Mr. Bacon On Glazier's Candidacy

Some Warm Shot from Republican Supervisor

Of Glazier's Home Town--He Gives The Reasons Why He Thinks Glazier Should Not be Senator

Chelsea, Mich. Oct. 25

To the Editor of the Argus:

Dear Sir--In a recent issue of the Jackson Citizen appeared, under the head of "Republican Candidate of the candidate, F. P. Glazier, who is seeking to be elected by the electors of the tenth senatorial district, consisting of Washtenaw and Jackson counties. I would respectfully ask you to permit me to use your columns to set the people right with regard to the character of this man. When they say he is "eminently fitted for this position" the statement is not based on facts. It is too bad that Jackson county is to be credited with the birth place of this man. No one would think so by the way he treats the inhabitants where he now lives. They would be lead to believe that he must have been born where despotism reigned, he himself was a despot. It is true he was trained in early life to correct principle, but he has drifted away from those sacred principle. With regard to the several public positions he has held, some of his acts are open to sever criticism. He employs something over one hundred men and boys, but he treats them as though he owned them, body and soul; if he should find any of them exercising the franchise which the constitution gives, he would discharge them immediately. He claims he is at the head of one of the most prosperous banks in Washtenaw county--a bank which his father made prosperous because he was a genuine banker; but his son's methods threaten a termination of that prosperity. It is a misnomer when it is said that his "business judgment and methods are popular among the people where he lives." With regard to this being an ideal man it surely cannot apply to his political conduct and methods. When he is called a man of "broad views" it is carrying the joke too far, for a narrower minded man never lived; it is all self with him. No one must disagree with him, or off goes his head; or if the offender does not happen to be in his employ or under his control he threatens to ruin him. He is the man that when caucuses are held will have "yellow tickets" with the names of his delegates on, and distributes them to his men and hirelings, and then stands at the table where the hat is, to be sure that they deliver the goods. Economy is not known to him.

In the face of such a record do the electors of the tenth senatorial district want such a man to represent them? If you want to encourage boodleism, vote for him; if you want men to be deprived of their American rights, vote for him; if you want to have legislation after the "Balfour and Jos. Chamberlain" kind, vote for him. He is a man without  a party; he is trying to pawn himself off as a republican, but he is only a "pretender." All the power he gets in politics or otherwise is through barter and trade. He has no use for the "old soldier." He seems to make it a point, when any of them are seeking or have positions, to dethrone them. It was the old soldiers who went to front to fight, bleed and die, so make it possible for us to have such a glorious republic--the envy of the world--and to hold sacred the rights which this man Glazier tramples under his feet. Such a man as this ought to be taught a lesson, and be given to understand that we are living under the "Stars and Stripes," and the best way to teach him this lesson is to vote against him at the coming election.

Yours for the masses,

William Bacon,

Republican Supervisor, Town of Sylvan, Washtenaw County--the home of the F. P. Glazier.