A Good Many Names Of Persons Are

mentioned for mayor tbis spring. On the republican side E. B. Abel, A. F. Mnrtin, John Heinzman, Colonel Dean, W J. Herdman and the post-master. On the democratie side Dr. Vaughan, Dr. Kapp, Dr. George and Edward Dufify have been suggested. It goes without saying that either of these men would make a good oflicer. There are rumore of a fusión of republicans greenbaokers and temperance men against the demócrata. If the fusión works as well as the fusión between the republicana and greenbackere lat fall, there ia fun ahead - for the demócrata. Fhesident Cleveland has alreaöïy begun cleaning out the supernumaries. Four clerks in the white house have been notified that iheir services will not be needed after Maroh 15, and the remainder have been notifled tliai they will be expeeted to work dnnng business hours, inetead of following the custom estabhshed by the party of great moral ideas - spending business hours drinking whisky, smoking, and re..ding the Pohce G:i zette. This early and vigorous reform in the white house strikes terror lo the army of loafers or "workers" who have be d drawing pay in the various depariments for yeais. Like old Belshazzer, they see the handwriting on the wall. Keep the b;ll rolling and in four years the g. o. p. will be as dead and as offensive as one of Dr. Herdnian's cadavers. The Inaugural of President Cleveland meets the universal approval of the democratie party, and all fair-minded republicans as well. It is a fr, nk, plain and straight-forward document, Not a sentence in it for buncombe and not a word for sound and effect. The president means business. He looks upon his ereat office as a public trut, and it will not be prositnted in the interest of peculation or monopoly. He pleads for the simple and ejonomical wuys of our fathers. He depricates extravagance in private living as well as in public expenditure. He advocates a reform in the civil service, which means, in the first place, the removal from office of the great body of present office-holders whose racalities in office have made the reform nejessary. Cleveland has a job on hand greater than that which tried the strength of the ancient Hercules ; but he has got splei.did health and courage, and if he does his duty he will find fifi y milhons of people at hii back in the end, and before four years are past the g. o. p. will be dead and bui ied beyond resurrection. Of theseven members Cleveland's cabinet three. Bayard, Lamar and Garland, weie bom in the south ; three, Endicot, Whitney and Vilas, were bom in New England, and one, Daniel Manning, was bom in New York. They are all in the prime of life- between forty and sixty yeirs cf age. They are a unit with the pr sident upon the subj et of the tanff. currency and a reform in the admimstration of the government. It is conceded to be the strongest cabinet ihat has been formed by any president in years. The president has alreidy annouaced that all application for office must be made to the head of the department in which the appoiutment is sought. These cabinet officers are shrewd men, having a large knowle 'ge of the world and human nature, an i will be very hard to deceive. riiey will understand the valué 1 f the average petition. All candidates for federal appoititmenta mayas wel learn first as last that appointmentx are usudlly nuide on the personal recommendation of men whom the appoinling power kuown, and in whrnn the, wppoinUng power has coifidence. Long petiti ns seldorn have any we ght in se011 ring appointments. Three bilis are pe ding in the 'egislature in whicli Ann Arbor has a peculiar interest. First, a bilí to prohibit the sale of üquor wi hin five miles of the nniversity ; seoond a bilí to aM the scho' of mechanic 1 engineering, and the bill to authorize the legents of the uuiverBity to move the clin cal in trnction in the medical department to Detroit This last bilí can not pss. Of course, it would be a great convenince to Maclean nd hia Cannuckp, and it would enable two or three doctors in Detroit to get that Jonah "college" off their hands; it bas becorae a burden if not a disgrüce. The begin to realize that its "diploma" are not much better than Buchannan's, which could be purchased for three dollars and fiity cents each. The f act is, such an institution ought to be irohibited by law from granting "diploma" to a lot of ignorant cattle - turning two dozen of thern lose every year to gore and destroy the lives of patiënt. No wonder that intelligent people begin to sympathize with homeopathy. They at least are sure Ihnt - " Little pilla Never klll." The bill pending at Lansing, prohibiting the sale of hqtior within five miles of the university, is backed up by a petition signed by about eeven liundred meu women and children in this city. Thé scheme was conceived and brought ferth by cranks. T ie great ma-H of our people teel insulted by it. There is not a business man in Ann Arbor that would not be severely injured by the passage of this bill. The legislature ought to understand that the students of the university of Michigan are not striplings, unsafe beyond the reaeh of their mothers' apron strings. They are young men and women m the prime of life, well able to take care of themselves . They have too much pride and self-respect to be " protected" by the kind-hearted old maids, and shallow and sentimental cranks who are pushing this ndicu'oussclieme. We venture to say that yon can not piek out twelve hundred men in any clasa of Bociety in this oounty, young or old) who drink lesa intoxicante tban the twelve hundred young men connected with the university. A very small per centage of them may use intoxicating beveragea, but that ratio would not be deoreased if the legislatura should pass 11 bilí that no liquor should be sold within forty miles of Ann Arbor. This bill is an insult to students and nn imposition upon the city. It is hard to realizo that any sensible persons in this nineieenth century really believe that you can compel, by law, the great masses of the country to conform their habits of living to an ideal standard, which exisitsonly in the tmnds of a few half-baked fanatice. The Weekly Standard, published at Ioni:i, the home of Allen G. Morse, democratie nominee for justice of the supreme court, paid the gentleman a handsome tril ute last week. Mr. Morse is an old soldier liaving aerved as a private and sergeant in the 16th Michigan infantry, when in December, 1862 he was transferred to the 21st Michigan infantry as lst lieutenant of Co. I. The Standard says that while with the 16th infantry he never lost but three days from duty by sickness or auy other cause. Waf iu the siege before Yorktown and in the seven days üght before Hichmond. Also participated with bis regiment in the battles of Hanover court house, Pope's battle Manassas, Antietam, and ÍShepardstown Ford and numerous skirmishes. Wherever his oommand went he carried a musket with it. While in the western army, he.was in the battles of Chickamaugii and Mission Ridge, losing his left arm in the latter flght. He became adjutant of his regiment Febriviry 3, 1863. While acting as such, he was detailed as acting assistant adjutant general of the first brigade of Sheridan'a diviaion comruande I by F. T. Sherman, and was upon his staff when woumled. Although losing bis left arm Nov. 25,1863, he remained in active service, after a short furlough untilSept. 16,1864. When retiring from the position of aasiatant adjutant general, he receivid n very flattering testimonial to his worth as a soldier and an officer from his brigade commander' which was endorsed by Gen. Sheridan, as folio ws: Headqüarters 2nd División ) 4th Akmy Corps, [ London, Tenn , Feb. 11, 1864. ) I take great pleasure in approvingthe wishes and recommendations of Col. Sherman. Morse while in my división proved himself to be an able, efficiënt and gallant officer, and was wounded while leading his men in the storming of Mission Ridge. P. H. Sheridan, Maj. Gen'l. It will be seen that Allen B. Morse was one of the earliest in the service; that he experienced the penis and harrtships of war both as a private soldier and an officers, and bears the honorable scars of service won in his country's defense. He is ent it led to the support of hia comracles. He is a member of the grand army of the republic, and as an orator has been repeatedly cali' d upon by the old soldiers to lead in the patroitic services on decoration day and the Fonrth of July. In this vicinity, he will command the almost unanimous vote of his old comrades, and we commend him to the old soldiere everywhere. The defenders of the nation in its supreme hour of peril are growing fewer every year. They are worth of all honor. Here and now is the opportunity to place one of them in a position of trust and honor. If worth as a citizen of the place, the soldiers should see to it that he attains it.