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Tried To Put Him A Hole

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
February
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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TRIED TO PUT HIM IN A HOLE

 

Scheme to Get Mayor Copeland to Declare Himself

 

BUT HE DIDN'T BITE

 

Only Avowed Candidates for Congress to Speak at Jackson Tomorrow

 

The latest political gossip going the rounds of Ann Arbor is the seeming shrewd scheme to draw out Prof. R. S. Copeland a statement as to whether or not he is a candidate for the congressional nomination.

 

It is told upon reliable authority that the Jackson "Lincoln Day" banquet committee chairman sent Mayor Copeland a peculiarly worded invitation to respond to a toast. The invitation said that they would be pleased to have him speak at the banquet if he is an avowed candidate for congress.

 

It is said that Mayor Copeland did not bite at the bait. He told the committee that his friends and the press had been kind enough to mention his name for the nomination, and if this fact made him eligible he would be pleased to respond to a toast, and even suggested the sentiment. However, he qualified it by saying that, if an acceptance meant a formal announcement at this time of his candidacy, he must decline.

 

The correspondence is said to have ended by Mayor Copeland receiving a letter which stated that the governor and only avowed candidates would be on the list of speakers, and, in consequence, he was scratched therefrom. The committee invited him to attend as a spectator.

 

Now Mayor Copeland's friends are laughing about how he escaped from the trap, and the list of speakers will be watched with interest as being authentic for the race horses already named for the second congressional district event.