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Show Jf Views of Intermountain Editors Mr-T jj Utak .State Press Jmm WARM BCNCH OF SLEUTHS. 'ranLosran Journal. '3jt Salt Lake must have a warm bunch of iSBFpleuihs; and. oven the famous Plnker- -Htoiis don't .sium to meusuiv up to their TjjBVarc-rullj circulated reputation, Several jJBinonths ago the sum of one hundicd six jjjlthousnnd dollars was- found to be nils--.-- .i 'fflng from the treasure box of a Halt Lake fl ffCity hank, and It Is not prlonded IhaL ill (Wany other than hank offlnals and eni- Pjfljll'loN ees oould or did obtain access to It. .JtKflFifteen thousand dollars await tin." happy 'BMfellow who can place Ids hand upon" tlx-Jjjjfonc' tlx-Jjjjfonc' who is "It." and ny: 'Thou art tho 'GrlrwlJTian " but either l'ai sum, largo asv'it M'tfllooiuf up Jfi most eyes, is not laryc iff enough, or the local odd ton of Shorlork Holme! anc. the FJnkrionp on the job iarc more obtuse than has lie-ri generally Bupposcd. In another Instance, some Individual Indi-vidual or Individuals. Jn broad daylight and -while the store was crowded, opened a show cae hi the establishment of a prominent Jeweler and abstracted therefrom there-from a tray containing two thousand live hundred dollars worth of diamond and pearl jewelry. The local police, also the Plnkcrtons working on the bank case, were notified. I3oth sont men who looked mysterious and acted In a manner to excite ex-cite suspicion, but, as In tho bank cape, "there's nothln' doln'." All of which leads one to believe that, after all, one man can see nearly as far through a hrlclc wall iu can another, and that the Setectlves aro "not so many." GARDEN" SPOT OF UTAH. Emery County Progress. Emery county Is one of the most inviting in-viting fields Im the United States for those who would till the sotl and live :lose to old Mother Earth. Tho Lord rave land to humanity to cultivate. 3ome land Is better than other land, ind some climates are better than thors. Combining the two. wo believe Emery county ban the edge on most oth-:r oth-:r sections. This county could be mode the garden spot of Utah In less than Ive years were 10,000 good farmers and rchardlsts to come In here and work as :hey do on the worn out soil of East-mi East-mi States. We have the land, water and :!lmate- What now wanted Is the leople. $L HERE ARE SOME TRUTHS, 'jkj Eastern Utah Advocate. rm There seems to be prevalent the Idea "mi that newspapers expect every one of their readers to coincide with every opinion ox-aHiT ox-aHiT pressed by the paper. No newspaper man Oil., with a thimble full of brains expects all tS his opinion? to be .approved by every-I'taV, every-I'taV, "body. At the same time a newspaper 'It'ffi "without opinions Is like vegetables wl then th-en f out salt, and not performing its duty to -l' the public It serves. Its opinions may ,uot meet tho approval of all, but they J'p J tend to stimulate discussion and direct thoughts in profitable channels and pro-Si' pro-Si' Lyoke Investigation. No newspaper's opln-ijjj; opln-ijjj; fions can always be right, but if the ii5 paper Is worthy of support they will be honestly expressed with every thought in jl .mlnd that they will soon be in cold type. Misj 'and will always remain so and cannot he sk. denied. This at least entitles them to Sfflfalr and reasonable consideration. A pa-Wpcr pa-Wpcr Is more Interested in beinjc right than. Win being wise, if it ha.fi the proper con- ccption of its duty to the public. LET NO GUILTY MAN ESCAPE. MKPrlco Advocate. MB It does one good to know that the TMff affairs of the Utah National bank at ZIon ware, being probed into by the Federal tBgrand Jury. It Ik hopod the investigation Iffnlll be far reaching and that the guilty Wlonos be not allowed to escape. Some one pretty high up may yet suffer the pen-tXalty pen-tXalty that is surely coming for either the tStheft or the juggling- of the bank's funds. Mm CERTAINLY NOT. 3 Vernal Express. p Tho Attorney-General of the Mate ro-9& ro-9& cently gave an opinion to the effect that Hlf County Commissioners arc not empowered I to create contingent funds for the Sheriff S to draw from at will He probably did Snot mean that they were not empowered to pay certain expenses of the Sheriff. In Uintah county conditions are far dif-ijai dif-ijai ferent from those in Salt Lake county. mw Here we are 120 miles from a railroad wb- and the county Is more than 100 miles iff long. The Sheriff often rides the entire ?. length of the county and Is absent ninny 2V- a'5 sno" such trips cannot be made wlth-sWt wlth-sWt out expense. The Commissioners of this splf. county allow the Sheriff. 