The Governor Of Washtenaw

THE GOVERNOR OF WASHTENAW

That Is What the Evening News Calls Sherriff Judson

The Evening News Tuesday night speaks of Sheriff Judson who with Deputy Railroad Commissioner Wedemeyer and a host of other political lights from different parts of the state was in attendance on a Pingree conference in Detroit. The News says:

The governor of Michigan, the governor of western Michigan and the governor of Washtenaw county make a picturesque group. Judson is known as plain "Bill" over in his bailiwick, but he is the "governor of Washtenaw" for all that. He is growing more and more in the image of his political maker all the time. The sacred white goatee of Hazen has long been a mark in the land, but it isn't as familiar as the sacred red goatee of Sheriff Bill in the county that lies about the classic gates of Ann Arbor. That red goatee used to drop, it used to straggle and, all in all, it used to be a kind of unkempt goatee, but it has undergone a change. It is now a round, sleek, well-ordered and well-kept goatee. It no longer droops; the bend of modesty and retirement is gone from it. It stands out from the chin at the real Pingree angle, it lingers down to just the length of the Pingree pattern of face adornment and it has imbibed from the many face-to-face encounters with the potentate goatee just the degree of stand-out-iveness meant to comport with the expression of popular authority.

Is "Bil" thinking of the wardenship of the state prison? Bless your dear soul, where did you get such a notion? Such thoughts be far from him. He said so this morning.

"Why, that's the last thing I am thinking of," was his comment. "Now, you know, don't you, that the term of J. Hert Smith, of Hillsdale, doesn't expire until Feb. 15, and governor would not have control of that board until then. Will the board make a change after he has appointed a new member? How can I tell?