Our Strong Ticket

On the lOth day of September the dercocrats and silver men of jWashtenaw county met in convention and placed in nomination a county ticket i which has every element of political strength and is wprthy of the support of every elector who desires to see the affairs of the county placed in the hands of honest, intelligent, clean men. They are men who stand high in the estimation of their neighbors, and wbo have the conñdence and esteem of the communities in v!úchthey ïve. AU of theiii have lilled various psitions of public trust with credit. ■Vs private citizens their record is bove reproach. The citizens of Wash;enav couuty who desire an econom cal and efficiënt admüiistration of public affairs vvill make no mistake when they choose them to flll the sevral offices to which they aspire. It is with a feeling of pride in the candidacy of these gentlemen that the Arias presents the following brief ketches of their lives and public services: FOK JUDGE OV PROBATE. Thomas D. Kearuey, the democratie Dominee for probate judge, has spent his wbole life in this county, and po well has he ppent it eioce his birth in Northfield, December 34, 1862, that there is not the Rligbtest imputation upoa his ciiaracfer or repuutatioo. He atti?ded thfi distirct schools, the Anti Arbor high school and graduated from the law deparcmeut ot tha uuivority in 1887. Por two years hu was scnool iuspector in Norrhfield and has always taken an active interest in tle welfare of onr public schools. For two tenns he was oity attorney of Aun Arbor and made snch a good one that be was, after an interim, again appoiuted city attorney last May. His administration of the office has been ruarked by good, keen, coEomon business seuse. He was eleoted prosecuting attorney in 1892 and althonffh he was defeated for reeleotion two years later in the republiean tidal wave, he rau ahead of his ticket. His record as prosecuting attoruey was a fine one. It became his duty to prosecute some of the most important cases that have been tried in this county in the past ten years, and he did it faithfully and in a manuer to prove his excellent abilities as a lawyer. For the past two years he has enjoyed an excellent law practice. Those who know Mr. Kearney best, know that his is a judioial mind, and that he is now running for the office he is most capable of fllling. With a warm heart, incorruptible integrity, good common sense, an accurate knowledge of the law, good business abilities, he is just the man to pass upon the estates of the widows and orphans and to save them worry and expense. He will ruake one of the very best judges of probate this oounty bas ever had. Residing in the city, he will devote his wbole time to the office, and can always be found by those having business in the probate court, and that business will be oorrectly done. Voters of whatever political faitb, who desire to vote for the best man, the most cnpable candidate for tbe place, will vote for Thomas D. Kearuey for judge of probate. FOR SHERIFF. Hirain Lighthall, who aspires to be the next sheriff of tbis county. was bom in Erie oonnty, N. Y., April 1}, 1851. Foor years af ter his birth his parents mover! to Michigan and sfittled in the thou wild ud henvily timbsred county of Icgbam, about V2 miles frora Lausing. In 1864 his fatber and oldest brother having pnne out to help figbt the battles of the nuiou in the war of the rebellion, laid rlnwn tbeir lives for the pre?ervatiou of tbeir conntry's honor. Two yenrs later, with her sis reinaining cbildren, Mrs. Lighthall moved to laoou, Lena wee coutrty, where our present candidato for sheriff worked for three years as a farm laborer. Prom 1869 to 1877 he worked at his trade as a carpenter in the south and east parts of the connty, living in Saline village from 1871 to Feb. 1, 1877. He then moved to Chelsea, vvhioh has been his home ever since and where he has been engaged in bnsiness as a manufactnrer of and dealer iu windmillfi and fixtures aud cperatiug a planing mili. The last l(i yeais of bis life in Chelsea have been years of aotivity, as, besides his owu busiuess he has been a useful servant of the pnople. For two years be was a depnty ander Sheriff E. W. Wallaoe, theu fol)Wed live years as