From Governor Rich's Message, January, 1895

While the people have in the past refused to vote an increase of salaries, tiiey would have done so eheerfully had they understood the real situation. The interests of the state' of Michigan require that state oflicers should altend personally to the dutiea of tlieir office. If this were done, enoiigh wouli! be saved in salaries paid in the departtnentg to largely compénsate for the increase. Ltisnotonly in the interest of economy, but in the interest of good government. It would be a sa ving of thousands oí dollars t; the taxpayers of Michigan, shonld an amemlment be adopted giving fair C0tnpen8ation and requiring officers to give personal attention to the dtities of their respective offices. The attorney general is paid the insigniñcant suni of eight hnndred dollars a year as the legal adviser of all the state oflicers elective and appointive ; also railroad, iusurance and various other departments, where corporations employ attorneys educated and experienced in these particular branches. It cannot help resulting in a loss to the state. I believe the state is losing enough to pay a reasonable salary to four attorney generáis, through lack of paying a fair conipensation to one. As an illustration of the amount lost in this way ou account of the sinall salary paid to this offieer, in 1800 alone the board of state auditors allowed for attorney fees and expenses the suin of $12,981184. ïhat occasions may arise hen additional counsel is needed is altogether probable. Bat, if this provisión were adopted, the amount saved iu extra counsel would pay the additional salary of the attoruey general several times over, and I believe he would save the state mnch more by having the cases attended to promptly and properly. The proposed amendment this spring is different tlian ever submitted, inasmuch as requires the attorney general to live at the capitol during his term of office, and give all of his time and attention to the state. Judge Long is deservedly popular witli the bar of the state and with the people. A capable, upright jurist and a cultureel gentleman, he is above all a man of the people who is capable of sy-oapathy and in touch with the masses. He is not all head nor yet all heart, but one in whom there is a happy admixture of both. He is one, indeed, in whom the elementa are so mixed that all the world might stand up and say ■'He is a man." Incorruptible, gentle, kind and brave - the soul of courtesy and the soul of honor - Charles D. Long is a candidato of whom any party might lie proued and a judge in whom the people may well repuse eonfidence. A righteous judge, an honest man, a trne friend and a buttle scarred patriot. That is the kind of candidato who will be presented to the people for their suffrages at tlnj spring election. - [onia Seniiuel. The harder the times the more need people have for watehiug the ways by wiiich they may be humbugged. This is from the Howard City Record : "A newawiodte is lieing worked successiully is various parts of the state by two smart individuáis. They cali upon the farmers and agree to contract for all the butter they eau make at 33 cents the whole year. Then they solicit an order for groceries, offering them, at ridiculously lovv prices. The farmers give an order, and in addition pay about ten per cent, of the order in cash. The agents secure the cash and never deliver the goods. Quite a nuiuber have been caught on sinall suinsof from fl to $5.