The democratie city ticket goes into the...

                           THE ARGUS DEMOCRAT
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                             FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1899

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                              DEMOCRATIC TICKET

                       For Justice of the Supreme Court--
                           THOMAS E. BARKWORTH.

                       For Regents of the University--
                           EDWIN F. LE GENDRE.
                           STANLEY E. PARKHILL.

                    For Judge of the 22nd Judicial Circuit
                             MARTIN J. CAVANAUGH.

                     For Commissioner of Schools--
                             DORSEY R. HOPPE.

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The democratic city ticket goes into the field this spring with excellent prospects of success. It is a good ticket.
Gottlob Luick has a reputation as a honest, hard headed business man, with sound common sense ideas, which commend him to the voters of the city.
He has had wide experience in municipal affairs and will make an excellent mayor.
H. D. Merrithew is in every way competent to fill the office of city clerk and will devote his whole time to it.
Herman Hutzel is a man of mature judgment and good knowledge of values, a good man at figures, and would make a good assessor.
William G. Doty is a lawyer of ability who has all the qualifications necessary to make a good justice as he made a good mayor.
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The people now have before them the candidates of the two parties for the various city offices. Both tickets are composed of good citizens, men who will serve the city well in the respective offices no matter which ticket is elected.
Ann Arbor is essentially a well governed city and will compare more than favorably with other cities of its class. The diversity of elements in our population causes some apparently irreconcilable differences of opinions as to what our city government should be, but in its practical operation it is undoubtedly a good average of the public opinion of the city:
A government by majority can not be expected to be what the most enlightened public opinion demands or what the lowest sentiment might wish. It will necessarily be a sort of general average.
Judged by the standard of popular government Ann Arbor city is well governed.

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Why are the express and telegraph companies allowed to continue to defy the law in the matter of the war stamp tax? Why is not the law enforced against them in the same as it is against private individuals and business concerns ? What influence has the corporations with the courts which individuals and private business concerns have not ?
Our courts are too near to the great corporations and trusts and much too far away from the people. There is need for such a policy as Henry Watterson outlines in the fourth article of his new democratic platform which reads as follows:
"Such a reorganization and reform of our judicial system as will remove the courts further from the influence of the rich and make them more accessible to the poor - a result not to be reached by excited appeals and revolutionary menaces, but by calm, conservative methods, originating in the benign and orderly operations of an enlightened public opinion."

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Next Monday the voters of the 22d judical district, composed of Washtenaw and Monroe counties, will have the important duty of selecting a circuit judge for the ensuing six years. The democrats have made an excellent nomination for this highly important position, a nomination that ought to be ratified at the polls.
The democratic nominee, Hon. Martin J. Cavanaugh, has attained a high position at the bar of Washtenaw county, entirely through his own efforts and as a result of his own independent study and research. He was not torn with the traditional silver spoon in his mouth, but had to meet every adversity that can beset a young man of limited means and high ambitions. He made his own way through our great university and stood high in every branch of his work. In the practice of his profession he has shown the same zeal and ability that characterized all his former endeavors.
The democrats of this district owe a plain duty to Mr. Cavanaugh. He did not seek the nomination, and even refused it when first tendered to him.
But yielding to the earnest requests of democrats from all over the district be finally consented to accept the nomination.
Mr. Cavanaugh did the party splendid service as chairman of the democratic county committee for the past few years. The democratic victory of last fall in old Washtenaw was very largely due to his efforts. With his fine record both as a lawyer and a citizen, with his loyalty and devotion to the party that had nominated him, Mr. Cavanaugh can justly expect and should receive the support of every loyal democrat in this judicial district.
We feel certain that the democrats of this circuit will stand by the man who has always stood by them.
Their support will be substantially reinforced by the suffrages of many voters of other parties who have been attracted to Mr. Cavanaugh because of his worth, his ability and his broad-mindedness.
His friends are not confined to his own party, as the vote on election day will no doubt show.
Mr. Cavanaugh has had years of experience in his chosen profession. If elected will come to the bench fresh from active practice and in the very prime of active life. He will enter upon the discharge of his duties, with one single aim ; that of doing equal and exact justice to allow who may come before him. All that is necessary to secure his election is that the democrats of the 22d judicial district shall do their plain duty at the polls next Monday.
If they do, it will be Judge Cavanaugh, and no voter who bas aided in bringing about the result will ever have reason to regret his action ; for the people of Washtenaw and Monroe counties will be assured of a conscientious, able and impartial discharge of the duties of the highest position within their gift.