Show I r t Unusual Unanimity of the Bull Moose I Convention and the Reason for This I 1 HE H unusual unanimity of the Bull Moose i convention at t Chica Chicago o T THE as ns described by one of the thc veracious veracious correspondents who is writing writ wiit- in ing stories about it is almost as surprising as though h the Dem Dero- Democracy had carried earned r Texas or r the thc Dutch had bad captured ed Holland The del delegates tick dele gates are arse as harmonious 10 in sentiment and intention as a band of marItime mart marI time time freebooters who are bearing down upon a merchant vessel thc they display the good fellowship that might be he expected o of those who o c cancell con can conwell n well ell defer the inevitable ine quarrel o over er the spoils until they feel certain that there will be an any spoils The bright young man who hit upon the thc phrase H unusual unanimity to describe a convention the test of participation participation par par- in ill which was personal loyalty to Mr II Roosevelt must ha have e been suffering from a dullness which he was intuited inclined to pass along It is the sort of convention that thal should appeal greatly to the colo colo- nel His habit of dividing all mankind into two classes a sort of segregation segregation segregation segre segre- gation of the sheep from th the goats the good citizens being those who love lo the colonel and the undesirables those who cheered for him him seven en years but arc aro now 01 taking a rest should wreathe t that hat open countenance with smiles The excellent care taken by his manager in the tho various states to prevent the attendance of an any progressive e or otherwise who were not con convinced of the colonels colonel's s d divine ne right to rule gives him a pleasant and soothing glow of confidence ence that he hc is among his friends Like the Roman gladiators who performed their before the imperial box bob prior to the opening of the festivities the tIle delegates lOa may inay maywell well with one acclaim approach ach the Royal Presence in in proud humility and declare We e who are about to die salute thee It is is tho the sort of picked hand-picked convention permeated with that fellow feeling which makes its possessors wondrous kind that should warm the cockles of the Roosevelt heart Without exception they realize that where The McDonald sits is is the head of the table nand and the they will ap- ap roach throne of political grace without a dissentient thought to taint their loyalty They are arc first for themselves of course but as they can amount to nothing nothing- without the colonel and as he must first be lifted up in order that he may draw all men unto him including themselves themselves them them- selves there is no ghost at th the feast no fly i in the ointment nothing to tomar tomar tomar mar the jO joy joy- of the occasion The glorious self-esteem self in which the colonel holds himself droops like a sensitive vc plant when any disturbing influence comes within th the purview of the trembling sensory nerves At Chicago he lie should bloom and blossom like the rose and und spread before all and sundry the stupendous stupendous dous confidence he holds in his own virtues He can strut before the loyal cohorts with his graces trailing behind him like the gorgeous caudal appendage of the peacock and there will be none to criticise or point out that his only certificate of excellence reads I am it and that the appended signature is Me re and lt Me e alone Of what avail ail would it have been to pick ti n convention contention and then permit the entrance of those who might cavil at worshipping an idol who built his own pedestal and anti climbed upon it and who would decline to admire a laurel wreath merely y because it was fashioned and placed upon the head of the nearer by his bis own fair hands c- c UGH T. T HALBERT of Minnesota i being a aA aA anew HUGH A New Idea new lIOW convert to the Roosevelt Hoosen lt methods apparently ap ap- Advanced docs does not clearly sense them Jn In I denouncing in the Roosevelt Roose convention the Bull By Recent Moose plat platform form as verbose pedagogic O and lackO lacking lack Jack Convert ing lug in vitality he shows a lack of understanding understand understand- ing of the Bull Moose working system that is to say the least painful And when he added that H this this document makes a n. violent attack without offering the slightest remedy he makes it plain that he has read none nono of tho the Roosevelt speeches nor has he ever eyer talked personally with ith the the- colonel If he had he lie could know that making violent attacks is the Roosevelt strong point a and that offering o a remedy i is about the rarest of the colonels colonel's per pcr- We Yc fear that Mr fr