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Show THE action of Friday's Rcpublicon convention in limiting the nomination nomi-nation speeches to liva minutes provoked quite a row for a few minutes, but the reason for It was not understood until the speechmaklng begun. be-gun. Then tho manner In which several sev-eral of the nominators tore the best thoughts from their carefully prepared efforts, in order to keep within the limit, was beautiful to behold. One of the delegates had a speech written out that was about a quarter hour's length. The convention tried lo shut him off but the louder the delegates called on him to name his man the louder rose the .voice of the reader. And he kept at it until he had finished. His candidate "got there," too. a "The Frank Rose case may be regarded re-garded as a judicial suicide," remarked a Salt Laker discussing tho circumstances circum-stances entering Into the trial of the wife-murderer "It's like this: Rose did not have tho courage to shoot himself, him-self, as he is said to have thought of doing after the tragedy. He chose to pjace the burden of his death on the courts. There was never a moment that he tried to shield himself. He confessed con-fessed the crime before his victim's body was found. He demanded an early trial. At the trial, when there .was difficulty In Impaneling a jury, he raved at the law's delay. And he made no possible attempt to postpone his punishment. His own evidence convicted him. Now he is said to be anxious for the day of the execution to arrive. From the beginning to this hour Rose has merely used the law as a means to accomplish a thing he had not the courage to do with his own hands." Tho Mr. Ham of Boston, who stole $200,000, was considerable of a pork. - u The beggar who reprimands a man because of delay in opening the purse and getting the satisfactory amount of change, is pretty much like a politician politi-cian who gets an office and declines to give some of his salary and his time to the party organization work. The excuse in both cases is that the gift was due that the further obligation obliga-tion is with tho giver. o Now that the Republican State convention con-vention is over, the politicians might get down to a few hard days' work for the benefit of the State of Utah and the City of Salt Lake. The people peo-ple will think more of them If they do. C 3 Mayor Morris will probably have the gambling resorts looked Into as soon as they pay Into the city treasury a sufficient sum to run his administration administra-tion "without any serious embarrassment. embarrass-ment. That 5299 a month, which several sev-eral of the larger dives are said to be contributing to the city, is much too good a thing to lop off when thero Is so much danger of running short, you know. Newspaper reporters of Salt Lake lost a good friend when Dennis Elch-nor Elch-nor died. He was always generous with the newspapermen. He knew that such, things ure appreciated. His political, po-litical, preferment never lifted him beyond be-yond the range of common mortals, as Is so often the case. He was a full sized man and his reward should bo great. |