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Show UTAH STATE JOURNAL MARCH STATE JGUIINAL, THURSDAY, UTAH DAILY -- M. 1MJ 1 THE SICKENING OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. OGDEN, UTAH. FRANK J. CANNON, EDITOR. MAKING A SENSATION OUT OF SILLINESS. How the bad old times are brought back to us by a controversy now raging in Salt Lake between the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune ! One Mrs. Franz Kompe, a German convert to the church of Jesus Christ of Lat: ter-Da- y Saints, makes an affidavit for the benefit of the Tribune in which she declares that the missionaries led her to believe that the streets of Salt Lake were almost paved with gold; that they did not point out the same promises to her husband; that she came to Utah and her shoemaker spouse remained at Hamburg; that after her arrival she received two proposals to go into polygamous marriage from two Germans who had been missionaries to their native land; that she was told that when she was baptized into the church she was thereby divorced from her husband. And then this affidavit yarn with all its sensational elaborations is sent to Germany for official publication there. And so the Tribune has a case, which delights its soul like unto the joy of the apocryphal Bishop West sermon. But the Deseret News explodes a mine under the Tribune cruiser by showing that the entire story is a fabrication; that the woman never made any such statements as those attributed to her; that she denies ever having been invited into polygamy by German elders or any other elder; that she was baptized long before she was married and therefore could not then have been told that baptismal water dissolved her marital ties; and finally that she was at all times advised by the missionaries to remain at her home in The postoffice rotteness in Washington must be a sickening mess to have caused an old practical politician, like Postmaster General Payne, to break down physically and mentally with the worry of his position and from the new disto get repeated The Washington closures of corruption. reports is that Mr. Payne will promptly leave the cabinet. He is a desperately sick man. For more than a year his resignation has been ready but he has withheld it out of The last consideration for the president. sensation, however, is too much for him and For he will give place to some other man. Roosevelt President own his safety's sake d should select some citizen so honest and down that he will hunt the rascals without fear or favor, or else some man so calloused in iniquity that all theft and peculation which may be discovered will not disset-bac- ks high-minde- If the latter, the turb his equanimity. choice should be made with very wise selection. Postmaster Payne himself was supand his weakness in posed be to the matter his giving way under the stress of the scandals is a proof that a man of honest iron or dishonest steal is needed by the case-harden- president. ed 4 The Salt Lake Telegram publishes a dis- patch from Washington under the date of March 21st, stating that Utah people who have talked to Senator Smoot learn from him that he expects to be unseated and is shaping his plans with that end in view. It would be interesting to have the names of the persons to whom Senator Smoot has made any such statement. There is one man in Washington who does not share ihe prevailing opinion there and that man is Senator Smoot himself. Nothing short of a direct revelation from heaven or the senate can convince him that he will be unseated; and his pluck is to be adHamburg. And then the Tribune sends in a torpedo mired even if his judgment cannot be apto blow up the mine of the Deseret News by plauded. 4 averring this morning that Mrs. Kompe did not deny that she made the affidavit or any part The Salt Lake Tribune has relieved our of it and declares that she has no intention of great anxiety. Senator Kearns has prevented so doing. the postponement of the time for opening the ! We this are there Ah, you may expect Uintah reservation. incident to furnish provocation for a ten P. S. According to the same paper Sena; years' war between the News and Tribune and tor Smoot joined Senator Kearns. all the time Utah is made to suffer in her repuN. B. Our senators are getting together tation abroad and her people are all stirred up on the eastern part of the state. By the time to annoyance and indignation at home. There they get to Salt Lake they may be as close as is enough real trouble for this state without the Siamese twins. 4 the creation of any such absurdity and complication as this Kompe case presents. If the People who have complained because the Tribune people know as much as they should Standard Oil trust was making too much know, after thirty years of publication in money should now take a tuck in their opinSalt Lake, they would never endorse such a ions. It appears that the company gives a story as the Kompe woman is alleged to have free lunch to fifty of its women employees told in her first affidavit, as it bears unmisk-abl- e every day in the year, also that young John signs of falsehood. Mormon mission- Rockefeller presents a boutonniere of violets' aries do not teach that the streets of Salt to each member of his bible class everv Sun-daLake are quite or almost paved with gold; i 4 they do hot teach that baptism in youth dissolves a marriage ceremony which is solemnTwo volumes of the history of the ized later in life. Nor do Mormon mission- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints aries prefer women converts to male converts have just been issued from the press of the in fact if only one of the family can migrate Deseret News President B. H. company. to Utah instruction is usually for the husband Roberts is editor and has written a most into do so in order that he may make a home to teresting introduction. The material for the which he can bring his wife. AH these are such history is derived from the authenticated recpatent facts that nothing but gross ignorance ord left by Joseph Smith the prophet. or malice would give out with any kind of en 1 dorsement such a palpable fraud as the Kompe Democracy," the weekly paper of New woman's first affidavit. York, carries a fine portrait of On the other hand the Deseret News is so Charles A. Towne in its issue of March 19th fond of chewing the rag with the Tribune that and also his suggestions for a Demoit magnifies the idiocy into a real and serious cratic prints Towne's views are statesplatform. community proposition. Evidently the worn manlike and should prevail. an is foolish or mendacious or both; and there1 v. SPRING FLOODS. 