50 per month for 'j&jL horse feed and he Is compelled to keep SS extra horses and good ones In our opln-,5 opln-,5 ion the amount appropriated is a neces-JiDll' neces-JiDll' sa,' expenditure nun is none too much. am, The county would he put to a henvler expense by keeping its own horses. 'jp:. TEXT-BOOK PROBLEM. ici-P- Vo!"a' Express. The text-book convention will meet In Salt Lake City tlm fij-st part of May to ifltj helect book3 for th; public schools for tho OT'J'k nest five years. The delegates to that T convention arc. already being buttonholed "Tu . by 'various publishing house agents Vi jl throughout the country, anxious to show- ""their wares. The selection of books Injl should be- made after a thorough cxamina-on cxamina-on j;tIon. Many of the books now in use in iW ; the Hchools are fnr from satisfactory. INNOCENT STOCKHOLDERS. Richtlcld Reaper. sl Isn't It about time to taboo thp ex-Is, ex-Is, piesslons "the Innocent stockholders" and m "the widows and orphans" and other such things that are being overworked in mtt rPrln dealings with the big cor-jUflK cor-jUflK poratlons7 If a man buys stocks he buys if fd t'ieni 'fl M'f oyes open, and there is UW no such thing ns an innocent purchaser, jjfrat If a man buys watered Mock ir Is he-'wit he-'wit cause he wants something for nothing. "Widows and orphan"' who Invest in ItjWb watered stock are no compos mentis. IBJjS There Is a good deal of nonsense in this ARW corporation talk. MANY A BREAK MADE. 00S Washington County News. you ever watch the operation" of xa loom In a woolen mill? Po Jong- as tho operator attends closely to the work in l(rttm hand all gos well, but If she pays too wm much attention to what ln'r neighbor is doing her y-rk ij hkej' to get "down" and "overshots"' appear. So in our life-weaving many a "break" Is made j in the web simply from giving too much , attention to tho warp and woof of other's I lives, and too Httk to our own. j : j PROHIBITION IN UTAH. Mount Pleasant Pyramid. I Utah is to be a prohibition State. I There can bo but Htll further doubt un that question. The action taken by the Latter-day Saints church in general conference con-ference assembled last week in declaring declar-ing for prohibition, for Utah places It squarely and officially in line for that principle. As nil other churches arc on record for prohibition, many of them having hav-ing been leading elements in the light waged for years against the liquor traffic, traf-fic, the prohibition move in Utah will hereafter receive unanimous, active support sup-port from all religions organizations In the State. That means prohibition for Utah In some form or other sooner or later. UTAH NATIONAL JLJANIv ROI3BEK Y. Toficle Transcript. , It is said the Federal srand jury now in session in Salt Lake City will Investigate Investi-gate the national bank robbery We wonder won-der what they will do with the Plnkcr-ton Plnkcr-ton detective agency. The Plnkertons seem to make little progress In catching criminals In Pall Lake. HAVE JOE ASK ALMIGHTY. Davis County. Clipper. It. would be very handy if the people In the part of Samoa that Elder Draper writes about their trees and crops being destroyed from smoke from the volcano had some smelters to sue for the said damages. APPLIES TO ALL PLACES. Richfield Reaper. There Is nothing in this worl.I hat Is more deplorable than the main street habit, Street loafers are a curse and an abomination to modern society. It may bo that the city .ordinances do not deal with this matter, but for the sake of respectability re-spectability every resident of the city ought to sec to It that those street-corner gatherings are abolished. Even tho thought of having to admonish bolngs possessed of Intelligence to refrain from sitting on hitching posts and peddling gossip Is sufficient to give one