Helber Was Thrown Again

                 Smith Recommends Staunch Judson Man for

                              ______________________

                             CENSUS  BUREAU  CLERK

                              ______________________

                              Notwithstanding Helber Said
                                   that He was a Dead
                                     Duck in the Pond.

                              ______________________

The evidence that Helber, the would be Caesar of Washtenaw's politics, has bad his toga stabbed sufficiently to make him aware that his ambition is being cut very short is piling up.

In the language of Mark Anthony - "But yesterday the word of Helber might have stood against. 'Billy" Judson with "Hank" Smith ; now lies he there, and none so foolish to do him reverence except a few disguised applicants for the job of census enumerators. ''

The latest testimony in the case is that concerning Grove Rouse, of Saline, who has just been recommended by Congressman Smith for a clerkship in the census bureau at Washington.

Rouse is a Judson man clear through and through. Helber tried to switch him off from that track, Rouse replied.

"Well, sir," said Helber to him, "yon might just as well go back on the farm at Saline. If you are with Judson, you are a dead duck in the pond. You wont get anything. "

The development seems to have been a complete throw-down for Caesar Helber.

Rouse is appointed, and if Helber does not quickly come to the conclusion that he is no potent factor in dealing out patronage, his obtuseness will mark his greatest characteristic.