Republican City Convention

The Republicans of the city of Alm Arbor will meet in city convention at the Court I House, on Thursday, April 2d. at 7:30 o'clock p. rn„ for the purpose of nominating eandidates for city offices, and transaeting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Aecordlng toa resolutionadoptedat aformer Republican city conveution, each ward will be (ntitled to one delégate for every 2ó votes cast for governor at the last preceding election. On this basis the rarions wards of the city will be entitled to rcpreseutation as foilows: Deleqatet. lst ward 461 ís 2d ward 398 14 3d ward ... . 37f 15 4th ward 321 13 Mh ward 183 7 ötü wftrd -2:) 9 G. F. ALLMENDIXGER, Ch'ui. .IOHN V. BEXNETT, Sec'y. Kow the democratie senators at Langing are up to another disreputable game. They have not secured a clear majority yet, but are bound to do so at any hazard, so as to carry through their infamous gerrymander. Their latest is to charge that Senator Wilcox, the P. of I. whom they cannot use as a tooi, was approached by republicana with bribes. The next step is to accuse Joe Weiss of Detroit as one of the would be corrupters, thinking to make an excuse to unseat him, thereby getting a majority. Any one knowing Mr. Weiss will acknowledge that there is not a straighter man in politics, and this bare-faced outrage only shows to what straitethe apologists for Fridlender and the robbers of Morse's seat are reduced. How long will the people stand such chicanery? Only when they get a chance at them at the polls. The Detroit Tribune is greatly improving of late. Aa the Couriek was the first paper in the state to rebuke the initial break it made against the party we ilesire to be aniong the first to recognize that it has changed its course and ïiow proposes to edit a straight-out republican paper, without dallying with the back-boneless element of voters who are afraid to stand up for right, justice and stalwart republican principies. The Tribune, under Mr. Scripps' able management, should not only regain the lost ground but go on to a far greater leadership than it has ever had. The state presa will greatly appreciate its restoration and will bid it god speed in its advocacy of the great undying principies of the party of patriota. Final returns of the populationof Louisiana, by races, show that the whites have not vet quite overtaken the negroes in number, although they have gained rapidly since 1880. Then there were 454,954 white persons in the State and 483,655 colored. Last June the figures 554,712 to 562,893. The negro majority of 28,701 ten years ago is cut down to 8,181, and the increase is shown to have been 79,238 for the colored element of the population and 99,758 for the whites. The rate of increase bas been more heavily in favor of the latter, being 29.1 percent, against only 16.3 per cent. for the colored majority. This difference is less than that which cxists in many other southern states, but it is sufficient to show how baseless is the talk of impending negro rule anywhere.