Retiring Democratic Officials

To-morrow Sheriff Case turns over to his successor, Mr. E. W. Wallace of Saline, the prisoners in the ja.il, the keya of that institution, and retires to the shades of private life. In the four years tenure of the sheriffalty of Washtenaw couaty, the out-going incumbent has served well the people who elected and re-elected him. Of his administration no complaint has come to onr knowledgc. It is a position fraught with more or less personal danger from rofractory prisoners. Upon retiring at night, with every person supposed to be safely locked in a cel!, conti nuous must be the fear that a scheme for escape long studied, is being carried out. The office of sheriff is far from being a pleasant one. That its duties have been faithfully performed by Mr. Case thero is no quetion. And we may so say of all his deputies. Another democratie official, Register of Deeds Manly, after two terms of official tenure, wil], to-morrow vacate in favor of Mr. Gilbert. In his management of the office, where records of value to every landholder in the countv are preserved for future reference, the public is well satisfied. Mr. Manly has no reason to feel other than that all who have had business to transact in hiu department the past four years have been courteously treated.