Show STAIR IN POLITICS I VERSATILE BUSINESS MAN ENTERS EN-TERS NEW FIELD Is Theatrical Magnate Financier and PublisherLikely to Be Michigan Michi-gan DelegateatLarge toG to-G 0 P Convention Now York Wanted The transformation transfor-mation of a versatile business man Into a Republican leader Apply I to Edward Ed-ward D Stair of New York and Detroit De-troit newspaper proprietor theatrical magnate and financier This might well be the form of announcement an-nouncement adopted by Mr Stair If ho desired to be entirely frank In tho publication of his aspirations to bo the delegateatlarge from Michigan to tho Republican national convention Now 18 years old Mr Stair has been steadily stead-ily progressing in tho business world since he was 13 when he began his fight for the attainment of his ambitions ambi-tions In finance and business he has reached the goal at which ho aimed But It now appears that there Is something some-thing more which Is essential to Mr Stairs happiness and to the real quintessence of bliss The Indefatigable little political bee has recently got extremely busy with the newspaper threatrical financial man The bee has stung him once to common knowledge making Mr Stair desirous of applying salvo In the shape of the position of delegateatlarge Tho bee has also begun to sting him by report re-port a second time If the bee completes com-pletes the last bit of work Mr Stair will be seeking additional salve In tho guise of even higher political honors This at any rate Is the gossip among men who announce that they are familiar fa-miliar with the topic they aro discussing dis-cussing If Mr Stair succeeds as well fn politics poli-tics as he has In business he certainly k h e a Il eSrAIR will let tho country know that another live one has come to the front The business versatility and success of tho New YorkerDetrolter whose business headquarters are in New York and residence res-idence In Detroit are shown by the fact that he Is A newspaper man being a large owner of the Detroit Free Press and of the Detroit Journal A theatrical man the firm of Stair Havllu controlling 158 theaters In the United States and Canada A financial man being director of several banks and trust companies a ida id-a heavy dealer in real estate And now ho wants to shine with equal brilliancy In a fourth firmament and become a political atar of the first magnitude Ho is a comparatively newcomer In the New York business world having moved his headquarters hero from Detroit De-troit only in 1900 It is in Michigan that ho has spent most of his life and it was In Michigan that he laid the basis of his fortune Mr Stair started his life struggle with newspaper ambitions only Through nil his success in tho the atlcal field he has been true to his first love nnd has always been connected with newspapers In one capacity or another Ho Is moreover moro piom Inent as a theatrical magnate than asa as-a newspaper proprietor His firm owns all or part of every popular priced theater In the United States Every I theater Mr Stair has bought according to his admirers has paid from the moment he took contiol of it as though there were magic in his touch In the theatrical world ho is considered a marvel for another reason rea-son that Is because with all manner of temptations to take a piomlnent part In tho gayeties of great white way ho leads a most abstemious lifeTime life-Time sparkle of champagne Is not for him Not oven does ho smoko Neither Neith-er does he chew Whether ho swears or not his biographers do not state MoreucI Mich was Mr Stairs birthplace birth-place and It was hero at tho ago of 17 that he first became a newspaper proprietor having established The Moroncl Review Later ho published tho Midland Review and tho Maplo Rapids Dispatch Then at 21 ho turned westward Ho edited the Davenport Daven-port Dispatch and then tho Coopers town Courier Then ho turned back again to Michigan Thoie he bought I tho Livingston Republican and made lLa power In state politics Afterward ho went into the theatrical game at which he has thus for held a winning hand The present announcement of the Stair candidacy for tho post of dole gutontlorgo follows tho withdrawal I from the race of Assistant Secretary of tho Navy Truman II Newberry |