Foxy Billy Judson

FOXY BILLY JUDSON

CREDITED WITH A SCHEME TO OUTWIT HELBER.

And Secure Alger Enumerators.-A Correspondent of the Evening News Says He is Also After Beal.

The Ann Arbor correspondent of the Detroit Evening News, sends his paper the following of interest locally:

"Ann Arbor, Mich., July 17. - Foxy Billy Judson -when asked by the News as to how he was going to take the late manifesto of Eugene Helber, the new aspirant for the honors of "political boss" of Washtenaw county, actually winked. The Judson wink usually means "the boss" is as assured of the final outcome as if the convention had instructed him to name the nominees for senator and representatives.

"Aren't you going to say something for publication?" asked the News.

"No, sir. " he replied. "If I don't say anything,I won't have to deny anything."

"He'll make Helber look like 30 cents before he gets through with him," said one of Bill's lieutenants. "Congressman Smith can't afford to drop a man like Judson and nobody knows it better than Smith. When the time comes for naming the census enumerators Judson will have a lot of fellows hanging around Helber hollering 'McMillan.  Then Judson will fix it up with Smith all right and Smith will suggest that these fellows are pretty good McMillan men to Helber. Helber will agree and appoint them. The consequence is Helber will find when he has selected his 32 enumerators for this county that about 20 of them will be for Alger for senator as soon as their month's job is done."

"But about the smoothest plan of Judson is his campaign for capturing Ann Arbor for the secretary of war. Senator McMillan thinks J. Beal, the editor of the Courier, is all right and Beal seems to consider McMillan his ideal statesman. Beal owns the building now occupied by the Ann Arbor post office, for which the government has to pay more rent than for any other like building in a town of the size in the state. When Congressman Gorman came within an ace of getting an appropriation for a government building for Ann Arbor, whose annual revenue to Uncle Sam is about $38,000, it is said that Jim McMillan's hammer was the one which knocked the project. Beal was too good a McMillan man. The consequences are that as long as McMillan is a senator and as long as J. Beal is willing to dip into his pocket to help out the senatorial campaign fund, Ann Arbor will never get a government building. The bonds between McMillan and Beal are easily accounted for. Mr. McMillan wants to be retained as senator and Beal wants him retained.

"Congressman Smith is not the most enthusiastic Beal man that ever represented this district. The Courier editor didn't sweeten the congressional kitty to any alarming extent, although Beal has dictated the name of the successful post office incumbent twice. Committeeman Helber himself has said that all that the Beal contingent, including the postmaster himself, donated to the congressional campaign fund was $25, whereas they were assessed $100. Therefore Smith is not likely to stand in the way of anything Judson wants to do with Beal.

Beal has fought Judson, unsuccessfully, all down the line. Now comes an opportunity, if Alger is elected senator, for Judson to pay it back with interest and at a greater rate than the legal allowance. Judson will receive a promise from Alger that the latter will use his influence for a fine government building for Ann Arbor in case of his election. Nothing would make Smith more popular with Ann Arborites than if he would fall into line with the same project. People here appreciate the situation as to how it will be blocked if McMillan is returned as senator. The Judson contingent will talk 'Alger and government building' until the end of the conventions. It would not be surprising, with this as a war cry, that McMillan fails of a majority of Ann Arbor's delegates to the convention.