The Right Man In The Right Place

In the present County Treasurer Suekey, the people of Washtenaw county have an officer, "tried and true," and they will "change no; the oíd one" for a new. From the moment that Paul G. Suekey, of Pittsfield, assumed the responsibilities of custodian of the county's funds, to the present time, not a doubt of lis integrity, not a question of his ability, not a murmur of dissatis"action has come from any quarter. Mr. Suekey is justly entitled to the )opularity he enjoys as a county official. In his system of doing ausiness there is combined promptn?ss, method and courtesy - qualifications that inspire confidence in business capacity, and good will from those who have affairs to transact. With the ability, integrity and probity displayed by Treasurer Suekey in handling the money of the taxpayers, there is no disposition on their part to go into the experiment business, and they will re-elect him, as they should, to the important trust he has administered so well, for nearly two years. The Argus congratulates the democracy of the county on having once chosen, as treasurer, a man of Mr. Sukey's administrative ability and on their 'firrn purpose to continue him sponsor for the county's exchequer for two years longer. The Daily Courier -of last Tuesday, in commMiting on the cut made by the supervisors in the allowance made for meals at the hotel de Brenner, pays the following deserved compliment to Washtenaw's popular and efficiënt sheriff: "The present sheriff is an honest and square dealing man. He has had no exorbitant bilis and has not been an expensive luxury tor the taxpayers. He should have been encouraged in well-doing instead of discouraged." This is all the more of a compliment because it comes from a pohtical opponent at the height of a political campaign. Mr. Brenner merits it, however, and the people of Washtenaw should remember his economy and square-dealing on election day and return him for two years more to the trust he has executed so well. The meanest thing the republicans have done during this campaign, was to start the small-pox in Manchester township, to keep the natives from turning out at the democratie meetings. It was a "snide" trick. True, they deny it, as they do everything else they are guilty of, and say the small-pox was brought from Detroit; but that doesn't cut any pie in this case, as the man who brought it was undoubtedly in the pay of the republican state central committee. Unquestionably the supervisors will be asked to pay the bilis caused by th Manchester small-pox; but the bilis should be forwarded to the g. o. p. state committee. They are the fele lows to settle the bilis. James Clough, of Lodi, sold his wool last June to a traveling buyer for eleven cents a pound. Recently he journeyed to Clinton to sell some washed tags which he could not dispose of last June. At the Clinton woolen milis he was offered fifteen cents for the tags. - Asked if they would not give more in trade, they replied he could take cash or goods as he chose. He took the woolen cloth, as it was needed in the family. He was surprised again to find the price of the woolen cloth largely reduced. Mr. Clough is convinced that democratie tariff legislation has been advantageous to him at least. Now let the calamity howler trot out his Engüsh bogie. Hon. Edwin F. Uhl is proving a very popular man in his canvass for United States senator. His meetings at Detroit, Muskegon, Ludington, Manistee and Bay City were immense affairs and very enthusiastic. Mr. Uhl is not only personally popular, able and clean, but he stands for a popular idea, the election of senators by popular vote. VVhile this may not be accomplished directly, it can be in substance, and when this is done, the senate will have to respond to the commands of the people with greater promptness than at present. Kesides, the democrats saved to the treasury the $13,000,000 annuall.y paid the cane growers of Louisiana.