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Show EDITORIAL NOTES- Last and best must be the Republican nominations. Thus far the e'ections have shown a solid North versus a solid South. "Pkesiden-t Harrison has givftnthe conn-try conn-try an able administration. James G. Blaine. Tub strikers on the D. & R. G. are ably assisted by the storm to maintain the tie-up. Do the Liberal nominees ever consider that disappointment is the lot of man on earth? Mr. Raw lins has purchased a new dress snit. He will be able to use it as a memento of his candidacy. Osi.t three weeks more remain before the election. Utah Republicans should make the most of them. A partial eclipse of the sun is looked for on Thursday. That is the duy of the Liberal ratification meeting-. The Liberal county convention was a protracted pro-tracted one, but all the work was not done in open session. The fine Italian work wasn't. A large strip of silver lining is discernible discerni-ble in the monetary cloud as the price of the white metal is slowly but surely climbing upward. For some reason the prosecution in the Irvisb case persists In reviling the Alta club. Some one of the attorneys must have been rejected there. It cost New York $2,000,000 to celebrate Columbus. The same town couldn't raise $50,000 for the Grant monument. But, then, Gram was not a distinguished for-eigner. for-eigner. Heretic hunting is like taking hold of a Voltaic battery. You cannot drop it as gracefully as you would. Witness the trial of Rev. Hexkt B. Smitu, professor in the Lane Theological seminary. If Judge Anderson had sought an interview inter-view with L. E. Holden OeXore he charged his removal to party expediency, he might have learned something to hia advantage. Mr. Holden is a Democrat. The Democrats, have a happy faculty of claiming the earth, but we notice they are terribly shaky about West Virginia. The influx of new blood, the development of protected industries and the first law of nature na-ture are asserting themselves more and more with every recurring election. I'eople who havo seen the Alps and the Himalayas declare that the immediate surroundings sur-roundings of Salt Lake at this time surpass anything in beauty and splendor that can be found in the others. It is only because familiarity breeds contempt that we do not go into daily exaltation over our scenery. After Breckixridoe and Daniels had declined to .orate at the opening of the World's fair. Henry Wattekson accepted the call. There is nothing small about the Kentucky editor. In fact, there can be nothing noth-ing small about any successful editor. Unless Un-less his yiews be broad, his ideas liberal and his disposition generous he could not keep in touch with the world. It is reserved for some politicians to be narrow and pouting. Feck's statistics may be burned, but the United States census is intact and that shows that during the last decade the number num-ber of industries in New York City increased by ninety-two. The wages paid to the workmen in the ten years ending in 1SSK) increased from $97,030,021 to $8,337,235. In other words, $131,307,274 more was distributed dis-tributed to employes in 1803 than in 18S0. The 292 industries represent 25,399 establishments, establish-ments, the increase in ten years beine 11,377 establishments, or over 1000 every year. But for the iron rule or ruin policy of Tammany hall New York City would be the Gibraltar of protection. |