The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-24
)SBORNS FIGHT
is FEATURE OF
DULL PRIMARY
* Governor Has Put up Slash
ing Campaign and Friends
See Him Easy Victor
VAR DETRACTS FROM
INTEREST IN CONTESTS
|hdications Are For Light Vote;
Congressional Battles Furnish
Some Excitement

overshadowed by the smoke of bat.
e arising from the international con.
dct in Europe, the Michigan state,
ide primary campaign Is drawing to
ne close Of its comparatively un.
ventful course. 1t has been, on the
ghole, an unusually quiet campaign
fguratively speaking, the voices OF
ne different state .and local candi-
ates have been drowned in the din
armed strife. Vainly they have en-
Favored 70 arouse the rank and file
voters to take an active interest
, political affairs.
The average voter" has plaeidly
one on reading war bulletins, refus-
hg to get excited over anything so
hatter-of-fact and close to home as
olitics. II Is generally predicted
hat the result will be an unusually
mall vote when the final accounts OF
rimary day are cast up next Tuesday
light.
The outstanding feature Of the state
ampaign has been the appeal OF for
her Gov. Chase s. Osborn for a
United Republican party to carry for.
gard the progressive principles to
Hhich he has declared his allegiance.
BE has built his platform on the the
pry that the need OF the hour is for
Constructive rather than critical or
destructive political action.
I'VE must get together and clean
house from within instead of dividing
bur forces into opposing political
lamps" he said. "A house divided
against itself cannot stand. Fractional
differences are not conducive to a
wholesome atmosphere under any cir.
eumstances. All together now!
Boost"
Such has been his message address
I'd to both Republicans and Progress
,ives, and the way in which support
ers have been fiocking to his standard
From all sides gives promise OF his
Election to the Comeback club.
Although there are Ave candidates
In the field. the contest has been a
|three-cornered one, with Osborn, Alex.
ID Groesbeck and Frederick G. Martin.
Hale the contenders. Mayor George
ELLIS, Of Grand Rapids, has done con-
siderable campaigning and Is expect
I'D by some to run Martindale close
race for third place. Mr.. Osborn has
been over the state more than any
|Df his opponents. II is asserted by
his campaign assistants that he has
bpoken to as many voters as have all
the other candidates running against
him put together This fact and the
of the former governor
when he was in office before are
|countcd on to give him wide mar
Igin OF safety In the primary.
There has been one lively contest
In the Republican party that has al.
most escaped notice In the general
Ishuffie;s that Is the contest for the
for Acknowledgements,
the participants being David K. Heine-
man, Of Detroit; Edwin j. Curtis, OF
Flint, and Loren ID. Dickinson. OF
charlotte. Mr.. Heineman and his
friends expect him to receive almost
solid support OF the party In Detroit
and thus to acquire large enough
lead to overcome possible strength OF
Opposing candidates In other sections
|of the state. He has not, however.
limited his campaign efforts to the
CITY. His strongest opponent Is Sena-
tor Curtis. who was one OF the pro
gressive members Of the upper house
In the last session OF the legislature.
Prominent among the local contests
Ia the fight which John McVicar Is
putting up against Mayor oscar %.
Mark for the Republican nomination
1t il the only mayoralty contest In
any party.
Mcyicar's candidacy, started as
forlorn hope chiefly to furnish means
OF protest against the Marx admins
tration. soon developed evidences OF
strength which raised 1t to the plane
Of a real contest and gave hope OF
success to his supporters. Recent
nrospects OF aid from the Democratic
marty. where there Is no contest, have
made them especially optimistic. VI
course. the Vote Swappers' league
stands ready to overcome this shift
ing from one party to the other by a
simflar shift in the interest OF the
MAYOR. hut there is one drawback TO
such a procedure. That Is, the vote
Swappers' league Is bound TO save
CONGRESSMAN Frank e. Doremus, who
has opposition for denomination. III
they draw off too many votes to pro-
feet the mayor II would be at the ex-
pense of placing Congressman Dore-
mus in danger. From the point OF
view OF the league" ii Is not only
necessary to save Doremus from &C
tual defeat in the primaries, but he
must not even show lack OF
strength, for a close contest would
mean a falling-off In prestige and
still harder battle to fight In the cleo
ton.
II is true that every vote In the
First district drawn from the Demo.
cratic ticket to supper McVicar VIII
leave just one less to oppose Doremus.
The trouble for the "vote-swappers'
Is that they can not tell before hand
just how many are likely to jump,
and they are thus put on the defen-
sive. At any rate. adherents OF Nc
Wears candidacy are rather gleeful
over the situation. They declare that
the members of the mayors machine
are not nearly 60 unconcerned about
the fight against him as they pretend
to be.
The hardest fought OF ali local con-
tents and the one which appears to be
coming down to the closest finish Is
the three-ccrnered race for the Repub-
iican congressional nomination IN the
Thirteenth district, where Malcolm j.
Mcleod, former internal revenue col.
lector: Charles A. Nichols, former
city clerk. and William G. Manches-
ter are the candidates. The fact that
It IL new district without a present
representative gave the candidates
comparatively even start and all