Show NOTES IT is insisted that silcott the defaulting cashier of the sergeant at arms arma office washington is in utah and has joined the regiment of alleged eastern investors A per description of silcott states that among other peculiarities his feet are pigeon toed and very offensive when exposed f we should think so even if he should not be sent to jail he ought to at least le be compelled to keep his shoes and stockings on HAVING occasion the other morning to enter the city hall building our eyes beheld an uninviting spectacle it con consisted alsted of a platoon of the roughest and toughest specimens of humanity that can be seen outside of sing slug sing thirty seven of them had been garnered up like old scraps from the rear of saloons the night previous this riff raff element has floated here in anticipation of plying their criminal practices under the new city government it is 18 due to the new marshal however to state that he gathers them in with an eye to wholesale business EVERY little while Li liberal berall sham patriots point to the half irn masting ting of the national flag on the ath of july 1885 as tin an intentional indignity to the emblem of liberty during the recent campaign one speaker on the opposition seemed to have no other theme this may have proceeded from two causes a characteristic mental sterility or irritation ri because liis his testimony about an alleged flag incident was contro averted by that given by deputy marshal arthur pratt before judge anderson we have reference to judge E D hoge the leading liberal organ in its sunday issue revived the subject now we know that there was no intended indignity to the flag on the ath of J july u ay 1886 the incident being an expression of sorrow because of a belief that the liberties of the community were being encroached upon toy by means of unconstitutional methods the opposition do not believe otherwise but insist to the contrary of their own judgment be that as it may we wish it to be distinctly understood that the seventy and seven times have long since been exhausted and we are no longer bou bound ad to refrain from retaliation consequently arom now on when any man shall open his hill mouth insultingly about the flag half balf masting incident be may expect t to nave have the empty carpet b bag g egl figuratively m dively jammed down his throat on all this continent never was there a greater insult ofir offered ered to the stars and stripes than to knock the american eagle from it proud perch above the national colors and replace it with the carpet bag the emblem of political corruption this was persistently and continuously done by the liberals we emphatically protest against such jauch a disgraceful indignity to the standard of the republic and demand the discontinuance of the grow gross and unpatriotic insult |