The support of Senator Murphy, of New Yo...

The support of Senator Murphy, of New York, was secured for the tariff bill by making the duty on collars and cuffs practically prohibitory. The history of all protective legislation is the same. It is a purchase and a sale. It is to be hoped that the growing feeling in favor of the nomination of Lester H. Salsbury, of Adrián, for governor may prevail upon that gentleman to overeóme his reluctance to accept the nomination. His nomination would be one of the strongest that could be made. He is a fine man and a credit to his party. It he will accept the nomination, he can undoubtedly receive it. George Peabody Wetmore, of New York city, has been chosen by the Rhode Island legislature to a seatin the United States senate. He is the "rich" man who was charged with the purchase of enough of little Rhody's voters at the last state election to land him in the American house of lords. Four residents of New York now occupy seats in the senate as representatives of three different states. Chelsea is to be congratulated upon the appointment of George S. Laird as postmaster. Mr. Laird is a hustling young democrat and will make a very creditable postmaster. The postoffice will no longer be the republican headquarters of the western end of the county as it has been under Mrjudson's occupancy, which may account for some of the tears that have been shed over his removal. Formerly the people were ata loss to understand what induced men of wealth to spend so much money in securing a seat in the United States senate. There is no mystery about it any longer, however. It has come to be well understood that they have opportunities for realizing on their investment, opportunities for recouping themselves not possessed by the members of other rich men's clubs. For example notice the pecuniary gains of senators resulting from juggling with the sugar schedule. The bolt in the republican party against the machine is assuming formidable proportions. A wing of the party, which, while containing much of the brains of the party, has been excluded from its right to a voice in the management of party affairs, seems to think that the present is the proper time to assert itself, while the party is smarting under the disgrace brought upon it and the state by the present administration. They are after the political scalp of Gov. Rich and at present they seem in a fair way to get it. The end is not yet. The Indiana miners who quit work, not because they were dissatisfied with the wages received by them, but at the command of the union and to help out their fellows in other districts, will not be cially pleased with the results of their undertaking. They were included in the general settlement effected and the schedule of prices agreed upon makes a reduction of io cents a ton on the wages they received before the strike. They are also out the amount of wages they would have earned during the weeks the strike was in progress. One such "victory" will probably satisfy them. Senator Frye in a speech in the senate Wednesday in opposition to free wool declared that Australia could produce all the wool needed to supp'ly the entire market of the United States and lay it down in New York for five cents a pound. Now if Australia possesses natural advantages of climate, soil and other requisites to enable her to do what the senator claims, it is as foolish and wasteful for the United States to grow wool to supply our markets as it would be for Michigan to undertake to grow all the oranges consumed by her people. . The mob which recently assembied in Port Hurón and by a great stretch of "senatorial courtesy" was called a democratie county convention was a most disgraceful affair. The tactics of those who had evidently determined before hand, no matter what the circumstances might be, to run the convention, were the tactics of roughs and bullies. That the friends of any candidate should deem it necessary to resort to such high handed proceedings in the candidate's home convention in order to control it in his interest cannot fail to convey to outsiders the idea of impotent weakness. If his neighbors and friends are so bitterly divided what can he expect from the state at large? Viewed in any light whatsoever it would not seem to be an auspieious beginning for Mr. Whiting's candidacy for the gubernational nomination. There was a decidedly sensational happening, not down on the program, at the commencement exercises of the Nebraska state university, Wednesday. The oration was delivered by Prof. George Herrón, of Iowa college. He took for his subject "A New Political Vision," and proceeded, it isallegedinshocking bad taste, to lay down some extreme populistic and socialistic doctrines. He is reported to have delivered himself of a most caustic criticism of congress and the assertion that there was no justice in the courts, and that anarchy had its origin there. He declared that we are a fallen nation, and said in substance that in order to survive the nation must needs repent and adopt his ideal socialistic state. The sensation resulting from this strange oration had not had time to settle down before Governor Crounse, in presenting the diplomas to the class, took occasion to repudíate in strong language the utterances of the orator. He praised our institutions and told the students not to believe the professor. A sensation followed the close of the governor's address. The last democratie national convention in a perfectly open and fair marmer and by a large majority repudiated the tariff "straddle," proposed by its platform comniittee, and came out boldly in favor of a tariff for revenue only. The party challenged the support of the people on the pledge that if intrusted with power, tarff robbery should be abrogated and that the interests of the people as against monopoly and trusts should be protected. On these pledges the conftdence of the people was won. Their support was given to the democracy in the belief that they were decreeing the doom of protection and voting in favor of taxation for public revenue instead of for private interests. The country accordingly followed up its former response to the McKinley act and ] placed the agents of democracy in control in both houses of congress and the presidency. The victory was overwhelming and furnished proof as conclusive as it is possible to get from an electoral contest that protection in any forra is not wanted by the people. With the turning over of all departments of the government to the democracy, the opportunity of years was at hand and public expectation ran high. The circumstances attending the introduction of the Wilson bill caused some impatience and there was some disappointment that it did not go far enough, but the subsequent progress oP the measure in the house, however, together with the elimination of the sugar bounty and the extensión of the free list mitigated this feeling somewhat. But when the bill reached the senate and the country learned after weary weeks of waiting that the tariff schedules were, after all, to be revised by and in the interest of the trusts, as was the case with the McKinley act, the impatience and disappointment of the people gave place to righteous indignation. That any democrat who stood pledged to the making of a tariff in the interest of public revenue, and for the benefit of the consumer instead of for the benefit of private interests, should prove recreant to the people in such a public exigency is deserving of unmeasured condemnation. The coterie of democratie conservatives who have disobeyed the party's commands and so basely deserted the people's cause, and, it is charged and believed for pecuniary gain, must be rebuked and turned down. There is no place in this country for two protectionist parties and those democratie protectionists who are responsible for the present discredited condition of the party must be disowned and driven out or the mission of the democracy would seem to be ended. The change of party majorities in recent elections is an index of the popular feeling against these traitors. The party must disown these corcorruptionists, therefore, and let it be understood that there is to be no compromise on the pledges made the people, if it would escape 1 lar rebuke for its shortcomings. The pledges to the people must be redeemed, and it should be understood once for all that there can be no sale of legislation by any who would retain their standing in the democratie party.