Our State Ticket

The Republicana of Michigan, representeil at Grand Rapids iu the largest conventi ui oí delegates that has ever assembled in the liistory pf their party, presented for the suffrages of the people a state l.cket which is above cavil or legi tira ate Critieism. Itstands without a flavv. lOvery candi du te upon it is a ropresentative eitizen. Each one has achieved snccess in his own line of work. Nearly all of thein have een tried in the very offices to which they ask election, and notone has been found wanting. The election of this ticket eannot fail to give the people what they demand- a, vigorous. honest and económica] state admini.vtration. The administration of Göv. Kieh, who asks for a re-election. is one that the people will never foiget. If there is one quality in a min which more than another commands the respect of the American people it is manlv courage - not mere animal courage - but móral courage. The iéarléss discharge of duty, regardless of personal feelings, is sublime, and the people have hád some remarkable exhibitions of it during Gov. Riclrs administration. No governor, unless it was that noble war governor whom the Republican party gave to the state of Michigan - Austin I51air - ever had greater responsibilities cast upon him than Gov. Rich has had. And he was never known to fiinch. A sturdy discharge of duty has characterized his entire official course. During the stormy HPSsion of 1801, wheü the Republican imnority in the senate had to fight for the merest recognition by the Democratie majority of the rights which the siighte.it sense of honor and decency would have accorded them. Hon. Alfred Milnes was the Republican leader. Ever wa-tchful to assert the right and to resist Democratie usurpation and injustice, he acquired a skill in parliainentary and legislative tactics which will make hira a magnificent president of the senate. Such is the Republican candidate for lieutenant-governor. The three members of the board of state auditors - Hon. Washington Gardner, Hon. James M. WilUinson and Hon. William A. French - the present incumbents of the offices of secretary of state, state treasurer and commissioner of the state land office- are the Republican candidates for those offices. They have held these positions of responsibility but a short time. but sufficiently long to demónstrate their eminent fitness for the offices which they ask. Never has the state had a better board of auditors to protect its treasury. They are industrious. conscientious and economical, as the records of their transactionsconclusively show. Every item of business receives their personal attention. Every claim against the state is keenly sciutinized. No constructive expense accounts, either for themselves or for others, are allowed to pass, and all business is dispatched with the most methodieal exactness. The same óare is exercised in the management of their respective offices as is shown in their transactions as a board of auditors. Michigan today has one of the most systemaiic and perfect tax laws it has ever had. Of iti excellencies more is said in detail in anothercolumn. While perfection eannot be claimed for any human law. it may be truthfullv said of the tax law of' 1893, that it "comes mucb nearer to being a model revenue law than any of its predecessors. That law stands as a practical demonstration of the remarkable adaptability of j Hon. Stanley W. Turner to the office of auditor-general. .Scarcely had he taken the office wlien he set hïmseJf : about perfecting the revenue laws of the state. With rare skill, tact. judgment and perseverance he secured the enactment of the tax law of 1893, and so brought order out of chaos in his department. His administration has, in this one respect, been of incalculable benefit to the people of the state. Hon. Kred A. Maynard is one of the foremost lawyers of the second citv of the state. No nominee for attorney general on any ticket in the held can compare with him, in the quaiifications requisite for that responsible office. Besides his leg-al hehasawide acquaintance with those public questions and problema of state policy which so largely eharacterize the leg-al duties of the state's att 'rney. While the people scarcely appreciate the importance of the office of attorney general and certainly fail to compénsate hirn for a tithe of the services he is callecl upon to render, yetthe Republican eandidate stands rèady to do his duty to the uttermost. His administration of the office willneverbe measured by the salary. Of Hon. Henry R. Pattengill, the Republican candidate for superintendent of public instruction, little needs to be said. By his abundant fruits the people knovv him. Since its first inception Michigan's educational system has not had a more "hustling" exponent than he has been. His industry and activity are infectious' and he has awakened an enthusiasm in the whole army of teachers never bef ore known. There can be no dry-rot in Michigan's educational system while "lJat" is in the saddle. From Keweenaw Hoint to the Monroe marshes he is known as "the right man in the right place." Hon. Perry F. Powers, who comes before the people for re-clection as member of the state board of education. has an honorable record in that position as his endorsement. He has been for years an enthusiastic worker in the cause of public education and the people can no where find a safer and botter person to whom to entrust the interests of its magníficent normal school. He has carnet! his re-election.