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I would rather have the good will and *ld of a newspaper
4 with a circulation of 30.000 that ia taken home and read in
» the family, than to have that of one with a circulation of a
million that la only looked at and thrown into the gutter.—
IHaVOH GAYWOft, OF ICEW YORK.
DEMOCRACY'S OPPORTUNITY AND
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prom iota, Kanaas. comee story of how a Democratic con
Vention wae moved to come to a decision on presidential preferences
The Allen county convention, assembled to name delegates to the state
Convention, was deadlocked between the adherents of Champ Clark and
Woodrow Wilson. A Kansas spellbinder undertook to end the deadlock with
§1 speech meant to stampede the convention for W. J. Bryan.
F He seemed to about have his way when a lonesome dog that had wan
dered into the hall waisirodden on by the excited crowd and lifted its voice
in loud and mournful protest. Some genius started the chorus. “You gotta
>tuit kickin' my dawg arounV’
J' In two minutes the whole convention was singing It, the
spell was broken, and resolutions instructing the delegates for the Hon.
Champ Clark of Missouri were voted with a whoop.
The incident is not, perhaps, Important in itself, but it seems quite
Characteristic of a good many Democratic conventions of late years and of
the Democratic party, too, since it renounced the leadership of Grover Cleve
land and went rainbow-chasing with the Prophet of the Platte.
• It shows what has made the thinking and sober-minded majority of
Americans weary of the Democratic party for sixteen years and what threat
ens to undo all the Democratic successes of 1910 by afflicting the country
With anew attack of that same tired feeling.
The Democratic party has today such a chance of victory in the nation
as it has not had since 1892. As Republicans we may dislike to confess this,
but it is the fact, and sooner or later we must all face the fact.
All the Democratic party has to do in order to have a full even chance
of victory in November, is to show a reasonable appreciation of the power
of common sense in politics and a sober-minded conviction of the responsi
bilities of the great business of government.
But Democratic leaders of proved success in their own states—and of suc
cess plainly won because of their difference of aim and attitude from the
jinglers of the Bryan school—too often appear to be voices crying in the
wilderness, unheeded by the masses of the Democratic party.
As in 1896, too many Democrats still prefer nonsense to sense, and run
after makers of glittering phrases and clap-trap epigrams.
“Pleased with a rattle and tickled with a straw!" That infantile charac
teristic of the Bryan Democracy has been the great Republican asset for six
teen years, and seems likely to be again.
The above is from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, a Republican newspaper. |
as inferred, and is as true a statement of conditions as has been made in
this campaign.
It points directly to the situation in the Democratic party in Michigan
today, inspiration being deducible from the position of the party’s state
central committee, and in the party’s representation in the state senate in
the special session in Lansing to consider a presidential preference primary.
WHAT A FINE BRACE HAS DETROIT DEMOCRACY PROVIDED IN
LANSING IN THE PERSONS OF SENATORS MURTHA AND LEE. AS THE
CHOSEN MEN OF A PARTY TO WHICH THE COUNTRY IS WILLING
AND ANXIOUS TO TURN FOR DELIVERANCE FROM GOVERNMENT BY j
THE FEW FOR THE FEW AND TO THE END OF GOVERNMENT BY ALL
FOR ALL.
True, there is an offset in the presence of Senator Guy Miller, repre
senting Detroit as a Republican in the Upper House, but the Democratic
party iin’t going to be able to excuse its undesirables by pointing to un
desirables on the other side.
Consistently there are patriotic Americans committed to progress who
demand that government be taken completely out of the hands of such unde - ■
sirables in BOTH parties, and that there be placed in the responsible posi
tions of government, both state and national, ONLY DESIRABLE MEN. IF
A THIRD PARTY IS NECESSARY TO TURN THE TRICK.
The attitude of the Michigan state senate toward the preference
primary, emphasized in particular on the side of the Democratic members
who have everything to gain and nothing to lose, is just a sample of the
'political knavery of which both the state and nation have been the victims
in past years—knavery which makes of representative government a
mockery and a farce, offers insult to American intelligence and is enough
to bring the blush of shame to the cheeks and tears to the eyes of the
Statue of Liberty.
A demand on the part of the people of Michigan for a reform giving
them a say in the matter of who shall be the nominees for the highest of-
See in the land—a demand springing from sentiment so well understood
that no state senator would dare oppose it openly—is heralded in the inter
ests of the vote-swappers and job-traden by their newspaper organs as a
personal political scheme of the state’s governor, and behind this cry the
political cowards in the upper house of our legislature take refuge.
Let it be said on the side of Gov. Osborn, that WERE his motives
political and personal, he has concealed nothing and fought in the open.
