The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-08-13
CHARLES S. MOTIFS DECLARA.
TION OF PRINCIPLES as a candi-
date for the nomination and elec-
tion for Governor of Michigan.
To the People of the State of Mich

To the People of the State of Mich
igan:
My sole desire in seeking nomina-
ton and election as a Republican can
didate for the Governorship of Mich
igan is to be of real service to all of
the people of the state. I am not in
fluenced by any inclination for pow
er or prestige.
l have neither sympathy with nor
toleration for the chronic office seek
er who looks merely for the job and
its increments; the Office holder whose
principal concern is to perpetuate
himself in office; nor the man who
makes politics his sole or principal
means of livelihood. The state of
Michigan has been supporting alto
gether too many men of this type.
Today, with the cost of sustaining
them growing prohibitive, the people
who pay the bills, in the way of taxes,
licenses and special assessments, and
that means everybody in the state
outside of the favored political
groups are making their first coopera-
tive protest.
Michigan needs today in the execu-
tive's chair man trained and equip
ped in handling the affairs of large
business institutions, to initiate eco
nomical business methods in the state
departments, to eliminate useless
offices, and to put the affairs of the
state on a practical rather than pure
ly a political basis.
/ am convinced that by placing a
check on expenditures, through the
intelligent Capitalization of pur-
chases, by putting the budget system
into practical rather than theoretical
operation, by engaging the services
of departmental and board executives
qualified by training for the tasks in
hand rather than because of their
vote-getting ability or because of pro-
election promises, an enormous
amount of money can be saved to the
taxpayers of the state annually.
If nominated and elected governor,
l will endeavor
l. To serve all people impartially,
opposing class legislation for the BEN
eft of some at the expense of others.
2. To require that full value be
delivered for every dollar of state
money expended.
3. To put the state on a sound f.
nancial basis, making proper provi-
sion for the retirement of public i'm
provement bonds when they mature.
To insist upon the issuance Of author
lied bonds in serial form, disrtibut-
ing their retirement over periods suf-
ficiently long to prevent them from
becoming burden to the people, but
not permitting them to extend beyond
the life of the improvement for which
they are issued.
A. To improve the states trans
portation facilities as they relate to
the products of the farms, mines and
factories, and the general public.
5. To assist in the state highway
program to the end that highway
shall be built of more substantial
nature and that those built shall be
properly maintained.
6. To assist in the consummation
Of the proposed Great Lakes-Atlantic
waterway.
7. To cooperate with and assist
the state council of health in design
ing and passing measures for the i'm
provement and protection Of public
health.
8. To make an immediate study
of the problems confronting the
states institutions and seek to bring
about such corrective measures as
may serve the best interests of the
inmates and the public at large.
8. To promote such legislation as
may be necessary to bring about the
reforestation of waste lands, because
it has been demonstrated by actual
experience elsewhere that this can be
accomplished at comparatively in
significant cost and will result in MAX
ing thousands of acres of waste lands
productive, thus adding materially to
the wealth of the state.
10. To assist not only farmers,
school teachers and ex-service men,
but the entire public to obtain the full
benefits to which they are all entitled
from the state.
II. To aim to conduct the affairs
of the state not entirely with view
to cutting expenditures 6ndiscrimi-
nately, but rather with view to CIV
ing the people of Michigan the best
government possible at reasonable
cost, equitably distributed.
contend that what Michigan
needs, and Michigan is not unlike
other states in this respect, is not an
avalanche of new laws, but rather an
honest, conscientious endeavor to en-
force such laws as now exist, amend
ing them where necessary to make
their operation practicable, and ini-
tiating only such new legislation as
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