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VOL. XXVI
OWOSSO. MICHIGAN, NOVEMBER 4, 1904.
NO. 33.
Owosso
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Our County Ticket.
It is with a considerable degree of
pleasure that The Times makes a brief
survey of the county ticket once more
before the election decides the majori
ties of the several candidates next Tues
day. The list is one of which the party
has reason "to bo proud.
For state senator the republicans can
point with especial pride to the clean
cut record made by Senator Albert B.
Cook. Everyoue knows his absoluto in
tegrity and there will be many demo
cratic votes recorded for him simply be
cause be has so many friends who ad
mire him and respect him for his work.
For representative, Chas. E. Ward
"comes before the voters of the county
again. It is gratifying in this con
nection" to note that thero has not been
a single word spoken against the record
made by him in the last legislature. A
bright, brainy young lawyer and busi
ness man, he easily stands in close touch
with the interests which are most im
portant in Shiawassee county. He will
undoubtedly be returned with a good
majority.
For probate judge, Matthew Bush!
will be re-elected by another of hpj big
majorities and he deserves to be. Dur
ing all the lyears during which Judge
Bush has served the people of Shiawas
see county there has never been a single
ugly rumor about his conduct of the
office of probate judge 'while on the
other hand there have been testimonials
of the sympathetic interest he has taken
in the settlement of the estate of many
a troubled widow or orphaned children.
The office is one where a large hearted
man with rare judgment and a back-
bone i3 needed and the present judge
fills the bill exactly.
As to the candidate for sheriff well
Chas. W. Minto has been mentioned in
one way or another several times lately
in the columns of this paper. He is a
jf blight,' cleancnt young business man.
Born oh a Shiawassee county, farm,
educated largely through his own labors
Jfutside of school hours and pushed for
ward iu business by his own unaided
efforts, he has already made a record to
? )e proud of. lie has . had to stand the
v entire brunt of the democratic cam
pAign, the democrats at no time making
' any especial effort to elect any of their
' candidates except their candidate for
sheriff, and apparently for a good
reason since ' it seems to have proved a
pretty profitable office to them during
the last three years. The effort they
' " have made to elect their candidate has
made considerable extra work necessary
to elect Mr: Minto. The general knowl
edge of , the reckless expenditures of the
sheriff 'a' office however cannot fail to
-.f": counteract au tneir euoris, espeumuy
':'ffycn itjseeins pretty generally taken for
counteract all their efforts,' especially
grantetthat luucn the same expensive
i . force pf deputies employed under the
present democratic sheriff would be in.
herited .sby his democratic successor
: should he be elected. It is also being
v' generally realized that to elect th&
' democratic candidate who was picked
lout by the democratic machine, with
,!Tj;he "present sheriff at its head, would
.jijimplybe to say to him that he could
rwastejthe people's money as recklessly
" asTie pbose for the next four years with
,: ,nnt joihuf tailed to account for it. The
.'onlv.afeVay tor the taxpayers of Shia-
7, , office js-by electing the republican con
r'' Slidate for sheriff, Charies W. Minto, a
; ' young man who knows from hardex
jneflence the value of a dollar and who
, -. willrbring the expenses of the sheriff's
- office down more nearly to where it be
longs,. "
I Our candidate for county clerk does
not need to have much said for him be-
cause the democrats nave never ior a
single moment attempted to storm his
citadel. It is generally understood on
' every hand that the office of county
clerk ,has never been handled better
. than since John Y. Martin took charge
of he same. He is moreover one of the
most genial and accommodating of
officials and has made friends in every
' part of the county. His majority is
P . certain to be a large one.
f yTyibtheT candidate whom everyone
" tauwis all right is Jay D. Koyce, can
didate for re-election as register of
deeds. Mr. Itoyce is another official
who, like our candidate for county
f clerk, is genial and pleasant to meet at
V all times,- and one of the most painstak
ing and efficient of officials in every re
.'. spect. His. work is kept up in the best
" possible 'manner and his friends are
counted by the hundreds and hail from
every Bection in the county.
