The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-08-09
w. Fl. Hills Candidacy
Should Appeal To the
Progressive Republicans

"The government o. the United States
should be operated as a great business
y corporation of 100,000,000 stockholders,
all with equal rights, with the members
of the house of representatives and Of the
senate, in Washington, acting as the
board of directors"
1.-THE running of government should
be, above all else, business proposition
for business men,"
''The board Of directors of govern
ment should act for all of the stockhold-
ers and not for any favored clique
1.-THE stockholders should be able to tell
exactly where their representatives on
the board of directors stand"
We have quoted for you from the plat
4 form of William H. Hill, Republican can
didate for nomination for United States
\ senator by the people of Michigan.
There is nothing new in Mr.. Hills sug-
\ gestion for the operation of our govern
ment, because it was intended originally
that it not only SHOULD but would
\ HAVE TO BE operated that way to en-
8 dure.
There is something new in the sugges-
ton as coming from candidate for a
Y place on the board of directors, because
candidates for a membership aren't brave
y enough, as rule, to make it known that
theirs is so clear conception of just
B what the people have right to expect of
them.
Mr. Hills platform goes farther:
'The ideal man for desk in the con-
u gress Of the United States" it says, SIS
Woodworking, hard-headed business
man who attends to his knitting acts as
his conscience and his business expert
\ ence tell him he should act, and who
I doesn't care tinker's continental wheth-
er those acts are going to make votes
for him when the next election rolls
around"
Michigan had grown tired Of standpat
and reactionary representation when it
elected Charles Elroy Townsend to the
United States senate.
Townsend owed his election to progress
sive votes.
His record as a congressman had been
4 all that could have been desired and it
was because of that record that the people
y chose him for seat in the upper house,
where Townsend proceeded to forget all
about the idea of the people being stock
holders in the corporation of which he
i was director
II Burrows deserved defeat at Town
sends hands for his failure to have kept
pace with sentiment and progress al
home, Townsend deserves defeat in the
primaries of August 20 for the very same
reason.
Townsend as a senator has been a sore
disappointment to those who hailed the
popular nomination of United States sen
\ ators in our state as a means of bringing
this office closer TO the people.
His representation has been mostly Of
\ Charles l.. Townsend
His attitude in Washington in late
years has been one of independence of The
people at home and the primaries present
fine opportunity for the people at hon,
TO vote their independence of Independent
representation.
Townsend has voted against the rea
Michigan sentiment on almost every i'm
\ portant issue. He is not progressive
He Is a standpatter and he is a reaction
( airy.
He Is everything the people of Michi.
\ gan did not want when they elected him
The candidacy of William II. Hill offers
\ 3 flne opportunity for the voters of Mich.
1gan who are progressive and who want