the Indigestion. In-digestion. If the men and boys of this community would put the "kibosh" on tho street gabfast and devote the tlmo which they spend in this way to study .and serious seri-ous contemplation, Richfield would become be-come noted as a center of learning within the next three or four years. Political News in Idaho CHURCH BIG POLITICAL MACHINE Coeur d'AIenc Press. If those people who arc opposed to dragging the Mormon religion into pontic stop and think a moment on the subject they will discover that no one but tho Mormons themselves dragged their so-called so-called religion into the politics 'of Idaho as they have In Utah. The church is nothing more than a big political machine and business corporation exacting te-n per cent of ,all Its victims earn for the purpose of enriching the corporation. On the side Its leaders run a harem in which the members are permitted to indulge and nil these things arc carried on under the name of religion. God save such religion re-ligion from further expansion. SHORT CAMPAIGN ADVOCATED. Lewislon Tribune. We- of Idaho are apt to enjoy a fairly quiet and orderly campaign, but this does not prevent, our having to partly pay for the strain and suffering put upon the people of other States by reason of violent, envenomed and even sanguinary politics. For' It is a conceded con-ceded fact that business depression and the withholding of commitments in the way of investment and enterprise are due to the uncertain and desperate desper-ate turn tho campaign takes on. We have been taught that oternal vigilance j is the 'price of liberty, but there appef.r to be Instances In which something more than vigilance is required to save a people from the serfdom of partisan bitterness and warfare. The Tribune appreciates ap-preciates fully that exciting political contests con-tests are a necessary part of any system of popular government. Tt also agrees that It would be- better for us in Idaho if the State were not poiltleallv so onesided: one-sided: If we had competing parties, with a reasonable balance of power, made up of progressive. Independent, courageous and conscientious voters, to turn" the scale? this way or that , way In favor fa-vor of the very best men for the public pub-lic offices. The Tribune Is willing to work with the. minority to . this good end, conceiving that It can serve the State better that way than by merging lt30lf with the majority, even if there were no other reason for IL One may go oven farther than this and agree that intense Interest and great excitement excite-ment over this matter of manning tho public service aro wholesome, and absolutely ab-solutely necessary. Still, the most ardent ar-dent advocate of such bitter contention, unless he Is a professional campaign warrior who delights In sunh turbu-lonce turbu-lonce because It enables him to get office, of-fice, or something Just as good, is at loasd unwilling to make such deadly warfare perpetual. Leaving out the considerations which might Influence the citizens In lines of business affected by such long-drawn out Insurrections, and considering tho effects of it solely from the social and moral point, of view, the intelligent citizen who knows that peace is better than war. must come out of such strife, fujly convinced that "lections come tpo often, even as matters now stand, that opportunities for such deadly strife between ambitious ami excitable men should he rendered less frequent rather than leave the way wide open to moneyed vis onarles and vicious sports In wild politics. Most of the best citizens of thi-J country hav- livings to earn along legitimate legi-timate linos of private business. Thev do not depend upon campaign work, public, offices or exploiting large bodies of voters vot-ers for their means of subsistence or their success. They are not willing to either pi.