Telegram-herald., 1891-03-31

The IoniA Sentinel sayagely opposes
the proposed amendment - the State
Constitution increasing the salary OF
the Acknowledgement 70 $500. In SAT
urcaY's issue il quotes tbs paragraph
from the Detroil Tribune:
at appears that the Democratic lead
ers IN A chigan 10 not know how 10 do
Tie TAR and honorable thing la poiaties.
Insy are clearly without regard Tor OBJ
hgaIions which will net political al
vantage BY ignoring them. and this Tact
- illustrated 0y tneiF course affecting
the Office OF Attorney General OF the
State and the proposed Constitutional
amendment affecting II. The circular
OF falsenoods which the Democratic
Committee has sent out concerning Re
publican administration OF the Attor-
ney-GenersPs once uay defeat the
amend ment, wlss as it IS
Thea the Sentinel exclsims: sLet il
be defeated. Who expected the Demo
erats 10 do the fair and honorable thing?
IL isn't in them. They couldn't II thew
tried. COLONIZATION of Republicans IS
their sIock-in trade. The TELEGRAM
HERALD cannot blame the Sentinel for
sts exhibition OF righteous ind Ignstion
al the Democracy, II view or recent
events, bat We cannot help feeling that
the Office Of Attorney-General Of Mich
igan should not be lost sight OF simply
because IT 10 held by Democrat. The
present salary Is = disgrace 10 the State
far more so than . Democratic At
torney-General-and the people this
spring should wipe out the first disgrace
ond attend to the other IN due time.
The Sentinel hkens the raise of raj
airy, during Mr.. Ellis incunibency, TO
the notorious "salary grab" in Congress,
about winch the Democrats made so
much ado. The cases are not analog-
Gus. In that cass, members of Con-
gress voted upon and raised their own
salaries by act of Congress. In this
case, If the salary is raised, 1t will be
done by legislative act OF the people
themselves. Mr.. Ellis will not raise his
own salary as the Congressman did. lie
IS simply asking the people to do so,
incumbency. de is no more repre-
hensibie than Mr.. Luce was, and we do
not remember that any Democratic pa
per in the State had q word to say
against Mr.. Luce, when the question Of
the increase of ms salary was at issue.
Says the Sentinel: "Mr. Ellis and his
Democratic friends are laughing IN
their sleeves at the unexpected good
nature which has led certain RepubIi-
cans to look with favor upon it," The
TELEGRAM-HERALp has favored the
raise of salary on general principles.
Mr.. Ellis may continue to laugh in his
sleeve at the TELEGRAM HERALD and it
will make no difference with the TELE-
GRAM-HERALD's support of the salary
increase. Why should 1t? We are not
dong this for Mr.. Ellis. The TELEGRAM
HERALD has no political love for
Mr.. Ellis as he well knows. We
opposed his election as vigorously
as possible last fall, bu: Re-
publisher shirked. They alone are to
blame for Mr.. Ellis election. He did
not imprlson them in their homes nor
drive them away from the polls with
shotguns. They simply let them take
the Office by default and now they
would once more only make spectacles
of themselves by showing him spite
for getting there. Republicans should
rise above this and favor paying the
Office q respectable salary. We are
sorry to see a staunch Republican pa
per like the Sentinel oppose the in
crease simply because a Democrat fills
the Office. No one but Republicans
elected him.
1t will be remembered that the TEL
EGRAM-HERALD deprecated the unfair
means taken by the Democracy to urge
the amendment upon the attention of
the people. The attempt to make po-
litical capital is liable TO offend Repub-
leans. But, if is the result and the
amendment is defeated, the Democrats
may thank themselves for it. Still the
TELEeRAM-HERALD would regret to see
. - If