The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-10-04
war between the United States and
Cermanv he apain enlisted in his coun-

Germany ne again enlisted In MS coun-
| try's cause and has since been serving
as a commander in the Third naval
district, including the port of New
York. His two sons have shown the
same patriotism and loyalty to their
country, one of them being in the SER
vice of his country on the battle fields
of France, and the other in the navy.
Commander Newberry is able, trained,
patriotic, fearless and dependable. He
knows his country and its needs. The
people of Michigan should select him
as their United States senator and he
will there as faithfully, periodically
and ably serve his state and nation as
he has served them in all the positions
to which he has been called.
Tenth-We believe the time has
come when Michigan should extend the
right of suffrage to women upon equal
terms with men, and we indorse the
constitutional amendment looking to-
ward that end to be voSed upon at the
November election, and call upon the
voters of the state to adopt it by an
emphatic majority.
,d We further favor the immediate sub
mission to the several states of the
proposed amendment to the federal
constitution granting suffrage to wo-
men, and we call upon the legislature
of Michigan to ratify such amendment
when so submitted.
Eleventh-We believe that Michi-
gan has been benefited by the elimi-
nation of the saloon, and the traffic in
Intoxicating liquors. We commend
the course of all those who have had
to do with the enforcement of the anti
liquor legislation recently adopted in
our state, and pledge ourselves to the
continued strict enforcement of the
law as it now stands.
Twelfth-We believe that our next
legislature should amend our present
primary election laws so that they
shall prevent the members of one po-
litical party from assisting in the
nomination of candidates of any other
political party; so that it will be i'm
possible for the name of any candi-
date for nomination at a primary
election to be placed upon the primary
ballot to be voted for unless he shall
have been regularly Endorsed by his
party, or unless he shall file with his
petition for nomination a statement
subscribed by him to the effect that
he is a member of and associated with
the party whose candidate he seeks to
be. We call upon the next session of
the legislature to perfect the primary
laws of Michigan in these respects.
Thirteenth-We believe that at this
time when the expenses of the nation
al government are necessarily very
great and prices are inordinately high
on account of the war and every good
citizen is consequently burdened with
unusually high expenses, the business
of the state should be conducted as
economically as is consistent with
good administration. We recognize
Fthe fact that inIthe nature OF things
the amount Of taxes raised in the
state must be to come extent increas-
ed, but we pledge to the people of
this state business administration,
economical as well as efficient, and We
call upon the legislature to be elected
in November to use great caution in
making no unusual appropriations un-
der present conditions.
Fourteenth-In conclusion, we de-
clare that the winning of the war is
at the present time the one great is
sue before the people of this state
and nation, and every other question
is of relatively small Importance. No
man should be elected to any official
position or given any place of respon-
sibility about whose loyalty there is
the slightest question, and all good
citizens should refrain from taking
any partisan action that can in the
slightest degree embarrass the Unit
ed States government in its great
task, and we pledge to the national
administration the hearty, earnest
and unqualified support of the Repub-
lican party of Michigan in every act
ivity toward bringing the war to a
successful end in the shortest posi-