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The Attempt Of The Argus To Boom The

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Day
7
Month
August
Year
1890
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candidacy of Mr. Allen is, to say the least, amusing. Will the Yp8ilanti Sentinel please explain just how the removal of the duty on agricultural impleraents would relieve the farmer? We wonder if the demócrata, in their newly found admiration for Blaine, have forgotten how black a villain he was, in their eyes, during the campaign of 1864. Neablt everyone in Ann Arb,r is pleased with the change in the street railway route and everyone is wonderins; why any other route was ever adopted. ______________ Tuk McKinley bilí may.not be perfect in all its details, but what a masterpiece of statesmanship it seems, when brought into comparison with the unpatriotic and sectional Mills bill ! A Readikg of the Blaine-Salisbury correspondence onght to convince even the most unpatriotic American that in diplomatic ability and logical acumen our secretary of state has no equal. As one of the English papers stated, Salisbury has been but a baby in the hands of Blaine. Kimmlib, who for uiany months has been the object of a most disgusting notoriety, has at last expiated his crime. He is the first murderer to be killed by "electrocution" and, if the reporta are true, he suffered most terribly durin the operation. The general sentiment expressed by witnesses is that execution by electrieity has proved a miserable failure. In case the federal election bilí passes, Judge Jackson, a detnocrat, will have charge of itsoperation in Ohio and Michigan. This fat is giving the democrats no end of malicious pleasure. If it be renieinbered, however, that the object of the bill is tosuppress fraud, and that this fraud is more frequently found in the democratie cities than in the republican country districts, it will be seen that unless Judge Jackson is a very uuscrupulous official he will scarcely have an opportunity to use the force bill for the benefit of the democrats Is iT not a little amusing to see the alacrity with which the democratie leaders place themselves on the "off" side of every question ? With the most glaring sophistry they have defended the murder of negroes, the shameful gerrymanding of states, the growth of the lottery octopus and the evils of the saloon traffic. In the realm of political economy, they have advocated the free coinageof silverand the free admission of products manufactured by the pauper labor of Europe. The reason for the facts stated is not far to seek. Any organization whose only chance of winning the rres'dency depends upon carrying the foreign city of New York by a tretnendous majority could not be otherwise. The truth is thatthe democratie party is, and always has been, thoroughly unprincipled. Ithasneither conscience nor reason back of it. Even members of such organizations as the Farmers' AlHance, whose principies, at least in Minnesota, are, in a lare degree, identical with those of land and Mills, re)el wilh indigaation the charge that tliey are democrats. In view of these facts and iu view of the further faet that there ia not one chance in a hundred of the democrats ever winning another national election, it strikes ub (as it struck the Chicago Times in 1880) that the best thing the old and decaying party could do would be to gently say farewell and commit itself forever to"innocuous desuetude."

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