The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-09-13
CROWD HEARS DIR. HILL
Republican Rally Brings Out interest
ed and Enthusiastic Audience.
Congressman Fordney and County
Candidates Greeted by Voters
Of All Parties.

More than 400 people, constituting
the largest audience which has attend
ed a political gathering in the county
this year, were present at the Owosso
theatre Wednesday evening for the Re-
publican meeting which was addressed
by Hon. j. w. Fordney and DR.. J. Wes-
ley Hill of New York. The only regret
expressed at the close of the meeting
was that DR.. Hill did not talk longer,
although his address If printed in full
would fill more than two pages Of this
paper. 1t was a stirring appeal in be-
half of President Taft and was enthusi.
astically received and the speaker was
heartily congratulated by large num-
Der of those present at its close. Many
have expressed the opinion that it was
the best political talk they had eyer
listened to, while a number have stated
since that they went 10 the meeting un.
decided as to how they should vote bat
that they were thoroughly convinced
that it was to their interest to continue
the Republican party in power
County Chairman J. H. Collins in
calling the meeting to order referred
briefly to the Importance of the cam.
psign. and then introduced Congress
man F.rdney who was cheered Justify
as he arose to speak and said he was. fat
tered by the stat ement of the chairman
that che had done more for the
district than all the other con-
gresham it had had previously Mr..
Fordney stated at the outset that ne
should say but few words as he wish
ed DIR. Hill to have all the time. He
took occasion, however, to answer
statement made recently that his in
terest in the sugar industry was due to
the fact that he owned sugar stock by
saying that neither he or any member
of his family had ever held dollars
worth of stock in any sugar plant or
had been interested in the same direct
ly or indirectly. Referring to the cam.
paign he said the only issue was the
tariff and for twenty minutes showed
how the Republican policy of protee-
tion was the best for the entire coun-
try.
DIR. Hill spoke in part as follows:
Great leaders are priceless. Their
thoughts and deeds are the richest
legacy of mankind They are. lights
kindled upon the dome of the coun-
tries, Illuminating the mental and
moral atmosphere of the world. His
tory is the story of their epochal
deeds. Civilization is the iengthen-
ed shadow of their exalted souls
Serving most they are the greatest
Only about once in fifty or hundred
years does real servant come our
way. He may come as a reforIner,
a philanthropist, a prophet, an artist,
an author or a statesman. Wh.eyeI
he is, whatever his work, when it is
directed through the channel Of ser
vice in behalf of humanity it is
stamped with the essential quality Of
greatness ani therefore shoald have
the right of way.
Victor Hugo tells us that the sum-
NIT of the human mind is the ideal
toward which God descends and man
ascends In every age two or three
men of genius undertake the ascent.
From below the worl1 watches them.
"How small they are," says the
crowd, but on they go, through the
storm and night and cloud, until they
reach the summit, where they catch
great secrets from the lips OF God.
These are the picked personalities
Of the ages. They constitute dy-
the crowns, even the crown OF thorns
They come in the order OF Provi-
dence AMI therefore they are provl-
Dental men.
1t is difficult to recognize a real
prophet when he comes along. Pro-
rhets do not all wear the sains robe
or work in the same roll. One comes
as patriarch, like Abraham, another
as law-giver, like Moses; another
as an epic poet, like Home; another
as statesman, like Pericles; another
as a philosopher, like Plato; another
as an apostle, like Paul: another as
an architect, like Michael Angelo;
another as an artist, like Raphael;
another as a revoluti } list, like
Cromwell; another as discoverer,
like Columbus; another as patriot
like Washington; another as an en-
ancipator and deliverer, like Abra-'l
ham Lincoln; another as a constitu-
tionalist and defender of federal au-
thorlty, like Cleveland; another as
a protector and expansionist, like Nc
Kinley; another as a crusader and
outrider, like Roosevelt, and another
as peacemaker and stat s5man, like
William Howard Taft.
Someone has said that "a saint is |
a good man lead one hundred years,
cannonaded then but cannonizel
now" 1t was the GaliIean who de-