Boodle! Boodle!

The state campalgn fund bad as a "starter," a check for lö.üOO from Don DlcklnsoD, and that's the kind of a private soldier In the ranks he Is.- Adrián Fresa. Thcn Mr. Quinby wrote, "put me down for as ruuch as the highest subscriber," which makes $10,000. Then the father of Mr. Tapte, it is stated on good democratie authority, agreed before hisson wat nominated to put $25,000 in the campaign fund in case the clioice feil upon him. Ttint makes $35,000 to start with. Then the claim is made that this ticket, with all these thousands upon thousands of dollars at its back is poor man' 3 ticket. The intent Is to buy up the poor man, to corrupt him, to despoil him of his nianhood, his independence, his most sacred right that liberty has given him, that of freely casting his ballot as hia own consoiencc and principies díctate. The ticket of the fusión party is a ticket, if not of millionalres, one backed by millionaires. "The boy from Mendon" is a lawyer with a rich father who is ambitious for his son, and money will not be wanting. The election of Hon. Levl T. Griffln.ol Detroit, to the Fletcher professorshlp in the law department of the univesity, by the regents at their recent session, is an act to be commended. Mr. Oriffln stands at the front in the bar of thia state, and his acceptance of this professorship wlll bring to the univer6ity a man who will assist In elevating the standing of the deparment. He Is a gradúate of the university literary department, class of '57. At the outset of the rebellion, Mr. üriffln entered the service as 2d lieutenant of tht; 4th Michigan cavalry, served duringr the war and was discharged in 1865 as brevet major general for "gallant and meritorious services." To-day he is a member of the law firm of Griffln & Dlckinson, one of the leading firms in the state, The friends of the university are to be congratulated upon the wisdom of this cholee. At the meeting of the school board last evening there was discussed the matter of putting on the north side of the High School a two-story building to have a good-sized hall for chapel and commencement purposes. Plans are being made and they may be submitted at the annual meeting of the District next Monday. The High School sliould not be compelled to go around to the churches asking them to open their doors for commencement exercises, neither should the pupils be compelled so frequently to clinib the two high flights of stalrs to recitation rooms and chapel on the top floor of the Union School building. More room Is urgen tly needed and it is desirable that some actlon may bc taken so that a building can be started this year. A suitable one could be erected for $10,000. For the two days of the democratie state convention the statistics of the Morton house har shows that the democratie hosts consumed In two days, as (blows: Bourbon whisky, 40 gallons; rye whisky, 35 gallons; wine, 18 gallons; beer, 80 cases. Of course ttiia material furnishes a great deal of enthuslasm for a democratie convention. Tliis is the party which the prohibitionists have allied themselves with to defeat the republicana. Can any true friend of temperance stlll keep his eyes closed and his nose stopped up to the putrescence of such rottenness. In a speech made by that Yaple boy to the people of his district when lie was running for congress lie said : " I want the farmers of this district to understand what tliey ask, when they ask me to vote for the restoration of the ihity on wool ; I didn't do it and, by the eternal, I never wiU" Well, he never did. They took him at his word and he djdu't get a chance. Mr. Burrows votcd in his stead. That Yaple boy' pa I i millionalre- but not a mascott. The democratie party has had a very sore Shank forced on it. Farmer Luce or Lawyer Yaple f VV'hich will you have laborerg and toilers? Instend of :i ringing platlorm our demotusio fiiends have u stinging platform. It Is raid that the prohibitionisU, propose U) proliibit the chestnut bell- because ring is su suggestire of tumblers. Michigan's day for boy governors has passed. It needs a mature mind to govern the affairs of this great state to-day. In sporting circles, bets are being freely oflered without takers that the republicun state ticket will have from 10,000 to 20,000 majority. Ex-Oov. Begole sends hls eampaign coiitnbution to the Center. The shrewd old fox ! He hopes to outwit Don and little Johnie. The Dttrolt Tribune appropriately terina the fusionists: "Don Dickinson's Succotash party." But whieh are the beana? That's a puzzler. Tlie Flint Democrat says it would like to see "more brains and less boodle in politica.'7 We'll bet that a marked copy of that paper wusn't sent to Don. " The ticket pleases everybody except the republicans," says the Adrián I'ress. Does it though ? Quess our friend hasn't canyassed the people very freely. The Ypsilanti Commercial calis