Wants One Big House

WANTS ONE BIG HOUSE To Board and Lodge All the Students. SOCIALISTS AT WORK Name a County Ticket and Listen to Fogg on Student Socialism.

The Washtenaw county convention of Socialists was held Tuesday evening at the court house and as there were only ten present who had avowed their rapport of socialism there were plenty of offices to go around, as far as nominating can make a man think he has an office.

The committee has yet to be chosen, but after D. J. Jeannerette was elected chairman of the convention and E. J. Koch secretary, the nominating began. There was not the usual clamor to get on the floor before everyone else for nominations, in fact each was very considerate of the wishes of his neighbor. H. M. Wheelock was nominated for sheriff, E. J. Koch for county clerk and Wm. Berry for register of deeds. The convention did not understand that the prosecuting attorney must have a legal education and be a member of the bar, and when they were informed of this fact by Mr. Fogg the office was left vacant, to be filled by the county committee, as well as the offices of two circuit court commissioners. Mr. O'Brien was nominated for one of these offices later. Mr. Gates and A. B. Leonard were nominated for coroners.

The feature of the evening was an address by Mr. Fogg, who said in part:

"I am a socialist at heart. You are educating the people of Ann Arbor to a fuller conception of the truth. The University here is a living example of a socialistic organization, and for that reason we have students from all parts of the country coming here for an education. The socialistic idea in the University is planted firmly there because the expenses are light. The expenses are light because the state makes up the deficiency."

He then advocated that one large club be formed for the use of all the students, where board and room might be had at cost. He advocated a common treasury scheme.

Fogg said that this country which we call a republic was nothing but a representative oligarchy, that every election was a Punch and Judy show. The speaker continued: "The Times and the Detroit Evening News, papers printing damnable lies continually, after they heard my driftwood story the other night in the opera house, did not even know enough to tell it over again correctly." Fogg said that he had shaken hands with almost all the noted men who would have made a fortune out of their patents of someone hadn't stolen them. "I do not object to the combinations of capital," said the speaker, "'but I do Object that Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Gould and Mr. Harriman should leave me out of their combinations, and what I want is a 'we, us and company'."