The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-08
M DONALD GIVES
STIRRING SPEECH
.
Calumet Man Calls Secretary of
State Martindale Tool of
Corrupt Ring"
PRESENT CLAIMS IN FEBRUARY
will Go to Washington to Lay
Case Before the House
REORGANIZATION IS EFFECTED

Lansing, Mich. Jan. 4. (SpeciaD-.
Declaring Secretary Of State Martin
dale the tool Of a corrupt Republican
ring To which il was resorted To de-
feat the will of the people when all
legitimate effort failed i'm the recent
Congressional contest in the Twelfth
district, William j. Macdonald of
Calumet last night delivered a stirring
address at the banquet OF the state ma
tional Progressives which aroused the
ProRressives to enthusiasm.
MacDonald's chastisement Of the
state board of canvassers for it's action
in counting out the Ontonagon county
vote for the Progressive candidate
was the most striking speech of the
evening, and at its conclusion many
Progressives pushed forward To clasp
his hand.
Macdonald announced that i'm Feb
ruary he and Cochems of Milwaukee
will leave for Washington TO present
his claims to the national House of
Representatives. The support of the
state organization was pledged last
night. Plans were made for an active
campaign. Great care is 10 he eXcr-
cised in selecting candidates to be pre-
sented. Macdonald spent the morning
calling on Governor Ferris and will
leave this afternoon for home.
Dissension in the Ranks.
The state conference of the Progress
aves held here yesterday narrowly
missed breaking up in row. AS II
is. serious rift has been east into
the bosom of the party and some of its
most influential members have been
lost To its organization.
For a long time certain factions of
the party have been lighting against
ii. NJ. Wallace. the national commit
teeman. Today Mr.. Wallace seems to
be absolutely in power and has cast
out from the ranks such men as John
/. Breck of Jackson, who was MEM
Der of the Republican State Central
committee and quit that body to as
sumo a similar position with the Pro-
gressives.
Mr. Breck is most bitter over the
whole business and has blood in his
eye. Il was sick OF taking the crusts
and crumbs from the party" he says.
II wanted some of the pie. But I'll tell
YOU one thing-if | wanted to do any
thing II would take more than II. NJ
Wallace TO prevent me-"
The Jackson man had resigned as
member of the state central commit
tee. and then the conference turned
round and repudiated him for asso-
ciatng too much with stand -patters."
i expect to see Whitney Watkins in
the same boat with me-" said Mr..
Breck, who was closest to Mr.. Wat
kns during the campaign. "He did
the same things | did, and much of
what I did was by his Instructions.
They'll get rid of us all. as they have
of several of us today. in this purging
process through which they are GO
ing"
Among those who are thus cast out
are Sybrant Wesselius of Grand Rap
ids, who gives place to A +. Ewing. !
and every member of the executive !
committee except Stelmo Lewis. 1t
was grand little house cleaning"
and tonight only remnants of the or
ganization which started the move
ment in motion are left. Ira Sayre is 1
another cast-out, and IL was a signih-
cant fact that the house members who |
are progressive failed to attend the |
conference and some of them said !
openly they had no interest in ii and |
did not care what the conference did