The Second District

The Democratie Congressional Convention in the Second District did a good piece of work Wednesday in putting in nomination John J. Robison, of Sharon, Washtenaw County. The nomination is an excellent one in every respect, and is a recognition of tho justice of the claims of the agricultural masses in the district that they should have the privilege of voting for one of their own class for Congressman. That the farmers in the Second District have good reasons for demandiug that an agriculturist be sent to Congress, a glance at the United States census statistics for 1870 will suffice to convince any one. Those statistics show that the value of the farms in the four counties of Hillsdale, Monroo, Lenawee and Washtenaw is thwteen times as great as the amount of capital invested in manufacturing interests in the district - the exact figures being : Value of farms, 667,909,598 ; capital invested in manufactures, $5,244,731. The district is as truly a farming one as any in the State, and yet the llepublicans, without an attempt to conceal their contempt for the large majority of the population, disdainfully elbowed out of the way a candidate timidly suggested by Kepublican farmers, and nominated for re-election a purse-proud man, who neither by occupation or training has any sympathy with the needs and interests of the agricultural community. How different the case with the candidate of the opposition. He is a man of and from the people. A practical man of business, he is also a practical farmer. He has been repeatedly honored by his follow-citizens of Washtenaw County with positions of trust. In all capacitios in which he has served them - whether as supervisor of his township, as State Senator or as County Clerk - he has done well and faithfully, and the record of his life is the best possible proof the peoplo of tho Second District can have that as Congressman he would act with an eye single to their best interes Is. Tho Second District went ovcrwhelnv ingly Republican two years ago, and Waldron and his friends undoubtedly place great faith in the invincibility of' the majority oí 1H72. It would be too 'bad, perhap?, to disturb them in the serene confidence they feel - if they really do feel it - but there have been lar more astonishing changos in Congressional districts than would be necessary to wipe out even Waldron's