Lansing's Petifogging

The followinj article is taken frotn the Lanslng Republican : " There are still floatlng reports of opposition to Gov. Luce ou account of his stand for what he regards as just economy In the state university, etc. If any sucli foolish revenges are wreaked eithe r in the noniination or election, how inueh favor could theee institutions expect to receive in the next legislatura, or in the next two or three legiálatures? Mighty little, and don't anybody forget il. NelHier their eneiuies nor thelr friends coiilü take u surer way te ent the tliroats of tlie state institutions. Wisdom says, let bygones be bygones, and all pull togetber for the future best good ot Michigan. The least shadow of a suspicion that the state institiitions wcre attumpting to run the state would bring down upon tliem the indignation of the people of Michigan with crushing force. Th is is so evident that all sucli reports may be pet down as malicious wind, startud with intent to prejudice and injure the state nstitution.-. Stop it. There is only one city in the state wliose state institutions have ever nttempted to "run the state," and iliat is right In Lansing. Lanslng luis the State Agricultural College, the State School for the Blind, the State Reform School, and it is the general iinpression that the three cembine, and by means best known to tuemselves, wield a mighty and usually winning nfluence on state lcgislation. Is tbe above unkind allusion a part of this plan to awake a prrjudice tiiat will opérate still further for their benelit? It looks mightily Hke it. As far as the immediate friends of the university are concerned they have taken no part in any movement for or against Mr. Luce, and we defy the Lansing Republican or any other paper to find a republican f rom Ann Arbor or Wasbtenaw county, who has taken any part whatever for or against Mr. Luce - (unless it bc some of Mr. Luce' aplointees liere in his favor.) What repnblicans throughout the state think of Mr. Luce, the university or its friends here are not responsible for. It is altoftetlier probable tliat Mr. Luce has made enemie9. It is altogether probable that Mr. Frenoh and some otlier men who feel tliat Mr. Luce betraved them have friends who will bitterly oppose htm. But to attempt to lay that feelinj; at the door of the university is not only unkind but discreditab'.e to iliose who are dolng It. They better brace up, and insted of accusing others of wrong doing, flnd out the true cause and meet it ïnaiifully, tquarely, and honorably. Only one man who was balloted for at the St". Louis democratie convention that nominated Tilden Is now living, Thos. F. Bayard. Tilden, Hendrick., Hancock, Allen, etc, have all pnssed over to the njajority. The Chicago Tribune rests from its labors long enougli to reveal the real name of the next democratie cundidute for the presidency: ClevelanD, VoorliEes, MoDoNald, KaNdall, HlKïtl'S, St. John. Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, tneetber with his democratie coll'a}iin's in congress have had very much to soy about the republicana attempting to make a strong centralized government, anti yet, Mr. Breckinridjie desires the United State to declare 'trusts" litoral. Where does lie find the srant of power to congress to interfere with the violation of State law by corporationa chartered by the State ? Even the Chicago Tribune, fiiemlly il it is to the freetrade heresy cannot stand the new democratie Cleveland niy-tnrilïpolicy bill, known as the Mills bil!, and denounces it as "partismi, weÜonal, nequal and unfHir." And the Tribune further states that "the bill afreed upon by Mills and his fellow-Bourbons is another demonstraron that the democratie party in congre?s is incapable of a fair and equitable revisión of the turill'. Pledging lUeli steadiiy to revenue reform and holding control of the House of Representatives for tvvelve out of the last fourteen years, the democratie majorlty ha8ncverbeenable to formúlate or agree upon any feasible scheme of revisión. The Ust blunder is one of the worst yct perpetrated.' The Cleveland Leader evidently intends to be strictly fair to the Detroit people. Itsays: "The New York Sun (Iemands the passage of a law that "merchandise shall not be hrouglit back into the United States free of duty after It his once gone oulside our bouiuhiries"- in other words, to abolish the shlpment of American merchandiso tbrough Canada. The object is, of course, to prevent the competition of Cnnadian roads with our own as far as may be. This mlffht be all right with respect to the Grand Trunk and Jntereolonial railway?, but it would be manlfestly unjust to Americans if applied to the Canada Soutliern from Detroit to Buffalo. The l.itter was built with American capital, is owned and operated by Americans, and is virtually uu American property and corporation.'' '