republicans " scape goats " in one article, and then right under it asks them to come over and vote witli it3 party. Comment is unuecessary. Tlie only millionaires of proiuincnce in tlie rcpublic&n party in Michigan liave gone over to the enemy: V. R. Burt, of Saginaw, and Win. G. Thompson, of Detroit. The record of Cyrus G. Luce, as publlslied in the Free Press is one that any man iniht well feel proud of. Now will the would-be very funny Free Press print young Yaple's record ? Eh ? The Adrián Press is still mourning over the action of the republicnn congressional conventiou of this district. The same paper will have still further opporlunity to mourn after November next. The Knlghts of Labor are the root of the gallows tree, on which the rlpened fruit, seven anarchiste) are liltely to hang. Monopoly, arlstocracy and wealth, are the soll In which lt growH, and envy, discontent, and hatred the fcrllllzurs which nourish ü.- YpsUuiU Senllnel. Theaboveis from good democratie authorlty. President Cleveland not only pocketed the resolution providing for the paying of the treasury surplus exceeding $100,000,000, but actually vetoed it. This take9 the starch out of another one of the lusion planks. The "open letter" writer h;is commenced. He had a screed in the fusiou organ of Detroit last Friday, but didn't have the courage to sign bis name. It is truly said that the Lord (and the people) hates a coward. If the repnblican or democratie parties should hold a political meeting on Sunday in a chuic'i, what a howl of rigliteous indignatlon would ascend. There is a party that commits this great sin very often. Is it right ? On the republican ticket will be found FIVE OLD SOLDIERS and one lawytr. On the democratie ticket will be found FIVELAWYERS and one old soldier! Wliich represents the sentiment of the people of Michigan ? The soldier or the lawyer. If all could see the hob-uobing and button-lioling and secret confabs being held by tle 3d party congresaional candidate with the democratie leaders liereaboute, they would fully understand In whose interest said candidate is laboring politically. In endeavoring to purge thelr ranks of socialista, anarchism and other disturbing lsms the Knights of Labor deserve the hearty approval of all well-intentioned people. For their own good they must be successful In the attempt and we belleve they will be. The Grand Rápida republican convention had do "boss" to dictate its movemen ts, nor sub-bosses to wliip in the rank and lile. It was a convention containing many of the best men of the party and the state and its harmony and enthusiasm could not be questioned. The second district prohlbitlonlst coogresslonal convention was held at Adrián on Tuesday and was largely atlended. Kcv. A. O. Crozler was nominated by acclamatlon.- Manchester Enterprise. " Rev." is good, tip-top, but our friend Is nothing more than a LL. B., not a LL. D. He can expound law but not the gospel. He expounds prohibition for $100 per month, also. It is strange why so ïnany men go to a state conveHtion primed with a speech and insist upon forcing it on a body of men who have no desire to hear it. It must take a wonderful amount of cheek to "speak a piece," in the face of so much opposition. Business, not oratory, is what the people eomposing political conventlons are there for. Mr. Luce was not the flr9t choice of many of the delegiites to Qraud Rapids last week, but lie was the llrst choice of a laige majority of the delegates, and the minority very gracefully acknowledged the faet. The majority rules in republican councils, and tbey recognlze no unit rule, either. Mr. Luce will receive the united support of his party. There were no soreheads that went away from that convenlon. One Kush J. Shank, of Langing, tüought fit a few days since to write a public letter withdrawing from the republican party, because of Ii Is "patriotisra and humanity,1' and because he saw "nothing in the present attitude of the republican party to longer encourage hope," etc. Now the Lansing Republican comea out with soine letters of this man Hhank written last June, asking comrades to support hiui for the republican congressional nomination, which they failed to respond to. Shank had better never written letters. They make him a ludierous appeuring Sliank just now. The Grand Rapid Democrat asserts that the Ilon. Geo. W. McBride cannot be elected tocongreBS in that district because he is a tempcrancc man. If beiüg a teinperance man is to debar a person froiii election to office in this country th sooner the people asceitain that fact the better. Mr. McBride is no crank, he is a températe man and a teniperance man, and as such deserves the respect and support of every respectable republican in the iltth district. How would our fifth Jistrict people loei if represented by an intemperate man ? They wouldn't be very proud of it, that's certaia.