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Republican Harmony

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Argus has repeatedly called attention to the dense harmony in the Republican ranks. To prove it it has but to quote from the leading editorials in the Courier and Register this week. When they are read carefully we are sure there will be no further doubt coneerning the harmony. The Courier says: The Courier believes today as it did two years ago, that Mr. Rich is the most available candidate the party has for the office of governor. It believes that Mr. Rich's nomination is equivalent to an election. It believes that the nomination of no other Republican is equivalent to an election. If any other candidate shall be successful in the convention, however, this paper will give that man cordial and hearty support, but the history of 1890 ought to be a warning to the party. Two years ago there were considerable many kickers in the Republican ranks. There were men who fought a portion of the Republican ticket openly and boldly, and some of these men now appear on the scène advising the Republican party what to do. Are such men safe guides for the party to follow? The Register says: The Register claimed, and still claims, that the same men who two years ago put Mr. Turner to the front are now straining every muscle to have Mr. Rich nominated, and what is worse they are using the very same tactics that they used to make Mr. Turner a candidate. This was shown very clearly in the manipulation of the convention at Port Hurón only a few days ago. There can be no doubt that had not satellites of Millionaire McMillan manipulated the whole business from the primaries to the electing of delegates to the state convention, an entirely different set of delegates would have been elected to go to Saginaw. It is just this sort of thing that has placed the party out of power in this state and we have reason to fear that a similar course on the part of those who are heading the Rich boom will result in a similar defeat this f all. The Republican party in this state is not in the habit of wearing a collar closely buckled around its throat by a few autocratie leaders. The party had enough of this two years ago, but it seems those who managed the affairs of the Republican party have not come to a full realizing sense that the people should, without undue influence, be allowed to choose their candidates for public office, and are attempting by the same tactics, though in a slightly varied form, still to have things all their own way. The candidacy of Mr. Pingree represents a spontaneous revolt against this sort of thing and as such it has the hearty sympathy of the thinking element in the party in all parts of the state and will, we are confident, result in making Mr. Pingree our next candidate for e;overnor unless this better element in the party is overwhelmed by the shrewd manipulations of a few political wire pullers in Detroit. The Argus agrees with both its esteemed contempories in this far: It believes with the Courier that "the nomination of no other Republican (than Mr. Rich) is equivalent to an election," and it agrees with the Register that the course of the Rich men like that of the Turner men two years ago "will result in a similar defeat this fall." The interesting question is which will come out on top in the Washtenaw Republican Convention, the Courier or the Register?

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Ann Arbor Argus
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