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núy of the second oongreesional distric upon the selection of so acceptable a can iliilate as Col. N. B. Eldridge, of Adrián Cor Congress. The eonvention hHve put in nomination the right man for the place, and at the right time. Hts quali fications are unquestioned, his integrity cannot be assailed, and his popularity is eertified to by the generous support he has always received whenever before tho people as a oandidate for office. He was elected sheriiT in the republican county of Lenawee, over a popular competitor made a rnagnifieent run for congress in the first district when it was composec of the counties of Wayne, Monroe, Lenawee and Hillsdale, and would have been elected but for the failure of Wayne to give the usual and expected democratie majority. Col. Eldridge accepts the principies of free trade as laid down in the state platform of the democratie party as fundan e ital doctrines, andas such will not only advocate thern before the people in the canvass but support and carry thern out so far as in his power if elected. He is pronounced in his condeinnation of the "Kiver and Harbor steal," and the public may take notice that every attempt at robbery of the national treasury, in whatever form or deceptive guise it may come, will receive his unyielding opposition. The military career of Col. Eldridge must command for him the support of the citizen soldery who admire not only gallant service in the field, but are also ready to award merit and support to integrity, ability, and true manhood in civil life. With the many elements we find in favor of Col. Eldridge, it cannot be said we "hope against hope," notwithstanding the large republican majority in the district, if we hope for his election. The press ia engaged just now in making estimates and calculations of the oonstitution of ths next congress. Nearly all tho papers agree as to the probability of democratie success. Everything, they say, is favorable to it- the off year, when the opposition vote always comes out strong, the new apportionments, and the blots within the republican party eaused by the prohibition question in the west and the stalwarthalf-breed independent flght in the east. The Chicago Times calis attention to the fact that new apportionments are always favorable to the democracy. It is true that most of these apportionments thia year were made by republican ïsiatures in tue mtorest of the republican party; but it must be reinembered that the saine tlring was done in 1870, and vet the result was democratie success in the first election under the apportionments then made. And this success the Times predicts for 1882. The New York Sun goes further and analyzes every state and district, figuring out a house of 179 democrats, 139 republicans and 7 independents, oran abaolute democratie majonty of 33 over all. i UB euibor oí me .UEMOCRAT tllinKS Prof Frothingham wants to buldoze hiin because be could not wait all day for au answer to a civil question. He was asked by the doctor if he knew of any letters addressed to John E. Welcome having passed through the Ann Arbor postoffice. He could have answered this one way or the other very quick. But instead of this he quibbled until the doctor, who does not spend ranch time in such kind of company, told him he could wait but two minutes longer for a reply. He then refused any answer. All "the doctor sought by this interview was to fasten the authorship of the Ann Arbor lie to the Detroit Evening News upon Bower, and we think this interview did it. - [Kegister. A great man is this doctor in his own opinión. In the rirst place we did not think it any of his business, and of course, he got Fi-othy because we would not answer lus queshons . What was it to him whether any letters came adIressed to " John E. Welcome ?" Why does he take such a deep interest in that which does not concern him ? Or does it concern him ? This arrogant M. D. came at us in a ferocious manner ; he pulled out his watch before saying a word, and then commenced bellowing like a steer in a corn field. Said he " Bower, I will give you just two minutes to reply." Did he think because his name was Frothinghara, because he had buldozed the board of regents in the Joy matter, that he could intimidate us ? If he did, he was very much mistaken, as he evidently discovered after the two minutes' interview. Wb have, we believe, a gang in Ann Arbor compared with whom Jesse James and bis party were gentlemen.- [From the organ of the department of medicine and surgery.] A professor who will charge a poor woman $5 for lancing a felón, is meaner, and more unprincipled than either of the James gang ever thought of being. They " were gentlemen." We have heard it remarked many times since that article was published in The Detroit Evening News, that no one would have supposed that it was meant for Maclean, until Maclean himself said it did. Doctor Frothingham, smarting on account of the Reveré lashinghe received in tliis paper sometime ago, devotes a column or more in his sheet to give ïlfe particular fits. Much obliged for the advertisement, Frothy. The case of Mis. Amelia E. Hay es against Dr. Donald Maclean, who is charged with malpractice, is now on trial in Detroit. Damages claimed, $25000. Pebhaps if Frothingham and Maclean had been consulted, the council would never havo appointed a homeopath on the board of health. m, ■ m The Register bas Maclean and Frothingham on the brain. But no wonder, for they are the principal owners. Henee the tirade in yesterday's sheet.