Local Political Notes

- A f ter eleetion, Joe T. Jacobs will go around anxiously Lnquiring "Who sawed my boal in two?" - Ex-nmyor Cramer-wtli addrewthe people of Clinton on Thnrsday evening, Oct. 7, in reply to Bob Frazer. - Remember the meetinsof the Hancock and Englisti club to-morrow evening te be ad.lressed by George F. RobLson of Detroit - Our nominee for prosecutlng attorney, Air. Chas. K. AVliitman, is adding to an aiready earned reputation, as an orator, on the stamp. He tnkes rnriK with the ablest speakers in the state, and in future eampaigna hls voicewill be heard beyond the liraits of Washtenaw county. - Mesará P. McKeman of tliia city and Chas. R. Whitman.of Ypsilanti made excellent speeches at Milan on Friday evening which were frequently applauded.' These gentlemen are doing good service in the democratie cause, and ought to be greeted with large audiences wherever announced to ■peak. -E. D. Kinnie, a prominent memoer of the bar, was nominated f or representativo at the convention held at the court house on Tnesday. When Ínterrogated as to his position on the proposeö constitutional amendment, he evaded an answer by saying he was cliosen is a repúblicas. There is considerable talk of holding another convention and placing in nomination a candidato of pronounced views favoring prohiV)ition. - Accordinf? to a correspondent of the Free Press, Capt. E. P. Allen of Ypsilanti spoke fit Big Rapids to an audionce of three men, Ihirteen boys and one woman. Witliin flve minutes af ter he begun nine of tlie boys Bied out and aiiotlier woman filed in. He went on hovever with his speech and assured liis audience that the frequent statement that Michigan was safe for the republicana is a mistake; that it ïsn t safe for any majority unless they wake up and go to work. -On Wednesday of next week there will be a lively day at Pleasant Lake in the town of Freedom. A Hancock and English pole will be raised in the forenoon. There will be speaking in the afternoon beginning at one f. m., by Chas. R. Whitman of Ypsilanti, and followed by others,including a Germán speaker, who is expected to be present. The Scio brass band will be present to discourse music. a free lunch wiü De oitered, and the day's exercises will be closed by a grand bowery dance. Everybody invited. - Smith Wilbnr, of Clinton, the other candidato (for circuit court commissioner) is a native of New York State. He is also a gradúate of the law school at Ann Arbor, class of 1878. TTe was chosen county surveyor of Washtenaw connty in 1874 by 300 majority, and was re-elected in 1876 by over 500 majority. He is entirely a self-mnde man, having had to rely on his own resources since he was eleven vears of age. During his brief residence in Clinton he has gained a good business and secured the confldence and esteem of that community.- Tecumseh Ilerald. -In a report of Mr. Frazer's speech delivered in Tecumseh, the Ilerald of that village quotes him speaking tlms: UI have come to address yon becanse it is a habit and custom, not that I am an office seeker. I never held a political ofiïeo nor did I ever aspire to le a lic speaker and teacher." In the Hgnt of Mr. Frazer's chronic office-seeking and offlce-holdiBg for a dozen years, wimt willbe thought of aman who so deliberately perverts the truth. Three terms proseonting attorney, one term a circuit court commissioner, he stands before an audience and says- supposinR liim correctly reported- he "never held a political office." IIow dare he do it?