Prohibition County Convention

The Prohibition county convention met in the court house on Friday last. Quite a number of delegates were present. A. A. Crozier was made chairman and J. R. Bowdish, secretary. The committee on resolutions and order of business was J. B. Steere, O. R. L. Crozier, B. J. Conrad, Dr. F. H. Brown, and A. W. Angir. Dr. F. H. Brown, F. M. White, and J. S. Lethers were appointed tellers but had nothing to do but count the vote of the secretary. The followin were nominated for county officers the secretary casting the vote of th convention: Judge of Probate, Noal W . Cheever, of Ann Arbor; County Clerk, Cone C. Warner, of Lodi Sheriff, Joseph Doane, of Salem Register of Deeds, Romeyn P Chase, of Sylvan; Treasurer, Benja min J. Conrad, of Ann Arbor; Cor oners, Joseph Falk, of Vpsilanti and Charles Smart, of Augusta, Sur veyor, Arthur A. Crozier, of Am Arbor town. The prosecuting at torney and circuit court commis sioners were left with the commit tee. The resolutions reviewed with deep concern the inception of civi war as shown in the Homestead difficulties, declared the right to strike as a protest cannot be questioned, deprecated violence as unwise on the side of either capital or labor, condemned the unfair leaning of authority in favor of rich employers, and condemned theplacing of 7,000 state militia in the command of one of the employees of the railroads. In the representative conventions J. R. Bowish, of Ann Arbor, was named for representative from the first district and Benjamin F. Bailey, of Ypsilanti, for representative from the second district. The old county committee was re-elected.