Show IEPEESENTATION AND MISREPEESENTA TION The New York Tribune and almost every ther paper of that name seems a hard oncern to satisfy In fact there is no such thing as satisfying it being happiest when it is miserable it manages to extract ome sort of misery out of every circum tance that comes along and will use old material when it cannot get new It has r eccntly dug up an issue which Mr JAMES G BLAINE is presumed to have worn into hreds when hewns faking up capital to i ecure the nomination for the Presidency b > y the Republican party in lS Gthat is he confederate congress A recent num bersaysThe extent to which service in he confederate army is still a requisite for political preferment in the south is rought clearly in the fact that twothirds of all the Senators and Representatives from southern states have military records made in the armies of the confederacy This causes the Trortd to make the inquiry I as to what it is the organwould have Inasmuch In-asmuch it says as all the white men in the south and most of the boys fought in the confederate army all the white men over forty years I of age have military records made in the armies of the confederacy The World is right It is in the south a i question of sending exconfederates to I Congress and placing them in other high I and responsible stations or having the positions po-sitions tilled by enemies WhlCh would I any community be most likely to dol Why i it is for acting on the same principle that I the people of Utah have been so hounded 1 and harassed If they had only thrown off tried and true friends in i favor of the desperate des-perate chance of something better which was promised them they might have had a comparatively easy time of it but they did not seek in fact would not have ease on any such terms Knowing who make the best agents at home or abroad they prefer to act upon their knowledge and would be very foolish if they did not When the southern states resumed their places in theunion saysJourNev York contemporary con-temporary they sent to Congress their most conspicuous representative men and in the main these were men whose military records were good They had to send old soldiers or nobody because everybody was an old soldier The lapse of time has not been great enough for a younger generation genera-tion everywhere to have supplanted the older and even yet the fittest men southern constituencies can find to represent them are the men who nerved with distinction during the war The war is over The men who were engaged in itwere long ago restored to citizenship There are no rebels anywhere If there is any sense at all in representative institutions the men whom the southerners send to Congress are manifestly the men they should be expected ex-pected to send The principal trouble regarding the matter mat-ter is that those most interested have got beyond the point of caring whether those who have nothing in common with them I are satisfied or not The fact that the war is still raging in the newspaper offices referred 1 re-ferred to amounts to so little that nobody I of any consequence notices it j so long as the sanguinary struggle can be kept within with-in those circles it is not likely to hurt anyone any-one nor do anyone except the holdover warriors themselves any zrnod It must afford them a species of satisfaction to know that they are thus able to make and constantly keep themselves supremely disagreeable dis-agreeable to the better class of people everywhere Besides all this as is well known General Gen-eral LONOSTREET and Colonel MOSBT were the southern men President GRANT selected for office General CHALMERS and General MAHOXE who today conspicuously represent repre-sent southern Republicanism have military mili-tary records made in the confederate armies All representative men in the south except the youngest are under a like disability it be a disability But it is only those southerners whom the south cannot trust because they have shown themselves untrustworthy that the newspapers news-papers spoken of and their satellites are willing to trust Under such circumstance circum-stance it is hardly worth while to talk about the feeling in the southern states and among the representative people being any less pronounced or any less in degree than it now is and has been for a generation genera-tion The people there and the people I here in Utah know what they want with minute exactness they also know what they dont want and some of the things in this latter category are carpetbaggers scallawags rule by an inferior class and so on What is wrested from the people here and there must be done at the end of an inchbyinch contest Even this may not be the means of accomplishingsuccess for the adventurers and their renegade allies but it is a tolerably certain thing that nothing noth-ing else will Only when they are downed and cleaned out if they would accept the issue more manfully and less like little boys with sore toes it would be better for them and more gratifying to the others |