Register tomorrow. In the fourth ward Mr...

Register tomorrow. In the fourth ward Mr. Henry J. Brown is sure of election, being on three tickets. Mr. Brown will make an excellent alderman. It is not often that so capable a man as Mr. F. A. Wilson, of the sixth ward, will consent to run for aldermen and he should run far ahead of his ticket. Mr. David F. Allmendinger, of the Ann Arbor Organ Co., will be the next alderman from the second, Aid. Herz having declined after being renominated. He has been a good man for the city and will serve it well on the council. The republicans are making desperate efforts to capture the board of supervisors this year. They have had men riding the county for this purpose. Every democrat should be awake to this fact and see that the democratie vote is out. - The woman suffragists won a great victory recently in the Massachusetts house of representatives when the bilí granting municipal suffrage to women by the large vote of 110 to 94 was passed. It is nowthought that the measure will pass the senand receive the sanction of the governor. In the fifth ward Mr. Walter Taylor should be re-elected alderman by a big majority. He is one of the most valvable men on the council, and for the past year has been chairman of the finance committee, where he has kept an eas;le eye on all bilis. The fifth ward could not return a better man to the council. Mr. William W. Watts, the democratie nominee for president of the council has proven an excellent parliamentarian during his year in the council. He possesses good judgment and deserves the vote of not only every democrat but of every civil service reformer who beHeves in leaving well enough alone. His majority should be a good one. The Municipal club by its nomination last night, showed what it is. In all the wards excepting the second, the alderman whose name is on the republican ticket7 was endorsed, although in sorne wards the democratie candidates are notably their superior. The club is simply an annex used for the two-fold purpose of dictating nominations to the republicans and of deluding a few democrats into voting the republican ticket. In the first ward the democrats should elect Ross Granger, alderman. Mr. Granger was born and reared here. He has always been a clean straightforward man. He is a competent man and has the interest of the city at heart. Mr. Bodmer his opponent is a recent arrival in the city and not as yet acquainted with it. With the proper kind of support Mr. Granger will be the next alderman from the first. I Michigan has passed the fiftyseventh milestone of her statehood, and to the present republican state administration, by the misfeasance of its officials, belongs the credit for the worst disgrace and the foulest stain ever placed upon her fair name in all these years. The people should see to it this fall that the party whose representative men are so ready to betray official trusts and bring disgrace upon the state is relegated to the rear. Last week the Lansing Journal contained a very bitter criticism of Congressman Whiting, and it is unnecessary to state that the attack on the very able representative of the seventh is as unnecessary as it is untrue. Mr. Rowley may have some personal grievance to right, but it hardly strikes the average democrat as good politics, or good sense, to publicly denounce a congressman as an enemy of democracy, because he dare have a little word of his own. - Adrián Press. If Mr. Stearns had only considered matters in this same light before he recently wrote a column editorial "righting a personal grievance" against a congressman, the editorial wouldn't have been written and the pot would not have called the kettle black. The democrats nominated an excellent city ticket last evening. Mr. Warren E. Walker the nominee for mayor has lived in this city for over thirty years. No man can say aught against his high personal character or unimpeachable integrity. He attended the Ann Arbor High School and graduated in the University. He was a good soldier during the war being a mernber of the Fourth Michigan Infantry. As a stone contractor he built many of the fine stone public buildings and residences of this city. He has served in the council and made an excellent city official. He is the friend of the laboring man, has the time to attend to the duties of mayor and will give the city a good administration. The exörcise of irresponsible pow er, by whatever means, is tyranny and shou'ld not be tolerated. The [ power which men irresponsibly ex ercise for their private ends over 1 indi viduals and communities through : superior wealth is essentially tyran1 nous and is inconsistent with democratie principie, and as offensive to self-respecting men as any form of political tyranny that was ever endured. As political equality is the remedy for political tyranny, so is economie equality the only way of putting an end to the economie tyranny exercised by the few over the many through the superiority of wealth. The industrial system of a nation, like its political system, should be a government of the peopie, by the people, for the people. Until economie equality shall give a basis to political equality, the latter is but a sham. - Edward Bellamy. The clab of millionaires, knovvn as thé United State Senate, has shown conclusively by it? idea of reform as applie.d to the tariff that itself is in great need of reform. The senate is probably the worst feature of our scheme of government and its contaminating and degenerating influence permeates our whole body politie. lts seats are purchased of venal legislatures whose members have been chosen, not to serve the irtterests of the people of the various states, but for the purpose of voting for the man for the United States Senate, whose money made the nomination anc election of the meraber possible. In this way our caucuses, nominating conventions, and in turn the electorate itself is corrupted and our legislators instead of being selected for their ability and sterling worth as representatives of the people are too often the mere tools of the wealthy gentlemen who wish to sit in the United States Senate. Thus is an oligarchy of wealth set up ostensibly as the representative of the interests of the people of the states, but really as the guardián of their own herring interests. The senate should be abolished, or its members should be elected by the people. ♦ The death of the Hungarian patriot, Louis Kossuth, adds one more to the notable dead of the present year. He was a genuine patriot and the leader of a great moveinent having for its object, the freedom and uplifting of his country. His countrymen were almost unanimous for the revolution which he headed and were completely successful in their efforts up to the time an appeal was made by Austria to Russia for assistance. Russia sent forward an army of 140,000 men and although the patriot army struggled against great odds with a heroism worthy of a great cause, it was crushed and Austrian dominion re-established over bleeding Hungary. The movement was not without good results, however, as the spirit then engendered resulted ultimately in securing an amelioration of the hard conditions under which the people hád been forced to live. Kossuth afterward visited this country and was everywhere received with enthusiam, but was unable, of course, to obtain the assistance he desired. Returning to Europe he spent the long years of his retirement at Turin, where he died last Tuesday. Throughout all these years he has continued to be an object of interest and admiration to all nations. The Lineóla club held a banquet at Grand Rapids recently. General Byron M. Cutcheon, the noted historical writer upon the unconstitutionality of the Miner electoral law (?), represented the platform committee and reported a platform for the republican party in 1894, in which the following is a part: "We believe in the doctrine of protection. We firmly adhere to it, because we believe it gives the poor man a better chance, his children a better hope, and the country a grander future. "We favor enlarged reciprocity in trade with other nations. "Protection preserves what we already have; reciprocity should bring us what we have not.". Reciprocity is essentially free trade uader certáin cpnditions and by mutual concessions. Now, if protection does all that protectionists claim, for it, it is certain that reciprocity would knock out all these assumed benefits in all the branches of production and labor which are included in the reciprocity plan. Protection and reciprocity are antagonisms, irreconcilable. But to such illogical statements are protectionists compelled to resort; and the worst feature of the matter is the fact that there are so many that swallow such palpable tion rot.