The candidate for treasurer is well
" known throughout the county He too
i3 s candidate for re-election and the.
trna which he is just finishing has been
' c-3 in which he has shown efficiency
c - i - discretion in his work. He went
It? the office with a record as a careful
, 'zezim&n and one entirely capable
of L idling large amounts of money and
liizl2Z it without loss to his employ
ers. He will be re-elected by a majority
as safe as are the county tunds in his
keeping.
The republican candidate for prosecut
ing attorney is one of the younger at
torneys of the county and one of the
best criminal lawyers in the county as
well.. Charles M, Hamper is especially
well versed ,in the branches which are
the most important to the county so far
as the prosecutor's office is concerned
and should be able to handle the office
with greater efficiency and at far less
expense to the county than many an
older man in a more populous county
than Shiawassee. AVe expect to see him
make a good record in the office, ex
ercising good judgment in deciding
what cases should be prosecuted and in
pushing those he decides should be
prosecuted with vigor. .
The candidates for circuit court com
missioner are both all righlt. The Owos
so candidate has given good satisfaction
in the office now for two years and be
sides has served as justice of the peace
in Owosso. The Corunna condidate is
Attorney Roy Derham. Mr. Derham is
a young lawyer who bids fair to take a
stand in the front rank of the Shiawas.
see county bar before he finishes his
work here. He is well qualified for the
position.
Our candidate for county surveyor is
the best known surveyor and engineer
in this part of the state, Elmer F. Joslin.
Mr. Joslin has had many years ex
perience with the various problems con
nected with the work of a surveyor in
Shiawassee county and no one would
think for a minute of turning over the
office to any other man. The office is
one where accuracy is of the first neces
sity and no one who has ever examined
any of the work of Mr. Joslin would be
disposed for an instant to deny that his
work is accurate down to the smallest
details.
The nominees for coroner are Super
visor Verner M. White and Leo G.
Brewer the latter now serving by ap
pointmentboth of whom are generally
known about tho county. There is but
little contest over these positions.
Don't Forget the Cost.
When you go to vote next Tuesday
remember that you had to pay a part of
that :-",499.40 which went to Sheriff
Dan J. Gerow during the first three
years of his official career! Remember
too that this is not the whole story.
What he received from civil cases would
bring the total cost to some people up
still higher.
Again, if tho bills for this year which
he is holding back until after election
are as big comparatively as they were
two years ago when he held over eight
thousand dollars of the i?10,CO:5.9() back
until af ler election, you have full per
mission to begin to figure up what per
cent of this charge Sheriff Gerow' is sav
ing up for you until it is too late for
you to register a protest against this
democratic way of doing business. Per
haps you have not figured up how much
you have contributed to the expense ac
count of this democratic sheriff already!
It might figure up more than the cost
of several whole boxes of campaign
cigars instead of the one or two cigars
which you may have received. Now
when you have figured this all up sup
poso you do a little reasoning for yourself
about the 'future.
Tho largest amount paid to the dep
uties of any republican sheriff during
the- last twelve years was during the
first year of Sheriff Scougale's term
when the deputies cost $2,033. 50. The
cost, during the last year of his term
was $1,818.83. The lowest cost of
Sheriff Gerow's deputies was the first
year " when they cost the taxpayers
$2,750.49, Last year they cost you
$4,643.08, or more than twice as much
as under the most expensive year under
a republican administration of the
office and with more than five hundred
dollars to spare! Now gentlemen you
can judge for yourself how mttch more
economical the deputies appointed by
Sheriff Gerow have been than their
chief. You can also do a little think
ing about the force of deputies which
the democrat candidate for sheriff
would appoint if you should elect him.
It will not take very much figuring
to see that the present force of demo
cratic deputies which, with so far as is
known not a single exception, Is work
ing for the election of the democratic
candidate, will in all probability be re
appointed. What else could the new
sheriff do? Could he turn them down
after he owed his election to their
work? Could he turn them down after
their chief, the present extravagant
sheriff, had been the principal worker
and the head of the machine which
elected him? Except for the person of
the sheriff himself how much change
would you have any reason to expect in
the administration of the sheriff's of
fice ifjthe democratic machine is again
successful? Now do you want to re
tain the preseat expensive force of
deputies which -cost the county last
year more than five hundred dollars more
than double the cost of any other force
during twelve years under republicon
administration preceeding the election
of Sheriff Gerow? '
Then again do you think that after
owing his election to the present sheriff
a new democratic sheriff would feel
under any obligation to spend less than
the present democratic sheriff has spent?
