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Show THE FREE LANCE. "Mr. Dyer would have been nominated if that fellow Casady had only kept his mouth shut," said a disgusted Democrat immediately immedi-ately after the county convention, in which "that fellow Casady" seconded Dyer's nomination nomi-nation for sheriff; and another one added immediately, : "I shall never go into another meeting if Casady is allowed to have anything to do with it." And yet it wa3 only last night that "that fellow Casady" was allowed to prate in public and vocifier-ate vocifier-ate for somebody to "produce the record." Of course it wasn't his. And while he was thus engaged a little woman and four children were shivering at home from cold and crying for something to eat. They were his wife and children whom he has basely deceived and robbed and de serted. At the same time a gentleman and a lady were hunting for United States Attorney Attor-ney Varian to learn from him if there was law enough in this country to compel a two hundred pound husband and father to contribute con-tribute something to the support of his destitute des-titute fumily, and inaugurate an era ot reform re-form at home before he advocates it in the hustings. There was another anp-rv Democrat in town after the convention, and his name is Wendell Benson. Mr. Benson is a Democrat from Maine, aye, from Bar Harbor. Democrats are scarce in that region, and when one survives sur-vives he is proof against any change of heart. Wendell Benson i only 35 years old, but should he live to be 135 he will still be a Democrat. As such he is willing to sacrifice sacri-fice his part in time, rueaus and labor for the good of the cause, but he draws tiie line at office. If he remains on the Democratic ticket as selectman for which he has been nominated, it will be because ho loves his party mora than himseif ; but he could not waive the uss of considerable Jacksonian language when the news was first broken to him. He may feel better now. Several efforts have been mada in times gone by to organize a Utah Press associa-tionf associa-tionf but they were all to no purpose. To--morrow, as we understand it, another attempt at-tempt is to be made in the same direction by the members of the Press club. We hope they may succeed. There was a time when state associations wera organized mainly for the purpose of giving the foreman or the offteeboy, when that tired feeling came upon either, a chance to represent the editor or reporter, who had no time to get tired, by proxy on a D. H. trip through a hospitable neighborhood. Today more serious business busi-ness comes before these associations. Let Utah have oni. The idiot of the specie Ignatius Donnelly was in clover this week, since the celebration of the discovery of America gave him a chance to sit down on old Christopher Columbus Co-lumbus with a loud, sickening thud, and deny to him any right to be honored. The latest discoverer of tho discoverers of America Amer-ica is one William Johnston and he hails from California. He fixes from Biblical records the date of the discovery of America by the Phoenicians at about 1000 B. C, and in closing he analyzes the rsligious beliefs of the Aztecs and the Phoenicians and claims them to be practicallv identical. Starting as monotheists, the Phoenicians gradually clothed each attribute to the deity with a distinct personality, which quickly developed devel-oped into polytheism and overran the earth. forming the basis for tha Orclr snil tlin Roman re'iifions. At a later time human sacrifice became a ' part of the Phoenician creed at hotn and in the colonies. The sun was represented by Baal and the mcon by Ashtoreth. Mr. Johnston finds an exact reproduction of that system iu Samoa and Tahiti, and discovers many records of human sacrifice in Mexico. From so many startling and indeed wonderful wonder-ful facts he thinks he has established the truth of his theory that America was discovered discov-ered by the Phoenicians. Mr. Johnston has copyrighted his paper on the subject, and if ho has good luck, we expect to see him some day running for office on the Populist ticket. |