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Show KEPT TVlE COMPACT. It seems from recent dispatches that the senatorial sen-atorial delegation is to carry out its final preelection pre-election compact by sending in the name of Hy-rum Hy-rum (spelling open to correction) E. Booth as district attorney to succeed Insurgent Joseph liippman. All the others who burned incense at the political altar of Smoot have been laken care of. First the great Shropshire patriot, Thomas 'Ull, was permitted to browse in the surveyor general's gen-eral's office. Then Brother "William Spry was perched in the marshal's sanctum, later E. D. 11. Thompson received the reward of idolatrous service serv-ice by being hoisted into the land office, and A. L. Thomas' grip on the local postofflce was made permanent, through senatorial courtesy. And now the curtain falls with the attenuated figure of the great jurist, Brother Booth, sprinting and nosing his way valiantly to the dfstrlct attorney's office. It all forms a very pretty picture and proves what political sagacity will do, even if the same is tempered with something which the English Eng-lish vocabulary contains a very vigorous name for. In passing, it is hard to refrain from disengaging disengag-ing a sympathetic tear for Attorney Lippman, who, in trying to grip the United States attorneyship attorney-ship and the managerial control of the Tribune at the same time, let his foot slip and lost them both. More pathetic still Is the spectacle of Fussy James Anderson, the real "Woolsey of the Smoot forces, whose reward was a proud and haughty stare from the senatorial delegation, as well as from the governor, and who now finds himself, as did the lesser Woolsey, unapparraled among his enemies. |