Judge Walter Q. Gresham

Harper s Weekly evidently has started out to give full-page pictures, and bio;raphical articles, of the Republicana who are mentioned for the presidency. ts article on Senator Allison, of Iowa, was appreciative. The independent Reublicans represented by Harper's Weekly would support Allison. Last week Harper's presented Judge Greshatn. Of all the candidates, Judge Gresharn could most easily unite all shades of hought in the Republican party. He has always acted with the Republican party, and yet has not been so actively engaged in " politics" as to make enemies. He is not an officer-seeker, havng declined most flattering offers from 'resident Grant. He accepted a judgehip from President Grant, and two cabnet positions and his present exalted osition on the bench, from President Arthur. His military record is excellent. Judge Gresham is one of the ablest men this country has ever produced. )nly great opportunities are needed to )ring him out. He is personally very attractive. If he were placed in the White House, it would be graced as as few have graced it since its first occuant. The probability of nominating Judge Gresham is not great if the Indiana lelegation gives part of its support to he light and volatile Harrison. If Inliana supports him solidly, and if the ?laine feeling subsides, Judge Gresham s most likely to be nominated. It is very desirable to have a strong Indiana man as candidate for first place. The Mornixg Tribune is the name of a new daily paper in Lansing which apeared last Monday for the first time. It was started by the 35 printers who recently walked out from the State Reublican office where the state printing s done. lts appearance is bright ; it is edited withability, and on the whole it s calculated to win friends to their side of the controversy with Messrs. Thorp & Godfrey, of the Republican. The paper has an air of moderation and candor. We shall not attempt to decide as o the merits of this especial dispute. [t is really only a pretext ; as the real cause of the " walk-out" is Mr. Godfrey 's unbearable treatment of the printers. They have been looking forward to this and saving their money for a year, expecting to make a hard fight when once they were out. Thorp & Godfrey secured some non-union printers, called " rats," from Chicago, and there seems to be no hope of a settlement of the trouble. Some of the striking printers have families and houses in Lansing, and have worked in that office 15 to 20 years. Some of them have not happened to have any abuse from the manager, but they give up good positions in obedience to the orders of the typographical union to which they belong. Some of the printers have attempted to make a political question of it, and thus force the Republican party leaders to bring pressure upon Thorp & Godfrey to yield. The Republican party has nothing to do with it, and the printers are foolish who make any such claim. The contract was let to the lowest bidder, and a Democrat can get the work as well as a Republican. It is interesting to note how the great daily journals treat Powderly, Arthur, and other leaders of organized labor. For a long time Arthur was the pet of all the daily newspapers. Even the New York Evening Post and its elegant and aristocratie weekly, The Nation, condescended to mention him with slight praise. He was the true friend of labor, the wise man who knew what waB best for the hand-laborer. But just as soon as the locomotive engineers started a great strike and Arthur assisted them.then theflood-gatesof their abuse were opened on him. Powderly, too, is alternately abused and praised in a foolish way. His recent letter against strikes raises him in the estimation of the city press. The papers makes more of it than it deserves. Powderly, and other knights of labor, see clearly enough the evils of strikes, and the order has not strikes for its main end. Like revolutions, however, strikes are sometimes necessary. It is probably true, as the New York Labor commiseioner says, that strikes have been useful in keeping wages up and in forcing discussion of the labor question. The trouble with The Nation and other city papers is that they want each laboring man to bid against every other laboring man for work and to treat singly for work. Anything in the shape of labor organization annoys them, although organization of capitalista does not seem to jar upon them. Their political economy places the individual laborer at the mercy of the blackHist. Organization on both sides is a good thing. The city election in Lansing developed some interesting features. The Republicans came out squarely for the enforcement of the prohibitory law against the saloons which will go into operationnextmonth. They nominated a man who is noted for his "back-bone" and enmity to the saloon, and he accepted on condition that they would accept his platform of driving out the saloon nuisance. The Demócrata put up a man for mayor who is personally unobjectionable, but whose probable course in regard to the saloon was not well known. The Prohibitionists withdrew their ticket in favor of the Repubican ticket, and did all they could to elect it. The Democrats won in spite of this clear issue. Some of the temperance Democrats would not bolt their ticket, and the printere' strike there burt the Republicans. However, the Republicana and Prohibitionists acted in a very sensible manner. It was the manly thing to do, and they will win by it in the end. The city has given a maority for banishing the saloon two ;imes, and this Democratie victory may ae considered a sort of reaction. But if ;he Democratie administration there during the coming year fails to do its duty in regard to the saloons, then another Republican-Prohibition combinaron on the square issue will be sure to win, and good local government will be ad vaneed.