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Show THE DEMOCRATIC BOARD CETS EVEN A Retiring Republican Auditor Trie to Favor Fa-vor III I'arty Nawipaper. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 2. Special to The Times. When Auditor General Aplin retired from office, sixty-three democratic editors were hunting for what was left of his scalp. Now sixty-three sixty-three republican editors, whom he undertook un-dertook to serve, have joined their democratic dem-ocratic brethren in the chase. Under the system in vogue in this state the list of lands to be sold for delinquent taxes in each county are advertised for four succjes ve weeks in some weeks in some paper of that county. The invariable custom is for the retiring auditor general gen-eral to leave this plum to be disposed by his successor. Until this year one republican auditor general succeeded suc-ceeded another in regular rotation, when the citizens took it into their heads to elect a democrat to the office. Aplin, who is an ardent republican, ; concluded that he would not leave any patronage for democratic newspapers to his successor, and immediately before be-fore he retired gave out the delinquent tax list to sixty-three republican newspapers news-papers for publication. The democratio editors fiercely assailed Alpin for his action, while tho republican editors were not slow to advance arguments in, i his defense. Now the republican editors edit-ors have sent in their bills for the advertising ad-vertising given to them by Alpin, but the democratic board of state auditors have only acted on them so far as to take them under consideration. It is thought they will not be paid without a lawsuit. |