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Show Hl( illLV ( 0.ALPLIMENT ARV. The "Times" Course Meets With I'ulversal Approval. Everybody that a Times reporter conversed with today complimented the paper for the bold and straightforward eland it look as the recent trick for statehood became known. All seemed to feel rejoiced that the is.-uie here is OOW so plain that neither trickery, duplicity or subterfuge of any name or nature na-ture ean be utilized to befuddle the mind of any honest and intelligent man relative to the situation in I ' tali. The universal sentiment prevails among all the liberals as well as among many for-mer for-mer divisionists that the "cloven foot" was never more prominently shown than by the late tricky movements for statehood. "I'm glad The Tikes was the first paper here to air the fraud," said a gentleman today to-day who was until yesterday a dirlslonist on national party liucs. "A man ought to take a tumble when a brick wall falls upon him." and, he added, "the fall occurred today. I've, always liked Tor. Tiuks, but I like it belle, than ever now that ;I know its lnauageno nt is able to thoroughly comprehend ana to adequately ad-equately treat the business sprung upon us by this hocus-pocus measure. |