The Detroit times., 1914-09-14
WAITE Will BE !
KNITTED BY Local
C. or. MACHINl
Feared If He Climbed Into O
fee Groesbeck's Influence |
Here Would Wane
VAUGHAN SUPPORTED
FOR. SECRETARY OF STAT
st. Johns Man Likely To Deve
op Sufficient Strength To
Be Nominated

Will A. Waite. head OF the Sta{
League of Republican clubs. one
the party's most devoted adherenk
and the man who went down into h
own pocket to promote the famot
Republican welfare conference"
Detroit, last May. will not receive q
support of the Wayne county delea
ton In his campaign for the Repub
can nomination for secretary of stat
according to the wise ones.
Coleman G. Vaughan. of st. John
Is the machine choice. and he will 4
ceive the support of majority Of d.
egates to the Kalamazoo conventi(
the last Of this month, including 4
almost solid support from WAy4
George l.. Lusk. former postmaster Il
Bay City, Is another aspirant to u
honor. but he will not be able to mq
ter any appreciable strength.
There's reason for the sQuelchi1
OF Waite.
Wayne county is the seat of Alex |
Groesbeck's political power. Withol
Wayne county Groesbeck Is q Samst
shorn.
Groesbeck will be candidate n
the Republican nomination for sd
ernor two years hence.
Consequently he Is DESTROYS OF cd
serving that Wayne county power
mis- own particular property. EleY
ton of any Wayne county man. pd
ticularly one SO active as Waite, migI
mean the waning Of the power OF u
Groesbeck machine, and Groesbe{
isn't taking any chances.
And not Waite, alone, but Wayt
county, will be the loser.
The secretary Of state Is also
member Of the state board Of equal
zation.
Loss of q Detroit man as secretaI
of state will mean that Wayne, Il
largest county In Michigan. and whi{
has borne the brunt OF practically
the taxation burdens Of the state, wi
be without q representative on q
state board of equalization, boz
more important to Wayne than to al
other county In the state.
Wayne county interests are beit
sacrificed to keep alive Groesbecl|
chances.
And the machine asks, WHAT
you goin' to do about it?'
There Is peculiar reason, too, th|
Is being offered why Vaughan shou|
be the machine selection this year,
Instead Of admitting that any nd
chine man outside of Wayne coun|
would be acceptable, several politid
leaders say vaguely:
Vaughan was jobbed' before, q
he took II like man; we rath|
guess he's got something coming
All OF which Is very enlightening,
true.
Another cause for soreness In Il
ranks of the Michigan Brewers ass
citation and the Royal Ark has ju
leaked out.
Through their vacillating policy Il
liquor interests again fooled theI
selves In the August primary, and.
result. they have a man on the n
publican ticket who Ii known as Of
of the strongest 'drys" In the stat
Curtis. candidate for the Republic<
nomination for Northumberland
was acceptable to the liquor me
Heineman was not objected to. At Il
last minute Wayne county liquor MI
got an idea that there was ''nothiI
to II" but Heineman and, eager to 8
into the bandwagon, they scurri(
hither and thither In an effort
round up support for the Detroiter. I
splitting their forces they seem 4
have defeated both Of their acceptab
men. Dickinson. an out-and-out 70
being nominated. according to u
latest figures. ri