Join Peter Altgeld Has Petered Out

The -republicana erow and the popo■crats eat it. Bryar, and Wateon can each take their mouths into retirement now. "Watch our smoke say the republicans. The small vote of the prohibitionlsts in the count y shows that they all absorbed themselves in the silver ag.gregation. who fear that Mark Hanna will be president, need have no lear. Maj. MeKinley never yet had to cali on a, Bubstitute. THreetly after the Chicago nomination the Courier informed the enemy that the Platte went dry im the fall ol the year. but they paid no heed to the warnimg. In Detroit the business men of the city have tentdered the Journal. Free Press and Abend Tost a big banquet in honor of their services in tdie receat campaign. The immense wealth of the California woman, Mrs. Castte, ivho was cauglit shoplifting in Iondon, Eng., did not save her from imprisonment. . That was right, too. Tf McKlnüey is wise he will annex the Hawaidan Islands, as is their ■desire. The fast growiing U. S. Pa■cüfic p.ommerce wifch tüie eastern nations almoBt demands these islands. The men of the democratie party who Left that arganfaation through 'principie, and voted with their former political enemies. prove how true the Ammran citizen Is to eonTietion. Xow that a break has been made Tin the solid south. mul the people there find that no great evil, but certaiïi good comes to them therefrom, many people oí the north have inreased thoir faith in the Ertablilty and perpetuity of this union of stat es. Tlie Detroit Tribune, after doing all Ia its power to defeat the republican party at the polls, and signally faillng tberein, now seeks to play the prodigal son, return to the warm fold and have theïatted cal! killed. As fair as the republicans in this section liave expressed themselves, that calí, wlll be a crow. The disintegratlng influences are at work lu the republican party already, viz : The división of the spoils. In ame places the candidates for offices commenced circulating their petitiona bef o-re it was knoira that McKintey wias elected. In ome village at least, that was true inthis county. Many of our congressmen have refused to recogniae any petition circulated previous to March 4th, and there. is no -doubt but the same rule will apply in most cases now. It ought to in all. Thls indecent haste and scramble disgusts people, and hurta the party. Bryan vil lio perfectly safo In "the ! enemy's country." AVIiere ave we at ?- Gra-ss Lake Xpws. x We are all right. It's you that are ilazed. Chairman Jones can now retire to hfe Ar-kan-saw hom taklug all of his political shrewdnees and astutenees with him. If there ai-e any patriota in this natiou, Gen. John M. Palmer and Gen. Simo.i B. BuPkner, are the men. Tliey deserve the thanks of the nation. Ma;-k Hanna has brains. He generaled his.foes and beat them fairly and honorably, and they hate him for it. But that makes no difference with Mark. Let's have a constitutional amendment changing the presidential term to stx yenrs. and making a president ineligible to a second term. What do you say ? Bro. TVoodruff, of the Ypsilanti Sentime!, should have remembered the old adage : "Betweem two stoois you'll catcb a faal." He ran for two offices, and was beat-en for both. Combinations in politics seem to be as impopular as combihations in business enterprises. Trusts are what the followers of the great poliltical trust oí '9G professed to be opposed to, nnd when they entered into such a thiaig they stultified themselves. That they should be unsuccessful is simple justice from tlieir oivn si, -111(1point. i Among the members of the Executive Council in Mnsachusetts for the coming yeur vill be Isaac B. Allen, a full-blooded negro, who was born a slave ia Virginia 54 years ago. He is Tvell-to-do and a man of promincnce among his race in Boston, where he Uves. Tliis election has terribly shocked some of the Boston blue stockrngs. Tlie St .Louis hoo-doo is dlspelled. For the first time in history a presidentiril candidat-e nominated in that city has been successful. It is gested by a still superstitlous friend, tEat the nomination of Bryañ by two conventions, both of which met in St. Louis, is all that saved McKinley. The mystery wijl probably; never be solved; but the evil charm is now broken, and hereafter St. Louis will be a perfectly. safe city for national conventions. He Tvho expects that the good times vrill tome all in a minute will be mistaken, but üi the course 'of a fow months we Bhall see a material revival of business. The oapltalist wlll now dare to let the manufacturer and tradesman take his money to do business wlth, and the people who have been holding on their dollars to tide tliem over an emergency, -vvill now pay their debts and punchase things they have needed for a long time. And so business win, slowly perhaps, but surely, revive. Speculators place Gen. Russell A. AJger in McKinley's cabinet as Secreretary of War ; Wm. T. Bynum, sound money demoerat of Indiana, as Attoruey General ; Gov. Bradley, ol Kentucky, Secretary of the Interior; Col. Nathian B. Sootrt, of "W. Va., as Postmaster General ; Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin, as Secretary of the Treasury ; CorneUius N. Blies, of New York, sound mony demoerat, Secretary of t)he Navy ; John' Sherman, oí OMo, Secretary oí