The Sharp Contrast

The Detroit Tribune says editorially: Politics could 'hardly present a sharper contrast than that which is drawn between the republican convention which renominated Gov. Bliss last nionth and the democratie convention which yesterday named Judge George H. Durand of Flint to lead a popular than a partisan flght for clean, honest, independent and respectable government in Michigan. The trail of the serpent was over all the proceedings of the former. The elements which eontributed to the triumph of Bliss were: Party precedent, which denianded a second term for a governor, no matter how disgraceful the methods by which he gained his first preferment; the power of the federal machine, which had found him pliant; the support of public service corporations that had made a tooi of him. and the eamest labors of an army of his appointees, who, for montlïs had been working in his interests at the expense of the state, in order to hold their jobs. That was the absolute extent and the accurately described character of the championship that his candidacy nlisted. It was a convention controlled and directed by the same machine which had assisted in disgracing his administration. Yesterday's gathering was one In which individual delegates voted their own convictions, as Is easily determinable from an examination of the ballots in detail. Excepting counties with candidates of their own, there was hardly one whose vote was not split among two or more of the aspirants. There were no purchased votes yesterday; no delegations drag'ooned into service by bosses or influeneed by promises of future tfavors; nor had caucuses or conventions been manipulated by the 'hired workers or faithful papsuckers of an administration. If Michigan declines to be redeemed under such auspices and with such a ticket from top to bottom as was noniinated yesterday, she will have to be classed with the obdurate heathen who refuse to accept the word preached to them.