Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-09-21
With Our. State
Contemporaries
MICHIGAN REBUKES
lis TRADUCERS,

ITS TRADUCERS.
The nomination Of Senator Town
send is highly significant victory
for sanity, good citizenship, con-
strctive craftsmanship and honesty as
opposed to demagoguery, SANDER and
chicanery. Given an opportunity
to go on record, the people of Mich
igan have asserted themselves and
rebuked their traducers.
They have examined the "New-
berrryism" bubble and have ruthless
ly pricked it. Before the nation,
which will not fail to make note,
they have pronounced it fake and
an affront to their honor and intel
ligence. The voters have thrown
back into the faces of their traducers
both in and out of the mud and in
suits that have been cast upon them.
In particular the people of this
state have rebuked a certain Detroit
anti Republican, pro-radical, destruc-
twist newspaper, and its pitiful dupe
Patrick II. Kelley. The former
knows now what the voters think of
its hypocrisy, its shameless dishones-
ty, and of the filthy slurs it has been
casting at them while begging them
to accept its leadership and council.
1t has found that the people are not
the fools it supposed them to be.
As for Mr.. Kelley, he can now sit
down and consider sadly the extent
of his fall from the position of gen
oral respect he once enjoyed in this
state. Mr.. Kelley sold himself to the
Devil for what he believed was an
iron bound, copper-rimmed Euaran-
tee Of the senatorship which he COW
eted, and he has his reward. His
discontinue ought to be lesson to
others who may be tempted to sacri-
flee principle, and right to political
ambition.
Indeed the returns indicate that
except as a boomerang, the so-called
"Newberry" issue never was ma
terial factor in the senatorial cam
paign. Mr.. Baker only perfunctorily
and incidentlly pretended that it was.
He looked for his real platform
material in other quarters. Mr.. Kel-
ley and Major Emery who picked up
"Newberryism" and attempted to
make it an asset were the tail-enders
when the count was made. Together
they had fewer votes than Senator
Townsend, the object of their as
saults, received. And! when one takes
into account the personal following Of
these men who chung to them irres-
pective of anything they chose to adj
vocate or oppose, it is fair conclu-
sion that what support they got, they
obtained in spite of their campaign
methods, not because Of them.
We wish this were the whole of
the story of the Michigan senatorial
campaign, but it is not; and nothing
is to be gained by ignoring facts.
Professional opponents of LeFollet-
tism, paid shouters for the Non
Partisan league and emissaries of
the |. w. w. and other Red organi-
zaions recently invadedMichigan and
joining with local representatives
and sympathizers including two
Detroit newspapers, injected them
selves into the campaign, having
found in Mr.. Baker, a candidate of
the sort who would accept their
support.
These gentry were baked, their
efforts to gain control in Michigan
were brought to nothing, but they
were permitted to make much
larger show of strength than they
should have made. Why? Not be-
cause any considerable part of the
people are really radical in the ex-
treme sense of the word, but because
a considerable number Of voters were
deceived by misleading and spacious
oratory and did not understand what
they were doing, and because a large
company Of citizens who might have
kept the picture of Michigan as a
sane state in true perspective failed
in their duty and did not vote at all
However, all's well that turns out
well. The state has had its scare
and its lesson. The Red and near
Red invasion was dangerous only be-
cause the guards were down. We
believe Michigan will not second
time commit an error, which might
be a costly one.-Detroit Free Press