Iditarod pioneer., 1915-05-15
MAN POUNDS MUNICIPALITY
 IN ORDER TO BECOME MAYOR
tGladwin, Mich. Dispatch to St. Louis
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{Gladwin, Mich, Dispatch to St. Louis
 Globe Democrat
 Ii the trust busters ever get wise to all the things Jim Loy is they will surely lodge T complaint against him under the Sherman law. Then the only thing that will save him from dissolution will be candid state nent of his good intentions For by hook or crook, Jim has managed to gather unto himself so many political offices that he is open to the charge of be- .ng a monopoly and operating in restraint of trade No use trying to swap votes up in Highwood township, Giadwin county, cause Jim Hoy will get most of them any way you swap, Jim being 1t in that neck of the woods. Not only is he justice of the peace and member of the board ot health and review, but county road commissioner and mayor of Vinegar, also In fact, he is Vinegar
 Jim was born ffty-four years ago in the town of Hallsville, Ontario. on a cloudless night in the dark of the moon, when 1t ,Yas easy to pick out star of destiny, and he picked mayoralty for his. As he couldn't jump at once from the cradle to the executive chair, he started out to fit himself for his manifest destiny, to secure an education and the right to refer to him self as self made.
 There was nothing much to the educa- tional question. He saw at a glance what talents would be most needed, and pro cee,led to develop them-courage, political acumen and executive ability To stimu- late courage and develop executive ability, Jim removed to Bay City when l6 years old and began sailing the lakes, first as as sistant and general handy man in the cooks galley and later as cook.
 But he couldn't be a successful politician and sail, so he left the cooks galley after $ few years and opened an "eating house" down in the old Third ward
 What the East Side is to New York the old Third ward was to Bay City in those days. It was grand political school for the man who wanted to learn the game as it was then played in American cities. Jim made his "eating house ward headquar- ters and his education progressed nicely. He became Republican leader in Bay City and prominent in all party gatherings, No city or county convention was complete without him. and he frequently took hand in state affairs In fact, for some years he was 8 regular delegate to Republican state conven- tlons.
 Hes got a reputation as a man who could do things change the political control of the city, for instance, if properly backed, and who knew enough to keep under his hat such knowledge as coming to the atten- tion of the ether side, might cause undue activity. But in spite of his hold on the old Third and bis influence as maker of po- litical destiny for others, his own star was growing dimmer. He saw it was liable to go out unless he changed his location, so he headed northwardly. That was fourteen years ago, and for ten of the fourteen years he searched in vain for the city of which he was to be mayor and thus fulfill his destiny.
 On his migration northward Jim stopped in Gladwin county, because the glow of his star indicated that as the promised land, but shift as he would, he could not find the exact spot above which it shone. The req