Rich's New Role

The people of Michigan will rejoice te know that there are a few federal appointments within the gift of Michigan's senators, in which the compensation so far exceeds the cosí of the actual time and talents required to discharge the duties of the office, that the surplus intelligence, acumeil and pull tlius acquired can be nppliecl to the c&re and direction of the polltical Interests of the aforesaid senat And this is the role in which ex(Jovernor John T. Rich now appears. Rleh'fc long career In office, -ulminutlng in the governor's chair, naturally gives him a certaln standing with politlcal lingsters. Untir recently he oecupied the unique posltion of a politician out of a job. ' His talents were (lot overlooked, however, in a computation of the avallablé strength of the federal wing of the Repubücan party. And there was a collectorship in Detroit to bo givon avvay, where the most arduous duties are to look wise ani draw a aalary of $15,000 per year. It does not require a very intímate knowledge of practical politics to understand just how that Detroit collectorship vas exchanged for Rich's service as leader of the federal-corporation-anti-Pingree Corees in Michigan. And McMillan has already found nnrl; for his newly purehase:! lleutenunt. The Pingree party must be curbed and controlled. The lieutenant is the one to lead and direct the railroad forcea. Of course to some unsaphisticated people the fact that an exgovernor of Michigan slips into the slate capitol "incog," while th ieg:?)atu.re is in session, holds a secret conference wlth the corporation leaders of the legislature and as sileitly steals away without betraying his presence, vill have no particular slgñificance. Uut people who have passed through that sometimes trying, but always profitable, rdea' Lf cuttlng cyo-teeth will f;ee in this the gathering up of the strings by which McMillan is to defeat the wishes of the people of this st;ite in regar3 to railroad taxation, without himpelf appearint; as the lord high execuHoner.