Wages in protected Germany are lower tha...

Wages in protected Germany are lower than wages in free trade England. How do the Republican organs explain that? The Courier compares wages of protection countries in Europe with wages in this country and raises the cry, see what protection does for workingmen. The bloody graves at Homestead and Carnegie's castle in Scotland show what protection does for both laboring men and capitalists. This is not a mud slinging campaign. Yet the Register is so very hard up for argument that it turns to the old and worn out charge of '84 that Grover Cleveland isahangman. The new editor of the Register should be reminded that the people of Ann Arbor of both parties will resent insults to Cleveland. If he can't find anything better to write than such insulting editorial squibs, he would do well to hire a small boy to write his editorials. The Register, which has long playee! second fiddle to the Courier in Republican campaigns in this county, again comes up to the rack in the same oíd role. Two weeks ago it feit confident of the nomination [of Mr. Pingree unless "the better element in the party is overwhelmed by the shrewd manipulations of a few political wirepullers." Well, Pingree was knocked out in just the way the Register feared he might be. Still this week the Register comes to the support of "the machine which beat the better element in the party" and proposes to do its little towards helping the Courier in the campaign. The Courier has recently been heaping opprobrium upon the Pingree supporters, but when the Courier's statement made against the Pingree men, that there were still a few Judas Iscariots left, was applied to the 15,000 of Rich supporters of two yearsago whoopposed Turner, the Courier comes to the defence of the Rich men with the remark, "It is very doubtful, however, if a man may be termed a Judas by exercising his right to vote as he pleases at the polls, no matter what party he may belong to. That is a right that belongs to every citizen of this nation." That is a very true statement, dear Courier, but it applies as well to the Pingree men who see fit to resent the shameless machine methods which have nominated Rich. The nomination of Mr. Rich for governor was a foregone conclusión from the time Senator McMillan, the chairman of the Republican state committee came out for his nomination. From thatmoment all the power of the federal machine in the state was used to bring about his nomination. The power of the machine lies in the fact that it has its lieutenants in every nook and corner of the state. It works intelligently, it works unitedly and it takes a wholesale revolt of the people to overthrow it. The mere fact that machine methods may be distasteful to the people will not work its overthrow, because the people of the whole state rarely all move towards the accomphshment of their desires at once. The machine does. It presents a solid front. It charges those who do not f all in with its behests with being recreant to the party. Jf Rich should be elected, the Republican machine in this state will be perpetuated. We will begin to believe that a once famous remarle that anybody can carry Michigan after all is true. The machine claims that Rich is strong because he is a farmer. A railroad farmer, a political farmer, he may be, but not one of the kind who earns his bread at the plow. We don't believe that Rich will hoodwink the farmers of the state into putting him into office on any such plea as that. The mere fact that the chief railroad officials of the state were as active as the federal officeholders in securing Rich's nomination would indícate what kind of a farmer he is. So far the presidential campaie;n has been in favor of the Democrats. The office holders in the Republican convention succeeded in nominating Harrison. At once the president sought to make it an office holders campaign. He notified Clarkson that he didn't want him for chairman of the national committee. nd although two-thirds of the ReDublican committee wanted Clarkson, he withdrew, because as he stated Harrison didn't want him and ïad told him so. Harrison did want Campbell and Campbell was elected. At once the farmers of the country who had experienced the tactics of the Big Four while striving to pass legislation on the meat question, took umbrage at Campbell's appointment, as Campbell was Armour's chief attorney and lobbyist. So Campbell resigned and after the position had been offered by the president to fourteen or fifteen men, who declined, Carter, a Republican office holder was prevailed upon to take the place. President Harrison's appointment of John W. Foster, of Indiana, as secretary of state has been added testimony that the Blaine men need expect no favors at the hands of the administration. Foster is the man whose insults to Blaine in the presence of the Canadian commissioners, done manifestly with the approval of Harrison, caused Blaine's sudden resiVnarinn. Then Carnegie, the chief of the protected industries and a leading protectionist writer, sought to reduce the wages of his men and to enforce the reduction by a forcé of armed Pinkertons and the bloody scènes at Homestead occurred, giving a gigantic object lesson that protection does not raise wages. The nomination of Reid, who for a dozen years run a non-union office, and had been inimical to labor interests in various ways has proved very distasteful to the laboring men and it is doubtful if the big barrel he will open for the campaign will make up for the loss he will occasion the ticket by his personal unpopularity. The nomination of Cleveland, in the face of the opposition of the politicians, has been most enthusiastically received by the people and many Republicans have announced their intention of voting for him. ' In Michigan, the federal office holders got control of the Republican caucases and after a bitter fight in nearly every county in the state nominated Rich for governor. By this time the Republicans must have madeup their minds to let the office holders run the campaign for them if they want to.