While, as will be noted, the Argus will ...

While, as will be noted, the Argus will give the democratie national ticket a good support, it wisbes now to say that it has no word of excuse to ofler for those Michigan demoerats who sought to override the will of a legally oalled and lawfully conducted state oonvention and secure the seating of four delegates who had no credentials and whose names were nerer brought bef ore the state oonvention for ratification or rejection. There was not the slightest reason for this rank invasión of state rights. The only precedent for it in our recolleotion, occurred in the republican county convention last spring, when half of the Glazier delegation from Sylvan were unseated and replaced by half of a delegation which was elected in a caucus so secret that the voters of the town had not heard of it. In the Sylvan case, the Glazier delegation had been elected by a legally called caucus attended by 150 voters. Tlie contesting delegation had been gotten up by a coterie of uot over a dozen. This case ouly furnishes a preöedent of the Chicago-Michigan oase in its rank injustice. Byron and Sewall are the democratie norninees for president and vice president. Nebraska and Maine have the honor of furnishing the standard beargïb. Excellent men they are personally, and of stroug calibre. They stand squarely for free Bilver and unlike McKinley, who has been placed on a gold platform, they are not averse to letting the world know where they stand. They are men of convictions. It is better to have conviotions even though wrong ones, than not to have any at all. As is well known, the Argus bas not been favorably inclined to free silver, bnt it admires manhood and it prefers a square man, even thongh the platform on which he stands does not Eqnare with the Argns' idea of what it onght to be, to one who allows himself to be placed npon a platform without any volition of his own. We oannot afford to have the presidents of this country ruled by kitchen cabinets, or bidden bosses. Bryan is oue of the foremost orators of the country. Those who heard hirn speak in this city fonr years ago will bear testirnony to the trnth of this remark. His oratory before the convention nominated him. He is a clean, straightforward man of great personal magnetism ; one of the common people, tall and well proportioned, he presente a good appearance upon a platform and the earnestness of his marnier and the frankuess of his countenauce iuipress bis hearers. If Bryan and McKinley conld be heard in joint debate in the varions states, there can be no qnestion iu the minds of those who bave seen and heard both men, but what Bryan wonld be triumphantly elected president. Hon. Frank H. Hurd, ex-congiessman, lawyer and oje of the most prominent democrat in Ohio, died at his apartments iu the Boody Honse, Toledo, Friday morning, after an illness of flve days. The immediate canse of his death was apoplexy. Mr. Hnrd was bom in Mount Vernon, O., in 1841, and was in lav and politics all his life. Congressman Spalding is out for " safe bi-ruetallism. ' ' Can he get along nntil election time without taking his stand on eithör the St. Louis or the Chicago platform? Why was it that the republican wheelhorses were so averse to serving on the committees at the republican ccranty convention Tuesday? The republicans of Washtenaw declare for gold for president and silver for governor. That's a straddle for yon. ______ Frankfort is the most oharming resort in Northern Michigau. The days are pleasant there, the nights cool. Ten day excursión via Ann Arbor R,. B., Wednesday, July 39.