The Republican League

Tiie first meeting of the Hepublican League held last week in New York WM attended by about 1,500 delegates. It developed a wonderful enthusiasm, it passed ringing resolutions, and it ttarted a plan for a complete organization of clubs throughout tbe country. As in Englaud, tbe formation of the Primrose clubs gave the conservatives power, so it is expected here to make of this league a polltical engine of great inllnence. , , The convention sliowed such unity and liarmony of purpose, such an enthusiasm among the leaders, such aggressiveness in adopting lofty principies and such true Americnnism that the people of thls land cannot but appreciate and back up at the polls by rousing majorlties. A majority of the delegates were young men, active, enthusiastic and red-hot republicans. They go back to their several localities witli renewed zeal to build up tlu-ir clubs, thereby to interest and save the thousands of young voters just coming on. Thls eau be done by seizlng fast hold upon the great principies of America for her own and notfor England; confusión to the saloon in politics; fair representation in congress; fair expressions by ballots; jnstice to the old defenders of the union; cducation of illiterates and deatli to arebUU. You may liaul the saloon out of politics, but it U doubtful if you can baúl the politieian out of the saloon. Geo. Washington Childs, of the PhUa dclpliia Public Ledger, is announeed as a cmdidate for president- too Chüd-like, altogether. __ ïlie telegraph informa us that Congressman E. 1'. Allen, of this district, is eick with malarial íover, it Washington, but not serlous. Congressman Seth C. Moffat, of the llth district, is lying at death's door, down in Washington, from a malignant carbuncle on his chin. Whcn Utah conforms to the laws and customs of civili.ed peoplc the world over, she perhap3 ought to be adniitted as a state, but not till then. The fïrst train through from Minneapolis to Sault Ste. Marie arrived in the latter place last Frlday. There was mucli rcjoicing over the event by Sooites. Col. John Atkinson, of Detroit, carne near being chosen president of the Re publican Club convéntion in New York. He would have honored the position. If Itussia and Austria cross swords and get up a red hot light, every farmer in this country will kick lilmselr for uut sowing twice as much wheat as he did last fal). Our Thursday contemporary, the Register, believes in burning up the dead. which is vcry proper in its OWO case, but the maiority of people hope to escape Inclneration. Iïranch county swung into the prohibition line Monday by neaiïy 3,000 rnajority and Ilillsdale county by about 2,500. And yet some of our prohibition friends seem to be unhappy. W. E. Barker, a Detroit man, offers $2,000 to promote theestablishing of furniture manufactories in Adrián. The Adrián folks seem to have a fricnd in Detroit, even if lie is a Barker. No onc desires war, but if those fellows over In Europe must fight, Uncle Sani would be pleased to furnish all sorts of aims, ammunition and provisions, just as long as they can pay for thein. Six miles north of Alma thoy dip up crude petroleum by the bucket full as it boils out of the grouud. The Standard oil company will soon plug up that leak, il it bids fair to amount to Mythlng. 'l'lie Detroit Evenlng Journal says that the Detroit Evcning News preaches free trade for other folks, but practices protection in itsowu business, byattempting tci niake the newi tgentl drop the Journal. Would you like to know who the next viec-president of the United States will be? Russell A. Alger, and he isa live Michigandcr. He will sweep Michigan, Oblo, indiana, and theentire country, in tact, like a whirlwind. The republican club convention at Xew York City OlgBBlKd a national league with Hon. James P. Koster, the present head of the New York republican club as president. Ann Arbor and theCoiiUKR was honored by the selection of Jantas E. Beal as the member of the Executlve Com. of the National League. The Y'psilanti Commercial is lnojined to thiuk that the men who huy Bohemian oats do so in the hope of beating some one else out of thelr money, and that they are not so guiltless as people gcnerally consider them to be, and that, nf ter betng caught at their own game, they ought not to be kt oil' nierely because they tqoMl. The Commercial is not far from right, eitlier. Qovernor Joseph II. Bodwell, ofMainp, who died last Thursday at the executive mansion in Augusta, was another example of how pluck and brains come to the lront In this country. Wben a boy hi.s father was so poor that he couldn't support him. and so he went to live with au uncle. Without nny assistance but his own head and hands he rose to be onc of ïlaine's most honored citizens. The New York Tribune dlscants thusly upon Michigan'sfavorite son : "Michigan however, is the only State where an out and out vice-prcsidential boom is in full progress. The Michiganders iieairc to see General It. A. Alger, of Detroit, iiomlnated for that place. He is not n candidate lor President, is not mentioned in connection with that ollice, but i in the field for the vice-presideucy. II ík public career has been noteworthy and full of lionors. He is a man of great wealth and strong business position." It is earnestly to be hoped by all lovers of thcir country that L. Q. C. Lamer will not bc confirmed as Judge of the U. S. Snpreme ('ourt. For not only is he too old and without the necessary experience in the law ( not having practiced in twenty-five years) but his past utterances show him to be so gainst the amendnients of the constitution which the war introduct'd that it would be Otter folly for a man who has been against secession to vote for a n unreconstructed seccsslonist. It is dccidcdly unwise to put ¦ man in as Interpretar of the constitutkm who hatM a part of it and who still glories in the men who trled to pull it dowu. We hope our Michigan senators will not vote for the man who ntight be able to tear down all that was built up at so much expendlture of Michigan bkiod and inoncy.