Editorial Notes

The Evening (íews refera to "Superintendent Newkirk of the State public school for girls nt Coldwater." There is no "state public school for girls" a( Coldwater. Helio, what's this? Senator-elect Vilas, of Wisconsin, opposed to free coinage? He'll have to lc tdcked out of the party of free whisky and t'ree silver, or else he'll have to change his views, as a number of demócrata have doue,to pretend to get nearer to the demands of the Farmers' Alliancc. - Shiawassee American. The McKinley bill is getting in its work. Our grocers can now make contracta with wholesale dealer for granulated BUgar to be delivered after April 1, at -J.'.j to -i cents. That will reduce present retail price at least 1}X cents per pound. A year's BUgar at that rate would save the ncrease on five year's supply of tin, if the whole duty were added to the p'rice. - Ypsilantian. A democratie paper admita that the only hope agaiust the Farmers' Alliancc bilí to repudíate Kansas mortgages, already iassed by the lower House of that Legislature, is in the republican Senate. There it is right. Theaenatesall over tlie country are the hope of the oppressed people. In Albany the republican senate is the bulwark against outrageooa democratie bilis; in Topeka, against those of the Farmers' misalliancc ; in Washington, after March 4th, against the combined insanity of both these minority parties. - Mail and Express. We are not at all surprised at the tact that the Argus fully agrees with the Detroit Trilmne's famous "sapless" editorial. Why shouldn't it? It was a complete "cave in" to the democratie party and ui acknowledgement that the principies of freedom and justice advocated and fought for by the republican party since its inception, have been wrong. It is au ackuowledgeraent that the war was a failure ; that reconstruction was a failure ; that the whole drift and policy of the republican party have been wrong. The following item, taken from the Chelsea Herald, is respectfullv referred to the people who believe the Solid South a sapless issue : Mr. Fred. Welker, a cousin to Mrs. Frey of this place, who lias lived for the past four years at Carlin Springs near Alexandria, Va., has made up his mind to come to live in Michigan again. It is a queer thing ahout justice down south and Mr. Welker can teil something almt it. He left his property consistinj: of two dwelh'ng houses at Carliu Bprings and a farm of 130 acres in Fairfax county, in the hands of an attorney to dispose of the best way he knows how. Fenton Independent : "The free silver íoolishness has runagainst ;i si mg in the llou.se, and it now looks as il' the sil ver men could jrH no more than a compromise measure, at the best. The republicana iu the house are exhibiting considerable more sense than the membera of the same party in the senate have done, and they probably have a suflicient amount of baekbone to stick by their convictions. It is to be hoped the unlimited coinage of silver will not be allowed, as the country is hardly in shape to take on a period of inflation for the benefit of the owners of the silver mines in all parta of the world." The Ann Arbor Democrat in referring to the recent change of front by the Detroit Tribune lias this to say : The sale of the Detroit Tribune to the parties who own the Evening Xews is creating quite a stir among the republieans throughout the state. The News is owned by demócrata, and for years has been consistent in but one thing - a steady advoeacy of free trade. Of course the republican leaders are naturally suspieious of such an "organ" as this is likely to be. Indeed it leaves them "between the devil and the deep sea." The republican party has now hardly a paper in the state, except the Courier, which can be depended on to sustain party nieasures through thick and thin. The sale of the Tribune to the Scripps syndicate will probably lead, as the Courier indicates, to the establishment oí another republican paper in Detroit. An able paper in Detroit, boldly advocating forcé bilis, more pension bilis, and McKinley bilis, would be a godsend to the dempcracy of Michigan. Intelligent discussion of such questions will make democrats, and nothing else will. There is no doubt but that the revolution of last fall in favor of democracy was eaused by the discussion of the question raised by President Cleveland in bis message on the tariff. Debate upon the taris will give us the presidency in '9:2. If the attention of the public is called away by Behring sea troubles, reciprocity, or free coinage, the democracy will be beaten, because upon all of these questions the democracy will be disunited, uniuformel an 1 helpless in presence of the superior party management of the republicaus. Blaine, who is one of the ablest statesman living, sees this and is already intriguing and managing to cali the attention of the people froin the stupid management of McKinley and Reed. Comment upon the above from a republican standpoint is unnecessary.