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Show THE HOISTING OF SPRY. Somewhere in the printed lugubriousness of one Kipling is a jingle about as follows: Potiphar Gubbins, C. E., Is seven years junior to me, And I muse in my bed on the reasons that led To the hoisting of Potiphar G. Some people not familiar with the special brew of politics served up in Zion might have expressed ex-pressed surprise over the recent hoisting of William Will-iam Spry to the United States marshalship. To those right here on the premises, the appointment appoint-ment created as little astonishment as it did hilarity. hi-larity. It seems to prove what some of the Mormon Mor-mon leaders have reiterated much of late that President Roosevelt is their warm political friend and was not disposed to forget that the Saints came to the front splendidly for him with the presidential electors. The appintment will probably prob-ably go through the senate without friction. The intimation in a contemporary that Senator Burrows Bur-rows and others of that body might interpose an objection to Spry's confirmation is probably erroneous, er-roneous, as they are too busy looking after the main event in Utah politics, which is the effort to expunge the name of Smoot from the senatorial roster. Mr. Spry's selection is distasteful to the independent inde-pendent voters of this state. Besides being a church slave, he is a firm sprocket in the Smoot machine, and in consequence represents the most obnoxious element in Utah politics. Further, Apostle Smoot is practically repudiated by his own party and people, and will probably be repudiated re-pudiated by the senate. Under the circumstances, it would have seemed a fairer and more judicious thing for the president to have deferred action on Smoot's recommendations for federal appointments, appoint-ments, pending the senate's action in the case of the senator-apostle himself. 4 |