Republicans Are Disgusted

Republicans are Disgusted.

It is difficult to understand how any self-respecting republican can vote the state ticket nominated at Detroit. Pingree's personal conduct and character is too well known to need comment, and the character of the men with whom he has surrounded himself from the time of the notorious J. Blair Simpson (now sequestered in state prison) down to the latest escapade of Indecent Exposure French, shows the character of the Pingree push.

The respectable element in the republican party made & strong effort to prevent the nomination of French, by circulating at the convention a pamphlet headed "Bad French." giving full particulars concerning French's character and his crooked transaction in connection with the land office. They also circulated newspapers giving full details concerning State Treasurer Steel's robbery of a poor widow woman and his disreputable financial transactions. Since his nomination the St. Johns' Republican, the leading republican paper at his own home, has published the most severe criticisms of his transactions. and it is to be hoped that the voters of Michigan, regardless of party, will honor themselves by repudiating rascality and electing Dr. Edgar B. Smith.