Adrian Press Items

We have not observed a change in the ownership of the Ann Arbor Times for a week uow. Still, we liae not kept very close watch of the daily papers, we admit. A deraocrat has no right to live over in Anu Arbor. One of theru was a tie with his republican corupetitor for alderman,and instead of knooking him in the head with a hatohet, he flipped pennies and oí course hewasn't "in it" with the representativo of McSkiuleyJ ism, and the republioan membership in the robber's roost is one greater for the term. Sinoe thé disoovery of the dead dogs in Huron Biver, the medical properties of the Ypsüanti mineral water have noticeably increased, and it will afford irnmediate relief to those repnblicans who argae that by reason uf the "free trade" Wilson bill, the couuty has gone to the demnitiou bow wows. Some one should send a barrel to the' editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, whose dogmatio utterances show the need of canine flavored mineral water. VVhat, if anything is to be done this year about the oity building site? The money is lying idle. - Ann Arbor Courier. Yes, the money and the lawyers and the railway track and newspaper men are all lying and there seems to be inore lying to the square rod in Ann Arbor than in any place in America outside of Lansing. It is said figures won t lie, bnt several have been seen lying around in the parks summer evenings. Even the sheep have been lying down there, about the wool clip. ■ A Manchester justice had before him, in his judicial capacity, a drunk whom he directed oonflned in the house of correction for six inonths. An Ypsilanti paper declares that the "jedge1' questioned the tippler as to where he got his liquor, and that the toper said, "youknow; you treated me and gave me a dollar with which to work for your election, and buy the drinks for tliat purpose." Then the jnstice made it six months, whereas by law he oouldn't esceed 90 days. So the man was released. No less than fourteen aspirants for the office of probate judge have arisen over in Washteuaw county among republicaus. They are positive their party will win, and they are going to scramble for all there is in sight and frorn this time, till the nominations are made, republicans won't beableto distinguish one another across the road, owing to the dust they raise in their efforts to get official honors. Unless a man is used to it, we can give them a pointer that it isn't safe to be fooling with Babbitt mettle, over in thatcounty. Some overburd ened taxpayer rises up in Ann Arbor, and inquires througb the Courier, what right the council had to vote $100 extra compensation to the city clerk. That chap should tinderstand the full, the perfect meaning of republicanisrn, and he is learuing it now, as he never learned it before. It means higher taxes, bigger salaries to offieros and lower wages to laborers. Drop your ballot in the republican slot, and watch the big hunk of tax budget you pull ont. That "taxpayer" has no business to open his mouth, if he voted the republican ticket this spring. The treasurer of Washtenaw oounty last week paid the state $81,939.70 for its share of the three miJlion tax of the republican state administation. This is about $25,000 more than usual. As the republican majority in the county was something like 1,000 last year, it costs the farmers about $25 a majority for republican success. Pingree, potatoes, protection, patriotism, prosperity, pomposity and McKinley, combined, won't put that money back into the pookets of the taxpayers, yet some of them over there will hop up on the top rail of the fenoe, flap their arms and hurrah for gold, and gobble for protection and gold standard, twin political thieves, the foundationj of republioanism.