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Show THE FLOWERS OF UTAH AN! IDAHO. We have heard M. . onnell and HoltZ-helmcr HoltZ-helmcr and Whitecotton and some of their companions, who go as Smoot witnesses wit-nesses i ailed many names plcturesqti names, explosive names, truthful names. libelous names, reproachful names, sardonic names, . lamorous names, profane nanus. nani' not men-tloned men-tloned in good society, names which are regarded as a hallenge fo mortal combat but it remained for Apostle Srnoot to call them by a sweet-scented name. He designates them as the "flower of Utah and Idaho." What a vast and blooming field is here opened for the imagination! Think of McConnell w J. HcConnell of Idaho, drooping as a pnle lilv In the presence of the rude men who compose the Committee of the Senate. It Is a picture to melt the hearts of those who know hll pure and gentle soul his piodest shrinking ways, his timidity like unto that of a vestal, his almost prudish language' Why. if licConneD knew nnythlng bad about Smoot or anybody else, bis Hps would be too chastely delicate to utter It Ah! there before the Committee stands. "A most unspotted Illy" breathing from it, perfumed chalice Its adoration of the bol) one. And Holtzheimer! He, too Is a flower. flow-er. Already we hear the guess. Yes. he Is indeed a crocus with the accent where It belongs. And Whitf cotton, Provn's onn blooming bloom-ing Whitecotton. He Is a violet he Is a violet by a mossy stone, half hidden from the eye; fair as .a star, when only one is shining In the sk." Again ana alas' He Is "a violet In the youth f primy nature; forward, not permanent" sweet, not lasting." His reputation Is perfume and 'tis not an odor, such as Shelley mentions "when sweet violets Sicken!" It is that soft caressing Incense In-cense which steals f r m the heart of love's spring-time gift, to lull the soul In smells ecstatic. Is there a Senator so dense as that he will not yield all harshness In the presence of this empurpled em-purpled bloom, J. W N W hltecotton! The others are merely roses white and red and yellow, full-blown roses. With thorns. And having them, there Is no reason why Smoot should not claim that his present position is a bed of roses The Senators will do well to retain this floral compliment from the apr.stle so that In ease of early Senatorial demise de-mise on his part, they may return the whole hunch to him as a funereal dilute. dil-ute. And in the meantime, Smoot shows what opiultn he entertains of President Smith and Apostle Penrose and President Presi-dent Bu Ice. by speaking of McConnell and Holtzhelmer and Whitecotton et al. us the flower of Utah and Idaho. |