If in the face of the amount he has
spent you elect the nominee chosen by
the present sheriff to succeed him, do
you think the new sheriff would be
much to blame if he took your vote as
indicating that you were willing that
he should spend just as much or more
than his predecessor spent? Would he
not be excused for saying that his elec
tion'justified the enormous expense ac
count piled up by Sheriff Gerow? This
is something for you to think out for
yourself.
Now is the time for you to check this
enormous expenditure if it seems too
large to you three years under a demo
crat costing more than any seven years
under the three preceeding sheriff's, al
most more than any eight years! But
don't blame anyone for still further in
crease in cost except youselves if j'ou
elect the candidate of the democratic
machine this fall It is time for a
change. The republican candidate,
Charles W. Minto, is the man who will
give you the kind of a change you need
in the sheriff's office and you can assure
yourselves of a change only by his elec-
tion.
Remember this! To elect the demo
cratic candidate, the candidate of the
democratic machine made up of the pre
sent sheriff and his deputies who, it is
fair to presume will be re-appointed
cannot fail to bo considered a vindica
tion of the charge of reckless extrava
gance, and be construed as permission
to the new democratic sheriff to make
just as big a. sinecure of tho office as
did his predecessor, even more, prob
ably, because the occupancy of tho new
county building would in some way
probably be made an excuse for an
even greater expenditure of money, to
keep up appearances. If you want a
change the only way of ensuring it is
to elect Charles W. Minto sheriff of
Shiawasco county, and The Tidies be
lieves in all sincerity that you are going
to elect him.
Tho Secretary of State.
Xo other department of tho state
government is charged with duties so
numerous and varied as that of the sec
retary of state, and in volume of labor
performed it stands second only to that
of the - auditor general. Among the
multifarious responsibilities of the sec
retary's office are the custody and use of
the great seal of the state; custody of
the laws and records of the state; super
vision and printing of the reports of
various officers and boards of the state;
collection, compilation and publication
of the statistics of the decennial census;
issue of patents for state lands; publica
tion and distribution pf laws and docu
ments; notification of elections and com
pilation of returns; approval of bonds
and oaths of officers, and articles of as
sociation and incorporation; recording
names and terms of justices and notar
ies; making out and delivering of com
missions, pardons, warrants and re
quisitions; collection of statistics of
births! marriage?, divorces and deaths,
and of the deaf, dumb, blind, epileptic
and idiotic; vital statistics, and the pub
lication of health and mortality reports;
and farm statistics, and the publication
of crop and weather reports. The sec
retary is also a member of the board of
state auditors, the board of state can
vassers, the railroad crossing board, the
board of control of swamp lands, board
of trustees of escheated property, bpard
of internal improvement, state board of
equalization, and the bureau of labor
and industrial statistics.
Under the administration of the Hon.
Fred M. Warner during the last four
years the business of the office has been
conducted with the greatest faithful
ness, efficiency and economy, and the
new responsibility that has come to the
office during the present term, in or
ganizing the new census bureau and ap-
E lying the provisions of the new law,
as reflected high credit upon the sec
retary's office.
The republicans have nomioated for
this position a worthy successor for the
ensuing term, in the person of Hon.
George A. Prescott, of Iosco county.
Mr. Prescott in no stranger to state af
fairs, having served in the senate from
1895 to 1897, and has been actively con
nected with important business interests
as manager of the lumber and mercan
tile concerns of C. H. Prescott & Sons,
at Tawas City. He has also filled vari-,
ous local offices in his home community,
and has been a citizen of the state for
twenty-six years, coming here from his
native state of Pennsylvania at the age
of 16, and fitting himself for his busi
ness career in the Bay City high school
and Detroit Business College, and Mad
ison University at Hamilton, N. Y.
Tuesday night, at the armory, the
Lady Maccabees of Owosso will present
the celebrated Erhart Entertainers pro
duction of "A Dream of Fair Women,"
using one hundred participants, special
scenery, beautiful costumes and give
during the performance perfect tele
graphic election returns. Good for you,
Maccabees, you know how to do it on a
big scale.
! '
i no vuuniy treasurer.
