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A Graceful Recognition

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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A GRACEFUL RECOGNITION

Detroit Tribune Calls the Act of the Supervisors

HOT ROAST ON GLAZIER

The Same Paper Takes Occasion to Roast the Senator From Washtenaw

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The leading editorial in the Detroit Tribune, Friday, is of local interest and was as follows:

"By unanimous vote, the supervisors of Washtenaw county have doubled the salary of Judge Kinne of the circuit court. Their act is a graceful recognition of the services of an unusually competent, able and just judge and undoubtedly an excellent investment for the county which is thus practically assured of his continued presence on the bench which he has conspicuously graced. It is understood that, in appreciation of the compliment and of the material reward, Judge Kinne will forego his ambition to sit on the supreme bench of the state, and will not be a candidate for nomination to one of the new justiceships to be filled at the next election. And thereby hangs a tale. The unanimous and non-partisan fashion in which the honor was conferred would seem to take it out of the realm of politics, in the ordinary sense, and must certainly make it most gratifying to the recipient of so unusual a distinction.

"Nevertheless there seems to be little doubt that the movement was inspired by those persons who favor the presumptious candidacy of State Senator Glazier for the state treasurership. We can not blame the bar or the people of Washtenaw county for their natural desire to retain Judge Kinne, even though they must realize that he would be an ornament to the state bench; but ti is preposterous and humiliating that the impulse toward the act and a portion of the support the proposition received should find their origin in a desire to advance the political fortunes of a public servant so notoriously recreant as Mr. Glazier. He is one of the more conspicuous members of the senate who sold out to the machine in the matter of primary elections. We do not intend to intimate that he received money for the votes he cast in direct betrayal of his pledges to his constituents and opposition to the platform on which he was elected. Mr. Glazier is a man of property and was probably not approached with any such vulgar proposition. It is unnecessary to attempt to determine the price that was paid him, but there is fair ground that it was in the form of promises of support for his present candidacy. In any event, he proved that his word is not good when given to the public. 

Yet this man has the infinite assurance to aspire to further honors and the machine has the arrogant insolence to champion his cause. The Tribune rather hopes to see the bosses succeed in foisting their tool upon the republican voters of Michigan, more than three-fourths of whom were and are heartily and earnestly in favor of the reform which this man deserted. It believes that this would be the straw to break even the tough back of the stupid camel of partisanship. In short, it believes that a sufficient number of republicans would resent this final insult to relegate Mr. Glazier to the obscurity which so becomes him. If the machine wants to give the people a direct opportunity to express their feelings on this matter of pledges coldly and defiantly ignored, it couldn't do better than to nominate Glazier, and if it does every voter in Michigan will be informed of his record on this point before election day.