-k pockets or pass around th hat. this all being true, thev feel in their hearts and In their bones that pcrpntualt political warfare Is a curse to , ho avoided; thac regular elections at reasonable reas-onable Intervals are quite all that even , the most earnest "reformer" has a rltrht ! to demand. ' J l-IEYBURN AND SENATORSHIP. : Caldwell Tribune. This article has to do entlrelv with the senatorial situation. The politicians of j the Slate have had the people to be-I be-I .leve that theie will be no opposition to : fie re-election of Senator Hevburn pro-1 pro-1 vlded the Itepui.llcans control the next Legislature, u lu 1 1 tio that none of them j have come out Hat -footed and sold that , lli-ybum would have the united fuppori I of the Republican party, but by praising : lleybnrn and holdhig any other possible 1 candidate in the bnekginuud. they huvw j -niivlmvd the people that thure niv no other candidates - and consequently !kv-, !kv-, burn !s in r.y danger. The Tribune Is ' convinced that there are no candidates , in the State who measure up to Heyburn In brains, energy and statesmaiinhip. but ) there may be candidates whom some j would rather see in tho Senate than Mr. lleyhurn. Tako for instance the Boisu ' Statesman and Its pets. Thut element i would rather sac Idaho represented in the Sena b a U'uxhikee Indian than by Senator Ilvburn. From tb day th . Senator was olvnr ii i,-i5 carried on a . nagging, cowardly, and contemptible light against him. Without the brains to r.'ue-c?ssfully r.'ue-c?ssfully challenge big views on the principles prin-ciples of government, it haa fought him by persona! nbui-e and contemptible misrepresentation, mis-representation, u Is .-till doinp- o. It idea Is to discredit the Senator In ' thp eyes of thft people of Idaho and thus pave the way for other fv6rltes. It is fia-?uenty fia-?uenty :e.hsrgud that Ser.utor Bonih'fpiH- vate bttcretary i Inspiring If net- uclita'uV A.. ' 'v'- - ' furnishing the special dispatches from Washington. This naturally involves the Senator In the conspiracy. Governor Gooding has been calling attention to his , many virtues during the past three I months, and we sometimes wonder If the bco hasn't gotten, into his hat. It will . be remombere'd that mcc on a lime, after tle Govornor had been elected, and after J hf- had salved the Statcsman'ii wounds, : that the Statesman said that the Gov-j Gov-j ernor was a Senatorial size. Ever since . that time the Governor has had his eye . on the Senate. It Is a laudable ambition. I but the people will not,sland for It this , t'ltue. They want Heyburn returned. L'n-;der L'n-;der the circumstances they are naturally uneasy. They are afraid that (hone is a scheme on foot to defeat the Senator at the last moment, This could be easily I done if the people do not keep their eyes j open. The thing to do is to elect Heyburn Hey-burn men to attend the county conventions, conven-tions, and then to have those county convention's Indorse Heyburn for Senator. J. Although Heyburn was opposed to a convention con-vention nomination for United States Senator, yet since the custom has been j introduced in Idaho he should be noml-i noml-i nated at the State convention. This would relieve the people of their uneasiness. uneasi-ness. It would strengthen the balance of tho Stale ticket; and altogether make ever thing easier and better. MACHINE SLATE MADE UP. Idaho Scimitar. The nominating convention that th& Re-! Re-! publicans of Idaho are to hold when fne weather becomes warmer will hardly bo j necessary and the expense and persplra- tlon It will engender might as' well be ! avoided. Most of the Important selections have been already made, the wireless station handing down the ticket as far as It has been agreed upon in tho star chamber of the machine. Senator Heyburn will be the candidate for Senator. Congressman French for Congressman, .Judge Allshie for suprome judge, Chairman Urady for governor, Treasurer Hastings for treasurer. Secretary Secre-tary Lansdon for secretary of state and Miss Chamberlain for superintendent ot schools. The attorney generalship lies between be-tween Taylor and Crane. Five delegates to the National Republican Republi-can convention have been selected, namely: name-ly: Senators Borah and Heyburn. Chairman Chair-man Brady. Bishop John W. Hart, and Barney O'Nell. The chairman of the Republican State committee recently spent a week In Salt Lake City and it. may be presumed that tho OK. of the hierarchy has been placed on the list of nominees and delegates to be submitted for confirmation by the conventions. con-ventions. This early