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Day
8
Month
December
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Argus Democrat and Ypsilanti Weekly Times.

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Published by The Democrat Publishing Company

D. A. Hammond, President.

Eugene K. Frueauff, Vice-President.

S. W. Beakes, Secy. and Treas.

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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY for $1.00 per year strictly in advance.

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Entered at the Postoffice in Ann Arbor, Mich as second-class mail matter.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1899.

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Judge Person is said not to relish the statement made by the great friend of the people that Attorney-General Oren would assume the direction of the grand jury investigation at Lansing. Strange as it may seem, the judge apparently does not desire the assistance of Pingree.

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The great publishing house of Harper Brothers, known through its various excellent publications to nearly every family of the country, has gone to the wall. There appear to be $2,500,000 of debts secured by mortgage and $2,000,000 of unsecured debts. Millions of friends throughout the country hope they will yet be able to retrieve their fortunes.

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Another Thanksgiving, that holiday peculiar to the American union, has come and gone. The day, unlike any other of our holidays, has no fixed date and has to be proclaimed each year. Since 1863, the last Thursday of November has been the day observed. But during a number of administrations Thanksgiving was not observed at all. It was restored by President Lincoln after it had not been observed for many years. The spirit of the day as observed now is also very different from what it was formerly. Originally it was a day of fasting, rather than feasting. The first Thanksgiving in our national history was proclaimed by Geo. Washington.

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It is reported that former Senator Edmonds believes Congressman Roberts, of Utah, who has been receiving much gratuitous advertising of late, will have to be seated. Why should he not be? Nobody questions the regularity of his election. He has the proper credentials. Just how congress can handle the case before it is before that body, is not clear, and how is it to be gotten there until there is some recognition of his membership therein? Undoubtedly, after he is seated, congress may, with the requisite vote, expell him, if it is thought there is sufficient grounds therefor. In fact, all that appears necessary is to be able to command the two-thirds vote to expel. But how can congress take any action relative to an individual who is not a member of that body?

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The no-corporal punishment idea at the Adrian Industrial Home for girls did not last long. It required but a short time for the unruly girls to practically put all law and order at defiance. Now corporal punishment and the solitary cell are reestablished. Gov. Pingree is quoted as saying that this return to former methods of control was not with his sanction, and he thinks the management would better resign, if it cannot get along without resort to such punishments. But if hizz excellency had any faith in the fool notions he has championed, why did he not set up a board of control there that would see his ideas of government carried out? If the law forbids such punishment, as he says it does, why does he not proceed to perform his duty and see that the law is enforced? But why ask the question? Gov. Pingree is not a man of accomplishments. It is easier to make a big noise and to bluster than to do. The fact is, the Industrial Home is one of the best managed of our state institutions, and the less it is interfered with by Gov. Pingree, who don't know how to govern anything -  not even his mouth, the better it will be for all concerned.

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Joseph Chamberlain, but for the fact that he occupies so important a position, would not be taken seriously at all when he talks of an alliance between the United States and Great Britain. Nobody understands better than he that the whole thing is pure and unmitigated moonshine. But he has a purpose in making these statements and, undoubtedly, that purpose is subserved. No understanding that would be worth a rap as a "guarantee of the peace of the world" could be made by the president without the consent of the senate. And Secretary Hay says there is no understanding of any kind. President McKinley is not he man to make any such wide departure from American traditions which have the universal support of the people. He keeps his ear pretty close to the ground at all times. No sentiment in this country is stronger than that which forbids our entering into the quarrels of European countries. It is not a very gracious thing for a nation claiming to be as close to us as England affects to be just at this time to be constantly iterating and reiterating statements calculated to disturb our relations with nations with which we are on the most friendly terms.

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Reports indicate that Land Commissioner French is inclined to laugh at his indictment by the grand jury. It might be the part of wisdom, however, for him to remember that he laughs best who laughs last. It is not known by the public what the evidence against him may be. It may not be sufficient to convict him, and then again it may be. The offences for which he is supposed to have been indicted are of such a nature as to render conviction on them extremely difficult. But in such cases failure to convict sometimes amounts to the Scotch verdict of "not proven." A person may escape conviction, and belief in his guilt still remain strongly intrenched in the public mind, in which case he is quite likely to learn of the fact, if he comes before the people for political preferment. At the bar of public opinion the evidence is what weighs, rather than the technicalities of the law. The truth-loving public, in making up its judgment, is uninfluenced by the technicalities which so circumscribe the action of a jury, and due allowance is made or the influence of partisanship, pull and place in preventing the conviction of the indicted. Thus the public many times refuses to accept failure to convict as conclusive evidence of the innocence of the accused. From the standpoint of public favor, it is a serious thing to be indicted by a grand jury, therefore. It is not necessary to go outside of recent Michigan history to discover the truth of these statements.

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DEATH OF JOHN TRAINER

John Trainer, a former well known and respected citizen of Whitmore Lake died Friday at his home at 14 W Summit St. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1;30 o'clock at the house, the interment to take place in Fairview cemetery. He was 61 years, 3 months and 15 days old. He was born in Ireland, coming to this country when 15 years old and settling in New York. Some years later he removed to Washtenaw county. He served as a private in Co. D, 5th Mich. Cavalry. He was taken prisoner and suffered the privations of Andersonville and Libby prisons, which told on him in later years, and his illness since last March is attributable to this cause. He was an old member of the Brighton Post G.A.R. His wife preceded him in death 23 years ago. Five sons, William, Wilford, Walter, Cecil and Cyril survive him.

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