a member of the village oonnoil, thtee years as a member of tbe school board, and two years as towuship treasuier. Ho is uow serviug bis tbird term as supervisor of Sylvan towusbip having received J28 majority over James L. Gilbert last spring, and was last year chairman of the board of supervisors. His long teuure of various publio offices is proof positive of the oonficienc that tbe people of Chelsea anc Sylvan place in bis integrity ant ability to aduiinister affairs entrnstec to his oare, Aud if still further pvoo weripeeded, tbe fact tbat in his seeund year as supervisor of Sylvau he was the choiae of the board of supervisors as ita obairman eau bo adduoed. Tbe people of bis village aud tpwu have coufldence in biiu, and tbe demooraoy of the ciouuty have coufideuoe iu him as was evinoed by his choice on the first ballot to bs its standard bearer for the office of sheriff at the coming electiou. Hiram Lighthall is a lar man, he is au honest moa, he is a man of ability and will fill the office of sherifi of Washtenaw county when it is eutrueted to his care, with credit to himself and with honor to thosa who shan assist in plaoiug him iu tbat office. por county clekk. Jacob P. Sobnb, tbe popular democratie silver candidate for the clerkship of Washtenaw oonnty, was born iu Wnrtemberg, Germany, in 1843. His paren ts carne to this country aud settled un a farm in Herkiraer couuty, N. Y., when Jake was a little fellow four years oíd. They carne to Anu Arbor in 1853, and here Mr. Sobuh grew np to nauhood aud has lived ever sinoe. Before he was oíd euough to vote he was a deiuocrat and he has strictly adhered to tbat faith. He is unswervng in his loyalty to that party and to :he candidates that have been on that ticket in the 32 years he has beeu a voter aud a workor iu the political field. He has always beeu a public syirited man, ever ready to do anything to advaDue the interests of the oity and couuty. As city treasurer he sbowed hiself a corupeteut aud obliging official and at the same time a good friend to tbe laboring man. Instead of the laboring men having to go to the banks to get their orders disconnted he paid them in cash. Another instance of bis obligiug nature was found ia that the taxpayers were not coufiDed to banking hours to pay their taxes, he acoepting thern at any time dnring business hours. On account of bis promptuess aud popularity Mr. Schuh was elected to a third term of office. And the prople of Washferiaw oounty cao rely on it that the pme obliging ways and careful, competent habits that cbaracterized bina in the office of treasnrer, will be carried iuto bis dutipg as connty ulerk, sunnld the people by tbeir votes eieot hiin to tbat office, Tnesday, Ñov. 3. Af a member of ! the Aun Arbor board of public works he showed bimself a man of sound and conservative jndgment ahvays ready to du his duty. Voters of Washtenaw connty, vote for Jacob F. Scbnb for ennuty olark. Yon %vül niike uomis take in so doiug. KOI! REGISTER OF DEEDS. Alfred Davenport, the well known npervisor of York, and one of the most prominent men in agricultura] oircles u Washteuaw county, is the demooiato süver candidate for register of deeds at the coming electiou. He was born in Saliue townsuip, Jan. 17, 1844, bis parents Abram and Jernima C. Davenport, beiuj; pioueers of the county, coming into it frorn New York state in 1833. Mr. Davenport acquired nis educatioD in the district schools and rernained at borne with his parents until he was 25 years oíd, although he had marritíd and beguu life for bimself three years before ou his father's farm. In 1870 he removed to the towu of York, which has beeu his home ever since. In his 26 years residence there ho bas owned at different tiines two other farms beside the oue he now owus, each time he sold he having betïered limself. Straightforward and honest, he has aoquired for himself aud f&mily an bonoied name, and by bis industry, carefulness and sobriety one of the finest farms iu Washtenaw conuty, contumiug 114 acres of farmïDg huid. Although he has always given bis business the careful attention it deserevd his fellow citizens of York ha%'e seen fit to keep him almost coorianonsly since be was first eleoted highway oommissiouer in 1873 and 