. Would summer and fall OF
campaign speeches have beaten that?
Countless thousands of daged and
helpless families thrust suddenly home
less into the streets attached them
selves in pitiful home instinct each TO
a distressful little pile of battered and
scratched and splintered and ragged
goods and merely waited In numbed
misery.
This tremendous dlslodgment began
with the early dawn. Nearing noon