Next Spring Ann Arbor Elects A Mayor

Knowing from past experience bow ïnj urious it is to have a poor executive he sbould leave no stone unturned to elect the proper offlcer for the place. Who Bhall it be? It certainly should aot be Mayor Manly. Gen. Clarkson says of the recent slection: "I will venture the assertion that the demócrata have won this great rictory in 1890 on a much smaller total TOte than they polled in 1888. They will now go into a twoyeare' drunk and inbilation over their victory and make fooi of the next House." Undoubtadly true. The demócrata are capable ai an infinite amount of foolishness. So Ann Arbor is to have a daily. lts mission will be to boom everything under the sun, including the political ambition of our rising young statesman, ihe new railroad which pro, oses to run irains on Ann Arbor's best streets, one or more tráete of land situated in or near this city and (ncidentally) the University, Normal school and a thousandother things. Next Mndaynight we will read its "moriluri talutamus.' Of course, the puny infant iMiinot live lonp, but as long as it does live it will doubtlefs furnish fun for the estimable rentlemen wliose rap it will absorh. The Register in the gooclness of ils heart, liopes th;t the end will be a peaceful and painless one. PfiOPLE should not expect too mnchof poor human nature. The ideal student probably would never give vent to a college veil, would never jostle his neighbor in a crowd, would never hiss a speaker, (and there are some students already who answer to this description) but the average student is not "built that way" at all. When be goes for his aaail to a small and inconvenient postoffice and finds himself packed tight in a crowd of other students, he is not o be called a criminal becaute be indulges in a little rushing. It is wrong, WO know, bat military mayors and prejudiced newspapers should not treat auch things as if they were murderous riots. That is the mistake into which the city autborities have fallen nd they should learn from their sad experience that tact is fully as essential in an officer as physical courage or determination. NoTniNG is more essential to the best interests of this republic than the maintenance of good city government. The cariff affects every man personally, and should be very carefully adjusted and aqualized. A good national government is for that reason very desirable - but infinitely more desirable, eo far as the immediate interests of the individual are concerned, is the maintenance of proper municipal government, for it is the latter which assesses your taxes, provides for your children's instruction nd protects you from violence. People have not given enough attention to these very important interests, and as a result there is hardly a city in the country, with more than 5,000 in habitante, whose affairs are not wretchodly administered. The public need not be reminded I hat these remarks are just as apropos in Ann Arbor as they are in Cregier's Chicago or Tammany's New York.