1874. Two years as town treasurer followed, aftel whioh he was one of the fohool of) i In lS8y be began bis labors on tlie board of supervisors aüd so well pleased were his coustitutents that they luwe re-eleoted hun every year from tnat time uutil the present. He has been twice honored with the chairuiuusiiip of the board. The pages of his lifp are as an open book wbicb aDyone can read. To put bim iu the offiec of tba register of deeds will be an houor ahke to tlie man and to the coonty and the voters of Wasbtenaw coonty will see to it that be is triumpbanfcly ohoseu to that position a week from next Tueaday. FC B PROSECUTING ATTOKNBY. Jobn P. Kirk, the uomiuee for prosecnting attorney, is a uative of this conuty, naving been bom in Ypsilanti, Sept. 20, 1867, and has oontinued to live in that oity ever siuoe. His pareuts have beeD residents of the sanie place for the past 33 years. Mr. Kirk at an early age entered the publio schools at Ypsilanti and gradnated in the high school in the spring of 1886. The followiDg fall he entered the law departinent of the University of Michigan and took bis LL. B. degree from tbat institutiou in 1888. He immediately entered the practice of his cbosen profession at Ypsilanti and winning the confidence of the people was elected city attorney, being at that time the youngest city attornev in the state of Michigan. The confideuce was found uot to be misplaced and he was reelected in 1891 and again in 1893, 1894, 1895. A peculiar feature is, that Mr. Kirk was chosen to tbis positiou notwithstanding tbe fact tbat every time he was eleoted the cornmon counoil stood either a tie between the democrats and republicana or the latter were in the majoirty. At a time when Ypsilanti was tbreatened with thfi loss of its military oompany, Mr. Kirk was united upon by opposing iactions for the captaincy and it is DOW oue of the most entlmsiastio organizations in the state, mainly through his efforts. He has been a member of the Light Gnards for ten years and bas held evary positiou i'rom eiphth corporal up to captain. It has been said that a lawyer can best be jódged by his clieutage, and oertaiuly Mr. Kirk, although a yonng nan, bas won the patronage of the very best business men in his vioinity, and is universally respected and esteeined. He is a brilliant trial lawyer, an undefatigable worker in cases entrusted with hiin and very successfnl in resulta obtained. He stands at the iead of the yonnger inembers of the Washtenaw oounty bar aud is certain to develop into oue of the leading lawyers of this seotion of the state. He aas started out in this oampaign with 'Econmoy in the use of the county's funds" for his platform and will if oleoted, see that his promises are fulfilled. At the same time it eau be safely sairi that, wherever there is a chanco of conviotion, no guilty man will escape from Mr. Kirk. Voters, if they do not oast tbeir ballots for auother man on the democratie tioket will put a "X" opposite the narae of John P. Kirk for proscutnig attoruey. FOB TREA8TJRER. George J. Mann, the nominebe for county treasurer, was bom Jan. 23, 1858, in the township of Freedom. His father, Conrad Maun, was one of the oldest settlers iu that town, having oome there about the year 1S2T. He was brought up ou the farm and lived the nsual life of :i farmer's son, going to school and workiug between times. His education was chiefiy acquired in the Saline village schools, and he aftorwards took the bnsiuess conrse in the Kalamazoo Commercial College, gxadnatiog in bookkeeping in 1879. At the age of 13 he had the misfortuue to lose his left arm, which has been a serious drawback to him. With tho energy inherent in his character, however, I ou his return from the college he took up the antive duties oí a farmer's life and as followed it snccessfnlly ever siuce. He was eleoted treasnrer of Freedom in 1879, when he was jnst 21 years of age, aud having moved to Jjodi he was electfid treasnrer of that town in 1888. In 1888 and 1889 he wus supervisor of Lodi and .was for five years treaeurer of the Waebtenaw Mutual Fire Insnianoe Co. Ten years ago he was eleoted a justioe of the peace iu liis towu and hus held the office ever sinoe. Á man liko tliis is a good ïuau to entrust with tbe charge of the fuuda of the couuty. They will be taken care of aud acconuted for with the strictest ideltty and the eveninj? of Tuesday, tSTov. 