The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-26
State Politics

| Woodrow Wilson sentiment out in
I the state was given notable demon
stration at Holland when the Demo
cratic city caucus instructed its dele
gates to the Ottawa county conven-
ton in favor OF the New Jersey gov
lernor The caucus is reported TO have
been the largest city caucus of Demo
Gratis held in Holland in 10 years.
/ The Jackson Patriot comments on
the appointment OF Ora b. Reeves, OF
Jackson, as a member of the Work
iingmens Compensation and Employ
lers' Liability board, as pleasing TO or
( ganized labor throughout the state.
I Mr.. Reeves was at one time presi-
dent of the Jackson Trades Council.
! Saginaw's Democratic county con-
Ivention conyenes Thursday. Accord
ing to the Saginaw Courier Herald
there appears to be more individual
support for Woodrow Wilson than for
any other candidate. A group of the
jold-time leaders, however, are said TO
have been making every effort TO
prevent instructions for the county's
delegation to the state convention.
Former State Chairman John T. Win
ship is said to have changed his al
ilegiance recently from Harmon to
Champ Clark.
] A three-cornered contest for the
| Republican nomination for congress
man in the Tenth district is indicated
by reports that Mayor r. o. Wood
Of uYil1 n
test against Congressman George A.
Loud and Frank Buell..
A national crisis is at hand. Shall,
We get back to the people and
straighten out things. under the lead
ership and integrity of Theodore
Roosevelt? Or shall we submit TO
Taftism and slide down. down, down
till we have only princes and serfs
in America?
The common people Of America can
see in Theodore Roosevelt man who
will give every man, high or low. rich
or poor, square deal. A square deal
appears to be the very last thing the
princes of finance desire.-Jackson
CitiZen-Press.
Colonel T. r. was relegated to an
inside page for a day or two, but he
soon recovered from the shock and
rose TO the occasion with a message
OF coincidence on the Titanic tragedy
which was good enough for page one.
AS a press agent, the colonel has A.
Tocsin Worm beaten by several city
blocks Muskegon Times.
II President Taft has been keeping
to an attitude OF dignified silence as
regards Roosevelt personally, the
same is not true of his campaign man
ayers. They are neither dignified nor
silent, but on the contrary are quite
as rantankerous as the colonel and
his followers.
The presidents managers are not
content with calling T. X. a plain
liar and a common slanderer. They
say he. is using barrels of money and
that Wholesale bribery is being prac-
ticed for his benefit. In sheet OF
press matter sent out broadcast are
the statements that the financial
hackers" of Roosevelt have spent ST.
000, 900 up to date; that In Oklahoma
"the charge has been made that the
Roosevelt managers paid SIS a vote
To delegates, and that the same crew
has since worked Kansas and Ne.
braska and is now in Arkansas"
where II is asserted that Roosevelt
managers are using money under the
euise of paying wages 10 workers, an.
other name for bribery" In Pennsyl-
Lyania. IL is charged that 100000 was
used in direct bribery at So a head,
hoN foan ne IN
of money was made In New York and
Illinois. Adrian Daily Telegram.
With everyone else thinking of the
Titanic disaster Colonel Roosevelt
kept his eve on the main chance and
Friday picked up two more states
While 10 one else was looldng-Bay
City Tribune.
1--WE slugged them over the ropes.
said the colonel after that little anti.
Iorimer celebration over lin Illinois
1--WE have hit them middling hard,
was his comment on the returns from
Pennsylvania. Such was the change
from unrestrained enthusiasm to.
perhaps. grim humor. - Saginaw
CourierHerald.
A progressive Republican rally. at
Hudson. Mich, is to be addressed by
Truman II. Newberry. Gov. Osborn
and former Mayor Joslin OF Adrian
RAILROAD WRECK VICTIM DEAD
IONA. Mich, April 25--John Wal.
ton. one OF the victims OF the Salem
wreck four years ago when more than
| % persons were killed, died at his
home here. His death was the result