Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-04-11
A OetrIot Sonsatlon,

DETROIT, Apru B. Inc upper teh thousand are immeasurably shocked by the announcement that divorce proceed ings have been instituted by Mrs. Will liam G. Thompson, one of Detroit's most fashionable ladies, aud the daughter of one of the oldest French families in the northwest, against her husband. Mrs. Thompson is sister of D. ] Camdan, collector of custom at this port. In November, I87S. she married William G. Thompson, then mayor of the city and prominent capitalist.
 NIT. Thompson was republican of republicans and possesses one of the im- mortal "3o6" badges. struck of Tn honor of Grants friends at the Chicago conven- tion in 1880, he having been delegate to that body. Subsequently to the de- feat of Gen. Grant Thompson began to gradually work over into the democratic organization making formal plunge m 1884, since which time he has held a prominent place in the council of the democracy, being suggested as candi- date for congress from his district last
 fall and frequently mentioned tor gov | ernor He IS a trusted lieutenant of Postmaster General Dickenson, and has
 been of great use to that little Napoleon 1 of politics in several recent campaigns. 1 The charges brought by Mrs. Thomp' son in her plea for divorce make tine case all the more disgraceful. She al leges that her husband has been gully
 of intimacy with notorious women
 Thompson IS worth nearly $500. 900 and
 has practical charge of the Brush estale,
 valued at $4.ooo,ooo his first wife, by
 whom he had one child, having been tine
 daughter of the late Edward A. Brush.
 Every effort has beer made to "railroad'
 this divorce case but tte udges refused
 to be parties to any such arrangement Telegram in San Francisco Chronicle. And thus are the righteous persecuted. l One after another the tallow dips which
 have shed light along the tortuous path of the great Grover Cleveland to the Mecca of civil service reform are knocked down into the socket, wilted or ''burned out" We retrospect amusingly the ser pertlne exactness with which the chef executive dodged and deviated from the letter and spirit of his pledge to fi,l the territorial offices from actual bona fde residents of the territory where they were to serve. We have in charity at- tributed the stumbling, tumbling ard wanderings from the straight and narrow path .o "knock- you-us-desertitude" w,th which the great statesman is known to have been impregnated early in his off, cial career as sheriff of Erie county, New York But now We find the solution of the whole problem. One of hls chef lights was unsteady the "knock-you-us desertitude" theory like every other theury and pledge of the great dodger is "kno' k- ed out" Better men than the subjecr of the foregoing complimentary notice have been amazed at the magic influence of ex-Mayof Thompson over ex.Sherlff Cleveland. The solution IS supposed to have been m the potency of personsl plea made by the tx mayor to the ex-sheriff that i've - fellows must stand together" 'If we who are little loose don't stand by each other We are gone up'." We shall watch with considerable interest the meanGer- ings of the procession in the future "Ten to one Is offered without talk, s" that this last exposure of Thompson puts him in as headlight to the processi There is an "eternal fitness" which the last developments of Thompson's char acter must push to signal recognition. The deceased has our sympathies.