3, will seo George J Mann safely elected treasnrer of this county vith a good ronud majority to keep biui safe in bis obair of uflice. FOKCIltCUIT COTJRT COMMISSIONKUS. Botb the caudidates for cironit oonrt oommissioners are yoiiug rneu Mr. Conlin, of Webster, beiug 27 years old aad his rutinuing mate Lee N. Brown, of Ypsilauti, ons year older. Henry A. Coulin was boru iu Webster towuship in 1870 aud was brought op on bis father's farm. He received bis edncation at tbe sohoolu iu thafc township and afferwards atteuded the high sohool in Ann Arbor. Later he attended tbe law departmnnet of the nniversity and gradoated with tbe law class of this year. Mr. Conlin tbougb a yonng man has always been a busy one, bis time when not engaged in tending school haviug beeu devoted to teaching school aud. working on the farm. Lee N. Brown was born Oct. 6, 1869, in the townsbip of Van Buren, Wayne county. His father, Leater N. Brown, was alwaysa stanuch demoorat and his son is not one whit less a deroocrat than he. Most of his boyhood. days were spent on his fatber's farm in the soutüeast part of Ypsilaoti town. He attended school at the Mode distriot school nntil he was 1? years old whon he went to the Belleville high school, graduating in 1889, being president of bis class aud the lyceum. In the fall of that year he entered the rionltural college at Lansing, and stayed nntil his junior year when he left and enterad tbe ü. of M. law departrneut, from which he graduated as a bachelor of laws iu 1892, having been admitted tn the bar the mouth of his gradnation. He sppnt the sammer in D. C. Griiïen's office at Ypsilanti and returned to college iu the fall, getting his master's degree the following year. Since tbat time he bas beeu practicing law in Ypsilanti. Both these yoting mon are hard workers and good, cloau citizens and add streng th to the ticket which bears their namos. Coniiuned on Elghth Puge. OUR STM TICKET Conliimed from First Pase. FOK. COKOXERS. The gentlemen who have been cbosn to make the rnn for ihese positious n the ticket are both well known and ngbly respected residents. Men of ood judgment and who will not alow tbeir desire for the offlco fees to un away with that element of discre;ion that is so necessary to a coroner n deciding whether it is necessary to ïold au iuqtiest 01 not. Dr. Erneat A. Clark, bas been a iracticing physician of Ann Arbor for the past six years, is a man of good souud, business, common sense, and will, if elected, administer the affairs of his important office in just that kind of a way. Capt. Walter P. Beach, of Ypsilanti, the other candidate for coroner, was born in Hartford, Couu., and for the ten years following his 13th birthday followed the occnpation of a sailor, rising in tuat time to tne posmon or irst mate whioh he held in 1845 wheu ie retired frota a seamau's life, havïng had his feet and hands frozen. His title of captain was earned in the war of the rebeJlion, when he was captain of Co. E, lOth Mich. Infautry. In 1865 he carne to Ypsilanti and has liv-' ed tbere since that time. In his business as a real estáte and insurance agent he gained the coufidence of his fellow citizens and in 1891 was elected a justice of the peane, which office be still holds. He bas aleo held other offices of trust, having been sheriff of Lapeer county, his home prior to the war and a deputy United States marshal. Mr. Beach will make a good consarvative coroner and one who will have the confidence of the people. FOR SURVJJYOR. Charles S. Woodard, of Ypsilanti, the candidate for county surveyor, has been a resident of Washtenaw sinos 1830. He was reared in Pittsfield and acquired his eduoation by hiá own exertious. He commeuced the practise of his profession as a eurveyor at the age of 19. For three years he was in the service of the state in the upper aud lower peuinsulas, and sinoe 1851 has worked largely for railroad companies. He bas already been cotrnty surveyor for a nnmber of terms and his work has always been excellent in its charaoter. His election will secure to the county a painstaking and effioient official.