The Register consoles itself with saying...

The Register consoles itself with saying that the recent defeat was not so bad as it might have been. How bad would the Register have the republicans defeated? The prohibition vote in thiscounty seems to be on the decrease. It increased from 23 in 1876 to 617 for St. John in 1884. Since then it has been on the wane. From 617 in 1884, it got down to 543 in 1888 for Fisk. From 543 in 1888 it has fallen to 448 for Bidwell this year. To put it in other words, there are 95 less prohibition votes this year than four years ago, and 169 less than eight years ago. Most of these prohibitionists who have fallen away have gone to the Republican party. The Courier is game to the last. It lifts up its little voice this week to say " Hurrah for Harrison. ' ' But the Courier a little further on says that the whole trouble with the republican party is its lack of faith in the people. The Courier says : "The people do not know how to let well enough alone. They never had a better president than Harrison, and never will have. After all, it is the flappadoodle politician, of the 'you are a liar' sort, that appears to take with the majority. " The republican party never did trust the people. Neither did the oíd federal party, of which the republican party,is tbe lineal descendant. But the organs are not always so frank in telling the people that it does not trust them. The democratie party is the party of the people. It trusts the American people, and the people evidently trust it. The democratie vote in Washtenaw has shown a pretty steady increase, as the following table shows : 1836. Van Buren 1,636 1840. Van Buren 2jS7 1S44. Polk 255 1848. Cass 2,080 1852. Pierce 2,604 1856. Buchanan 2,883 1860. Douglas 3,630 1864. McClellan 3,836 1865. Seymour 4,496 1872. Greeley 3,029 1876. Tilden ; 5,11? jSSo. Hancock 4,957 1884. Cleveland 5,315 1888. Cleveland 5,482 1892. Cleveland 558 As will be seen there have been only three instances of a decrease in the democratie vote in the county, all on a light vote, in 1848, 1872 and 1880. The republican vote does not show a steady increase, but has been very fluctuating, as follows : 1856. Fremont -3,570 1860. Lincoln 4,286 1864. Lincoln 3,632 1868. Grant 4,463 1872. Grant 4,106 1876. Hayes 4,565 1880. Garfield 4,692 1884. Blaine 4,049 1888. Harrison 4,549 1892. Harrison 4,362 A glance at these tables will show that the republican vote in the county is only 76 more than it was in 1860, while the democratie vote is 1,878 larger than it was that year.