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Show I Voters who cun vote and refuse to vote, should be made to vote. Dr. "Wiley says that raw oysters suf-I suf-I fer keenly while they are being . cntcn. So, also occasionally, do those wli'o cat them. The aeroplanes as scouts are apparently appar-ently so effective that army movements move-ments hereafter 11133' have to be conducted con-ducted at night. A Chicago policeman has been dis- missed from the force for accepting a bribe of fifty cents. Served him right. ' lias the man no pride at all? A Cincinnati woman declares thai she has found a man without a fault. The newly-wed woman generally thinks i that; but if perfection continues, that, in itself becomes a fault, since one must ' complain at times or "bust." I Govornor Johnson, the Roosevelt J candidate for Vice President, is making mak-ing pleas in the Jiast for the elimination elimi-nation of personal ambition. And this while the only reason for the Roosevelt party is the Roosevelt personal ambition! ambi-tion! Jt is now specifically and otlicially announced that the first vessel will pass through the Panama (-anal on Oc-lober Oc-lober .15, lOJII. And thus is the practical practi-cal utility of a mighty dream of upwards up-wards of four centuries firmly established. estab-lished. ' The protest by the Salt .Lake County Medical Society against the threatened pollution of the water used in this city through the passage of sheep through Th canyons, ought to bo elective. But the "sheep vote" claims many privi-i privi-i leges. " ' Governor Wilson is appealing to Pro- gressives who aro supporting Roosevelt, to come to him, as he is a better Progressive Pro-gressive than Roosevelt. And Wilson is no doubt right, about it; for all that Roosevelt cares about the move is to get into office through if. A passenger in a 2s ew York subway car protested against being tickled by a young woman's plumes, and was fined tea dollars. But he probably thought his protest worth the money. But why didn't, he have a freeman's nght to protest? The Washington Star quotes Roosevelt Roose-velt as saying, before starting on his Western trip, "I will eat the vitals j out of the Republican party and frame , up the organization for myself in I 1016." Which spiteful, ungrateful, and altogether unworthy utterance is a forecast of defeat as well as a boastful exhibit of selfish pride. Springfi.cld (Mass.) Republican: " 'The Greeks and Cretans who'nntil vrsterday wen; fortified in trenches ; Vo, this is not news from the Turkish frontier; it is a scene from the mining strike in Utah. ln Pennsylvania it nscfl to be tho Minns.' The melting ; pot is a. big one. and all sorts of ingre-dicnts ingre-dicnts arc simmering in it." Mr. Piston, a nominee of the boguo Republican party for county comntis- j hioner, formally withdraws, saying that 1 he can no longer remain in thai 'buss- 1 ridden organization. In this -Mr. Pix- ton shows himself an honest, cunrage-ous cunrage-ous gentleman of a dccirlcdly higher type than those who, striving to remain in the parly, seek to destroy it. Tho Smoot organ quotes, from I his pa-per pa-per showing our linn support of the re- B lention of I 'or I Douglas as au'irmy post, and then asks why we liMpH to . Put that retention in doubt. The roply is we didn't; for it was I I y i easuiis pre-seated pre-seated by The Tribune verified by an oflicial iiiPportiou, that ouiihccI Secrc- B tarv Stimsou to change his mind and C"'c assurance that the fort would be H The conceit of Senator I'ourno of Oregon is enormous, lie was beaten H for re-election in the Republican pri- 1 ( niari'cs; he was beaten in the l-Vogress- H ivc primaries; yet he couldn't seem to ; criso the fact that the people of Ore- HL gon have'hnd enough of him. and now B ho nnnounces his independent cainli Hji '.n,ynnd perks to get, bis name on the H ballot bv petition. JJournr is up mini ent, at :iny rale, even if lie isn't deserving. de-serving. . |