Show THE FREE LANCE This is the season of the year when the philologist notes with pain the wanton mutilation mu-tilation of the word Christmas to Xmas Whatever peace on earth or good will toward to-ward men might be in him Is knocked cold by this liberty with a hallowed word t tt t For some time rumors have filled the air which journalists are wont to sniff that another newspaper is soon to be started in this city Yesterday the report was confirmed by one of tho prime movers in the enterprise Nothing beyond the mere fact could be learned from that source but it is understood that a company of straight Republicans has been organized with a capital of 35000 for the purpose of establishing an organ that shall preach every ev-ery morning the undiluted sophistries of theGOP t t tAt t-At the same time the Evening Times will slide back into the Liberal foldthis is a secret of the chief owner but true just the same if in the back somersault act the frail thing does not break its tender spine fit Since the Presidents message the Liberal Lib-eral office holders have taken fresh courage cour-age and mean to gather all the political persimmons that they can reach with a long pole The bar resolution petition ing Congress for two additional judges had scarcely been adorted when the machine ma-chine set to work to choose the candidates They are Master in Chancery Loofborrow and Mr Tatlock Go and ask Governor Thomas about it itt Next to the appointment of Bland as chairman chair-man of the coinage committee the most satisfactory assignment to the Utah Democracy Dem-ocracy is that of Objector Holman at tho head of the appropriation committee If in i trio course of human events Congress shall l refuse to legislate the sinecures of the Utah commission out of office that veteran watchdog of tho treasury may take them I in hand Most of the members of that worthless commission are patriots only for tbe salary attached to their job I and when that is cut off further proceedings pro-ceedings will Interest them no more Even at the risk of missing tho gentlemen I gentle-men from the beach during the bathing season next summer wither they ride on passes It should be represented to Mr Holman and his committee that the Utah I Commission is extra constitutional and that whatever excuse might have existed in I the for its past continuance conditions have changed and the Democratic party should not levy a tax for the payment of a pen ion to five men the majority of whom play the catspaw to the Liberal i ear in Salt Lake and play poker in the interval I t tt Utahs Delegate in Congress Hon John T Caine is a member of three important committees towit Irrigation of Arid Lands Postoflices and Post Roads and Pacific Railroads to all of which he will bring practical knowledge large experience ex-perience and thorough application and in I all of them he will be of particular service to his constituents |