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Calls It Machine Made Harmony

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
September
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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Another Washtenaw republican politician has been talking in Detroit and it is safe to say that Senator Glazier would give a new hat to know who he is. The following appeared Saturday evening In the political column of the Detroit News:

"It is curious to see how the speculations of outsiders as to the republican situation in Washtenaw county miss the real point," said a Washtenaw politician to The News. "The wonderful brand of harmony, claimed to be evidenced by the easy way in which Glazier scooped the county committee chairmanship into his net at the secretly called Ypsilanti meeting, is strictly machine-made and for public consumption only.  It must be remembered that this county committee was made up by Judson before the Wednesday Wedemeyer-Green revolt, and consists, in part, of men who are after something, regardless of who is the dispenser of office. There is Creech, of Ypsilanti, who, when the famous revolt occurred, loudly proclaimed his unfaltering allegiance to Judson, and vigorously denounced Wedemeyer and Green as ungrateful, yet who today is equally zealous for Glazier- perhaps he may get to be postmaster at Ypsilanti. Then there is Eugene Helber, of Ann Arbor. who, to show how very harmonious Washtenaw has become, was again pul on the county committee. Wedemeyer and Green, who managed the campaign several years when Helber sudden!y became a republican, can, it is said. tell what the support of Helber's paper cost at advertising rates. But since Congressman Smith broke his pledge to make Helber postmaster of Ann Arbor, Helber has poured vitriol upon Smith, Judson, Wedemeyer, Green, Glazier and Bliss. and in the last campaign openly supported the democratic ticket - but now he is a Glazier republican. 

The truth is that Glazier has no more hope of becoming the real leader of Washtenaw republicans than has Mayor Maybury. The expressed sentiment is that Washtenaw wants no more bossism. The very stealth by which Glazier secured the chairmanship of the county committee, shows that his methods are the same as Judson's, but he has not Judson's influence with higher-up republicans, and so no one fears Glazier.

"About the only thing that has been said so far about Washtenaw politics that is true is that Glazier will probably get the solid Washtenaw delegation for state treasurer. But, mark you, he will not get it because he controls Washtenaw republicans - rather the exact contrary. It will be remembered that Glazier failed to carry Washtenaw when he ran for state senator, and was pulled through only by Townsend's lift to the ticket in Jackson. Now, see what Glazier has done since then. He has alienated the Judson following, except for a few who want an office and will take it from anyone. He has angered the antis beyond hope by voting against primary election reform. Now, party precedent demands that he be renominated for state senator, but everyone knows he couldn't poll a corporate guard of votes in the district. Wherefore, republicans of all factions unite in regarding his state treasurership ambition as providential, as it will get him out of county politics and give them a chance to nominate a candidate for state senator who has a prospect of being elected, and who will truly represent his constituents."