Still Pointing With Pride

The republican connty convention 1 this week by a rising vote mously adopted a resolution in which they stated that they "point with pride to the administraron of Hon. John T. Rich." We knew ' that the republicans of Washtenaw , were apt to follow their leaders through thick and thin, but we hard!y thought that their party subservency was so great as to lead them "to point with pride" to an administration, which has become a stench in the nostrils of decent and respectable citizens. They point with pride to an administration three of the members of which were obliged to retire from office under a cloud, having falsified the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box. They point with pride to Jochim, Hambitzer and Berry. They point with pride to Rich, who failed to move until he discovered that the democrats were ready to spring the trap which would involve these members of his official household. They point with pride to an admin. istration which has rolled up the highest state taxes in the history of Michigan. They point with pride to the members of an administration who have charged up doublé and triple personal expenses to the state. The republican party has come to be in a chronic attitude of "pointing with pride." It is all it can do. In its early history with its Lincolns, Sewards and Sumners, it had cause to point with pride, but in its latter days, when from its chronic habit of looking back, it has become, as it were, turned into a pillar of salt, its finger stands out immovable, still pointing with pride and every petty politician, no raatter what his deserts, wraps the toga of republicanism about him and gets in the direction of that salty finger and is pointed at with pride.