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Kussia and other foreign powers is imminent. C'Lbt the demócrata of old Washtenaw pull true, as of yore, and the majority this fall will astonish our republican brethren. Abuse is the stock in trade of the the average republican sheet, and the poor prohibitionists come in for their full share. Thk Courier will make votes for A. O. ürozier. This is all that gentleman asks. So keep on, Mr. Editor, in the conree you are pursuing. Luce, wbile he posee as a farmer, is also a banker, and withal a chronic offieeseeker, having been a standing candidate for governor since 1878. Rki-üblicass admit that the fusión ticket is a strong one. " Yapel." they say, " is a strong man. Shouldn't wonder if he were elected." That's about the aize of it . The Courier, Wednesday, couldn't get along without uttempting to be witty because Dr. Shank has said that he would no longer train with the God and morality party. The nomination of S. 8. Curry for lieutenant governor pleasee the people, particularly of the Lake Superior country, where he is well known. He will gain many votes for the party in that locality. Thebb is no doubt but republicana are terribly disappointed at the fusión of the demócrata and greenbackers. They had hoped that it could not be effected. Republican organs attempted to discourage the movement, but in vain. Henee such wry faces. Dr. Shank of Lansing, a prominent member of the G. A. R. and a life-long republican, has renounoed his allegiance to the g. o. p. and come out strongly in favor of the fusión ticket. Now, of course, republican papera will have it that Dr. Shank was never of nruoh account anyhow. The democracy of this congressional district has in private Laster H. Salsbury the very strongest candidate that could have been placed in nomination. Being an old soldier, a member of the G. A. K., and withal a man of the people, and popular as well, it is safe to say that he will pull more than his party vote at the approaching election. It is conceded by the most ardent republicans that the democratie party has a very popular nominee in private Lester H. Salsbury for congress. His record is an honorable one and his private character above reproach. Such is the reputation of the man who has been selected to lead the democracy to victory in the second congressional district. Had the republican state convention the least idea that Banker Luce stood the ghost of a chance of an election this fall he would have been dropped like a hot potato and some man like Newell placed at the head of the ticket. The f act is the party expect to see him buried under a high bdow drift on the second of November next. Thus is Luce to be killed off. Allen in his speech before the conoonvention that nominated him for congress said: "Two years ago he faced greenbackers and demócrata, and aupposed there were theonly ones he had to tight. But he found they were enemies on his flanks, some 2,400 of them in the woods that he didn't see. This year he would look around him better." The prohibitionists were not in the woods two years ago, but were in the field with their candidate battling as nobly for their principies as were the demócrata or repubhoans. - Monroe Democrat. The republicana of Ypeilanti hare organized a young men's club. They evidently feel tbat something must be done to braoe tbe party up ïf they would miike anything like a respeotable showing in tin county thia fall. Thb Free Press, Wednesday published an item from ita correspondent at Ann Arbor, in effect that Washtenaw county would demand tbe nominee for state senator " to partially heal the disappointment here over the defeat of Ohas. B. Whitraan as a congressíonal candidat '. which Monroe county was conspicuous in helping to accomplish." Such talk is all bosh. The truth is there is no dissatiafaotion here and if any one expects to seoure a nomination on this plea alone he will be sadly left. Put your ear to the ground. The Coldwater Sun, one of the ablest greenbaok papers published in Michigan, in commenting on the reoent demooratio and national conventions, says: "We have to the best of our ability contended that the demócrata of Miohigan as a whole are with the nationals on all the vital questions, and that nothing separates them but names. The two platforms adopted ai-Grand Bapids provu this to be the case, the demócrata adopting a set of resolutions to which no reasonable national can take exceptiona. They are olear cut, conoise, and admit of no miaconstruction, ooming out squarely for the ideas for which the greenbackers have been contending for years. There are thousands of republicana in Michigan who know that the principies set forth in the two platforms are right and must prevail. Snch men will vota with us this fall,and the party which upholds the national banking ay stem, a protective tariff, a gold basis for all money in oiroulation and the building up and suataining of monopolies, will be snowed under by as large a majority as was Judge Cooley two years ago." Yaple's Speech of Aceeptuncc. Geo. L. Yaple, in his speech accepting; the nomination of the greenbaok and democratie parties for governor of this state, makes some timely remarks which will be likely to make a favorable impreasion among the laboring classes. Af tor thanking the convention for the high honor conferred upon him Mr. Yaple said: The democratie and greenback parties of Michigan are in all essentials of one political belief and purpose. They are both opposed to monopolies of every kind, and both are working for industrial and commercial f reedom. They are both working to add another chapter to the history of liberty. Why should they not unite in a common fight against a common enemy - the party of oppression, monopoly and plunder - the republican party. This union is the clasping of the right hand and left hand of labor. It is not a compromiseof principies. It is not a surrender of conviotions. It is simply the massing of the forcea of one army, the opposition to the republican party. The republican party is an organized conspiracy against the right of labor; it is the tooi of monopolies, themselves the creatures of its own class legislation; it is an obstruction in the path of industrial development and commercial liberty. That great apoatle of democraoy, Victor Hugo, said, "The gretest problem for the State is, how to increase the purebas ing power of labor." With labor prosperity all thinga prosper, and the prosperity of labor is measured by its purchasing power, by the share it is able to secure of the f ruits of civilization. The history of the republican party is blotted all over with vicious class laws oppressing labor decreasing lts purchasing power, depreciating its value and increasïng the value of money, the power of capital- degrading man and elevating the dollar. Whioh is of tlie most value, a man or a dollar? Democracy answers, the man. The education and development of man is the true object of government. The state exista for man, not man for the state. Manhood is the fine flowering of democratie society. We are living in the richent period of the world's history. Every year we are growing in wealth, but every year the proportion of that wealth which goes to support productive industry is decreasing. Art science, every useful invention, all the laws of nature, are democratie and work for common good and common wealth. Our national progress ten ds to bring about equality and general diffussion of wealth, but by artificial reatnetions and combinations - the miserable f rnitage of republican class legislation - wealth ia masaed in centers and the jeweled hand of anatocracy wielda the scepter of power. We know how to produce wealth. So does England, Germany and Buaaia. But the grandeur of America, like that of England, roote back in the want and suffering of the army that has achieved her material greatness, the army of laborera. That army needs bettcr supplies. It is not on the amount of wealth, but on the distribution of it that the prosperity of a country depends. The polioy of the republican party has been to provide labor with constantly increasing work, and constantly decreasing pay. Our laborera are not a partioular class. They constitute the people; and their deatiny ia the fute of the republic. There oan be no democracy until industry is free. There canbe no genuine prosperity until every law which deprecíate the purchasing power of labor and degrades the value of man, ia blotted from the statues of the nation. Thoae old delusions and auperetitions which, like poluted rags have disflgured the fair form of our country's greatness, are fast passing away. Courage will gather the fruit of victory. But should we fail, we can say, in the language of Sir Bobert Feel, we have satisfaction of reflecting that our object has been to mitígate monopoly, to increase the demand for industry, to remove restrictions on commerce, to equahze the burden of taxation, and to ameliorate the condition of tLoae who labor.