What Does He Know Of Michigan Issues?

WHAT DOES HE KNOW OF MICHIGAN ISSUES?

The intended importation of speakers from other states by the defenders and apologists of railroad rule and purchased legislation, is an effort to distract attention from the misrule of the state under dominance of those who now control its public affairs. Hence the effort to secure the young and fiery Senator Beveridge of Indiana for the grand opening of the Bliss campaign at Grand Rapids. Senator Beveridge is a fluent speaker and tolerably well schooled in the national colonial policy. In that direction he has fired a number of detonating oratorical guns. A regular northern light is that same Senator Beveridge when it comes to exploiting the policy of expansion. His speeches abound in a bewilderment of electric phantoms which glint and scintillate with brilliant effects, and yet that great little man with his Indiana head full of 1,300 annexed islands of the Pacific don't know a blamed thing about the Michigan ripper law of the last legislature, shoved through by the "immortal nineteen," opposed by Helme, Weier and French and approved by Bliss. In eloquent diction Senator Beveridge can deliver a conned speech on "prosperity" - concealing the fact that trusts have neutralized prosperity by increasing prices of consumption - but it is not likely that he ever heard of the governor of Michigan getting up in his night shirt to sign the ripper Iaw. The senator is competent to dismiss the inter-ocean canal, but can the Indianian tell why Gov. Bliss should be at the beck and call of a great corporation? The people of the state will not suffer themselves to be blinded. They demand a state campaign upon state issues. An information has been lodged against the managers of the state government, and Governor Bliss and his advisors are required to appear in court and put in their defense if they have one. The jury to try the case is not limited to twelve men. It is a grand jury and the majority can indict. The crime charged is malfeasance against the rights and interests of the people of the state of Michigan, and in trying it the grand jury will not consider the Philippine question, the Chinese question, the Monroe doctrine or the crowning of King Edward; but rather it will hear evidence and argument concerning the crowning of corporations and control of state affairs by men not elected to control; the passage and approval of "force bills" against the self government of municipalities, and the smothering of bills for the proper taxation of mining and other incorporated properties. On these propositions will the verdict in November be based. -  Monroe Democrat.