submission of the lists will assist the machine organs of the State in their preparation of tho customarv oulogios. It will give them plenty o'f time In which to prepare the copy. WANT HAMER NAMED. Rlgby Star. The objections raised by a few newspapers news-papers that the southeast part of tho blato can not reasonably expect to have the nominee for governor and Congressman, Congress-man, ly without any merit whatever. For many years both United States Senators irom Alabama resided in tho same town, In fact from the time they entered the Senate until they both died only a. few months since. Senator Morgan taking his scat In the Senate In 1S77 and Senator Sena-tor Pettus In JS07. Besides. In asking tor the position of Congressman and governor gov-ernor on the ticket this year the Repub-Icans Repub-Icans ot the southeast will not be asking ask-ing for more than is due them. Senator Heyburn. who resides in the north, is certain of re-election; the attornev general, gen-eral, auditor, treasurer and supreme judgo, are certain to come from the north part of the State, whiio the. seeretarv ot state and superintendent of schools 'will come from the west, thus leaving Congressman, Con-gressman, governor, and possibly lieutenant lieu-tenant governor for the south and soutfc-casu soutfc-casu In the matter of justice, taking Into consideration the vote cast two vearr, 1.1.;?,JFr.e,nonl couty Republicans arb eu-. eu-. i . "Presentations on the State r'1 i11,t? year' m,d thy h:iv& united on Colonel 1 lamer as such representative. MUST HIDE THEIR POLYGAMY. Coeur d'Alene Press. A recent issue of the Capital-News contained con-tained a ,ong editorial advising the wo- m?rl? 'V i(,tl .fC,rC0S fth j0Sellh Smith, -president of the Mormon church and polygamous father of fortv-six in a campaign for local option, tho sui'd lo- S.h a,Vl"? had a v,s' Ins church should begin a crusade against the rum evil possibly with the idea t at the woo" could be pulled over tho eves of tho women regarding his hellish polygamous practices and the immorality of his re- lines. Ills Mormon organ at Boise has undertaken the task of yoking the wot men of Idaho up with this old polygai list for the purpose of deceiving them Into the belief that he Is ,eally iTlnceo JirL-t an and reformer. We have no Idea tnat the women of this State are o dull as to take this Mormon bait even tho L the Capital-News has such a Door oho of them as to believe that thev will crab it as a trout takes a June flv. 'Hie Mormons Mor-mons must hide their polygamy iw hind deceive the women of this State. In fact the Proposal of tho Capital-News for such b'o?".1"""1 l 11,0 "- LAYS DOWN THE LAW. Weiser American. The Salmon City Recorder, one of the ataunchest Democrat papers uf the Sta "n Capital-News for Its utterances against f eWrtE??ers lmt '?." not aroe with I " in Its fight against Senator Dubois and tho anti-Mormon plank In the platform. The tnpltal-News. which never was a Democratic Demo-cratic paper, now wauls t0 dictate" the Platform for the Democrats of the Stale ,,. i i Man h, fxix-rwa of a paper of which the principal stockholders are Mormons Mor-mons and James h. ;,ndy. Republican candidate for Governor. The Capital-News Capital-News would throw down those whom It now professes to' represent In -order to fn h c,oct,0 of Brady a Kepubll- FL EN N 15 ft MISRE P RESENTS. Coeur d'Alene Press. hA'u D" Fl0,,no,V, yhosn Mormon proclivities proclivi-ties are mi well known throughout the' State, I;; out In an attack- of Fred T Du- ! bols in which lie resorts to gross mis- 1 representation and falsehood He stato I that Dubois has turned the cold shoulder on Bryan and Ignored him in the past, i This in false, because Bryan and Dubois Du-bois are not only political, but personal friends, and the attempt of this man I-lenner to make it appear otherwise l-i simply for the purpose of deceiving the people regarding the relations e.fj;tinfi , between the two men and aligning Brian Bri-an a supporters against Dubois. If Flen- 1 nsr can produce no bet ter reason I ban l'..- ' misrepresentation which he Is Indulging : in he had belter continue to pursue the bent pi his mind along Mormon lines, i and there Is a possibility of his being i able to bring forth something tangible. WHO WILL BL'll.D PLATFORM? Wallace Times. Some of the.e Idaho newspapers that ' are trylns.