Candidates Galore

The Republicans have innumerable candidates

Who would like to be on the Republican state ticket next fall - non hail from Washtenaw

The Chicago Tribune has been writing up the candidates for the republican nominations for state office next fall and promises that the campaign will be the liveliest kind of one. It thinks that Justice Long will not be a candidate for governor, it not being likely that he will resign eight and a half years on the supreme bench at a salary of $7,000 a year for a two year's term as governor at $4,000. Neither does it think that Secretary of State Stearns has been selected as the Pingree-Alger candidate. It is not a sure thing that Gov. Pingree may not decide to reach after a third term himself. Stearns, however, would like to be governor. It is not believed that the rival candidates for senator will engage in a preliminary struggle for the nomination for governor.

It is this belief that has brought into the field an unusually large number of candidates for governor. Ex-Congressman James O'Donnell, of Jackson, who has had a hankering for this nomination for many years, is again in the field and will put up the best campaign possible. Another avowed candidate is Roscoe D. Dix, of Berrien springs, who is now serving his second term as Auditor-general, and who has previously served two terms as Commission of the state land office. Mr. Dix has a strong following among the old soldiers of the state, having been prominent in Grand Army circles for a number of years. Still another self-confessed candidate is Philip T. Colgrove, of Hastings, who share the belief that the nomination should go to the western section of the state, having been in the east for the last eight years.

Railroad Commission Chase S. Osborn is also mentioned, although he may run for congress. If, as is claimed, he is to be the active manager of Gen. Alger's senatorial campaign, he is not likely to enter the lists for governor.

For secretary of state, Secretary Stearns will be re-nominated if he does not go in for governor. If he decides to become a candidate for governor, ex-Senator Fred M. Warner, of Birmingham, will be a prominent candidate.

The office of auditor-general pays to the best salary in the list with the single exception of governor. Those who have thus far announced their candidacy to their friends are Perry F. Powers, of Cadillac, for the last 12 years a member of the state board of education; Edward P. Waldron, of St. Johns, one of the most prominent commercial travelers in the state; George P. Reynolds, of Saginaw, grand secretary of the National Order of Elks; ex-Circuit Judge William R. Kendrick, of Saginaw, John F. Wilkinson, of Berrien Springs, the present deputy auditor-general; and Henry Humphrey, of Lansing, state accountant. This field will doubtless be added to materially as the campaign advances. 

For commission of the State Land office three candidates are already in the field. O. C. Tompkins, of Lansing, who was prominent in the management of Gen. Alger's campaign for the nomination for president; Townsend A. Ely, of Alma, who was defeated for the nomination last year; and Representative Samuel B. Colins, of Jackson.

three members of the present senate are out after the nomination for state treasurer. They are Matthew D. Wagner, of Huron; George W. Moore, of St. Clair, and George P. Davis of Macomb.

The atmosphere of the senate had a tendency to breed political ambitions this year. Aside from  the aspirations above enumerated, Senator E. A. Blakeslee, of Berrien, and Senator Ira T. Sayre, of Genessee, have been inoculated with an ambition to be lieutenant government, and in all probability both will go before next year's convention as candidates.