This And That

From Michigan Papers.

The Chelsea Herald has turned its editorial gun against Chelsea's poor sidewalks. It cites Ypsilanti's case as an example of the cost of defective sidewalks and directs the attention of the council of the village to needed repairs on certain streets. Let the good work go on.--Ypsilanti Commercial. That is right. If Ypsilanti don't change its charter from having every alderman boss of his ward of a ward boss, they won't have any sidewalks at all.

Congressman "Hank" Smith seems to be having an uncomfortable time in his endeavor to straddle the senatorial proposition. While he is personally trying to be a McMillan man, the census enumerator patronage of his district has gone to the Pingree-Alger syndicate. Four out of five of the enumerators are in sympathy with the governor, and it begins to look as though there would be a good healthy sized, factional fight on the republican ranks before next election. Helber and Judson are already engaged in a struggle for supremacy in Washtenaw county, and there are others to follow in the district. The chair of the congressman is strewn with tacks these days to a degree that makes its incumbent a subject of pity rather than of envy. --Monroe Democrat.

An article in Tuesday's Detroit Tribune would have us believe that the Alger-Judson crowd are trying to sneak into the position of enumerators under false pretence of being McMillan men, and that Helber is playing into their hands. Well, the Judson push are a hungry lot, but we are slow to believe they have reached that stage of depletion where conscience, self-respect and manliness are bartered for a mess of pottage, and a small one at that. Still the symptoms are peculiar. --Ypsilantian

Politics is a strange combination, at best, says D.W. Grandon in his "Timely Talks," in the Adrian Telegram. A man with any regard for honest convictions either as to principle or policy feels his manhood belittled by mixing in with it to any great extent under modern condition. The situation over in Washtenaw at the present time is a most complete illustration. Editor Eugene Helber, of the Neue Washtenaw Post, the German paper in Washtenaw, was a roaster in his fight against Burrows and McMillan during the last senatorial contest. He roasted McMillan to several turns. Now, however, that Congressman Smith has made him the Washtenaw committee member of the congressional committee for this district, and Smith has swung into to the McMillan camp and taken Helber with him, there is the very old Harry to pay on the other side of the fence. And the fight is on in great shape between Helber and Billy Judson, the recognized Washtenaw boss of the Pingree push. It was Judson who really succeeded in making Helber the member of the committee, when he was so disgusted at the nomination of Smith over Wedemeyer, that he left the convention hall swearing like a pirate in both German and English at the action.