The Owosso times., 1914-08-21
WAYNE COUNTY SOLID BEHIND
A. ]. GR0ESBECK FOR GOVERNOR
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN, LABOR
LEADERS, FARMERS AND MEN IN PUBLIC
LIFE UNITE IN SUPPORT OF THE
DETROIT CANDIDATE.
Predict That He Will Receive More Than 5000 Votes
In Home County-Edgar A. Guest, Free Press Poet,
Feelngly Expresses How Friends Feel Toward
Him-Big Men Head Groesbeck Club


They declare that his strength In
the state is due to his strong person
ality, where he has had an epportuui.
ty to meet the psopls, TO his plat9QrU
declaring for . eAAD. 0onAtSNN1vo ~
ministration. and TO the grsak t6fk
he has done in reconstructinG and
uniting the Republican party In the
past two years. particularly bis brtl
lian work as state chairman In the
spring campaign Of 1918, when the
entire state judicial and educational
ticket was elected.
Is ACCORDED LEADER9HiP.
The Gr0esbeck campaign for gov
ernor is gathering force. From the
lower peninsula towns everywhere
comes the same word-the Detroit
man is making such tremendous
strides as the people become ac'
Quainted with him and his ideas that
there appears to be little in the way
Of doubt that he will fail to receive
the Republican nomination. In fact,
the headway which Mayor Ellis, of
Grand Rapids, is making in West
Michigan, and the split he is creating
in the so-called labor vote, supposed
to be strong for Chase S. Osborn, is
responsible for the statements down
state that Osborn will be third in
the race.
Downstate papers are more and
more according to Mr.. Groesbeck the
leadership in the race. The recent
convention of county clerks in Mt.
Clemens showed one clerk for Osborn
and 40 for Groesbeck. County clerks
are not foolish they do not, as a
rule, announce desires or impressions
until they are sure Of their ground.
They are themselves in politics. But
they're the boys who know; who have
their ears to the ground, who cant
help knowing the tenor of the public
pulse the year around. And, with
Just one exception, at their annual
meeting, they said "Groesbeck."
This is not surprising to those who
know Mr.. Groesbeck. His personal
ity, despite his modesty and his aver
sion to the glare of limelight, is that
nature that impresses with its
strength. Everywhere he has gone
he has made friends of the men who
think; the men who constitute the
backbone of communities. His plat
form, recently published, was a
clincher. 1t displayed the ideas of a
man who Is sincere; he confined him
self TO specific matters of state gov
ernment. He did not indulge in lot
of mouthy polysyllabics; he did not
talk as if he believed the working
man was at once the greatest, the
best, the most cruelty treated and
most neglected creature on earth. He
didn't mention classes at all except
insofar as certain legislation was
needed to govern certain conditions.
He had the whole state in mind and
showed it when he wrote his plat
form. II was an utterance that sat
isfed the man who wants Michigan
to be safe, sane, progressive state,
state that will be governed with
moderation. There we're no ex-
tremes; no buncombe and no import
ed half-baked European compromises
between paternalism and socialism in
1t. The people have been reading
his platform and that is one of the
reasons why so many men are flock
ing to his support.
Contrast Groesbeck's course with
that of Chase s. Osborn in the Upper
Peninsula, exaggerated reports OF
"whirlwind" campaign; crowds OF
of Groesbeck's meetings in the Low
er Peninsula. That rising of the pop
ulace to the banners of Osborn did
not take place much as some dis
patches tried to make 1t appear So
In the copper country the facts and
the stories sent out from pro-OsDorn
sources have been found to be, far
apart; the same in the southern and
tricts with few exceptions.
Unless all signs fail, Mr.. Groesbeck
will be the party ~nominee-because
qette Chronicle.
BETWEEN GROESBECk AND Mr.. |
OSBORN
The Charlotte Republican, In a lem
thy analytical article on the approach
ing primary election, declares that the |
fight for the nomination between
Groesbeck and Osborn with the for
mer having a distinct edge because
OF the big vote he will receive in
Wayne County.
The Republican does not take sides |
but takes up the election figSres OF |
the last two campaigns and shows the |
impossibility of Frederick C.. Martin |
dale being nominated because of his |
lack of support in Wayne county and |
in the upper peninsula. both Of which |
he carried big in 1912 and yet was
peaten.
II figures that neither Mayor Ellis |
,r w. s. Linton will show very strong |
because OF their lack of acquaintance |
through the state.
From this situation II deducts that |
either Mr.. Groesbeck or Mr.. Osborn |
will! BE nominated. 1t paints out that |
the former will have a heavy con !
centrated vote where he is strong |
while tfH latter must depend on q |
scattering vote.