His acts as a progressive governor are an open book, with no page
efeoed, and his people are not compelled to read between the lines to under
stand the motive for any official act since he stepped into the governorship.
The issue in a campaign in which the Inter-Ocean sees such a spendid
opportunity for a Democratic victory is too well understood and the enemies
of popular government too well known for Gov. Osborn to suffer from the
brutal attacks to which he has been exposed.
These will come back as boomerangs and the real sufferer will be the
Democracy in Michigan as led by self-appointed leaders whose only inter
est in Democracy is preservation of a diabolical political plot against the
ueople in a division of the spoils and continued personal political power and
prestige
The Progressives in the Democratic party, those who are Democrats from
principle based upon patriotism, love of right and justice and fair play,
would offer the country as their representative in the presidency, a man of
the strong and excellent qualities of Woodrow Wilson—a man in sympathy
with the people and the enemy of their enemies and oppressors.
The state central committee of the Democracy in Michigan, supposedly
representative of predominating sentiment in the party, and in the face
rd thc fact that "90 per cent of the votere-m-the party favor Wrtswr, has
abandoned Harmon, their first love and the choice of Wall-st.. and is now
engaged in the interests of Clark, the impossibility to which the Inter-Ocean
plainly refers.
And in the state senate we have Lee and Murtha, the agents of Judge
Connolly, who is the state central committee..opposing, tooth and nail, the
“personal poitical move’’ of Gov. Osborn, an ‘ ambitious Republican,” as
they tell ns.
Which move would eventuate in a Democratic delegation from
Michigan favorable to Gov. Wilson for the presidency and that many more
votes in the convention for Wilson.
And Wilson is the only candidate the Democrats have to offer who
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would stand a show of coming between Gov. Osborn and any ambitions he
might have as a Republican either for himself or for any candidate favored
by him.
In fact, in the nomination of Wilson, toward which the preference
primary would help, the Republican party would face certain defeat.
But the state central committee doesn't want the preference primary
anu two Democrats in the state senate refuse to vote for it.
Oh. well!
From Another Point of View
The people appear to be getting It in the same from the same
old bunch.
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About time for the aunts, uncles and grandmothers to enter into a
lingering Illness.
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Port Hurou is bothered just now by a mysterious woman. Was there
ever any other .kind of a woman?
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Itanium's this year will boast of a performer who can turn 150 hand
springs. And right here in Michigan we have Senator Moriarty.
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A New York man wants advice on how to spend his fortune. Can it
be possible that he Is fortunate enough, to have landed room and board?
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Madero Is going to make another shift in his cabinet, said cabinet
reminding us of nothing so much as the street scene In melodrama.
They Owed Him an Apology
Colonel Abe Gruber. the Republican
leader, told the day about one
of his campaign experiences, says
the New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times-Star. He had sent &
young lawyer who wanted to work
for the cause to an outlying district.
“Something wrong up there,” the
lawyer reported when he came back.
* I never tried so hard in my life, and
I didn’t win a cackle.”
.Colonel timber said he would go up
there himself and talk to the workers.
Colonel Oruber is some spellbinder
when he can get his mind off his
wrongs. Imperially is he good at tell
ing a funny story. He can tell even
a story that isn’t funny so well that
the average man will snicker himself
into a cough. Colonel Oruber went up
to that district und the leaders hired
a large, wide hall, and packed it with
Republicans, and Oruber got on the
plutform and talked his best.
“There wasn’t a sound,” said Grirber.
“I tried 'em with tragedy and they sat
there and looked at uie like a lot of
horses. Ami I gave ’em a lot of thril
ling stories and they didn’t stir. Abd
then I made up my mind I’d smash
that awful calm or getaway from there
in n laitut: — rTolrt ‘cm funny stories
until tuy larynx felt like a stone
bruise. .1 was never in such good form
In my life, for I was mad and het up.
The audience gat there and looked at
me. Just once, away back In the hall,
one follows whooped cuv-in a load
laugh. By and by l gave it up. I con
cluded that I must 1m» suffering from
spellbinder's glass arm. and sat down.
Then a member of the committee ap
proached me. That was a fine speech,
Colonel,* said he. 'but the committee's
got an apology to make to you.’
“I glared at bitn. There waa a guy
back there,’ said the committeeman,
who laughed at you once —hut we
thrun him out.’ H
His Real Motive
General F. D. Grant, at a Washing
ton's birthday dinner in New York,
told a story about a young Boston
Tory.
“This Tory,” he said, “fought dur
ing the Revolution neither on one side
nor o nthe other. He took a pleasure
trip on the continent, and he didn't
come back home again until the war
was over.
"He was treated very coldly by so
ciety on his return, and this grieved
his good old mother to the heart.
