The Rich juggernaut engineered by railro...

The Rich juggernaut engineered by railroad lawyer Geer, has ridden down all opposition. The track of the Rich machine is clear at the beginning, but derailment and disaster await the end of the run. The Ypsilantian has taken upon itself a job of mammoth proportions, i. e., curing the editor of the Argus of political blindness. Bro. Osband should remember that none are so blind as those who won't see. - Courier. True, and the spectacle of those two blind guides, the Ypsilantian and Courier, walking with locked arms and talking about the Argus' political blindness, is a re-enactment of that unfortunate exhibition of the blind leading the blind. Enough to draw tears from the statues on the court house! The Detroit Tribune serves notice that the only republicanism in Michigan is represented by the ticket to be named in Grand Rapids to-day. The machine has become so strong and arrogant that it claims to represent all the republicanism there is. The mandate has gone forth, bow down to the machine or you are out of the party. The election in November will teil whether or not the McMillan-Rich machine represents all there is of republicanism. "The republicanism of the present is the republicanism of Abraham Lincoln, enriched, broadened, strengthened." - Detroit Tribune. "Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." What more inane utterance than that taken from the republican mouthpiece of Michigan! The martyred Lincoln was one of our greatest men in our history, but his republicanism according to these latter day fellows, was stinted, narrow and weak. It had not been enriched by the contributions of corporations. It had not been broadened by the pressure of monopolists for protection. It had not been strengthened by the coerción of employees, or by the pulling the wool over the eyes of the people. Certainly it is possible to conceive how the modern republican of the Tribune stamp may have been deceived as to Abraham Lincoln's republicanism by the absence of these modern adjuncts of republicanism. So f ar has the party strayed from Lincoln, that if alive today, he would be one of those who have disavowed that party. In a convention packed by the claquers of the McMillan-Rich machine, John T. Rich will today be renominated for governor of Michigan. His nomination was obtained by the corporations, the office hold. ers and the desire of the would-be local leaders to stand in with the machine. From the first it could be seen that the machine would control. It is no wonder after the rough-shod methods used by the Rich managers that a large portion of the republicans of the state should feel that the wishes of the everyday yoters of the party were trampled upon. A big revolt may be looked for. Turner, of Lansing, in a loudly applauded speech last night, said, "We will not longer be dominated by the machine. We will appeal our case to the highest tribunal, the people. We will carry our cause to the highest tribunal on earth." Pingree absolutely refused to allow his name to be introduced in a convention dominated as this one is. Some interesting developments may be expected.