Editorial Notes

Cleveland pulled the string and Ihe jacks uil jumped. It Is now a conceded fact. The next president ot' ttie United States will be a Michigan man. The tobáceo tax last year amounted to $;}0, 108,007. Quite a handsome fortune, eti ? All burned or chewed up. " A public office is a public trust," tbat is, you can trust public offleers to keep in office as long as possible, you know. Not much swine about New York demócrata. They not only demanded tho president but dlctated the vlce-presidenial iiorainatlon, as wel!. Au n Arbor is noted for iu supply of mngwumpa. Wonder how tliey are suitea with the civil service reform declarations in Mr. Cleveland' platform ! The address of Grover Cleveland after March 4th, 1S89, will be Buffalo, N. Y. Ttiis Information is given by request of several friends who appear anxious about it. Kx-candidate Geo. L. Yaplt; U disgusted with the cowardice of hia party in not daring to express its honest convictions upon the turiff, and well he inay be. The democratie party did not apiear to have auy trouble wilh the temperance question at St. Louis last week, but the lutemperance question floored a host of delegates. Thurman will need his red bandanna before he gets throujfh the race. He lias got altogether too heavy a mate, and it will make the old man sweat terribly to pull liini along. Kvery southern delégate in tho democratie national convention at St. Louis refused to vote for a resolution expressing hoe for Gen. Slieridan's recovery. Let it be recorded. Was there any signincance in the fací that no old soldier (Union soldier) stood any chance for a nomination at the St. Louis conventlon? Perhaps It was mcrely au oversight. In Pbiladelphia 4,000 saloons have been cloKed as a result of the high license laj that went into eft'ect June lst. Who ever heard of prohibition closing 4,00( or even 400 saloons? If any ono doubts thac the south is the power behind the throne in the presen administraron, let hitn read the reporto the national democratie convention heli Bt St. Louis last week. The Evenlng News calis it u "Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde platform." Well it will be the ineans of uklng the Inde off the democratie party, whicli will be a blessiDg to the country. The old democratie paper, the St. Louis Republican, has chauged It iiHine to the "St. Louis Republic." The name Re publican was so harsli to the ears of tin soulhern brethern, you know. We have heard some critieism of Gen Alger, because he was not a statesman Well, how about the democratie noniinee? Doean't Gen. Alger compare very favorably wlth hloi in thnt respect 'i Now will not some of our yery sensitive southern brothers, who didn't h:ive any sorrow for Gen. Sherldan in hls ill ness, mistake Thurman's old red b;uidanna bandkerchief for a bloody (Illrt, and ha a spusin ? All eyes are turniiir towaid Chicago, as the people of the nation well know that from within her precincts must be nominated the man wlio will wield the destinics of the nation, for the next iour yeara. His name is Russell A. Aljjer. W. H. Barnum, he of the mulo fam and who bas acted as chairman of the years in the past, saya that "Tliurman is no better tiiun :i corpse.1' Quite fiattering to the ackuowledged bram end of the tickec. It is )robable thut Gen. Alger would he quite as unpopular witli the soutberners as Is gallant Phil. Shei Man. It would brin up unplcasant recollectlons to them, you know, and ihose dear boys are so very seusitive about the ouicoine of the luie war. Ex-Rebel Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, In his Decoration Day speech at Baltimoie, said: "The government of the United States is controlled by Confedérate soldier8." If a northern republiean should ni;ike that remark he would be arcused of waviug the bloody shirt. What must our l.iboring men think ol the fact that the Cleveland badges at Bt. Louis, bore the trade mark of '"Thos. Steven?, Coventry, EngUnd?" The rirst fruit of free trade. Why couldn't American workmen manufacture good enough badges for Mr. Cleveland ? It took the St. Louis convention just IS minutes to recover from its spasm ol dtligbt after nominaring Mr. Cleveland by acclamation. It will take the democratie party about 18 year to recover from the dlsastrous defeat they will meet with on the Cth day ot next November. China would like free trade with her mlllions of inbabitants ready to llood our markets with their products; England would dance with delight to have the American markets thrown open to ber while every other nation of importance would be be.netited thereby. Sliall it be d-me? Throwing the vloe-presidency sop to that "grand old Roman," Thurinari, must be very boothiDg (?) to his feelings, indeed. After being klcked and cuffed by the men who run the party, it requires a very humble and contrite spirit indeed on bis piirt to consent to help those men out of a bad hole. After all, the great democratie party dart not come out fairly and squarely in its platform and favor free trade. It is free trade for those who want free trade and protection for those who want protectlon. It is a straddle witb the heaviest weight on the free trade side of the fence. But protectionists ought not to be f oled by it. After the 6th of next Xovember Mr. Cleveland will cali Dan. Lamont into hls private office, and presenting liini wlth a No. 10 boot will say: " Here Dan, kick me all over this room muil tbe toe is woru through, for not adheriug to niy inaugural pronilse never to be a candidate for re-election. A public offiice Is a public trust after all. Be quick about it, Dan." Wliile the democratie cohort were noinina'ing Mr. Cleveland and his red baudanna at St. Louis, the people of Oreon were rolling up 7,000 republican niHJorlty, and a legislature whieh is almost unanimously republican. At the same time the "Fates" burned up Tammany Hall in New York. The omens are against you this year, my democratie friends. The Ypsilanti Sentinel doesn't appear to be so thoroujfhly, coinpletely and en:husiastically in love with Mr. Cleveland's administration as some of the faithful pretend to be. Uere is au extract from the last issue : About a mili Ion solld demócrata are slttlng In sulky wllllngness, that the democratie precedent of two presMsiiliul terina símil be ollowed for Cleveland' benefit. That is all lie "grip" he ha got uu tbem, and if any one MiippoHes they are in abject servillty at hls feet, he Is entlrely mistaken. The democratie pathway doesn't lead to the wblte house this year. Just before reaching that coveted goal a great free rade stumpshies it off ils courae on tothe ajeged rocks of vetoed pensions, shot (un coerción, tissue ballot and Imminent returns. After altempting to cross these ugly obstructions the democratie ïHgs will be so exhausted that they will je unable to finish tbe race, and many red bandanas will be neoded to mop up the tears of dlsappoint inent.