The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-10-11
Addres. Of Hon. Grant Fellows.
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however, Mr.. Fellows SAID.
"The people opposed the McKin-
ley bill, which provided protective
tariff" said the speaker, "they said
ii would prove a breeder of trusts
and that prices would go sky-high.
Every single reform that the
Bull Moosers have declared for, has
been written into law by the Repub-
lican party. They favor the direct
election of United States senator's.
The Republican party has passed this
constitutional amendment and it is
now being ratified by the various
states. They declare for maximum
employment scale of hours, for work.
ing men. The Republican party has
put this law into effect in Michigan.
They declare for a workmen's COM
pensation act. We have one in
Michigan.
1.-THE third party candidate for
governor is telling what he has done
in the senate, but what he has done,
he has done as Republican, and by
virtue of the Republican electors of
his district. 1t is not necessary for
a man to leave the party to work
these things out. If you think that
| President Taft has not acted wisely,
If you think he has not been spec
| tacular enough, just sit down and
think it over. You will make your
| mind as ! have made up my mind.
Either Taft or Wilson will be elected
| the senate will be either Democratic
or Republicans; we will have either a
Democratic or Republican admin
istration. You won't take any
chances. You'll choose the Repub-
lican administration with protective
tariff rather than the Democratic adj
ministration with free trade.
1.-THE Democratic party is con-
trolled by the Democrats of the
south, and the Democrats of the
south are fearless in their support of
free trade and tariff for revenue only
The Democrats have the same theo-
ries of government they had in 1892.
The Republicans say protective
tariff is necessary. We have the his
tory of the wants and exposures of
the hard times, of the men looking
for jobs of the farm mortgage. fore
closures of 1896. We want stability
in principles.
"Then came the currency agita-
ton in national politics. The Demo-
Gratis were led by William Jennings
ID hill
the country has ever produced. He
was their candidate then. Now he is
their dictator. He is now the same
old Bryan.
Men are carried away" he con-
tinued, "by something new. They are
Just as conscientious as we are about
it, but they are lead away. Straw
votes at that time showed the almost
unanimous election Of Bryan. The
courts were denounced in 1896. The
Republican party had an uphill fight,
but when the American people quit
their passions and took calm, DELHI
crate thought, the Republican candi-
date was elected. Now they will vote
for a perpetuation of this kind of
times and the protective tariff under
the administration of the Republican
party. They will look back into the
sunshine of prosperity instead OF
jumping into the darkness of new
'isms' or free trade.
"Their campaign this year, as in
1896, is not one of vilification, but OF
Misrepresentation. No one can hon
estly say that the Republican party
Is not progressive. A trip through
the country, where one will see the
| farmers mail boxes. The Republi-
can party put them there. The postal
| savings banks that we have on all
sides of us, are endorsed by the pro-
gressives, but Republican admins
trations have made them a reality.
Parcels post has been been declared
for the the Progressives, but the Re-
publicans have made it law"
Mr.. Fellows then declared that he
examined the files of a newspaper in
his home town and found that in
| 1896, the deposits in the two banks
totaled $4,000. In 1912, they are
| $1,6O0,0OO, he said. He discussed
| the constitution and declared 1t to be
"the fabric of human liberties" He
said it is the only thing by which the
people know what their property
rights may be.
"Why not trust 1t to men who have
| spent a lifetime in it's perusal, men
who have set on the bench, rather
than to those who passionately inter-
pref it," said the speaker in de-
nouncing the recall of the judiciary.
He did not mention the recall of 9TH
or officials.
| That the chances Of the Taft Re-
publicans will increase with the cool
weather of the last of October and
the first of November, AMI that the
Roosevelt and Wilson sentiment. ex-
pressed in straw votes and campaign
thunder, will decrease accordingly,
is the prediction made by Grant Eel
lows of Hudson, in an address before
a fair-sized audience of Republicans
at Odd Fellow temple, Wednesday
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