Two years ago the friends of Albert H.
Northwaygave their word that if he
wererelected to the office of. treasurer of
Shiawassee county .he would make a
good treasurer. How well their promise
has been redeemed by County Treasurer
Northway is well known on every hand.
Earlier in the fall, at the county con
ventipn, Mr. Northway 's record was
given, a mo;t emphatic stamp of ap
proval. Everywhere it was conceded
that not only in view of the practice of
the party he was entitled to a renomina
tion and a re-election but that his con
duct of the office was such as to entitle
any man to a renomination and re-election.
The result was that there was no
opposing candidate' and he was renomi
nated by acclamation. .
The office of county. treasurer is an
importapt one. A careless man in that
position would be an expensive luxury
for any county. A man who was not
scrupulously honest in every fibre might
easily permit small leaks to accumulate
which in the course of the year would
amount to no small figure and still be
quite outside the probability of discov
ery on the part of the ordinary auditor.
With a man of the unquestioned ability
and honesty of A. H. Northway, of
Owosso, all thought of such trouble in
the county treasury is dispelled. Mr.
Northway had had experience in toth
business and office work for years before
his election and was therefore thorough
ly competent for whatever position he
might be placed in.
Socially Mr. Northway stands as high
in the regard of all as he does in a busi
ness way. Full of a keen sense of humor,
fun loving, and entertaining, he makes
and holds friends on all sides. And
these characteristics -have been main
tained in the face of difficulties which
would have soured many another man.
The accident which a few years . since
crippled him for life, practically depriv
ing him of the use of one of hi3 ankles,
although it made him an invalid for a
good deal more than a year and has ever
since crippled him and seriously inter
fered with conducting any business
which required much getting aboutV
has never for a moment really daunted
him. Thf , sort of a thing could not in
terlere with' tho effectiveness of any
kind of office supervision and ho has
but taken pains to see that heVlid what
he could do eyen more effectively than
before he received his injury.
The world likes to seo a man who re
mains undaunted in the face of great
discouragements and tho voters of Shia
wassee county were not slow in express
ing their appreciation for such a quality
in Al. Northway. His spirit of never-give-up
pleased all who knew him at all
and he was elected by a majority which
was as complimentary to the party
which nominated him as it was to him
self. During the present campaign Mr.
Northway has had many pleasant words
of commendation for his work during
the last two years and many assurances
that he would receive a bigger majori
ty than the first by which he was elected
two years ago. ne is a Mif long re
publican and has made a gvbd official.
He has earned a reelection, and that by
a complimentary majority, aud The
Times predicts that he will receive it.
"So louy a the xheriff of Inq-
1 ham reeeice his pay in fees, it irill
be well for the 'voters to keep in mind
4 the opportunity for thrift the office
1 affords." State Republican, Oct.
4 "Thrift" is a good word for it.
4 When the force of deputies under-
3 stand how to "work the ropes" there
j seems to be no end to the expense in
4 Shiawassee county. The plan during
the past three years seems to have
j been to keep the jail filled with
4 "drunks" and "hobos," and the fees
i and bpard bills have piled up aston
j ishingly fast. Vote- for an entire
4 change by electing C. W. Minto, and
1 expenses will be reduced in a manner
J to gratify every taxpayer.
In the strenuous campaign that Is be
ing waged by both parties for the head
of the state ticket, republicans should
not lose sight of the great importance of
keeping a sharp lookout for the legisla
tive candidates the senator and the
representative.
Livingston county has a population of
18,649. Shiawassee has considerably
less than double this number but the ex
penses of the sheriff's office in Shiawas
see were almost five times as great last
year as they were in Livingston county
or, to be exact, with a population of 1.8
times as great as that of Livingston
county the expenses of the sheriff's
office in Shiawassee county last year
were 4.79 times as large. ;
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E.
Parkill, a son, Not. 4. K '
Do Hot Forget These
The greatest interest is
i x ' i .f ii..
in uie Maiemem or xne expense account or .rue ouice or
sheriff for the past fifteent years twelve years uiicjer .
republican and three years under democratic rule, .
The . people have only commenced to realize
what it has cost them under, the present democratic ad-"
ministration and to awaken to the fact that a complete
change in the official force is needed. This can only be
secured by the election of Charles W. Minto. .
