The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-02-16
Zack Chandler Banpuer.

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Lansing, Feb. 14-Republicans
gathered in greater number for che
banquet of the Zach Chandler club
| OF Ingham county here Tuesday night
than ever before in the history OF
the organization.
The club listened TO an eulogy OF
! Zachariah Chandler by its president,
Charles j. Van Keuren, and then
turned the program over to Insurance
| Commissioner c. A. Palmer as toast
master, who introduced Secretary of
State Martindale as the first speaker
Mr.. Martindale said one trouble with
the Republican party is its efferve-
scent members, who start in many
ways but never finish.
After the addresses of DR.. Hill or
New York and Secretary MacVeagh,
Milo B. Campbell of Coldwater, who
has been mentioned as a candidate
for governor, spoke and said:
II must say to you that, appreciat-
ing the large expense connected with
a campaign for governor, would not
mortgage myself to any interest for
the Office. i believe in fair deal for
all. l have no patent medicine for
every ill.
81 am sorry, governor" he con-
tinued, turning to Gov. Osborn, "that
you have convened special session
at great expense for what seems to
me a great political purpose"
Despite the fact that Gov. Osborn
did not speak until 1880 after max
ing the trip over from Jackson, he
received the ovation of the evening
when he arose. He stood like a
grand athlete while crowd of more
than a thousand, a moment before
hostile, stood up and cheered wildly.
Gov. Osborn played against a
marked deck" He beat the deck
In the grandest exhibition of real
fighting the governor of Michigan
Tuesday night hurled back into the
teeth of every man who dared attack
him, his remarks, word for word.
He made to look small the men who
had styled him Kaleidoscope. He
sent word back to president Taft as
to what Michigan was doing. He de-
clared he called the special session
of the legislature for purpose and
didn't care the snap of his fingers
what others thought of it. He lam
basted the breweries and the men
who went to Washington and adver-
tised the fact that they would de-
liver Michigan to Taft and he brought
the crowd which was hostile to him
at first cheering to his feet and he
made for himself friends, where but
a moment before there had been but
enemies.
Program Looked "Stacked"
The banquet Of the Zach Chandler
club had been stacked against the
governor. For some weeks past
this had been quietly whispered.
Some persons were put upon the in
side and told to be sure not to miss
the Lansing banquet, as something
was going to drop"
The enemies of the governor had
| informed their friends that here was
where Osborn was to be "shoWn up.
A glance at the program showed
an intimation of it. The line was
carefully marked between Taft and
Roosevelt, between Osborn and anti
Osborn. There were on that pro-
gram Franklin VacVeagh, secretary
OF the treasury, sent here as the per-
sonal emissary of President Taft. He
had a carefully prepared paper which
he read carefully and in which he
lambasted the progressives soundly
There was John Wesley Hill Of
New York, also Taft man, who took
| occasion to rouse the crowd to 1T:
| feet by the fire of his oratory.
There was Congressman Samue
w. Smith, another Taft man, who
talked of the tariff and what the pres
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