Wholly Obstinate And Unmanageble

WHOLLY OBSTINATE AND UNMANAGEABLE

EDITOR HELBER RESISTS EFFORTS TO SUPPORT MACHINE

Tells Republican Ticket to go to a Climate Much Hotter Than Here

This the way an episode in local politics is told by the Monroe Democrat:

Editor Eugene Helber, of the German Post of Ann Arbor, continues an object of solicitude on the part of candidate for congress, Townsend and his friends. He remains wholly unmanageable and obstinate, and resists all overtures to turn in and support the republican ticket. When Congressman Smith, who does not deny that he promised Mr. Helber the Ann Arbor postoffice, used him as long as he thought he needed him and then turned him down, it was reasoned that smarting under the perfidy and outrage of his betrayal, he would promptly ally himself with the interests of some other candidate, and having beaten Smith with him, he would joyously and with alacrity hoist the standard of the winner in his influential and widely circulated paper and work for his election till the ides of November., But the unexpected happened, for when the first issue of the Post appeared after Mr. Townsend's nomination, and was eagerly scanned for a "double leaded yell of triumph" from the hurricane deck with the name of Hon. Charles Townsend waving from the mast-head, Mr. Townsend and his people were astounded at the emphatic manner in which they were not there. Instead, there rested over the columns of the Post that awful, ominous, brooding silence, that portended no good to the republican candidate; a silence which thickened and suffocated the air preceding the eruption of Mt. Pelee, and Mr. Townsend was dismayed. It was believed to be best to approach the influential German editor and discover if possible, the cause of his detonating silence. Accordingly trusted commissioners, skilled in diplomacy and provided with the ambergris of good will and the frankincense and myrrh of fraternal affection, visited Ann Arbor and found "Achilles" in his tent, busily employed in the rare occupation of minding his own business. The German chieftain received the ambassadors with courtesy, invited them to seats, and when they had crossed their legs and sat hesitating under the embarrassment of great responsibility, they were closely Interrogated touching the cause of so distinguished a visit. Ambergris of good will and the frankincense and myrrh of fraternal affection were thereupon produced and the Achillian tent grew redolent with the odor. These, the ambassadors stated, were in expression of amicability; they greeted the chieftain in the name of their master, and had come to inquire why in his paper there was not one little whoop for Townsend. and why his name flew not at the mast head of the Post. Then Bro. Helber broke loose. The silence was relieved, and that, at least, was some consolation. Mr. Helber did not scent the violet nor paint the rainbow. He told the ambassadors respectfully but firmly in effect that Mr. Townsend and the republican party might this year go to that winterless climate represented by the gentleman with hoofs and horns; that he was not in the whooping business this summer; that the republican candidate for congress could not obtain his influence, and that republican politics, especially in Washtenaw, had become so corrupt it was a disgrace to be a Washtenaw republican. He bade them tell their master so, and signified that the end of the conference had been reached.