This Is What The Detroit Evening News

inys about one ot lts exehanges, ana ust because it has been worsted in a tiaancial discussion: "The Laiising liepublican is the siuartest paper in Michigan. It says so itself." Just to help along the "joke" we can furnish evidence that it (the RepuUican) is the most powerful paper in Michigan. The great rebellion failed to dissolve the Union, but this is the way our Lansing coteinporary did it in a single line, and with a single (misplaced) letter : " The internal revenue of the üntied States." Now let theJSTews be satisfied, and proceed with its wholesale stealings. And now the Paw Paw Courier sees the "coming man" in ex-Senator Cliandler, now Secretary of the Interior, and trots him out as the Republican candidate. And to prove that the Courier man is not the only political fooi in the State, the Allegan Journal says : " A better selection than this could not posuibly be made by the liepublican National Convention. Why shouldn't Michigan have a President. It was in the beautiful Peninsular State that the Kepublican party was founded." Such reasoning conclusively proves that Chandler ought to be President. Fitness is not at all a necessury conaideration. The Lansing Republican is so intensely partisan that it can't record an occasional small Democratie success with the least degree of good nature or courtesy. Here is one of its cotnnients : " The Democrats carried Mississippi with ghot-guns and Maryland with slung-shots. We had foolishly Bupposed that votes were what did that clean little job, but there ia nothing easier than to be mistaken ; that is unless one is a good, " loil," moral (selfrighteous) Republioan. They never err, not even when they hug John Morrisey to their bosoms, and ar' hale fellows well met with Ring and Canal thieves "allalong the line." Self-satisfaction ig a "bully " thing. After an incubation of 54 hours, the jury in the Ward will case failed to hatch out a verdict, and was discharged at 5 o'clock P. M. of Saturday last. It is understood, by the newspaper reporters, that the jury unanimously agreed agaiust the second codocil, and as to the will and first codoeil stood four for the will and eight for the contestants. Only one juror thought Ward mentally incompetent, but eight believed in undue iufluence, exerted by whom, whether spirits or Mrs. Ward, the public is not given to understand. It is intimated that a second trial will be noticed for the January term, with a new deal of lawyers, at least on the side of the contestants. The appointment of ex-Senator Chandler to be Secretnry of the Interior is proving a "big bonanza" to Michigan P VU-. TT.. n.-.rlnrr1 r,( "Rast Saginaw, was immediately appointed Solicitor for the department, a Michigan man was also made Assistant-Solicitor, and several Michigan men billeted for clerkships. And now comes the report that George Jerome, Chandler's reliable lieutenaut, is to be made Commis. sioner of Indian Affaire. A " friend at court" is a friend indeed. Unless Bagley and Ferry can find some crumbs to parcel out to old and new retainers they had better retire from the Senatorial race and leave the track clear for old Zack. NEITHER the Detroit Free Press nor Trilune indorse the aotion of the Commou Council in appointing one James Defoe to be a justice of the peace for that city. The former bases its non-concurrence upon the ground of no legal vacancy, as well as objecting to the propriety, if a vacancy, of appointing a man juBt rejected by the people for the same office. The Tribune makes the latter objection alone. These journals uhould have gone to the root of the matter and denied the power of the Council to appoint a justice of the peace to fill a vacancy in any case. There may be a provisión in the city charter authorizing an appointment, but if so it is unconstitutional and void. Therb is no inethod under the constitution of the State of appointing justices of the peace, and no body authorized to elect them cxcept the body of the electors of town or municipality. That is the club to huxl at both the Council and Mr. Def oe - Since the above paragraph was put in type, both journals nanied have propounded the constitutional objection, and the Tribune has also discovered other obstacles in Defoe's path. The Allegan Journal quotes thia sentence from a recent issue of the Argus : " The sniall majority for Bigelow aad nis associates weakens Tilden, and is really a victory for corruptionists of every hue," and adds : " Why this is a victory for the ' corruptionists ' we cannot imagine." And this from an editor who has indulged in fiotion all his life. His iinaginatioh must have suddenly run to seed. It, perhaps, is useless to suggest to him a forgotten proverb, " Fact is stranger than fiction," as it evidently is uot one of those which guide his pen ; and equally as useless to point to the large Republican gains at Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and at every other point where the corruptionists and canal thieves " plied their vocation." It is an acknowledged fact that "cor ruptionists of every hue " struck hands with the Republicana and opposed the Democratie State ticket, and if our cotemporary can't " imagine " the reason it would be a waste of time to attempt to sow the seed of truth on guch a desert waste. BrainB and perceptivo powerB are neceBsary to either " imagine " or reason, and no subsoiling of an empty cranium will compénsate for the lack. - And this is further proved by the Journal' rrquest for the Alious to copy soine of the iusane paragraphs of that blatherskite, Brick Pomeroy. The Argus don't drink Democratie inspiratiou trom such a fountain.