4- - Superb Presents Personal Pointers 4- - 2406 WASHINGTON 4- - 4- - la In the city from A. C. Jenaqn Idaho Falla. Alma Peterson la In the city from Huntaville today. Frank Walling of Garland passed Song through Ogden today. G. Lb Wilt and John Larson of Bingham are In Ogden today. Representative D. D. Roberts of Logan was a visitor In Ogden today. W. H. Hateroth, the Salt Lake attorney, is spending the day in Ogden. Tom Kurts returned from a visit to his old home In Ephrata, Pa., yesterday. Hamilton Armour, advance agent of Our Goblles Co. is registered at the Pacific. Day Jailor W. F. Crltchlow is still confined to his home with an attack of grip. Miss Eva Stahr, who submitted to a second operation for peritonitis, is resting easily today. President W. J. Kerr of the agricultural college at Logan, was a passenger on thes outhbound train this morn- Change of Program ek BOB KENYON EL master of transBuckingham, portation on the Union Pacific, came in today and continued on to Salt Lake. Miss Jeannie Whipple, who has been visiting friends In Ogden for several days, leaves for Chicago tonight where she will make her future home. W. EL Marsh, chief engineer of the Southern Pacific railroad, who was taken violently 111 at the Lucln cut-oTuesday night, has Improved a great deal and will soon be able to resume his duties. ff 4- - 4- - 4- - 4- - 4- - 4- - 4- - 4- - 4- - 4- - i AMUSEMENTS 4 4 4 4 Murray and Mack play an engagement at the Grand opera house tonight and will present the latest musical gayety, A Night On Broadway In entire new dress, which has been one fore how silly it is to make any momentous The Denver Post says : President of the big comedy hits of the present controversy over her vaporings. Smith who acknowledges five wives and forty-tw- o season wherever It has been presented. To old timers in Utah the episode is as children, becomes a shining hero beside Murray and Mack's position among cheering as the disinterment of a long buried the once chivalric Buffalo Bill, whose cele- the oponents of comedy is second to Chinaman to ship to the Celestial kingdom. brated gallantry is unable to stand by one none. Their position Is In the very To new comers it is as as novel and woman." front rank, having established them selves so thoroughly. In public ana as disheartening as the assessment on critical favor, that their present ento an investor who thought lie mining stock Deseret News asks in a scare head gagement at a local theater becomes The was in a grass-roo- ts bonanza. line, Are the Japanese Barbarians?" Well, one of the really Important events or allow a man to divorce his wife for talki- the season, to those who are fond of You can't keep a good man down. Young theytoo laughter, and to the better class of much. Is that barbarism ? or is it theater-goerng1 None of the comedians Sam Russell, who created the sensation at civilization ? make their points so effectively, and high conference a year ago by protesting against 4with less apparent effort than Murthe appointment of Judge H. S. Tanner to an and Mack. There Is no exaggeraray A Republican exchange says that the ecclesiastical office, and who was promptly tion about their work. It Is natural path of President Roosevelts party from this in the extreme, and without raising squelched in Utah and who migrated from until after election is straight and their voices above the ordinary conthe state, is now a picked orator for the uni- day smooth. is also broad and leadeth unto versational limit, their audience never lose a word they are saying. versity of Virginia in its contest with the destruction. - 4-- s. - It Buy an Incubator and make the poultry business pay. Skeen A Co, SSS Twenty-fourt- h street Journal Want ads bring you results. Altar Illustrator, presenting of Friendship. World's greatest upside down dancer. Introducing Illuminated. Our Wrist Bags and Purses extremely beautiful appropriate for presents, Are MISS CLARA WILLIAMS Soprano vocalist Holy City, Easter is almost bars and it is time to think of the little things that will add beauty to the new gowns and pleaiurs to ones friends. BARTHOLOMIS The Easter Eggs, Chicks and end and Cards THE NEWMANS Ring, Wilson and Moran In the entitled Razor Jim." are juat the thing to tend friends have an excellent variety. THE KALETECHNOSCOPE Producing pictures. Ross Book Store farce-comed- y, up-to-d- ADMISSION 10 e CENT8 Banks Millinery ing. ex-Sena- tor university of Pennsylvania for debating hon 4 ors. The subject is Uniformity of Divorce One of the leaders of the Foraker forces Laws '' but perhaps Sam would prefer to dis" cuss the Ununiformity of the Marriage in Ohio is named Merry Hammer. He ought Practice." to be a joyful knocker for the other side. Mid-We- For Easter Giving AVE. Our Ogden store, under the management of the Misses Brooks, is an enterprise we are proud of. Their reputation for ability and their disposition to deal fairly are unquestioned. They came to Ogden direct from New York City, after fully posting themselves on the seasons styles. Their capacity for producing the most beautiful effects in millinery is evidenced in the goods they offer. d less for the materials they use than They pay store has ever been in Ogden. that any millinery Their connection with the Salt Lake store gives them more than five times greater outlet for goods than could be made in any other way. Buying five times greater quantity ojens the way for greater variety. Manufacturers and importers make piece and case prices. The difference is about 331 per cent. There are goods in their stock that were imported direct. They saved not only the importers profit, but a jobbers profit also. The saving was 100 per cent. Their styles were not handed down through several unreliable sources. They draw their stock from sources that make styles. Xot for Ogden and Salt Lake alone, but for the United States and Europe as well. Their prices must be right. Criticise the correctness of their styles and you are combatting established facts. Would you make your own hat? They have proper materials. The stock consists of Chiffons, Laces, Flowers, Brauls, 0 Ribbons, Veilings, and in fact, everything pertaining Millinery. about They are so equipped that the prices will range d less than the same qualities of Millinery have eier been had for before in Ogden. one-thir- one-thir- O. D. BANKS Proprietor Burts Millinery Department |