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Show THE ARGUS. Tiie Argus asks every official in the State of Utah, every reasonable-o- f pjint view. minded man, woman and sufficiently observant child (competent to comprehend) whether the argument presented here is right or wrong? Answer by the dictates of conscience and by voice of fair judgment. Answer by word of mouth, when and where it is most meet. Answer by the right of honor, justice, peace, liberty, love and all the schemes of humanity, whether the police of this city should debauch openly and glaringly these most flagrant outrages upon the Salt Lake public that are so omnipresent and insultingly resented as to make law and order in Zion a hollow mockery, a sham, a delusion and a snare. IRanbom Motes, Legend of Utah. From the valleys of Zion vast mountains rise, d skies ; The peaks kissing ever-blu- e snow-creste- . The Pioneer halted with delightful surprise, Viewing mountains and valleys with heart-we- t The red man withdrew eyes. at the white mans advance, The ploughshare supplanted the Indian's lance ; From out of the canyons which cataracts fill The power was sent to turn factory and mill. From tepees to cabin, then temples appear The progress of yeomen in all Godly fear ; The cactus and sage were reft from the plain, And up from the earth sprang the ripe golden grain. Thus tis onward and upward, with peace and love, Hosannahs advance to Him far above Who destined the coming of the first Pioneers, And changed plain to garden by labor and tears. H. W. B. K. The Police Department of Salt Lake City is in a most deplorable Deplorable condition, condition, socially and officially. Chief Paul is bedridden with a broken leg, but even with a telephone at his head he is not made acquainted with the push as jis. The whole 44 department is having an outing while the old man is on his back, and the outing that the patrolmen are enjoying is certainly no credit to Captain Eslinger. He is proving himself a very 44 weak sister and seemingly has lost all the vigor he put into his fight against Chief Pratt. In the absence from duty of Chief Paul, Captain Eslinger is countenancing all the vilest outrages of the slums to proceed and continue without hindrance or interruption. Gambling is wide open very wide and very open, for even children indulge in the faro games in some of the Main street hells. Boys of from fifteen years of age on up to their majority drink with perfect impunity at any of the principal bars in the city. But, throw aside all the hearthstone sentiment, and get at the principle of actual conditions, and the scene presented is simply this : For the last time possible during the present administration of police affairs, The Argus demands that Chief Paul shall by long distance telephone or otherwise, if unable to appear at headquarters in person, demand of Eslinger an alleged captain that he execute the orders of the chief and stop all the many schemes instanced at the of present time by the gross affairs in the much abused city of Salt Lake. 4 4 4 mal-administrati- Provo Enquirer: The Democracy of Utah county is pretty well divided just now into stubborn factions. What will the harvest be? It is a singular fact that the only Under Chief Pratts regime it can be stated to an almost positive certainty that no policeman, in uniform, was ever seen, while on duty, to enter a saloon, 44 night or day, and bum or drink over a bar. It is true that they have taken cigars, in saloons and flash joints, but not 44 booze. Now, and flatfooted in the singles pairs are patrolmen spending much of their valuable time in the saloons and have the temerity to go into the most public places on Main street and guzzle like men who had the money to pay for it. And it is for this reason, if for no other, that the night watchmen, employed by business firms, are making more arrests now than the police ; and it is no mistake when it is said that the night patrolmen on Main street south of Second South street, could not be found last Monday night by merchants who kept watch on their stores to keep from being robbed. arm-in-ar- State Senator Harbour is not without support. The American the Ogden Populist orHurrah for Harbour. We will gan, says: send him to Congress some of these days. No police policy in the world is so outrageously bad as that which i0W8 game to run wide open in cy. Salt Lake City and publish its drawings in all public places in the business centers. The white gamblers are quite as infatuated with the 44 succulent bunco as are the superstitious negroes. While tis true that the present Douglas addition causes much to tend toward policy, it is without doubt the worst policy, the lowest, vilest, meanest and most vitiating gambling sucker who device ever fostered upon the g s that he can win against a 44 device for his entrapment. But as gambling by every other device is wide-ope44 why should policy be closed? 