When you vcte for sheriff next Tuesday remember
these figures : ' '
GEORGE MORRICE, (Republican)
Year. Sheriff. Deputies. Total."
1889 2,6394 $1,031 88 53,717 42
1890 3.18 87 1,275-2 J 4,46112
1891 2,66 82 1,114 99 3,77199
1892 2,688 96 899 61 . . 3,588 57
Total for four years, $15,539.10
W. E. JACOBS, (Republican) ' r
1893 $2,425 31 8 1,680 27 " $4,104 58
1894 3,496 57 1,466 94 4,963 51
1895 2,160 12 1,283 56,,- 3,443 68
1896 2,550 49 1,198 37r 3,749 .37
Total for 'four, years, $10,260 14'
MONROE SCOUGALE, (Republican)
1897 $3,204 58 $2,035 56 $5,240 14
1898 2,638 68 1,240 16 3,878 84
1899 3,336 60 1,783 58 5,120 18
1900 3.865 85 1.818 85 5.684 1
H .. .
Total for four years, $19,933.33
D. J. GEROW, (Democrat) ' s
1901 ' $7,219 41 . $2,756 49 $9975 90
1902 7,877 90 3,186 00 10,063 90
1903 10,764 21 4,645 08 .15,409 66
Total fpr three .years, 835,449.46
WHY THE GREAT EXPENSE. ; '
That a business of arresting "drunks" and "hobos"
has been "worked" systematically all over the county
for the past three and a half years under the administra
tion of the present democratic sheriff will be seen at a
glance at the figures below. A large proportion of
those arrested during this time have been sent to the
county jail to serve sentences running from ten to thirty
or more days and the taxpayers of the county have been
called upon to pay fees and board bill in each case." It
is asserted that the average expense per case is not less
than $11.00. The figures are as follows :
Under Sheriff Scougale (republican) the number
' of drunks, disorderlies and vagrants arrested in
three and a half years was. - - - 324
Under Sheriff Gerow (democrat) the number of
arrests for the same offenses in the same length
of time was - - - - 1483
if the.people of the county want to put an end to
this kind of business it will be done by electing Chas.
W. Minto sheriff and retiring the present force of dep
uty sheriffs whom Mr, Jarrad will be in honor bound to- J
re-appoint as his hope of election lies in the work being s
done for him by the sheriff's machinethe deputies. i
Mr. Minto promises to give the people an econom-
ical administration. Let's try a republican sheriff once
i more and see how great the
Lbill the taxpayers will have
two years.
' There are 45,740 people in Oakland
county, just 12,0:J5, or twenty-.six per
cent, more than there are in Shiawassee
county. For the three years 1901, 1902,.
and 1903 the bills of the sheriff of Oak
land county were: $4,602.15, $4,293,39,
and $5,201.02 respectively or a total for
the three years of $14,221.50. And these
figures also include the pay of the under
sheriff, turnkey, and office expenses.
The amounts drawn by Sheriff Gerow
during the same years were respective
ly: $7,219.41, $7,877.90, and $10,704.21
or a total of $25,801.55. This amount
is exclusive of money paid fof deputies,
and is $11,039,99 more than the sheriff,
under sheriff and turnkey cost Oakland
county for the same years and with a
population one-fourth larger. These
figures are official. The Oakland county
sheriff is a republican.
The Hath bone sisters gave their an
nual party to the Knights of Pythias on
Wednesday evening at Castle Hall.
There was a large attendance. Lunch
was served and Wegener's orchestra
furnished music for dancing.
Figures When You Vote "
shown all over thes cpunty .
' a ' e 1 1 ' ' rr-1 ! ' ' e '
reduction will be in the ?
to meet during the next g
J
Roosevelt voters need only put a cross
(x) in the circle at the top of the ticket,
directly under the picture of Lincoln.
Look for the honest face of tho martyr
ed president, and put it there. Then it
counts for all the electors without
further markings
Joseph . Winterholt, who conducted a
cigar factory over Bunting & Milkr's,
has Bold out his interest, and gone to
Saginaw to run a saloon.
Policeman George J. Denyes collided
with a bicyclist on Monday evening
and 'sustained a fractured rib. Theron
Steven is walking his beat.
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