The Great Advance Agent Of

perity pass d by two years ago but his show is yetclassed among future events.. . Cliff Huston has struck a gait that will take him into the office of register of deeds several lengths ahead of all competitors. Don't forget that the [Democratie candidate for county treasurer is one of the most upright and sterling citizens of Washtonaw county. Remember Geo. J. Mann. If hizzexcellency can only be induced to make a circuit with that "Buflalo Speech" this fall the Democratie state central committee wil) gladly pay the freight. Gen. White has made a mistak e in putting his foot in that Blake rifle contract when air-guns will be the regulation weapon of the campaign wluch is now on. The war is over but the war taxes s;o on and will go on so long as the Republican party holds the purse strings. In the speuding of money the Republican party leads all competitors. McKinley's appointments of political heelers to positions of responsibility in the military service bas cost this country millions of dollars and the Uves of more ;soldiers than were killed by Spanis h bullets. Now that another "business campaign" seems to be necessary to save congress to the Republican party Mark Hanna has crawled out of his hole and is at present engaged in looking over his assessment roll The trusts and corporations will have to pay liberally for their privileges. Capt. Schuh has not only made a most efficiënt but a mest economical county clerk. In the.e days oí riotousextravaganee in public office it is well to remember one who guards with jealous care the expenditure of public funds. Said a well known and respected citizen of Ann Arbor to The Democbat the other day: "When I hear a man talkirg that silver nonsense I just think dampliool, damphool and lots of it." And we were inclined to remark that the gentleman had made a rather good gold standard argument. The Republican party loves the soldier (if he votes the ftepublican ticket.) The Eepublican pres9 of this county is already discrediting Major Kirk's uniform by urging the election of Frank Jones who never shot ofl anything more dangerous than bis mouth. So the railroad companies tried to hold up the 32nd Michigan boys for several days in Indiana in order to save an extra engine! They were not so particular as that two years ago ia the Cantón compain, when they did net get nearly the ratcs that they are now charging the government as an exhibition of their 'patriotism." - Albion Mirror. Mark Haxxa has the credit of being the biggest rascal in this country, but Senator Blkius of West Virginia has some of the symptoms of the eomplaint. He sold the government 600,000 tons of coal at $6.40 per ton while the ruling market price w,as f 1 45 a ton - Coldwater 3un. And yet some people wonder where the war tax goes in time of peace. Sathan Sutïon and tlenry Stumphenhusen, Democratie nominees for the legislature from the flrst and second districts of Washtenaw county, respectively, are well-to-do and respective farmers of this county. Mr. Sutton has already represented this district with credit to himself and to hls constituency. Mr. Stumphenhusen is a fluent speaker and well versed on public questions. He enjoys the highest respect of all who know him and his acquaintance is by no means limited. These gentlemen should both be elected. Secbetaby Aighb says the cause of so much sickness among the volunteers "was the lack by care the troops took of themselves." Of course the boys were to blame because they had to eat wormy hardtack, stinking meat, and impure water; they were respousible for the lack of necessary medicial supplies aal the drunkenness and neglect on the part of some of the surgeons in charge of hospitals. But one thing is certain, there is not one in flfty who is not ready and anxious to surrender that responsibility of accepting his discharge. - Albion Mirror. A PHiLADELPHiA rubber shoe raanufacturer notifles the trade oí an advance in the price of his goods. The advance is excused by the fact that bicycle and carriage tires have created an iucreased demand for rubber and a constant annual decreased supply has advanced the jrice, yet a pound of rubber is still a pound just as it was before the rise. No one will question this. The demonetization of silver and the ever-increa8ing demands of advancing civilization have increased the price of gold, yet the gold dollar is still a dollar just as a pound of rubber is a pound. ... ■■■■ " - - .. - f Eepebsentativb Oochban in a recent interview said: "I see no reason why at least 40,000 of the boys should not be sent home immediately. In the first place, the attempt to mobilize an army of 250,000 men was a mistake. Not over 75,000 volunteers were needed. The horrors of Chiokamauga and the worse horrors of the Santiago campaign are attributable to an atempt to arm, equíp, provisión and organizo an army three times larger than was needed. "This, with the appointment of a job lot of politicians and rich men's sons to responsible places in the eommissary department, accounts for the loss of thousands of lives by disease, starvation and neglect. The decimination of the army by disease continúes, and one way to prevent it would be to send home every man that can be spared from the service. As at present organized the regular army numbers 27,000 men: at least 25,000 of them are available for service in Cuba and the Philippine isllands. Assuredly 40,000 volunteeis added to this force ■would comprise an army adequate for tny emergency likely to arise." Countv Clerk Schuh has had jrinted a very neat card of instruc;ion to voters which can be had on application to his office. The man who questions the propogition to make every species of jroperty pay its just proportion of ;he expenses of the government is either benefiting by the present discrimination or blind to his own in:erests. The price paid for -wheat in Howell last Wednesday was 62c; in Canada the versy same day it was sold for 70c from the farmers' wagons. The price of beans in Howell was 75c; the same day in Canada $1.00 from the farmers' wagons. Rye in Howell, 40c; the same day in Canada, 47c. Potatoes in HowelL 40c ; the very same day in Canada, 70c to 80c. Prices paid to the farmers of Livingston county for hogs on foot $3.00 to $3 40; prices paid to the farmers the very same day in Canada for hogs on foot, f4.58. Prices paid to the farmers of Livingston county for dressed pork, $4.75; the same day to the farmers in Canada, 15.00 to $5.50. Hay in Canada was sellin? for $7.50 to $8.50 a ton from the farmers' wagons. How many in Livingston county received those prices Oh, prosperity, where art thou? - Livingston Democrat. Administración newspapers cannot accuse Senator Masón, of Illinois, of nmking charges against the War Department of political effect for he has been one of the administration's warmest supporters. Yet he saya: "Shameful. difgraceful, infernal, damnable - there is no word or term too strong to use. Borne one has blundered. Yes, it is welltosay íhat mw, when it is too late. But some one is responsible for allowing anyone to hold a position when his blundering would hurt. Will the apology of the government, 'someone has blundered,' give us back our dead? Will it cause us to forget the sufïerings of our fever-stricken boys? Will it flll the aching void of our hearts? Is it balm safflcient to heal the torn and broken hearts that are bleeding in thousands of homes throughout the land? Will it make s forget the agonie3 of our families, the bloody sweat of our camp? 'Some one has blundered!' What an excuse for a government to make ihrough t:e secretary of war."