Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-28
BELD|NG HAS THREE
CANDIDATES ON THE
TICKET THIS YEAR
BELDING CANDIDATES SHOULD
RECEIVE SUPPORT OF THE
VOTERS OF BELDING

Belding has three candidates on the
official ballot this year.
Fred l.. Warner is making the race
for election as representative in the
state legislature George Moulton is
candidate for county clerk and Mark
Brown is a nominee for the office of
county treasurer.
These three men are all excellently
htted for the offices to which, they
aspire. They are all good, clean, ef-
Hcient men II elected they will do
their duty .conscientiously and credit
ably to themselves and their many
friends.
And they are Belding men.
The Banner believes that all three
of these men irrespective of the party
which they represent should receive
the votes OF the voters of Belding on
election day-that next Tuesday at
the polls they should receive the sup
port and endorsement of their fellow
citizens
II will be nice compliment TO these
three candidates if they receive a
rousing big vote from their home
town
II will be a fine thing for Belding
To give these men such a vote. 1t
will prove once more that Belding men
are loyal TO Bedding men. That Beld-
ing is a patriotic community-which
il indeed is.
Party ties are not so strong now-a
days as formerly The blind party
man is getting to be rarer every day.
The party leading strings do not pull
30 strongly as they once did. The
voter is getting broader and more
independent
1t would seem to the Banner that it
would certainly be we'll to lay aside
party preferences next Tuesday and
vote for the men who represent Beld-
ing in the race for county offices.
And what has been said of the
voters Of Belding applies equally well
to those voters living in this vicinity
All are bound together by a common
community interest. All will take
pride in seeing a Belding man elected
Outside OF the three officers for
which Belding men are in the field
the greatest interest will probably
center next Tuesday on the race for
the goYernorship AS To this contest
fortunately whichever way il goes the
people of Belding and Michigan will
be well served. The two chief can
didates Mr.. Ferris and Mr. Osborn are
both able broad, scholarly men. They
are both conscientious and honest.
Whichever one is elected will give to
the state an excellent administration
and if by any chance Mr.. Pattengill
should happen to nose in the state
will be well served by him also.
This paragraph concerning the
governorship is written because the
Banner as an independent newspaper
believes in looking a political situa-
ton fairly in the face If the Banner
believed that the election of Mr.. Fer
ris meant danger TO the state it would
certainly say so IT would do the
same concerning the election of either
Mr.. Osborn or Mr. Pattengill but ii
cannot truthfuIly prophesy any such
danger IL can only say that the
people of Michigan are unusually for
tunate in having three such splendid
men as candidates for the gubernator-
iaI chair.
There are no vital questions at
stake in the state campaign. In the
county campaign there is one import
ant-matter to be considered, namely,
that the three candidates from Beld-
ms should receive the support of the
voters of Beldng and vicinity on
election day.
The Banner trusts that Fred l..
Warner George Moulton and Mark
Brown will receive big rousing vote
here and in this neighborhood Tues !
day. November 3.