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Show e tlioiiiilit to write an artie'e about tlii.s individual, bill wli.it is tbc use or' aiiiii'iu' a worn-nut worn-nut p.lirie:.-n or Licking a dying dy-ing donkey ? In a few weeks he will retire fi-0!:i senatorial prominence, fur Ins place is to be filled by another. We sat down to read bis speech on the Mormon question and tbe Cu'Ioni bill, but. biii to give it up in despair and disgust. We bad so often read tbe tlircalhire platitubv, used and tbc miserable calumni.-.? quoted, that the task of reading it through was too heavy and sopjiiiie. Xo wonder he spoke his piece to a thin senate ; for 1 O'.v men of inte!!ig:-i)ce ton! 1 sir and listen to such a reba.-h of st:dc and Villainous trash would be iii'-oinprehen-fdble. J v.-en senatorial dignity, gentlemanly gen-tlemanly courtesy, with tbe politeness inculcated by Chesterfield thrown in, would not be sufficient to nerve them to the task of listening to it through. A number of tbc pipers ca-t have been pitching into the unfortunate senator heavily. They might let up on him now, for is he not lading from sight and Lis political personality becoming be-coming so rapidly attenuated that in a short time the keenest vision will be unable to detect it? With the close of the session of congress he wiil be politically po-litically dead we had almost said, and dam ned with tbe Utah question where he found it, and nothing left of Ids career or his name except enough ''to point a moral or adorn a tale" on tbe futility of would-be great men undertaking un-dertaking to grasp and handle matters so far above their limited calibre. Poor . Cragin ! "When he vacates his senatorial seat and Jim Ashley is cleared out of Montana, we would ree minuend them to make a new move and organize a mutual admiration society, so-ciety, though they will be unable to find any others to aid them in the attempt. at-tempt. They can sing of th'eir past glories and throw in an occasional re train on the Mormons as they travel the downward road to ignoble obscurity. obscu-rity. "However, as we aie not writing an obituary of either, just yet, we will leave the subject for the present. |