Halbert rt is not en rapport that there thero is not that call from the soul that is really necessary for one who trains with the Bull Moose roose and that he h has C not been brought under control by b y the colonel as the hypnotist would phrase it Little things such as ns the tho above will not worry him when he is more fully y in harmony with the Roosevelt intents and purposes and if he lie does docs not place lace himself in hat hat- mony and cease cense sounding discordant notes we wc imagine that he will soon I be cast cust into that outer darkness where there is weeping and wailing nailing and I gnashing of or teeth Really Heally this Mr Halbert is as practical as and as disconcerting as the mouse which in a conference of mice where it had been decided to place a bell hell on the cat that they mi might ht have warning of its approach interposed the hornless harmless but startling question Who Vho will bell the cat 1 2 02 c u i r ru n THE HE judges of the county countr of Denver seem to Dignity of X l b h rather hard put to it to maintain their This Court dignity A few days ago one of them therm Seems In fined a newspaper publisher t for contempt I Pt and ordered him to jail for six sic months and now Danger another has assessed former Mayor Speer 1000 I and im invited ted him to spend five fi da days s in jail The fhe former cit city executive c owns a newspaper which ownership o in itself seems to be constructive contempt of court a remarkably remarkably remarkably re re- re- re cle clear r tribute to the lie fearlessness and aud energy of the Denver press The newspaper which follows the line of least resistance never nc stands in danger of being mulcted for contempt It is said of Ben Butler that angered by a particularly asinine ruling ruling rul rul- rul- rul ing of the jud judge e before whom he was trying a case he indignantly thrust his law books under his arm and was ostentatiously tramping out ut of the court room room only to be halted by the judge who heatedly in inquired inquired inquired in- in U Arc Aro Aro you trying to sho show contempt for this court 1 No Xo the angry lawyer as he lie continued his exit I am trying to conceal conceal conceal con con- ceal it The Thc Denver newspapers seem to have followed Ben Bell Butlers Butler's method with no greater success than he achieved cJ 4 4 U. U AI A trips across across the continent arc are I Automobile A- A AUTOMOBILE by no means rare and there will be more of them when there is road Tr Travel a v e I a roa I well-charted well and marked with good going ma main maintained main main- n- n A Across cross ta tanned ned in good condition by the communities I Continent through which it p pon passes asses Salt Lake ought to be beon I on that road for the thousands upon thousands of of- tourists that pass through this city's gates each year ear by means of the transcontinental railroads will feel just t as us desirous of seeing this western metropolis when traveling by automo automo- bile The part which h the tourist trade pla plays s 's in the prosperity of the local merchants is too well understood to r require quire argument concerning it When one travels across the country in an automobile his mode of locomotion presupposes that thai he has the money to get what he wants an n appetite for the best and the leisure to tarry longest where he be is iss best bet s contented tati The movement mo to have the continental road pass through Salt Lake should not be permitted to die through lack of cooperation cooperation co co- operation and enthusiasm 44 1 C 0 4 n A S SEX SENATOR ATOR SUTHERLANDS SUTHERLAND'S position that the that the Sutherland commerce court could be abolished d but bu that hat Positron Position n It its members must still retain their positions as ns federal judges has been sustained b by y the concon conference con con- Approved roved ference report made to tb the Senate on the legis legislative r By Senate appropriation bill and it is obvious that I no other result could ouM be possible Members of oft t the he federal Ju judiciary are arc a appointed I P for life tenure tenure ten ten- ure and can o only ly be removed by impe impeachment nt proceedings s similar i iJar to that now pending against Judge Judg-c Archbald Congress may a abolish cert certain certain t tain n in courts and rearrange court districts district but it t legislate the judges themselves out of office The he members of the Senate have e eI I I found that tha the junior Utah senator is JS a law lawyer er o of f fand considerable ability and that his advice adice as to legal procedure ma may quite safely be he followed 1 I II I An Oklahoma man has has been arrested for fl g his i hired red girl giri Probably she he had eloped WIt with vilh h a steak from r eo fl lU F dM |