4 4 sure-thin- day-dream- 4 4 n, ys, The Ogden Standard remarks that if Senator Frank J. Cannon is not already out of the Republican party of Utah, the organs of the State are prepared to kick him out. stand-by-the-par- The Ogden Populist paper still claims Frank J. Cannon, along with other Western Senators and Representatives, as the Populists ownest own. In its Populist Congressional Directory the names are grouped under the bold-factype e d of semi-Populist- e This is the Provo Enquirers estimate of Brown : 44 He has been a consistent Republican and an ardent advocate of free coinage. His record is clearly beyond reproach, and it will continue to grow brighter as the present administration restores prosperity. When times are again, good, the bolters will feel like booting themselves that they did not pursue the same Well ! path as did Senator Brown. ex-Senat- or It appears that when the State Senate declared that not one of the Governors appointees who voted for McKinley electors would be confirmed, some one was articulating through his tile. State Land Commissioner Wesley K. Walton was vouched for as a Bryan Republican and so was Colonel H. C. Wallace, Rifle Inspector of the N. G. U., but both of these are now known to have supported the McKinley cause in the late election. The Richfield Advocate pays its compliments to Brown in this manner ex-Senat- or : Senator Brown will go down in history as the only Republican representative Utah had in Washington during the first four years of her Statenood. He was the only one of three, elected by the grand old party, who dared remain true to the faith throughout a period of political history when Republicans in Utah were Democrats to the Nation. The foregoing is evidently distasteful to the Ogden Standard, and Editor Glasmann undertakes to have Senator Cannon placed right before the people and alongside of his erstwhile colThe Adleagues in the following language: vocate must remember that none fought more vigorously for the Republican party of Utah in the last election than Senator Cannon. He took to the stump in behalf of Utah Republicans and favored the compromise candidates of the coalition. What more can a man do for his party at home? Nationally, of course, he has no standing as a Republican, but locally he must be recognized as a follower of that political faith. Give the man his honest dues. an ty The Provo Enquirer remarks that Senator Harbour has already run to seed as a legislator in Utah ; he will never bloom again. But we expect that Mr. Warren Fosters candidacy for Populist Congressman, like Tennysons brook, will run on forever. ub-hea- al-Poli- colored man in the present Congress is named White. Technically at least, white supremacy must have been achieved. The Coppers Toddies. will secure the position. Some friend of Mr. Smith ought to make it his business to let President McKinley know to what extent he his indebted to Utahs would-bPresidential electors for political favors, but The Argus is willing to guarantee that the debt will be paid. on POLITICAL POINTERS. X-Ka- 3 s. Silver City Star: Alfalfa Smith, the same who so eagerly dropped into the seat vacated by by Hon. C. E. Allen at the St. Louis convention, to Basle, Switzerwants to be Consul-Generland. Switzerland is a long way off and for that reason we rather hope Smith will get the place. al The Standard of Ogden criticises the Governor rather severely for appointing to State offices some of his rejected nominees. It claims that he oversteps his authority and ignores the mandates of the constitution 44 when, in the face of the declared opposition of the Senate, he insists upon his nominees being made officers of the Other papers regard his action State of Utah. as a direct insult to the body whose confirmation We are not disposed to beis required by law. lieve that the Governor intended any insult or that many of the Senators will so regard it. As to his constitutional right to appoint whomsoever he pleased there can be no question. Still, by reading ever the list of persons renominated and appointed after the adjournment of the Legislature, one would almost fancy that the executive wagon had dropped into a rut from which the Senate had kindly but vainly tried to extricate it. Brigham City Bugler : Thursday the Deseret News devoted eight columns to a sporty write-uof the bloody prize fight. (Ahem !) p The Logan Nation says : 44 While the many friends of Mr. Joseph A. Smith would regret to part with him, yet they will wish him success in securing the appointment of consul at Basle, Switzerland, because it is a lucrative and honorable position. Mr. Smith has a claim upon the Brown as well as upon gratitude of President McKinley, and we hope and believe he ex-Senat- or D. H. PEERY, , JR. DE WITT B. LOWE STOCK BROKERS to West Second South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. |