“The dear old lady tried to explain
the matter one afternoon to a Boston
lielle.
" Naturally, as the head of the fam
ily,’ she said, 'mv son could not take
part in the war. To him fell the duty,
perhaps the more arduous duty of pro
teoting his mother and sisters and
looking after the Interests of the es
tate.*
" Oh, madame.’ said the belle, with
an Icy smile, ‘you need not explain.
I assure you I'd have done exactly as
your son did —I'm such a coward!’”—
New York Tribune.
The Blizzard No Barrier
The Detroit Times was the only
newspaper delivered on our streets
Wednesday of last week. This was
accomplished bv Glenn Vorhets, The
Times carrier.—Birmingham Eccen
tric.
Official figures show that New Zea
land ha* nearly 25.000,000 sheep.
Editorials by the People.
To the*E<hTor »fc»:
I die lose clipping from the Detroit
Free Press, which shows the uctivlty
or the Sugar Trust Publicity bureau,
and tl»e now somewhat antiquated
methods adopted to coerce cougres*
and the voters of this country into
continuing the principle of protection
to I infant» industries like the suwar
trusts.
Os all the > ears that have elapsed,
under high protective tariff in vogue,
this wealthy concern has failed to in
\, st “the millions'' they now speak of
investing upon the eve of the threat
i ned removal of their special
privilege.
The objec t of the publicity is evi
dentlv to frlehten the farmers Into
believing the sugar industry would
decline and one of their sources of
prolli be removed, if the tariff be low- j
ered.
the reason for establishing sugur
plants in Michigan and elsewhere in the
Pulled States was to utilize the ter
tile land suitable for the purpose, and
the willing labor available at low
rates, and also to give transjiortu
t ion cysts from producer to con
sumer,
These incentives have been art
cially enhanced lit the past By 181
tariff and have resulted in the accumu
lation of rather a fabulous fortune in
the hands of a few aud increased
cos» of living to the many.
The tanner and the laborer have
performed their services; and when
we consider the drain upon the soil
owned by the farmer, at a reasonable
cost, the capitalists, the promoters
and the imlllic iaus have reaped the
'extraordinary profits, and the publi
cation of items like the above un
intended to continue the high e-ost of
living ip the consumer and the flow
'of cash iu to the ‘.producer, 1 ' but
1 mainly to those who maintain the
I publicity bureau.
The people of Mic higan are learn
ing to look to your paper to set them
right upon the meaning of such
publicity as this.
C. 8. BEADLE.
l-etYotr March 6, 191?.
Give Credit to Whom Due.
To the Editor of The Times :
Permit me to say that praise and
support should be accorded to such
1 of our counciltuen as have the cour
age of their convictions. In the stand
that Aid. Frank J. Mason took against
th loc ating of a saloon In the pre v
irnity of our Y. W. C. A., wo cannot
otherwise but uphold h!m in his own
Fourteenth w ard. We owe it to < ur
, selves to protect from the breath of
contamination Institutions of this
I kind. Righteousness is more than
office-holding.
A. HOMRIGHAUS,
Pastor Messias Lutheran church.
March 6. 1912.
Capital Punishment and the Jailer.
To the Editor of The Times:
T 'or several clays 1 have noted in
; your 'Editorials by the People” that
! there are some people objecting to
capital punishment a* and others in
favor.
I>et us take, for instance. Canada,
where they have had capital punish
tnent far back as most of us <-an re
member. Do they have as many mur
ders, assaults on young children, to.,
as we have here in this country?
i The criminals there are afraid, as
1 the saying go s, “of the rope.” In
’ this country, as one of the men who
responded In favor of capital pun
ishment says, the most they can get
Is life Imprisonment, with u good
1 chance of pardon when they have
served a short time This same man
j referred to the btble for certain pas
sages. ~ I wish to quote Deuteronomy (
! 21-22. “And if a man has committed
a sin worthy of death, and ne lie put
to death, and thou hanjp him on a
tree, etc.” This is. of course*, taken
from the old testameut.
f those opposed to the capital pun
ishment will refer to the book of St.
John. 14-34, reading as follows: A
new commandment I give unto you.
that ye love one another.” and I wish
ito keep this commandment, they . ill
not w ish to plac e our j. Ilora in the
same danger that our public and little
! ojies are daily being subjected to by
: leaving him to dwell among us.
The bible does not give us tlie* right
to personally take a life, but It says.
; the law Is w ritten, and by it shall
i you abide. If we make laws, let us
j liv 0 up to tbetn.
JOS. H. Dll,:-ON. Jr.
412 Concord-ave.
March t». 1912.
An* inhuman Separation.
