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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1898

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11
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November
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1898
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1898.

The democratic schuh fits the situation nicely this time.

Cook is about the only republican pebble on the county beach.

Chairman Butterfield will now proceed to raise a quarantine against Gen. Jacob Shafter Schuh.

Nearly every candidate on both the county tickets ran way ahead in their home towns or wards.

Pingree's majority showed a big reduction in Wayne and Washtenaw, although he carried both counties.

Webster repudiated Pingree and the republican strongholds of Ypsilanti and Pittsfield came near doing so.

And now that McKinley has the endorsement of the country it is pertinent to inquire what he is going to do about it.

The Smiths elected three congressmen in Michigan Tuesday, nine congressmen scattering. The Joneses didn't even elect a prosecuting attorney.

Probably those democrats who voted for Ping did so with the notion that he can make more trouble in the republican camp than any democrat who could have been elected.

And right here let us pause to remark that Washtenaw county is again safely democratic and the character of the men who were elected to fill the county offices Tuesday assures us that it will remain so for some time to come.

Lye Lampkin has a small octopus centered under the roof of his Milan establishment. A saw mill, planing mill, electric light plant, machine shop and flouring mill, make a combined plant of no small importance to the Milanese.

And Ping will have the satisfaction of knowing that several of the gentlemen who were conspicuous by their opposition to the Pingreesque style of legislation in the last legislature will be conspicuous by their absence from the nest.

As Frank Jones may not feel very kindly toward the uniform of a United States volunteer after his unsuccessful efforts to tarnish that of Major Kirk, we would suggest that he fashion his own uniform like David of old out of sack cloth.

If the result of Tuesday's elections throughout the country is to be taken as an endorsement of the administration it must be one of those endorsements which are signed in blank to be filled in at the convenience of the endorsed, for this is the first intimation that the country has had that McKinley has a policy.

Lodi has the honor of polling the largest percentage of its total vote of any town in the county. Lyndon polled the lightest vote. It is evident from a study of the stay at home vote by townships that a full vote would have increased the democratic majorities. Lyndon, for instance, polled 114 votes, and 80 votes in that township didn't go to the polls.

The democracy has nothing to mourn in the general results of Tuesday's election. The party has lost none of the ground which it gained in 1896. It has been true to itself and its principles and the effect of the campaign just closed has been that intended a general consolidation and reorganization for a grand onslaught upon republican misrule in 1900. It would have profited the democracy nothing to have gained a majority in the lower house of congress, for a republican senate and president stand opposed to democratic reforms. Our republican friends are welcome to all the satisfaction they can extract from a fancied endorsement of a policy which they themselves cannot successfully define. Before the next general election takes place, the disturbing factors introduced into our politics by the Spanish war will have been removed and all opposition to the policy of centralization, class rule and monopoly for which the republican party stands, will be consolidated into one solid and victorious phalanx.

This weather is calculated to boom the paving business in this city.

When Geo. J. Mann is making out his thanksgiving list he will not overlook that 160 majority from Lodi.

It would be unkind to ask never-more-united Wedemeyer for explanations at this juncture.

When John P. Kirk's majority crowded the 1,000 mark, Frank Jones began to take his (Jones') candidacy seriously.

As we gaze upon the ruins of Tuesday's cyclone the pleasing personality of Julius Caesar Burrows becomes less and less distinct.

Senatorial courtesy demands that James McMillen at once issue a "bright future" prospectus for Julius Caesar Burrows.

Chairman Butterfield, of the g.o.p., will defer his little skirt dance until his braves get their knives cleaned and their scalps counted.

Now that the election is over trouble begins between the Burrows and anti-Burrows factions in earnest. The democracy is entitled to seats in the front row at each performance.

Prof. Spriger probably realizes by this time the unsatisfactory nature of participation in g.o.p. politics without first securing the "O.K. "

After a short intermission hizzexellency will proceed with the work of erasing familiar names from the official roster of the republican party.

From this time forward Senator Burrows will cancel all foreign engagements and concentrate his attention upon matters of domestic concerns.

The democrats of Washtenaw county extend congratulations to the Hon. O.E. Butterfield upon the able manner in which he conducted the republican party to defeat Tuesday.

The attention of the public is respectfully referred to the complete local election returns published in this issue of the Argus-Democrat. Our contemporaries will have the same returns next week.

If the candidates who met with disaster Tuesday are political optimists they will console themselves with the reflection that if they don't dance they won't be under the necessity of paying the fiddler.

In the light of the returns it would seem that Helber has been more successful in creating the impression that he carries the German vote of Washtenaw county in his vest pocket than he has in delivering the goods.

It is to be hoped that the next job of paving which the council undertakes will be so located, with reference to public buildings, that the city attorney can spread the tax over the entire area without unnecessary effort upon his part.

If Gov. Pingree would reform his pernicious habit of preaching good democratic doctrine from a republican dunghill we might be inclined to extend to him the right hand of fellowship in the party made illustrious by Jefferson, Jackson and Bryan.

The democratic party has cause for congratulation upon the work of Tuesday. It has demonstrated that with a good ticket and a united party, Washtenaw democrats can win. It should be the aim of every democrat to hold the ground gained Tuesday.

For the benefit of John Gillen we will say that during his first year in Ann Arbor the new sheriff will not be expected to part his hair in the middle, wear golf stockings, or swear in more than three languages at one and the same time. These rules are subject to revision without further notice.

After all of the more profound explanations of the result of Tuesday's election have been turned in, permit us to remark that it may have been a thirst for the spectacular which guided the pencil of so many democratic voters to the little square immediately preceding the name of Hazen S. Pingree.

In Jackson city last week the West-end Wheel Works shut down and threw 200 men out of employment and two carriage manufactories of that city cut their forces 50 men each. In view of these facts it will hardly be assured that the vote of the working people of Jackson Tuesday was an endorsement of McKinley prosperity.

Hon. Geo. A. Peters (Peters, of Scio,) is hereby authorized and empowered to conduct the obsequies over the remains of the late republican party of Washtenaw and in performing that duty he will studiously avoid drawing invidious distinctions between rough riders and writers. They were all put to sleep together.

Lodi becomes the banner democratic township of the oounty.

The only duty remaining for the democratic county committee is to put a hoop around Capt. Schuh's majority.

While Cliff Huston was defeated he may congratulate himself upon the magnificent run which he made against big odds.

The man who went to the front in defense of his country didn't do a thing to the man who staid at home and circulated lies about him.

Business men will not overlook the fact that the Argus-Democrat has a larger circulation than any three other papers in Washtenaw county combined.

The Industrial News, of Jackson, published a most creditable industrial edition last week, in which the business interests of the central city were fully and exhaustively described.

Mr. Chas. A. Ward, of the Argus-Democrat takes this means of thanking the gentlemen of the press of Washtenaw and Jackson counties for the very generous and effective support which they gave to his candidacy for the state senate.

The Argus-Democrat welcomes Mr. W.H. Houseman, the new proprietor of the Milan Leader, to the Washtenaw fraternity. Mr. Houseman is a thorough newspaper man and a genial fellow who will make his mark in Milan.

Chairman Cavanaugh is entitled to the congratulations of every democrat in Washtenaw county. His efficient organization and careful supervision of the campaign contributed in no small degree to the democratic victory in this county on Tuesday.

Gov. Pingree owes his re-election to democratic voters. The democratic voters who are responsible for this result will have the satisfaction of knowing that they defeated the cleanest and most competent democrat who has been a candidate for that office in this state in many a year.