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Show i THE ARGUS. 4 AT THE PIE COUNTER. Tintic Miner: Arthur Brown is back in Utah again, comforting the hearts of the McKinley office seekers. Ex-Senat- i i r 1 J ii 1 or The Oracle : McKinley declares he wont cut that pie for the hungry office seekers until the new tariff Jaw has been enacted. Tribune: The Provo Enquirer argues that Brownism and Republicanism are the same; which absurd notion shows that theres something up. Richfield Advocate : Of all the old warhorses of the grand old party only a comparative few in this State remained unterrified last year and Arthur Brown was a typical one of the few. : The Standard, the Press and Ogden the Switch, in their fights for and against Charley Meighan for the post office are each trying to make out the other an infernal liar and scoundrel. They have all made good cases. X-Ra- I i i 4 ys Provo Enquirer : In view of the ruin that the Cannon-Tribun- e course has wrought, we repeat that the party will have to be built up again in Utah in accord with the Brown, or administration policy. It is the only way Republicanism can be placed in the ascendency here in Utah. Provo Enquirer : In view of the past years history, Brown men have reason to be proud of their position. We use the words McKinley men and Brown men synonimously, for it is well known that Senator Brown stood for the St. Louis platform, and his policy was that of the successful candidate, President McKinley. Manti Meesenger: We see by dispatches from Washington that Mr. Webb Green, of Mt. Pleasant, has filed his application for the of internal revenue. Mr. Green is a consistent Republican and the Messenger wishes him success. Another of Mt. Pleasants favorite sons, Hon. W. D. Candland, aspires to some federal office. Mr. Candland is well known and his work for his party is appreciated in the State. His chances are propitious. collec-torshi- p Manti Messenger : Arthur Brown has returned to private life. The Messenger welcomes him back to his home in Utah, and the welcome is the more earnestly expressed because his course and every act in the halls of the nation stand out boldly stamped with loyalty to his party, unswerving integrity and an earnestness of purpose characteristic of the man traits deplorably, perhaps wantonly, lacking in many of his colleagues. Mr. Browns record is an honorable one. Ex-Senat- or STILL KICKING. Mercur Mercury: The miners of Utah are still kicking about the mining law' and they will not let it go into operation without a vigorous protest. Advocate: The legislator who solicits favors from the railroads is in a bad position to refuse favors when solicited by the railroads. Inter-Mountai- n Logan Journal : The expenses of the session of the late Legislature were much less than at A commendable economy first' contemplated. wTas exercised, and Democratic promises of economy were fulfilled. The obnoxious mining bill has become a law, and unless we mean to comply with the law we must arrange for concerted action to defeat it. Tintic Miner. Tintic Miner: State Senator Harbour gets small comfort from even his political associates . for his assininity in that now celebrated pass case. The Advocate, in its last issue, roasts him to a turn, but not a bit more severely than he deserves. Inter-Mountai- n Mercur Mercury : The people of this end of the county feel that they were ably represented in the Legislature by Hon. N. B. Dresser. He would have been able to do much more for the interests of the county had he not been hampered by the hay shovelers who comprised the majority. The miners of West Mountain district being almost without exception opposed to allowing their records to be taken away under the hayseed law, it will be a rare exhibition of indifference if they do not emulate the example of the men of Tintic and instruct their local recorder to stand by his trust. Bingham Bulletin: Silver City Star: It is with great pleasure that we note that the mining camp papers of Utah are a unit in condemning the alleged mining law passed by the late legislature and advocating its resistence. That the law is against the interests of the bona fide prospectors and claim owners all admit, and we have as yet failed to note that the records will be given in any district in the State. The Inter-Mountai- n Advocate is not pleased with the action of the late Legislature concern- ing franchises and so it remarks : The need of education along economic lines has been made doubly manifest by the recent meeting of the Legislature of Utah. The men composing that body, with few exceptions, were men above the average in intelligence ; yet their actions showed that as a whole they were utterly, not to say disgustingly, ignorant of the conditions or needs of the country. Several inquiries having been made concerning the history of the Mormon Church begun several weeks ago in The Argus, it is deemed necessary to say that the series will not be continued. There has been an entire change in the management and policy of the paper, Mr. Ivantner having retired from the business management and Mr. Bloor having severed his connection as editor for a more lucrative position on the press bureau of the Pioneer Jubilee committee. While City Councilman Lloyd was in New York trying to interest Eastern capital in Mercur mines an evening paper scored him for being absent from his official duties. Had he been soliciting aid for the Ogden Power plant the chances are that the castigation wouldnt have been deemed at all essential. Provo Enquirer: Senator Cannon is not regarded as a Republican at Washington, and why should he be so regarded at home? Although members of the Fire and Police Commission receive no compensation there are people mean enough to say they do not earn their salaries. If Pop Eslinger does not like the truth he had better quit reading The Argus. . IRanbom IRotes. For Greece and Crete. Storm and shame and fraud and darkness fill the nations full with night ; Hope and fear whose eyes yearn eastward hare but fire and sword in Bight; One alone, whose name is one with glory, sees and seeks the light: Hellas, mother of the spirit sole supreme in war and peace, Land of light, whose word remembered bids all fear and ser row cease, Lives again, while freedom lightens eastward yet for sons of Greece. Greece, where only men whose manhood was as godhead ever trod, Bears the blind world witness yet of light wherewith her feet are shod ; Freedom, armed of Greece, was always very man and very God. Now the winds of old that filled her sails with triumph, when the fleet Bound for death from Asia fled before them stricken, wake to greet Ships full-winge- again for freedom toward the sacred shores d of Crete. man, the song that spake of old time said ; and there Man, made even as God by trust that shows him naught too dire to dare. Now may light again the beacon lit when those we worship There was were. God-bo- Algernon Charles Swinburne. Last week The Abous, as usual, led the way and pointed out a few of the many faults existing in some of i the departmental machinery of the present muniThe Tribune and News cipal administration. took up the theme and followed on parallel lines, while the Herald, just to be opposite, treats the expose in its usual juvenile fashion on momentous questions. In the article concerning the police department The Abous made no misstatements. The bomb of truth came like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky ; it was an awful surprise to the whole force, who have been of late basking with serene indifference on the sunny side of easy street that fanciful thoroughfare where the bluecoat can, while on duty, have a pull for whats on the beat, including wine, women and song, along with the less open exchanges of perquisites best known to come for those who wait for opportunity or emergency 'to blow the smoke of adversity which, in the abstract, to the police department, means the away, and clear the vissimple salary drawn ion of that more golden shrine of boodleism, even if it be on the bum order of boodling. Neither individually nor collectively does The Abous accuse the police or the department of boodling in the common acceptation of that term, but it does accuse it departmentally of boodling its influence and its prestige for purposes that are beneath the dignity (save the mark) of even policemen. One point of view may be taken of the reinstatement of Chief Paul to the place from which he was hurled by certain peculiar influences which at one time controlled the city. The public will not soon forget how brief the first strug- gle, and how tediously long and weary was the last battle between the church authorities and Mayor Glendinning for the keeping of Chief Pratt in place. The Abous will not weary the public with a rehash of the influences, pro and con, that were brought to bear upon the mayor and the police commission, for the then incumbent, and the several in prospective, as were an- nounced at the time. There are a few things that have not been made public that are the most startling yet to be given publicity, and will form the basis of The Abous contention that the present police administration needs overhauling, and needs it badly, but not more so in the personnel j ) ! j i . i |