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Day
14
Month
March
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Tlicy had a fearful Htorin down eut-t Momia}-, with the thermometer 20 below zero. All eastern trains have been delayed for inany liours. Municipal elections throughout the state hare been plentiful the past few days, but party lines were seldom drawn, local questions dlviding the people, ir' there was any división. Is there auything significant about the Tact that the three democrats who are ¦eeklng the nominntion for governer, y7..: Burt, Fisher and Housoman, eat-h hiivc a monstrous great barrel? Pcrhaps not. Col. John Atkinaon is niakiug things liiiin in the Stilte Kepublican League, and is ptisliing the organization of clubs in towuships as well as counties. He propones that a ííraiid rally and jubilee be held on the 4th of July. Not a bad suggestion. The .Iudre is oue of the best pictorul newspaperspublished in America. It is thorooghly American. It believes in America for Americana, and has the Jharpest, keencst cartoons in the world. The paper is deservinjj a big sttbscription list. Jmt try it a year. Ilciiry Hergh, the great huni:initarian and founder of the cruelty to animáis MK'ietlcs, died last Monda}' at his home in New York. The world is better for his hnving lived In it, and there are thousands of others who could have been sparee froni it better than lie. But his work lives on. The big four, which has been tbcspinal column of the Detroit base ball club for the past three years is broken, Jas. L. White, the "Deacon," having declined to play another season under the management of Watklns. With White and Dunlap both out, it will certainly wenken the chainpions. Over in Coldwater, according to the Siinduy Life, the prohibitionists will probably go in with the democrats for city offleers. And this in the face of the fact that prohibltior. carried in that county, and the republicans are to put up a ticket pledged to enforce the laws. Oh ! consistency! thy name is not politie! prohibitionist! Mr. April Is one of the auperlntenderits of the poor In Wa8htenaw county. You timv mi !¦:- go there, and stay, but should July arouud Idle, June kauw whnt April would do? He wouid Marca you rlght lnto the Aukusi presence of Ann Arbor Justicu, who would order you to go to Leimwee, Mooroe or JackKou, p. d. q. - Adrián Press. A f ter our justices read the above they will send such fellows all to Lenawee. Tramps are continually crylng for that court of funny business. JoliD L. Sullivau !ia9 at last met n man he could nut knock out in the person of the Englishman, Chas. F. Mltchcll. It is stiiicil that had he lilii continued Milchell would certainly have knocked Sul ivan out, but they called it a draw to save the money whlch wus heavily on Sulltvan. Mltchell says he shall not fljflit any more, having demonstrated to the world that he can fight, neither will he ciaim the champlonship; but that liis friend Kilrain will give Sullivan all the tight he wants u soon as he is In coodiliou again. The lailies of Washington, D. C, have formed a society and propose to raise $-0,000 witli which to parchase a brnnze statute of George Washington, to be designed by an American artist and cast in this country out of American materials. Tlila statute It is propoaed to present to the city of l'aris, and it is to be unveiled, April ;!0, 1889, on theanniversary of Washington's tirst inauguration as president. It ii about time sonietliinjj of the kind was done, and the men of America ouglit to hang their heads and blugli for shame that they let the wonien teach them gratitude and generoslty. A fier giviiig us the Bartholdl statute, and the statute of Li Fayette, it Is high time the compliment was returned to France. Good for the ladies, their heads are usually level, anvway. At the Howell charter election last year the republicans elected their entire ticket by handsnme majorities. This year they are cleaned out thoroughly, not letaining one for seed. And that election shows how the republicans have fooled themselves. They submitted the local option question In that county and carried it, having sorae 300 or more majority in its favor in the village of Howell alone. When it, came to election to secure officials to enforce the laws that they voted to have, the prohibitionists went to work and put up a ticket againtt protiounced tempérame men, nominated by the republicans, and drew off enough votes toelect the entire democratie ticket ever man of whom was conceded to be opposed to the law and lts enforcement. The prohibitionists fawn on the republicans until they coax them into carrying this law, then turn around and help leal men nomlnated to etiforce it. After w:irds they will point to the law and say "Tliere, don't yon see that lavvis nogood. Now give lis state proliibition and you will see tliat it will be enforced." If tliey gel state prohibltion Uien they will do the very eame thing, and say: "we never wanted the law, but give us national proliibition (and tbe offices) and you will see how it will be enforced." The leaders of the proliibilion party care no more for proliibition and temperance than a mully cow does for oyster suells, all they want is the offices but as long as they can wheedle the republican leaders into thcii' they can continue to make a fooi of the party. The republican party has but one coursc to pursue and that is a straight one, doing exactly what is riiílit and just by all men ; the party was founded upon lniinanily and justicp, and on these principies alone can it stand. When it reaches out to tlckle the third party under the ribs it gets its tiujrers in a trap every time. Let "policy" alone, and go straight forward. The party that has au object in view and goes straight ahead for its acconiplishiusnt, ia the one that Bucceeds, whtle the one that stops in its course to patronize side shows will surely Buffer for it. The mlsslon of the republican party at present is a grand one. Ist, To secure to every cltiun of the United States ï free ballot, and a fair count thereof. 2d, To protect the people of tliwnaii n from the ruin of democratie free trade. A man who has a fixed incomc that Mnnot be effected by the stagnation of business is very naturally in favor of Tree trade, as all men are naturally sel¦iah. Such men could buy better imxited clothes for less money, and to ivear und buy imported goods it ' ible you know. But the average Auierl:an ought to be pretty well satisfled with , juying and wearing American goods. i

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Ann Arbor Courier
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