Show i A PICTURE SPOILED I TIlE THE malicious envy enTY with which the Salt Lake Lakei i Tribune regards Senator Smoot appears to be bo cozening it into unusual absurdities A few days ago agot t it grew quite incoherent in declaring with undisguised undisguised undisguised guised glee that Senator Gallinger hail had been chosen I leader of jf tho Republican minority after a vigorous I struggle with the Utah senator With attempted atI attention attention at at- I t to detail the essayed to picture the i I chagrin of Mr r Smoot and tb the anguish with which heI he lie bemoaned his fate I Evidently E forgetting that tha it had consigned the tho senator to an obscurity from which bich he could not hope to recover reco the Tribune yesterday announced that eleven ele Progressive senators had bolted the leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship of Senator Reed Smoot on the tho tariff and de de- de- de support a genuine progressive c tariff thrift bill If Ift t it Las has come to pass that the Kearns newspaper has I 1 blundered into accuracy it seems evident that the leadership of Senator Reed Smoot on the tariff is isan isan I an assured fact else the T Progressives could not have I bolted it i The fact is 43 that Senator Gallinger through h his bis I chairmanship of the Republican caucus is the official leader of the Republican minority and that Senator i S Smoot oot through h hi hh f superior knowledge of the tariff which he has carefully studied for many years fears is IS the actual leader in the present contest And the additional additional additional addi addi- fact is that the Senate Progressives es announced announced announced an an- at the outset that they would frame a tariff bill which represents their represents their views in order that it might bo be used as a a. basis basis' for basis for appeals for support in inthe inthe inthe the congressional elections of 1914 They realize the futility of if making a third Hurd party fight without a constrictive constructive con con- I str program of tariff legislation to which they I can refer inquirers rs With the trifling trifling- exceptions above e noted the Tribunes Tribune's resume of Washington news seems fairly correct |