He Will Cut A Figure

The republican county convention to choose delegates to the state contion will be held in the court house, next Tuesday, when it will be determined whether the "horny handed" granger of Elba or thepotato farmer of Detroit is the favorite withWashtenaw county republicans. Bliss, of Saginaw, does not appear to be immensely "in it" in this community. The literary aestheticism of Atíiens and its Ypsilanti suburb are very much "stuck" on the elegant diction and faultless grammatical construction of the sentences of Detroit's own and only Pingree, who fortunately struck the educational firmament on the heels of the waned star of Texas- Tom Ochiltree - and raised the fallen standard of pure English, to where she belongs. True, there are sonie members of the republican party who, while admiring the potato farmer's scholasticism, repudíate him as a mouthy meddling marplot in matters out of his proper concern; a pestiferous political parvenue and spurious interloper, and a guerilla in the councils of the party, and they exclaim as did King Henry of Beckett: "Will no one deliver us from this low-born priest?" But the tragedy of Beckett will never be repeated in the case of Pingree, without its bloody revenge. Pingree is not without admirers and strong backers. The element that is with him is a positive forcé. His great grand stand play in the affairs of the strike has had its effect, and it will be feit in the conventions and probably in that of the Washtenaw republicans next Tuesday. If Hazen Potato Pingree is slaughtered in the temple of his party, his ghost, like that of Hamlet, will be heard, beneath the stage, calling for revenge and muttering to his followers, "Swear!" The republicans are in a bad plight. They cannot afford to load up with Pingree; neither can they afford to unload him.