The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-06-03

there is knowledge there is no need of being
specific. II Is sufficient to say, that can
didate was forced upon the people who was
not their choice, and the belief was general
that improper influences were used.
We all know the disastrous result of the
campaign. The candidate was gallant,
chivalrous, and personally popular; but
| whether guilty or innocent OF the accusa-
tons we have named, there is little doubt
that their resentment by the voters was the
principal cause of the defeat OF the cket,
and the burdening of the state with the most
corrupt aud imbecile legislature and govern
ment known to our history.
We refer to this matter with no wish to
stir up the ashes of the past; they are burned
out, and so far as we know have left no
scars. But il is the lesson that was learned
by the party in the bitterness of humiliation
and defeat that we would impress upon the
coming county and state conventions. Its
moral is this:
1t is dangerous to override the will of the
people, and force candidates upon them by
ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain" so well known to politicians of large
cities.
Again the name of John T. Rich is on the
tongues of the common country people of
fOurths of the republicans of the rural dis
tricts are his earnest adherents. And it is
to this class of voters-the men who stand
by the grand old party because of their
pride In its past and their hope for the
future OF the cOuntry-that we must look
for our majority. DetrOit-Wayne county
wrecked the convention two years ago.
1t was that putrescent hOt-bed of demOc-
racy that defeated the peoples choice. And
from the same political plague shot we are
threatened with a repetition of the disaster.
Fortunately there is warning-the danger
signals are Out-they have been discerned
throughout the length and breadth of the
state, wherever the hired emissary from the
metropolis thought there was an Opportu-
ity to get in lis work. There are occasional
signs of subsidized press and local polite
ians who have been ''seen," but on the
whole the outlook is most promising.
This is a republican year. The bow of
promise extends from the rocky shores of
the Atlantic to the golden sands of the
Pacific, giving assurance all along its course,
where spring elections set the pace, for vic
tory in November.
The people of Michigan will be near the
head of the great November jubilee if they
heed the experience of two years ago.
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