South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-06-30

The political situation in the state
is one which at the present time keeps
the dopesters guessing. The infusion
of the Osborn personality does not
help TO simplify matters.
Just TO show what they think of
Chase Osborn's idea of a get-tOgeth-
er movement by bull mOosers and re-
publicans. the managers Of the pro-
gressive party have trOtted out Henry
r. Pattengill as the bull moose cas-
didate for the governOrship. This
would tend to shut Mr.. Osborn out
of the bull moose proposition with
neatness and dispatch.
Mr.. Pattengill Is a campaigner from
away up the creek, one of those
academic campaigners like Pres. Will
son asd Gov. Ferris. He,is as full of
language as Webster's dictionary and.
as ne hasn't run for anything for
quite awhile, he doubtless is ready to
explode said language at the body pol
itic. Mr.. Pattengill on the stump is
like NesuVius in eruption. He tells
facts and he tells them in good Eng
lish. His jaw snaps out like a steel
trap at the close of every sentence
and he can unload long word with
out hesitating. He is also so full of
pep" that nobody ever goes to sleep
while he is speaking:
1t looks as though il may be a bat
tie Of long words if Chase Osborn is
given the republican nomination and
Gov. Ferris accepts the democratic
nomination. 1t will also be a battle
of good English. 1t is different now
than il was in the days of the immor-
tai Ping, who forgot what grammar
he had known, and Of Uncle Aaron
T. Bliss. who never knew any. There
are those who can bark back to the
days of Pingree and Bliss and tell
some wonderful stories of the abuse
of the English language. None of that
any more. The people of Michigan
are now treated to a liberal education
when there is a campaign.
The vocabulary of Mr.. Osborn is
known from Maine to California as
the most beautiful thing in the history
of public speech. He can talk every
white language and most of the col
oTed ones, and his capacity for Vesti-
buled words has never been reached.
When it comes to the highbrOw
stuff, Chase Osborn has very little on
the present governor. Mr.. Ferris
knows his English and when he talks
it is like water shooting out Of an
cave trough during a heavy rain. He
does not pause TO punctuate and does
not lose any time making gestures.
If Messrs. Osborn, Ferris and Pat
tengill were TO talk il the same hall
on the same evening. the IOoA surely
would sail skyWard and the walls
bulge outwards from the pure force
of unusual but correct English
However, of the three it seems as
though Mr.. Pattengill is the only one
sure to be a nominee. Gov. Ferris
has not yet consented 20 stand for a
second term and there is said TO be
some possibility that he Will retire
from public life at the close of his
first term. He is by far the strongest
democrat i'm the state and the one
most likely to win at the November
election.
The status Of MIR. Osborn is about
the same. but for other reasons. He
will take the republican nomination
if he can get il, but there are those
who have other ideas upon that sub
ject. There are several husky can
didates for the place, every one with
following that must be considered.
Thus the political dopesters are up
in thu air. which is rather unusual
for TINS time. at least Politics seems
TO he as backward as the watermelon
crop.-Grand Rapids (Mich.) News.
Beat carpets on the wrong side first,
turn and beat on right side.