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Day
4
Month
May
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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Why are the house and senate ► legislative journals, not yet published? The legislature adjourned months and months ago and we are still waiting for the official records. Are the republicans so ashamed of the records that they are delaying the publication until after this years Campaign? It begins to look that way. The enthusiasm feit for the cause of tariff reform was shown by the outburst of applause which greeted Hon. Charles R. Whitman in the democratie convention Wednesday, when he proposed to read out of the party such republicans, masquerading as democrats, as Randall and others of his ilk. Any democrat expecting to get the enthusiastic support of his party in this section must be a tariff reformer. The scène on the floor of the senate, Tuesday, was a disgrace to the nation. The biliingsgate indulged in by Ingalls and Voorhees marks the want of the instincts of a gentleman in both. The senate, which elects such a vituperative individual as Ingalls its piesident, will soon be a thing of the past. And the democratie majority which will come in power with the next senate will not elect such a man as Voorhees its president. The unfairness oí the argument on which the Coinier bases the statement that the republican vote of South Carolina is suppressed by the democrats is shown by its own statements. It rants about the small vote cast in South Carolina íor congressmcn and then shows that the republicans had no candidates for the office in six of the seven districts. The Courier neglects to inform its readers that the republican leaders suppressed all the republicans votes by faihng to nomínate candidates. It is not to be wondered at that a party which nominates no candidate polls no votes. Nine members of the common council, includtng the mayor, are on record as voting that they will riot obev the liquor law.- Register. That is a silly statement to make. "Nine members kof the common council, including the mayor," voted down a resolution saying what persons they would accept as bondsmen. The law defines that and the resolution was a useless one. There is no necessity of passing useless resolutions, and ït is time the practice ceaseu. The council can't define the meaning of a state law by resolution. Where there are tvvo constructions to be placed upon a law, the council may place the one that seems the most probable upon it without opening itself to thé charge of deciding not to obey the law. The president is noted for making goo'd appointments to office and the selection of Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago,for chiefjustice of the United States is no exception. He is a lawyer of prominence and the fact that he has never been an office holder is not to be reckoned to his discredit. The fact that even the partisan repubJican press can find nothing to say against him except that he is a democrat speaks volumns in his favor. The independent press is full of his praise, while Chicago seems to I have gone fairly wild with delight. We are glad the new chief justice comes from the west, that he is only fifty-five years of age and that he is an eminent lawyer. He will be an honor to the bench and an honor to the party and the president who placed him there.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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