The Register seems to thiuk the recent e...

The Register seems to thiuk the recent elpction a great viotory for proteotion. If the republicana think so, all right. Let them go ahead witb theii protection and pile it on thiok and see wbere they will come out in 1900. The "advance copy for newspapers" of the Michigan erop report for November arrived Wednesday morning, two days after it appeared in the daliies of the state. Next week some time an embossed oopy of the governor's Thanksgiving proclamation will do doubt reaoh this office, printed on expensive paper and in a oostly form. There is a mighty lot of red tape nonsense of an expensive oharacter at Lansing that Pingree ought to try his hand at clearing out. - Adrián Evening Telegram. From now until next March the daily papers will be full of oabinet making Tnrnors. It is estremely improbable that Maj. McKinley bas yet made np bis cabinet. The arduous labor of receiving delegatious at Cantón, reading their addresses, listeniug to their spokesmen and delivering oarefully prepared answers, shaking hands, etc, lunst have taken up too mnch time tor him to have settled down to parceling out the cabiuet positions. And yet, the papers already have several fullgrown cabiDets ready for him. Governor elect Pingree's announcement that he will appointOapt. Cornelins Garclener, of the 19th Infantry, U. S. A., to be iuspector general of the statö militia, does not meet with favor with the members of the Michigan National Guard. The boys say they whooped it up for Pingree on the supposition that he would appoint citizen Boldiers to the military positions on his staff. The boys have a righfc to expeot this from Mr. Pingree and he should concede to their wishes. If there are no men connected with the National Guard who are qualified to hold these positions, it is high time that the whole systern was abolished. Secretary Olney bas very suocessfully condncted the Venezaelan embroglio so that Great Britian has at last concluded to arbítrate the whole matter of the territorial dispute between Venezuela and Biitish Guinea. The arbitrators are to be appointed jointly by England and the United States. This is a clear recognition of tbe Monroe doctrine, for which the President and Secretary Olney so strongly contended, for without snch recognitiou of this doctrine the United States wonld have no cali to interfere in this dispute. Jt is also something of a backdown from the position taken by Lord Salisbury that not a foot of British territory should be subinitted to arbitration. At Hudson. Leuawee connty, the voting at the election of Nov. 3 was done on an Atibott voting machine. In less thán flve minutes after the polls olosed the result iu Hudeon was known in Ann Arbor. The first dispatch received by President-elect McKinley as to how the eleotion had gone in any part of Miohigan was also from Hndeon. Good for the voting Imachine, what a benefit it wonld be if universally adopted and nsed, and what a saving there would be in the wear and tear on people's nerves if the strain of guessing who is in or who is out were removed in one hour instead of 10 or 12 hours as is now the case. Let us have voting machines by all means. One good thiug at least may come out of the various election contests and reoonnts thronghout the state, and that is to emphasize the necessity of a strict observance by election inspectors of all the safegaards thrown around the ballot box by the state laws. These teohnicalities, as they are sometimes called, are really of extreme importance in protecting the pnrity of the ballot box and the aconracy of the oount. Inspeotors should not allow outsiders, however above personal reproach they may be, to handle the ballots or enter booths ■with the voters, and they themselves should refrain from marking the ballots iü any way whatever when oounting them. No fraud may be inteuded or oommitted bnt the safety of the ballot law is impaired by its violation.