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Show ; : -. I ! GENERAL DEMENT IS SATISFIED, i ,': j j It is said that Surveyor-General De- j i ' H j merit expresses himself as well satisfied r! I with the action ot the Senate Committee I i ! j; in agreeing to adversely report back his -; nomination, and it is said further that , 1 j, the gentleman will not wait for action on , H! Part f Senate, but will at once i ; ii ;i proceed to pack liis collar box and hie I : t him back to his Illinois home at the j ;,:o earliest possible moment. j j! Wc are glad that General Dement feels i ; ' satisfied with the turn that affairs have taken in his case, but in this respect we i ) ' are certain that he hasn't the least bit of i ; t ... .; advantage over the masses of the people !i, in Ltah, forthey are more than satisfied; i they are well pleased. As a public offi- j cer, appointed because of his jieculiar fit- , j ness for the position, and because of the I j supposition that he was among the most j ! " F. discreet of available candidates, General I iij Dement has successfully proven himself ' i' to be a most lamentable failure. , If the Democrat is correctly informed, i General Dement's affiliation with the j : ' j Democratic party can be traced back no farther than the date of President Cleve- i land's election. If this be true, the party is to be congratulated. One thing is cer- ,? ? tain, and that is this: General Dement's : j ; nomination as Surveyor-General for this J t , Territory was procured largely-through I f the influence of Senator Logan for I; .1 whom Dement is supposed to have done i .: i some earnest "legging" in the Illinois I : ; ). Senatorial fight last Fall and it was no- ; . j ; ticed at the time his gabbing propensities j ; j got him into trouble at Washington, that ' ! ; Senator Logan was one of the first men , : , to whom he appealed, as a particular I 3 friend, to suspend judgment in his case I ' i until he could explain the matter and I , ; i " ,i vmdicate himself. The Democratic party J - j can't afford to have clinging to itscopper- ; J lined bottom such barnacles as General. I ; ' Dement has proven himself to bo, and it , .j is a matter for congratulation that he has . so satisfactorily explained his recent ut- j " ; :' terances and vindicated himself as to j : ) leave the Senate Committee in noteort of ' t doubt' as to his unfitness to hold the of- ' j ; fice to which he has been jiominated. , f The rejection of his name in the Senate f 1. ! is a foregone conclusion. ; "When General Demerit returns to his i i Illinois home, he should get the family ! physician to perform such a surgical op- I eration upon his cranium as will reduce his bumps of loquacity and discovery to the proportions of a pancake. It may : I . I save him much worriment in the here- i after. |