- to tell the Demperats what ! their platform shall contain, will live to find out that t.h Democratic platform will be. drawn up by Democrats, and fur-: fur-: ther than that the people of Idaho will j learn ihat It will be enforced. j TALKS OCT IN MEETING. 1 .Higby Star. This county lc solid for Bradv and I In -j nier. and all . the knockers this aide of ; hell could not cause it t- be otherwise If they tdtould try as hard an the devp would permit them from now until the 1st day of next September. SITUATION IN GEM STATE. Conr D'Alene Press. Tho political iiituatlon In Idaho If" vapidly vap-idly assuming definite form, so far ns th Republicans are concerned. There will be .little. , If tiny, opposition In th noiniiifrtkui ot J. If. Brdy a thcandl- , -" 'l ' . . 7 ' date for Go ernor. and the action of the Fremont county dolonrntion In indorsing him and instructing the delegates to the State convention to give him their united vote, ip .bout a3 plain a declaration as they could make thut Colonel Homer, who halls from that .Mormon stronghold, might as well per out of the race for j Congress. It -indicates that the Mormon i strength will bo thrown to Congressman French, which means that he Is to be the nominee to succeed himself. There is no doubt but that Senator Heyburn is Plated for re-election In case the Republicans Republi-cans control the Legislature. This would I be a fitting recognition of the fiervlces of I one of the ablest and most energetic rep- ! rcsentatives the State has had In Con- J gress. We believe It is generally con- ' ceded by members of both the Demo- I orotic and Republican parties that if the i Legislature Is Republican he should be i re-elected. Under present conditions these three offices arc practically disposed of. State Auditor VJragaw is In bad odor with the machine and his name will not appear on the list of availables. Ho Is to be left out entirely and another Is already al-ready chosen for the nomination of Auditor. Audi-tor. Bragaw will be in the ranks after the convention Is held. Governor Gooding Good-ing does not like the State Auditor, because be-cause ho refused to be dictated to in the manner of conducting his office, and while Gooding has announced that he is not out for an offioe. and would not accept ac-cept a nomination, he will see thnt Brngaw and some others who aspiro to office retire with him. ; The Democrats are at sea so far as i candidates are concerned, and a few Mor- ; mon supporters at Boise have organized i h. press bureau, with J, D. Klenner at lis head, for .the purpose of eliminating all i mention of the Mormon question in the ' State platform. With this object. In view. ' they are conducting, .a campaign through i the mails and sending emissaries over the Stale, but the frerpient personal attacks which the correspondent of the bureau makes on ex -Sen:-tor Dubois have created i a suspicion that they doslro his elimina- ' tlon from the politics of the purty more than they wish to help the partv. Some one, Is supplying tho funds to conduct this campaign. I3ut the rank nnd tile of the party will not agree to their rule or ruin t policy. Tho Democrats are likely to get ( together on the Mormon fpiestion and make a united fight, but it will be with a resolution In tho platform upholding the constitutional provisions agolnst polygamy. polyg-amy. The tariff and Bryanlsm will also J be prominent Issues of the campaign. With these three Issues the Democrats ! will be In a position to make a strong fight with a united party, with possibly a few disgruntled Democrats who never support the ticket during a campaign as kickers. Wo do not believe Dubois wishes to make the Mormon question the sole issue, neither will he or hl friends submit to Its elimination from the platform plat-form if In their power to prevent. With theso matters eatlsfactorilj adjusted the party would have a good fighting show In the State, if the ticket is composed of strong men who are well known. Brj"an has carried the State twice and we believe be-lieve he will do so again, because he is as popular with the people as before. |