For Supreme Judge

Main' Michigan newspapers have already started the spring campaign and are urging the renomination of Chief Justice Charles D. Long for reelection to the supreme Court. Tlie Republican is heartil y in accord with this movement. Juilge Long has made an enviable record on the bench and by all precedent and right of party usage, he is entitled to a renomination. His record as a soldier, citizen and jurist is an interesting one and briefly, is as follows : Charles Dean Long was boni at Grand Blanc, üenesee county, Mich., June 14, 1841. His early education was acquired at the district school and the Flint city schools. He taught for four years prepaFatory to a course at the university. The outbreak of the civil war caused him to substitute the battlefield for lus university course, and in August, 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 8th Michigan iufantry. In the battle of Wilmington Island, Georgia, April 10, 1862, he lost his left arm and received a ball in his left hip, passing through and lodging in the riglit groin, from wliich wound he is still a sufferer. He returned home and later in the sumnier entered the law office of Oscar Adatns, of Flint. In the fall of 1864 he was elected county clèrk (Genesee county), which office he held for four successive terms. Ho was prosecuting attorney of liis county from 1n7" to 1880 inclusive, was mie of Michigan's four supervisors of the census for 1880. In 1885 he was comtnanderof the departaent of Michigan Gr. A. R. He has always resided at Flint until September, 1890, when he moved to Detroit and later to Lansing, bis present home. In politice he is a republican; he was elected justice of the aupreine court of the state of Michigan, April 4, 1S87, by a vote of 174,t24 to 140,315 for Charles H. Camp, democrat; 27,658 for John C. Blancbard, greenback, and 8,530 for Lemuel Clute, prohibition. Judge Long has been prominently liefore the country during the past three years by an attack upon bis right to bis present pension. At the national encampment of the G. A. R. held in Pittsburg, Pa., September 11, 1894, bis friends insisted upon bis standing for the office of coinmander-inchief. With an election quite evident, he withdrew his name in the interest of liarmony. He bas always been prominent in politics, business and social