Republicans And Democrats Unite In Praising It

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS UNITE IN PRAISING IT

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Comment of the Detroit Press Upon the Democratic State Ticket

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Even the Detroit Journal, the Republican Orga n Warns the Bliss Machine Politicians that Only by the Hardest Work Can Durand's Election be Prevented

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WARNS BLISS LEADERS

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Of Impending Defeat by Such a Strong Ticket

The Detroit Journal, the republican organ and chief advocate oí ripperism, is compelled to acknowledge the strength of the ticket and does so in these words:

The democratic state convention yesterday made a ticket that callenges the attention of the people and the leaders of the republican party. Not every name on the ticket stands for a man of ability equal to that of the leader and the nominee for justice of the supreme court. But no one of them is conspicuously unfit by character or native talent or acquired experience to fill the position to which he was nominated. Frankly, it Is a ticket that does honor to the party that named it. With equal frankness it may be added that it is vastly better than the party when that party is in power. Speaking with like candor, had the democratic party been in power for the last two or more years it would not have named Judge Durand for governor.

The Journal only does its duty when it points out that the ticket is strong in elements of attractiveness to the independent voter, who thinks it his duty occasionally to chasten the dominant party. It is weak only because it is what may be called a Cleveland democracy ticket, in which the so-called traitors in the democratic ranks to the sacred cause of the white metal are given the first places in the seats of the would-be mighty - a naturally irritating fact to those who bore the heat and burden of the desperate fight surrounding the last effort of the peerless leader to win on an issue even then deserving of respect only for its age. How much this elevation of the gold element of the party for the enforced worship of its silver rank and file may work out to the advantage of the republican ticket it is impossible to say.

We advise the republican party not to place too much stress on that weakness of their opponents. Estimated at its utmost as likely to cause a failure to deliver to the Durand ticket the entire normal democratic vote, the fact still remains that the ticket is not one that can be sneered down or otherwise treated lightly. This is an off year, and that fact favors precisely the kind of ticket nominated yesterday. Backed by hard work the republican ticket is safe. Otherwise there is danger.