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Alderman Brown Has The Desirable

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Day
1
Month
April
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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faculty of taking care of himself. .M J. Cavanaug-h will reprasent the riixth ward upon the next coancil. Supervisor Boyle, of the Fifth ward, ileserves a re-election and he will set it. Oeorge W. Weeks will represent the l'"ifth ward for the next two years ifi ihe city council. Wm. Walsh has been on the board of supervisors hefore and the people of the Fourth ward will see that he groes there again. Harry Douglass is one of .he representativo young business men Of thi city and he will do the Firit ward credit upon the city c-ouncil. The "implicit confldence' which the llepublican congress was advertised t.o repose in McKlnley, Hanna & Co. seeras to have suffered a relapse. The Mohawk club bmquet takea place at the auditorium in Detroit next Tuesday evening, April 5. Wm. J. üiyan will be the principal speaker! Mayor Hiscoek'R sturdy Americanism took a swipe at the senseless custom of apeing English nam es when he vetoed the ordinance changing Oxford street to Oxford Road. E. L. Schneider, who is a candidate f.ir alderman from the Second Ward upon the Democratie ticket, has large property interests in the ward and will make a good, careful representative. Li. T. Limpert. Democratie candidate 'v aJderman in the Seventh, deserves ihe support of every property owner nf that ward. He is one of the people and thoroug-hly posted upon city affairs. It is no discredlt to any candidate to say that there is no mere honest, conscientious or capable man upon either ticket than Kugene Mann, Democratie candidate for supervisor in the !'"irst ward. No one will doubt ihat Senator Preston has resigned a good federal job at the command of Jim McMiilan, in order to hold his seat in the state senate in the interests of the people. Sid Millard, who is a candidate for re-election to the office of supervisor in the Second ward, has made one of the most efficiënt supervisors the Washtenaw county board has ever had. He wili be re-elected by a rousing ma.inrity. A review of the situation at Lansing createa the impressie n that ths railway magnates do not propose to perrnit open hostilities to begin until the resi urces of diplomacy have been exlinusted. The plea that eual taxation would t urden ome railronds in this state is no rea&on for defeating the Pir.grce tax bfll. Taxation at best is a. burcien. liut a necessary one. If ve are to csempt property on this score from its .iust proportion .of taxation, let us begin at the other end and eonaider the claims of the farmers, the business mea .ind poor people generally upon whom ihe expenses of government have fallen with unusual severlty of late-.

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Ann Arbor Democrat