The Detroit times., 1912-10-23

received letters from people In the
state. and have talked with number
of people In various parts OF the state,
and nll seem TO think that the shoot
ing OF Col. Roosevelt Is not going 10
turn votes from Gov. Wilson. While
the people. OF the state deplore the
shooting, hnd that they are not
tthrcyying their votes TO Col Roose-
iYelt on that account. Argument
rather than sentiment is the control!'
1 ing factor in this campaign
Woodrow Wilson is the choice OF
the faculty OF Central High school
for president, according to a poll TAX
en- by The Student, the monthly pub
vote stood For Wilson, 90 (15 men
Is, women); for Roosevelt, 80 ia
men, lS women: for Taft. IL % men,
s women).
William Jennings Bryan's Michigan
schedule Is as follows: Friday, Oct
25.-Arrive Detroit. 6:45 q. m, for
conference with Democratic statr
leaders; leave at 8: arrive Royal Oak,
I9:05: Rochester, s;35; Orion, s;55;
Oxford, 1910; Ortonville. 1890;
Goodrich, l0:45; Flint Masonic tenn.
ple). ll:45; Flint Buick factory
noon: Mt Morris, l2:40 p. m: Clio,
1895; Saginaw, l:40: Bay City. g.;
return TO Detroit for armory address
at o'clock.
The Detroit Progressive Women
club gave an entertainment, Monday
afternoon in the Hotel Eormandie
parlors. in which Mrs. Gertrude
Sackett Swan led out l2 school girls
who sang Teddy" in appropriate cos
tune. Mrs Margaret G. Goodman,
president OF the club. read an original
poem entitled The Woman Progress
sive." Horatio s. Earle made an ad'
dress. There were several musical
numbers.
Harry F. McMaster, an attorney,
has been named chairman OF the
Young Mems Woodrow Wilson move
ment in Michigan. He will appoint
lchaiImen In all counties.
Senator william Alden Smith prais
ed President Taft TO l,500 employees
:
monday noon. He used the prosperity
argument--''why changer"
Mayor Thompson. reiterated, Mon
day night, his statement regarding the
character of those who are supporting
his opponents. He said he did not
want to be reelected by "boodlers or
their allies" He discussed ripper
Legislation in the past. and said that
his opponent on the Progressive
ticket had voted for ripper bills
while a member OF the state senate.
He said that as a member Of the coun-
Gil he had helped Mayor Pingree.
Oscar B. Marx addressed a meeting
at the Packard Motor Car company :
plant at noon, Tuesday. Philip T,
Colgrove talked In the interest of the
Republican state and national tickets
at the Cadillac plant.
The Progressives have inangurated
a new stunt In political meetings. II
consists In going out TO meet the peo
rle, instead of inviting people to NEE,
4 tf<m in stuffy halls. Frank A. Kirby
candidate for estimator-at-large, and
]. +. Smith, OF Parke Davis q Co.
tried it Monday night, driving abou,
In q touring car, stopping Wherever
several people were gathered togeth
| ed and soon collecting N good crowd
Mr.. Kirby estimates that 1000 people
were spoken to. Ii IL planned tc
bun red fire wherever the automo
ole stops, as an advertisement to the
multitude.
Congressman Frank e. Doremus ID
meeting with great success In his
noon meetings. They began last
week Monday, with q meeting at the
Murphy Chair company's plant, at
which James +. Murphy presided. Mr.
Murphy introduced the congressman,
telling how Mr.. Doyemus' campaign
had been inaugurated at the samo
plant just two years ago. He said
that IL had never been the policy OF
the plant to take an interest In the
campaign Of any party or Individual
until Mr.. Doremus entered the field.
Since then, the congressman has talk
ed TO the men OF the Michigan Stove
company, the Detroit Stove company,
where they gave him three cheers
and tiger and wouldn't let him stop
till the whistle blew. the Cadillac and
Ford plants, and others. At the Ford
factory, 1000 men heard his address.
City Clerk Nichols has discovered
that two voters wrote the name Of
Aid. Richard Watson on primary bah
lots as Progressive candidate In, the
Twelfth ward. which he Is now repre-
senting as a Republican. Watson will
make the run on the Progressive
ticket. He was defeated for the Re
publican nomination as the result, he
claims, OF charges Of grating being
made against him. The charges were
dismissed in the police court.
Congressman Doremus delivered
speech in the tariff exhibit rooms,
No. 127 Woodward-aye., Tuesday
noon. About $50 persons we're pres
ent. Speeches are being arranged for
each noon. The tariff exhibit leaves
nafrnit Eriday nf0ht