Show A NEW KIND OF kide PRIDE THE idea that congress or the administration win will be influenced by numerously signed petitions when the merits of the case or person in view are exceedingly slim ought by this time we think to have been entirely dissipated yet the organ of the applicant for the occupied chief of utah giggles with unrestrained glee over the fact that three thousand names have been secured to be tacked on to his petition why no one knows better how such signatures are obtained and of how little e value or significance they are than the statesmen and high officials to whom such lists are sent while they were about it the manipulators of the latest petition humbug might just as well have made the number six thousand but it would have had no more weight in washington than if it were but a dozen politicians understand the whole business the smiles of derision with which cartloads cart loads of such rubbish have been consigned to the lower receptacles of the capitol and the dark cellars of the departments are am evidences of the estimate which public men place upon these bogus expressions of unthinking sentiment signatures can be obtained in the so called loyal ranks to almost any document for the pulling down of some official and the overturning of some authority the saloons and the mining camps may be counted on for any number of names that may be wanted and the eager applicant for another mans place must feel highly flattered battered at the number of bibulous carousers caro users and callow allow juveniles who have endorsed the claims of his peculiar fitness tor for iudici judicial al functions if this is a proud thing for the eminent place hunter what a different significance pride beare bean now to its meaning in the days when a high minded jurist would have scorned to intrigue for the possession of another mala mans s shoes it is a new kind of pride which swells over a mob applauded effort to oust a gentleman from an office and crawl into his place |