Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-11-01
NICKEL, DISGuSTED,
QUITS DEMOCRATS
. Who SUPPORT FORD
QUOTES PARTY LEADER THAT
THEYsHADsMANW WHO WOULD
GIVE $5oo,oo0.
PRINCIPLES DID NOT COUNT
I'VE Don't Care As Long As He viii
Stand to Be Mixed" Helme
Backer Was Told.

w. j. Nickel, OF Grand Rapids, VINO
managed the campaign for the nomi-
/ nation of James w. Helme on the
Democratic ticket for United States
senator, has written the following let
ter, addressed to the voters OF Michi-
gan:
Having voted the Democratic ticket
| for 80 years, following the chimerical
theory that was voting for principle
that would not die, onlyfto find that 1t
is not necessary to subscribe to that
principle nor support the platform in
order to run for office is extremely
nauseating.
/ And again, strange as 1t may seem,
It is not necessary to spend dollar
to be elected. I'think that statement
made by the Democratic candidate fer
senator insults the intelligence OF ev-,
! cry voter in Michigan when he says
not one penny will be spent by him
and that his candidacy will be In the
hands Of a citizen committee who will
have to raise their own funds. should
like to be a member of that commit
tee and approach the voters of Michi-
gan and ask them to finance the cam
paign of the second wealthiest man in
the world. A photo of the donor
could we'll be placed in the art gallery
maintained in the Home for Feeble
Minded at Lapeer.
But the candidate enlightens us %
a certain extent. He says the Ford
dealers, will probably be the founda-
ton. AS ii Is well known that Ford
dealer has to pay for halls, advertis-
ing, speakers, ETC., the same as an or
binary citizen, 1t may be assumed that
the said dealers are to be shaken
down, Z" in order to keep in good stand
ing with the man they buy from, fig
uring that as many of these. dealers
will be Republicans as Democrats.
! such contributions must be about as
acceptable as the contributions made
by bleeding Belgium to Germany.
II this kind of politics is to obtain
we may as we'll look to the future
| when the well known head of an oil
concern may get the presidential bee
and milk every agent in the United
States who sells gasoline.
The rottenness of the entire fiasco
dates back to June. During that
month / was approached by promi-
l.nent Democratic leader who said:
"As soon as word comes from Wash
ington, we will have candidate for
] Senator on the Democratic ticket who.
if elected will subscribe 100000 to
the campaign fund of we'll known
official for president in 1920"
/ said, There is but one such man
in Michigan and he Is not a Demo
GRAFT"
Well" he replied, I'VE don't care
as long as he will stand to be MIXED"
! Such candidate and such situa-
j tion not meeting with the approval of
I all Michigan Democrats, true blue
Democrat in the person OF James w.
Helme was placed in nomination, and
strange as il may seem, the Demo
cratic King of Michigan left for
Washington the day after the candi-
date had qualified. Upon his return a
letter headed Dear Brother Demo-
crat" was gotten out and signed by
the Chairman and Secretary of the.
Democratic State Central Committee,
ordering all Democrats to vote for
Henry Ford. regardless Of the fact
that Helme was life long Democrat
and 100 per cent American. With
Helme's politics and loyalty -unques-
toned, he was sidetracked for man
whose most patriotic statement has
been: Soldiers are either lazy or
crazy"
AS the president has adjourned poll
tics 1t would seem as II the patriotic
/ people of Michigan might be excused
for forgetting party lines and vote for
a man whose acts and deeds have been
I'm favor of the man who fought and
died.
You, fathers at home, whose star of
blue in the service flag has changed
to gold. can ascribe the change OF
color to the sailing of the historic
| Oscar III as well as to the scabled mes
/ sages OF Won Bernstein. that Americans
would not fight.
In conclusion, are you, the patriotic
people Of Michigan, going to turn
! down life long habit of standing by
the man, who fought for you, for a
weakened by-product in principle
which only ,squeals when in danger?
| trust that II we must endorse this
kind of politics that my vote for Tru-
man H. Newberry may drive me out of
the Democratic party and that when
the sands of my life are run my
epitaph may be:
He stood by the man who offered
his life that liberty shall not per-
ish from the face OF the earth"
w. j. NICKEL.
Grand Rapids, Michigan,