State ; whllie Secretary ol Agrlculture goee to1 the f ar distant west. Gen. Miles says that Cal. F red Grant, af New York, the son of Gen. Grant, will be Secretary of "War. which knocks out our Gen. AJger. The fíew York Journal whtch was ciTculated here so freely just before election, beiiig thrust into everybody's postoffice box and house and hands that it was poesible to reach, did not help the Bryan cause any. Tlie cartoons thereim were so overdrawn, so devoid of humor, so brutal insten! of íunny that they reacted, and hurt the cause they were intended to help. There is a limit to human endurance, even in alleged '"inny" cartoons, and and the Xew York Journal passed beyand tliat limit. Hereafter that paper -would do well to confine lteell strictly to its newspaper sphere and leave lts alleged humor to Judge, Puck and other papers that can be humerous without overstepping the bounds. ' Hon. Jas. Gorman is said to have gone home poorer last Wednesday niight than when he struck town in the mornlng. He was too positive that Billy Judson was not sheriff. The lcic.it of AVillinm .T. Bryan Is hoi liribili-lilmï to liinn'l-alism pv(lirt.'d by fchoae in wliom "thé wiah Is father to the ilimmln." Principies do nos díe.- YpsMianti Kentiiiel. No, pfHoeiplea do not dio, but vagai-iscs do. and free süvit at a ratio of 1 to 1 is cerfcainlyi a vagary. Bhnetaltem is a different thing, and no one knows it better tlian the editor of tüe Seotinei. Andrew Campbell, who has been olectcl te senator from thfe district, comprising this connty and Jackson, liad a pretty close cali. Ihiring the oampalgn, vhen he went to Jackson, they told hrm there : "Jaekson county is all right. You need not e afraid liere. You just take care of W'ashtenaw." So he carne hojne and took care of Wash-tena v and' Jackeon took care of itself, as the result shows. At last Iventucky has broken her long record of democratie majoritlef and returns a pluraliity for a republilean president of nearly 500. This lis wonderful. It will be wonderíul for Iventucky. The best thing tliat ever happened to the state. The republica rus. polled 40,000 more votes fchan they did for Bradley for governor two years ago. Pour years aso Cleveland carried the state by 40,000 plurality and the populists cast 23.500 votes. This year. wlth the lat ter allled with The silvor demócrata they are bea ten. A change oï 64,000 votes ! CMory for the republicajis of Old Kentuck ! The fact that the people have repudtated repudiation and Altgeld by overwlielming majorities has no effect on this blantant, erafty and ever dangerous demagogue, and he promises his dupes that they shall arise In their might four years henee and overthrow capital. Then he says : "My fellow democrats, on account of my health I Avelcome the retirement whfch is now assured me. and which I have long wished for." Mr. Altgeld can cheer himself wlth the thought that there are others who welcome his coming retirement. He has at last said something that decent people can agree with. ; There te a great query among our friends, the enemy. The gold ere aro willling the otlier íellows should joim them asain undetf the oíd name, and the other fellows- well, they want the old name back, but they prefer to take it by :or e, and the PTOild men with it. In the sanie manner. TVhat thpy will do wtth and to each other remains yet ín dubt. One thtos is certain, the rank and. iTe . of the opposiltion surë kicking rcnibiy affainst the foolisli deeds of the Bay City amatscamntiom eonvention. Tliey believe, and with a show of force, l .11 the fusión wlth the populists in tliis state lost them many votes. The Ypsillanti heade an artiéle "The Lion attacked l.y Jackasses," in which occurs this : "The Yp i a.ntian and the Ann Arbor Oourler could have been iniluenced by no otlier than malioious moth-es in attempting to show that Hon. E P. Allen had clanged hi.s vüe'n'S on the money question." The jackall of the Senttoel is infornied of what it ouglit to have known before penning that sentence, that the Courier simply quoited a portion of an excellent speechr once made by Capt. AJlen. Was there anything malicioue in that? How loing has Capt. Allen looked like a liom to you, Tully ? Indeed, Capt. AJlen has got into strange company ! It must seem queer to the lion to be "defended" by the jackald ! Among the speaker of the next State House of Repreeentatives, are the names 'of the present speaker, Ym, D. Gordou, of Midland ; also Eobert D. Graham, of Grand Rapids ; Col. John Atkmson of Detroit, "Wm. B. Bates of Flint, and our own Andrew J. Sawyer, of Ann Arbor. Any one of these men are th-oroughly capable in capacity and experience both. Mr. Gordon, havlng been speaker of the last House is thought tn have the lead, still the poKitionis no man's as yet. Very seWom, in the history of t nis state, have so many able men. been chosen to the legislature as have been this year by the republicans. The fusionists, It is said, wili run that prominent legielator, John Donovan, of Bay, wlio was made famous two years ago by beiuig the only man eleoted "byt the demócratas to the House in the state. Quite .naturally republicans would rejofce with exceedlng great Joy should Mr. Sawyer be selected. He is 1he peer of any man in Michigan, and the state at large would be the gaine.: by hls success.