Democratic State Ticket

Kor Cïovernor - ando M. BARNES, of tngham. Por LieuteDant-Governor - ai.i -;i:i) P. BWINEFORD, of Marquette. For Secretary of State - QEORGE Et. &TURDOCH, of Berden. For State Treasurer- ALEXANDER MoFARLAM, OÍ (ien For Auditor General- WH. T. B. SCHERMERHORN, of Lenawee. l-'ur Attorney-GeDcral - ALLEN B. MORSE, of Ionia. For Oommissloner of the Stato Land OHicc - GEORGE H, LORD, of Bay. 1 oí Superintendent of Public lntruetion - ■ ZEL0TE3 TRI E8DEL. of Oakland. For Memberof tbeState Board of Educatlon- EDWIN F. 11IL, of Kent. For RepretfentaUre in Uongreu - IRA B. CA KI), of HilUdale. Fankuil Hall, once cloeed to Daniel Webster, was opencd to Kearney, the California agitator and coniuiunist. What iiüxt'r Gkeat proparations are being made ïor the thirtieth annual fair of the Michigan State Agricultural Society to be held in Detroit September 16 - 20. All the railroads give half fare. TllK ninth annual fair of the State Pomologioal Society ia to be hold in Detroit September lü - 20, in connection with the State Fair. The premium list for fruits and ttowers aggrogates $1,000. THE Allegan Democrat haviug kicked over the traces and joined the NationalGreenback parly a new Democratie paper is proposed. The sturdy Detnocracy of Allegan don't propose to follow the skedaddler. TllE First National Bank of Grand Kapids bas applied for au increase of its circulation from $100,000 to $200,000. This is one of the national banks in which Henry S. Smith, the Nationalüreenback caudidate for Goveruor, is a stockholder. Is Smith after more ol the sinews of war y Like the Frenchman, Bro. Clute, oi the Three ltivers lieporter, an original greenbacker, is " very mooch disgust" because Thomas 11. Sherwood, a Kalaraazoo lawyer, carried too many guns for him in the Cougreasional Couvention. Clute don't consider life worth living longer: that is politically. James S. Upton, of Battle Creek, is the Democratie candidato for Congress in the Third district. Mr. Upton is a tbreshing machine manufacturer and ought to be ablo to give both his Kepublican and Greenback opponents a model threshing. Just run theui through ono of your machines Mr. U. Tuis 18 a personal as well as pertinent conundrum propounded by the Pontiac Commercial : "Do our national brethren intend also to reservo Henry Chamberlain for a foreign mission that tbey have refrained from nominating him for any office this year ?" Can't the C'ommerciut just wait until the Borrien county National- Greenbackers hold their convention p They may have a nibble in resarvo for the "Duke of Three Oaks." PehC'EIVING that the Democratie candidatc for üovernor "don't scare worth a cent " at that bauuer of the " bloody shirt," the Lansing Bepublican comes to the confessional, saying : " The phrase 'copperhead' is hardly applicable to men like Mr. Barnes, wlio were willing to see the rebollion put down if their southern Democratie brethren sbeuld not be hurt much or deprived of their slaves. Mr. Barnes was patriotic as far as his party ties would permit." Try it once more. The Lansing Uepuldicun intimates that L. H. Thomas, the candidato of the irredeemables for Congress in this district, "wrote a letter to Mr Willita last spring, ridiculing the greenbackers in the style of 'iSalaratus' Smith's advertisements, and urging that steps be taken to correct the false ideas of those people." As this samo Mr. Thomas only last spring ran for president of his village, Reading, against the greenback candidate, he ia evidently a very recent as well as zealous convert. The sales of the 4 per cent. bonds on Saturday last aggregated $7,000,000, and yet the groenboek financiers proclaim on the four corners that money is scarce, and that a largo issue of irredeemable legal tenders is necessary. Fuar of legi slation with lack of conüdence : that's what's tbe matter and not a lack of money. If the business men of the country knew that Coiigress would legislate for neither contraction nor inñation within the next ten years they would know how to invest. Congressional control of the volume of currency is the rock on which euterprise and prospority havo and will split. The Nevada bunkers are onough for Secretary Sherman and his director of the mint. When the proposition was made to pay for a million dollars worth of silver bullion in the "dollar of the daddies " the bankers were at first offish, but a shrewd ofücer saw his way out, telegraphed an acceptance, then folio wed with a telegraphic order for a million 4 per cent. bonds and turned the silver coin over in payment. Freight on the coiu is saved, 1-4 of one per cent. is made on tbe bonds (by tho bank), and the " dollars of the daddiea " still linger in the vaults of the mint. As a circulating medium thu silver dollar is a failure. MM44 - - ■ ■ ■-- " Whole hog ornothing": that is the motto of thu Vermont Natioual-Greenbackers. No currency redeemable in coin "on thoir plates," no convertibility, and no intriusio valué necessary. Witness the first plank in Iheir receutly adopted platform : 1. Tho Bnauolal systera needed is that all inouoy must be issued by the joveriiiiieiit, whtítljdr mude of metal or or paper. It must Dfl portoet aud complete in itself, be f uil legal teuder iu every case and to any umount in the payment and iawful discharge of every spocies of indebtednes?, no matter how httle the commercial vulue of tho material of which it is made. That is "íi:it" or "absoluto money" without disguise. A worthless currency and onough of it is evidently the Vermont greeubacker's panacea for all the ills of the body politie.