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It Is High Time That Pinkerton's Thugs

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
January
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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who shoot down inoffensive persons, were lianged. The New York Sun oomeB out squaretoed for William T. Coleman of Caliornia, tor president in 1888. And still the nionkeying oontinues in Indiana and New Jersey, where the legslatures of those two states are trying to elect United States senators, and they are no nearer acoomplishing their object than when balloting first commenced. The board of education of Detroit, does not like representativo Manly's bill regttrding a uniformity of text-books, and they are doing some tall kicking. We are not snrprised at this. Mr. Manly expected to meet wih opposition from suoh qnarters; but the people are with him in bis effort of reform. The question now uppermost in the rninds of our oitizens is, shall we have a free delivery? Under the law Ann Arbor is entitled to one. Some opposition is met with from several of our business men, who think that a free delivery will keep many at home who now come down after their mail, and that they will lose trade in oonsequenoe. We do not believe anything of the kind. People will purchaso what they need, delivery or delivery. For one we are in favor of a free delivery, and whenonce eetablished it will givé satisfaction to nine-tenths of oar citizens. The official returns of the elections held in twenty states, laat f all, are jast in, and they teil a remarkable story. It was supposed.'as the democratie majority in the next congress was reduced, that there was a ï.wge falling off of the democratie and a correspondió increase of the republican vote. Just the reverse is the faot. The figures show that the demócrata gain 191,000 on the popular vote of 1884 and that the repulican loas sinoe then, on the popular vote, is 132,000. At this rate the g. o. p. will be nowhere in 1888. Another thing not very consoling to the republioans, is the fací that the prohibition gain over their vote of 1884 is over 160 per cent., about evenly divided in those twenty tates. There is but one hope for the republioans.and that is to remove bodily into the prohibition party. Thbri is a mauufaoturiiiK industry now being carned on in tuis city which at present employs fifteen or twenty perRons, and is likely soon to employ one liundred, which senously thiaka of removing to Battle Creek. The proprietor of this establishment is not a member of our " boomin(j assooiation." He probably could not get the two-thirds vote necessary to join, but perhaps there is nothing in the "oonstitution'1 of the assooiation which wou ld prevent it f rom making an effort to keep this enterprise in Aim Arbor. What this city wants is more manofaoturing enterpnses. When our citizena put their mouey into such industries they should be given the aid and enoouragement which they receivo m other towna. Wind will never boom Ann Arbor, no matter how elabórate the "constitution" under which it is put in motion. With our present railroad faoilities this city is one of the best plac98 in the state for manufaoturing enterprises . Would. that we had more of them.

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Ann Arbor Democrat