The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-08-21
LOCAL POLITICS

Turner Stanton, OF No. 800 Mack
ave-, is a candidate for the Progress
sive nomination for alderman in the
Seventeenth ward. G. NJ. Libby. also
candidate for alderman In the Sew
entoenth ward on the Progressive
ticket, states that besides having can
didates for the two positions OF alder
men, the Progressives will have a
coriplete ward ticket.
Aid. George A. Owen, OF the First
ward, has his hammer out for the
distributor of some campaign cards,
ostensibly issued In the interest OF
the reelection of Aid. owen and John
10. lodge. Aid. owen points out the
Absence OF the union label from the
cards and declares that they were
undoubtedly being circulated by
enemies trying to get him lin wrong
with the unions. Another peculiar
thing about the cards is the fact that
Aid. Owens name was spelled incor-
rectly, the cards reading aid.
George owens" while the alderman
spells his name without an 81
Eighth ward Progressiyes will hold
a meeting, Wednesday evening, In the
residence OF Jex j. Martin. No. 1l6
Elm-st. The speakers will be Aid.
McCarty, John McVicar and Horatio
IS. Earle, candidates for the mayoral
nomination. and w II. Hill, candidate
for nomination for congressmen-at-
large. 1t is also planned to form pre-
cinct organizations for the third,
fourth and fifth precincts.
Addressing large meetings OF vot-
ers. Tuesday night, In Shoulders han,
No 41S Monroe-ave., and Weidman' S
hall, st. Aubin-ave.. Judge Edward j.
Jeffries, candidate for the Democratic
nomination for mayor declared that
the attitude Of candidates for city Of
fees toward the Detroit United rail
way Is the acid test by which the
people should judge them.
Whenever you find the stamp OF
approval of the d. U. r. on any man
VINO aspires to public Office" he said,
you find a man who should not rep
resent your interests. When you find
man who declines to state his at
titude toward that breeding place of
graft, the d. ". r., you had best be
careful. No man who has honest
convictions, honest intentions and the
backbone to stand by those convic.
tons will refuse to answer any ques-
lions that you may put before him.
Many OF the candidates for county,
city and ward Offices, attended Tues
day nights meeting of the North End
Taft Republican club, in the clubs
big tent at Milwaukee-ave. and Beau
bien-st Harry Williams presided. and
the speakers included City Assessor
Oscar B. Marx, candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for mayor;
Frank G. Sibley, candidate for the
Republican nomination for state sen
ator in the third district, and City
Estimator Edward Barnett, who is q
candidate for the Republican nomina
ton for alderman in the Third ward
Attorney James H. Pound, Tuesday
night, consented TO become a candi
date for congressman from the FRS
district on the Progressive ticket. III
had been asked many times TO entel
the race, but refused TO give his con
sent finally yielding to the insistenc'
OF the Progressives. when he received
a written request signed by Nationa
Committeeman Henry M. Wallace, al
the members of the state central com
mittee and several OF the congress
sional candidates from out in the
state.
The question of municipal owner
ship caused a ripple in the meeting
Of Fourth ward Progressives. Tues
day evening, in Progressive headquar
tiers, in the Moffat building. Albert
j. Hechtler, candidate for the state
legislature from the first district, had
made declaration that he was in
hearty accord with the national and
local Progressive platforms, when A.
l.. Odds, who was municipal owner
ship worker under Mayor Pingree,
demanded that Hechtler declare
where he stood on the question OF
municipal ownership. Olds declared
he would not vote for any man who
did not stand unequivocally for 1t.
Hechtler replied that he was for
municipal ownership, but expressed
the belief that a commission form or
government ought to come first.
The Fourteenth Ward Progressive
club will hold open air meetings We'd