To the Editor of The Times:
Notice in The Times of Feb. Z'Jih
that a Polish couple are to be ex
ported from Detroit as undesirable
aliens, while their little girl, who is
American borfl. inky be ie’fT beMntf
because, forsooth, the parents have
no money with which to pay the ii.il<*
one’s 'passage, and the government
has no authority to pay it. \Ne call
ourselves Americans and prate about
•the land of the free and the home
of the brave.” yet. 'how art thou
fallen. <» s. ns of true freedom. When
Ol'R NATIONAL VAUDEVILLE
News' Item —Tail wss all alone In llie White House when Roosevelt s
candidacy watt announced. #
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Taft, as Hamlet—“To ho. or ».a t *o he; that in the question;
Whether ‘tls nobler ill the mind to suffer
The slings ami arrows of outrageous fortune.
Or to take up arms against a sea of trouble*."
such an act could be contemplated
* ven for a moment. Unless some « har
itahle person pay* the little Kiri's
passage, she will have to remain be
hind. Monstrous and inhuman 0 seem
words too mild.
Verily, we are beepin'ng dangerous
ly good, and it is wonderful if wings
will not soon sprout, so that we may
soar through the sky, for surely the
earth is too mean a place for such
merciful, humane and Just creatines
as we are. What fun the devil will
have next Sunday „ watching us put
our money on the church plate in cur
usual Godly, sanctimonious way
lo send to the "poor benighted
heathen." How we long to tell them
about the Lender and compassionate
Jesus. If some of these "poor. TTe
nighted heathen" came to Detroit we
might get a chance to tear away one
of their children from them, even like
unto a pack of wolves, for wolves
could do no more. Have we forgotten
to be gracious'* Then God will for
get to be gracious to us. Righteous
ness has exalted our nation and
righteousness alone will keep it alive.
Cruelty and tyranny come froiiKthe
lower regions, and they eventuXly
bring ruin and decay to any land.
Should we not make laws which will'
enable us to act in such emergencies
and not be dependent upon some pos
sible "charitable person?" If tin
parents are reasonably kind to the
child, then our country should pay
the little one's passage, or else allow
the parents to remain here with her.
We are so busily engaged erecting
immense structures and cities, that
we have left little wherewith to buil t
the walls of our beloved land, and
walls of brick or stone are soon .le
mollshed, but a wall of mercy, Justice
and righteousness can resist the
storms of time and sland erect
through ail eternity. Let us do unto
others as we would like them 10 do
unto us. This motto has made our
country great, and it alone can keep
it great.
MARGARET FLORENCE McAULEY.
539 Brooklyn ave., March «, 1912.
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Thursday, March 7, k .
1912
“Bill" Edwards on Tnity.
"Big Bill" Edwards, who bosses
New York's street cleaning depart
ment. talked at the annual dinner of
the City Hall Reporters’ association
of the" need for united effort among
the city officials.
"The men of every organization
should learn how to get together,"
said "Big Bill." "The only way wo
can get anywhere In this world is by
united effort. We ought to stop think
ing of whai we would indtvtdrtaitr
like, and go to thinking of what we
can do if we do it altogether. And
men can't ‘get together’ unless they
pack :i punch. A pessimist is a dead
weight. » wouldn't have hint on the
premises." ‘
He told this little story of a bygone
football game to illustrate his point.
It was between Harvard and Prince
ton —“Big Bill" was a star on the
Princeton line-up—and Princeton’s
team hud not been playing any too
good ball that season. Whereas Har
vard bail been*a sensation.
"We were on the way to the dress
ing room." said "Big Bill.’ "We hadn't
got into our uniforms yet. The Deer
man on our team walked with the
captain.
"Tm afraid we re going to be
beaten.' said he. 'l've been thinking
this over, and I don't see where we
have a chance to beat Harvard.'
"‘What’s that?’ asked the captain.
‘"l've been comparing the two
teams,' said this star player, ’and 1
don't think that we tan possibly beat
Harvard.’
"‘By thunder.’ bellowed the cap
tain. striking the other man in tlio
face, 'you needn’t put your uniform
on. I'll have no, such man aB you on
a team 1 run. Go back to the stands.
1 won't let you in the dressing-room.*
"And." finished "Big Bill,” "Prince
ton won?"—Cincinnati Times-Btar.
TODAY IN HISTORY.
March 7. 1862, Capt. John H. Mor
gan started on the first of the raids
which were to
make the south
ern cavalryman
one of the most
feared members of
the confederate
army throughout
the border states.
Morgan's first
raid was a little
on.* with only 23-
men 18 miles from
Murfreesboro, Tenn., toward Nash*
vllle, but as success gave assurance.
Morgan's raiding parties became larg.
er.
Ir. Northern Chile there has been dls
coversd an eaten sirs deposit of high
grade tungsten ore.
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