It has been the ambition of James G. Bla...

It has been the ambition of James G. Blaine's life to be president of the United States. He has not relinguished that ambition without a struggle. His manifestó, directly after Cleveland's message, looked so much like an open bid for the nomination that the declination now means that he sees clearly that he could not be elected. Blaine is a shrewd political observer and he knows what is best for him. The new editor of the Monroe Commercial opines that the Michigan democratie congressmen are "a good deal honester or shrewder" than the rest of the democratie congressmen. The longer he stays in this state, the higher opinión he will have of Michigan democnits. In 110 state of the union have they sunk lowei than in ühio, and this is shown by the fact that the people of Ohio have re-elected such a man as Foraker tor governor. The Chicago Inter-Ocean and Detroit Tribune are laboring to prove that the republican candidates next year wiil be Sheridan and Alger and that they will be elected because General Zachanah Taylor and Millard Fillmore were elected in 1848. To such nonsense must we descend ? It sounds like the boy who whistled while passing a graveyard to keep his courage up. The graveyard in this case is the place where the republican hopes in 1S84 are interred. The election in the upper peninsula, Tuesday showed surprising democratie gains. The majority of 7,000 given Blaine was cut down to 200 and the district was only carried by the Republicans by the mine owners compelling their hands to vote the Republican ticket. As Cleveland carried the lower península in 1884 on the fusión ticket by 4,000 majority, it would seem as if the democrats had an excellent peet of carrying Michigan this year. The first gun of the campaign has been fired. The tangible effects of carrying prohibition uruler the local option law would be. %% "„Kïf To stop the maiïufacturing of beer in the five brcweries in this county and to cause the removal of the workmen engaged in brewing and their families to Detroit, Monroe or Toledo to manufacture beer for use here. The money which now finds its way into circulation in this community would be shipped off to Toledo or Detroit. The money which now linds its way into the county, city and village treasuries in the form of' liquor taxes would come out of the pockets of the farmer, the tradesman and the mechanic, fort he loss of the liquor taxes would have to be made up by increased general taxation. These are the tangible effects and follow just as sure as the night follows day. It would seem that every taxpayer would have interest enough in keeping down his taxes to vote against prohibition under local option. íf the question at stake were temperance or intemperance the question of taxation would not enter into the conskleration of humane men. But this is not such a question. The Iaw voted upon is not a partiële better than the old prohibition lavv in force here which was shown by experience to mean free whiskey. If this is so, it is no more than right that men should look at the effect of passing the lavv from a business stand point.