Excise The Cancer

Last Thursday, pursuant to the order of Judge Person, a grand jury convened at Mason, for the purpose of investigating the charges of fraud in connection with the canvas on the constitutional amendments increasing the salaries of certain state officers. This is the first time in twenty-seven years that a grand jury has been called in Ingham county. The judge's charge to the jury was comprehensive and eminently fair. He said that the investigation rose above all party consideration, for political parties could not long exist, if fraud and violation of the election laws were allowed to go unrestrained. The jury which consists of twenone men is about evenly divided as to political affiliations, and is made up of intelligent farmers, business men and tradesmen. The representative character of the jury., the unswerving integrity of Judge Person, and the determination of Prosecutor Gardner to lócate the perpetrators of the flagrant frauds all point to a most searching investigation. The fair name of this State demands that the heinous crime of defeating the will of the people by falsifying election returns shall be stamped out in a manner that shall be a warning for all time. Let it be understood, once for all, that no assassin of the will of the people will be tolerated in Michigan.