Washtenaw To The Fore

A Candidate for State Treasurer the Latest

GLAZIER THE MAN

Who is Willing to Handle the State's Cash---Patriots Meet in Detroit

Washtenaw county probably has more state officeholders than any other county of Michigan, the group running up, it is said, to the neighborhood of half a century. It is rather difficult, therefore to drop into the metropolis on any day without finding some of these patriots working hard for the state around the corridors of the hotels. But such a gathering of the faithful as were there assembled Friday, according to the Free Press, is certainly calculated to breed suspicions of some unusual agitation of the political waters. But just what the good people are to look for must be judged from the following:

Washtenaw county politicians were numerous about the hotels yesterday. First, there was Oil Inspector Judson, who has just been given a six months' extension of his job. Some of "Silent Bill's" former co-workers were also about. They were Senator Glazier, V. W. Wedemeyer and Gen. Fred W. Green. Judson didn't wink at them. The oil inspector's former friends have been trying to pry him out of his place, but it is said that Judson has fixed things with his de jure successor, Charles L. Benjamin of Saginaw, so that he keeps at least the title of oil inspector as long as he pleases.

Glazier, Wedemeyer and Green had a conference, though they were not willing to say what it was about. As Glazier is a candidate for the next republican nomination for state treasurer, it is supposed that the Washtenaw men were quietly setting up a few pins in this county.

Another Washtenaw republican who was seen around the corridors was State Tax Commissioner Freeman, and he was accompanied by Commissioner Sayre, these two being the men whom Atty. Gen. Blair is complaining about for furnishing the railroads with affidavits to be used in the case of the railroad companies against the state. Harry E. Chase, of the attorney general's force, was also in Detroit, and it is supposed that the trouble over the affidavits had something to do with the presence of these officials in this city, especially as Freeman and Sayre called at the Michigan Central offices during the afternoon.

It is said that Attorney General Blair has not yet given up his fight against the two offending commissioners, and that he will try to offset the effect of their affidavits with testimony from Commisisoncrs Dust and McLaughlin, who refused to sign affidavits for the railroads.