Died with their boots on - Heinzmann, Po...

Died with their boots on - Heinzmann, Pond and their respective followers. The Platt machine and the bankers' barrel won in the New York republican state convention, and Levj P. Morton is the candidate for the governorship of the Empire state. Platt's republican state convention in New York ground out a plank denouncing the income tax. It is the first convention utterance against the tax. They declare that it is a tax on prosperity, and by inference give out the impression that if they are returned to power they will change all this and place a tax on adversity. The most abominable appetite for office we recall having been exeibited to the public, was that of Washtenaw republicans, who were desirous of being nominated for county offices. So distorted is their judgment they actually believe they can be elected. Desire warpeth judgment and serves a writ of ejectment on common sense. - Adrián Press. The Louisiana sugar planters, who deserted to the republicans because the democrats took away their government pap, acted wisely. All those who believe the taxing power of the nation should be used for the enrichment of the individual rather than for the needs of the treasury alone, should take themselves into the republican party. The democrats propose to make that sort of .thing odious. It was a miserable "skin game," attempted by the republicans at the late county convention. Four of the candidates - Rehfuss, Hauser, Heinzman, and Judson - were dealers in hides. Two of them- Hauser and Heinzman - were skinned on the fioor of the convention, and the hides of the other two will be nailed up on the gable end of defeat in November. Accerding to the Ypsilantian the annual consumption of sugar in this country is 4,343,209,000. On this amount the McKinley act gave the sugar trust one-half a cent a pound, or $21,716,045. Then it gave as a bounty to 600 sugar producers in Louisiana about $13,000,000 more. Here then is a total of $34,716,045 taken from the people in taxes never a dollar of which entered the treasury? fe ■ C. P. McKinstry, of YpsilantL, nominated by the republicans for register of deeds, is likely to have his hands ful], explaining his criticism of the home school board. There is danger that his candidacy in that quarter will coagúlate. The sharp fight between McKinstry and Cook, for the nomination, sprang up along this line and McKinstry's nomination was the result of a fight to a finish. The Ypsilantian, like all the other republican pharisees, cocks its monacled optie and stares flxedly at the sugar patch worn on the democratie tariff garment, and with hypocritical amazement cries, "just look at that!" It is distressed far more over that single patch than over the highly decorated condition of its own party garments, which, from the covering of the head to that which conceals its cloven hoof, are completely covered with trust natrhes. Gen. Spaulding appeared before the Washtenaw republican conven tion, last week, in the ridiculous role of pettifogger of his own virtues. "In my seventeen years as a bank-er," exclaimed the general in Pharisaic phrase, "I have never foreclosed a mortgage or sued a note, and if Tom Barkworth can show a record like that, let him do so." Gen. Spaulding has forgotten, or perhaps never read the admonition of the wise man: "Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth." If the general intends to run his campaign on the "I am more holy than thou" principie, he will find it the worst way of getting votes in Washtenaw county that he could have thought of, Oíd Saddlebags once found a big nugget of what appeared to be gold, and he tried to transport it through a country beset with thieves. Then there came upon him two sets of thieves and he concealed himself in a bush while the hordes fought with each other over the nugget till all were killed, when Saddlebags returned and carried it away, to discover that it was only Guatemala gold. Pond and Heinzman and their respective followers, thought they saw a genuine nugget, and :ought over it till all were killed on )oth sides, and then Rhefus came out of the bush and lugged it off. Poor fellow ! It was only Guatemala gold. The genuine nugget will be found in Suekey's office until two years from next January. "Mortallty now como drop a tear, For Mortal ity is here." An amendment to the constitution is to be voted on this fall, giving the inmates of the soldiers' home at Grand Rapids the right to vote there. It should be defeated. Why should these transiente be given a voice in the affairs of a city and county in which they have no interest. There would be as much justice in giving the students in the University the right to vote here. Circumstances might arise under which it would be possible for them to control the city, to the great detriment of its interests. Having no interests at stake, they would be, owing to their peculiar environment, too much under the control of the commandant and this would put a dangerous power in his hands. If it were proposed to give them the right to vote for state officials alone, íhere might be some reason in the proposition; but as t is the Argus believes the amendment very unjust and that it should be defeated Owing to the pressure of private business Ex.-Lt.-Gov. John Strong was unable to assume the duties of chairman of the democratie state central committee, and it becarae necessary to appoint some one else. Accordingly the committee met in Lansing last week and elected Elliott G. Stevenson, of Detroit, to the chairmanship, and he immediately accepted the trust. This means a red-hot campaign from start to finish. Mr. Stevenson is young and enthusiastic, and has energy enough for a dozen men. He possesses extraordinary executive ability and is a fine organizer. He will enfuse his own vigor and energy into the campaign, and with Spencer O. Fisher at the head of the ticket, the people of Michigan will witness such a campaign as is seldom put up. When they round up on election day there will be no luke-w.arm demo crats in the Peninsular state. They will to a man be ready to go to the polls and cast a vote that will have but one cross on it. Washtenaw this year, as in other years, will elect ademocraticcounty clerk. If the Argus believed otherwise, it would sincereiy regret tne failure of the republican convention to nominate Mr. George H. Pond, of the Courier, whose long and capable services in public positions of trust, requiring abi'.ity and care, eminently fit him for the office of county clerk. As to the nomination, however, the Argus fears that Bro. Pond was hoisted on his own petard. The Courier's persistent but uncandid assertions, for some weeks past, that Ann Arbor had all the offices, evidently caused the republican convention to believe that our brother was actually sincere; and it took him at his word and left him out in the co!d. It could not see that Bro. Pond was only joking. A devout oíd darkey once knelt by a stone wall and prayed: "O Lawd, I's nevah done nuffin wrong in my life; if I has, push de stone wall on me." A listener on the other side shoved over some rocks, which caused the good old man to jump to his feet with buiging eyes and exclaim: "O Lawd, can't a poor darkey say anything in joke, but yer must take it in airnest?"