- Argus. That's it; tax the people forty millions to save the thiiteen, and the Argus calis that good democratie finance. We cali it saving at the spigot and losing at the bung. - Ypsilantian. Had to have the revenue, didn't we, to meet the increased pension roll ? But sugar is goüig down and wool up, and the democrats have put monopoly's eye out for seveneights of the robbery by the trust. It always makes a republican mad to see a trust "busted." Mike O'Hara, of Saline, "flopped" because wool would be worthless under the Wilson bill. He said that the owner of 2,500 sheep could be arrested as a vagrant. Mike flopped at the wrong t time. An Adrián man, by mistake, snatched his child out of its crib by the heeis, because he didn't notice which was the head of the crib. The wife turned it around, but the same mistake happened again. " it! " roared the Adrianite, "I'm at the wrong end of this young 'un every time." McKinley has gone to Louisiana to bargain with the cane growers for the deliverance of their vote to the republican party. Their price is two cents a pound on every pound of sugar they produce. He goes with full authority to close the deal. Had the sugar bounty not been repealed, it would have cost the people this year 23,000,000. This is the price McKinley will pay, (using the people's money) the Louisianians for helping him break into the White House. Vote for Andrew T. Hughes for register of deeds. He is honest, popular and competent. Having served one term, he is familiar with the duties of the office and conducts the same in a business-like way. He is good natured, level-headed and obliging. He should and will receive the generous support of the voters of the county - sufficiently generous to land him, with a good margin to spare, in the southwest corner office in the court house, for two years more. Now concern'ing Barkworth and Bennett, of Jackson, the Adrián Telegram says: "Either one of the two B's represents a war horse single, but when the two are harnessed together, they combine a team that "razzle - dazzles" the republican wigwams. They will be here again today, so watch for a hot 'grounder' with a doublé back action 'curve.' " Every Scandinavian newspaper in Minn sota, with a single exception, has bolted the candidacy of Knute Nelson for governor. They allege that he is the tooi of the railroad corporations. A great many republicans are tarred with the same stick. It is said that our own John T. Rich has a powerful leaning in that direction. The democrats say that it was the McKinley bill that brought on the hard times, but that is not so. - Gen. Spaulding. Then why, in the name of McKinley's tin god, are the repubücan leaders, headed by Tom Reed, lambasting the McKinley tariff Iaw. General, wake up! Sugar constantly tends downward and the sugar trust tends to bust. The treasury receives $40,000,000 in revenue in place of the $40,000,000 given the trust and planters by McKinley, and there is no extra cost o thepeople. Doyou"moind" that novv. Mr. Courier? The Argus desires to notify Gen. Spalding that whenever he tries to secure votes by resurrecting the ghost of sectional prejudice, he will lose instead of getting them. The sooner the general comes off that perch the better for his chances. The present tariff bill is a foundling whose parentage none will admit. - Gen. Spalding. The republican tariff breeders would to high heaven they could successfully disown the dead brat called the McKinley tariff Iaw. 1 " ■ Really, Mr. Barkworth is a very pleasant speaker, and a gentleman. Personally, he is all right, but yoked up with the democrat party the combination is sirnply grotesque. - Ypsilantian. Take the witness. A brass foundry has been started at Tecumseh, and can now furnish brazen throats for the McKinleyites who are bellowing that the Wilson act will ruin the manufacturing industries. The fellow who all the fall yelled "Democratie hard times" is now unable to find himself. Like the Irishman's tree-toad, he "was nothing at all; simply a noise." The flopper who went over because he saw a straw in the republican eider barrel, now feels in his stomach that he has sucked a great deal of wind. The Y. W. C. A. of this city held a "chestnut" social Wednesday evening. Republican "chestnuts" about free trade ruin were prohibited. The Plymouth air-rifle shops, recently burned, will be rebuilt. How can the company afford to, since the Wilson bill is killing all the faetones? The bodies of the fruit prophet and the republican calamity-yelper will make pretty fair compost. Nothing was ever made wholly in vain. To the man who started the report that a flock of ewe sheep sold recently in Ohio for 15 cents a head, the Argus answers, "Ewe lie!" The wail of the political calamity howler is beingdrownedjbythe din of reviving industry. - Oakland County Post. The, calamity howler begins to see that he made a mistake in not cutting his throat three months ago. In assailing Hon. S. O. Fisher, Tim Tarsney kicked a hat with a stone under it. He is "a bruised Reed." Dr. Boone, of the State Normal, i was in the city, Tuesday. Brown has "done" Reed and Reed is "done bmwn." The protection piper is called upon to make an assignment. Advice to democrats - "Use but one X on your ballot."