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Show A PARASITE'S SNEAK. The desperate effort of .tho Smoot organ to strike up a flirtation with tho Wilson administration is attracting attract-ing some mildly amused attention from innocent bystanders. Every day that journalistic coquette, smiling and smirking through her coarse smudge of rouge, waves her glove-concealed dirty paws Washingtonwnni and blows cold storage kisses frantically lo tho newly-risen newly-risen sun. People who recall the libels cirou-lated cirou-lated about. Woodrow Wilson last fall, tho slanders and insinuations of the red-line gossip which were disputed by all concerned and repudiated by every honest newspaper in tho country, are wondering now if that wore not some sort of political "badger game" framed up by the Federal officials who control and operate the organ of tho senior Senator. Since tho "doctor" was elected President of these United States, in spile of his reputed aversion to education edu-cation of the masses and notwithstanding notwithstand-ing Utah's adverse vote, those Federal hewers of graft and drawers of salaries aro more concomed about their tenure of office than thoy are about tho Republican Re-publican party. Taft is forgotten. Wilson Wil-son is forgiven. No ono is really hated savo tho men, who want, decent politics and the real public service of honesty and good faith in this boss-ridden Republican Re-publican State. And so it is that every morning, as tho first rosy streamers of tho coming dawn strike upon tho glistening snow-whito snow-whito pinnacles of the Wasatch and the Oquirrh ranges, tho turbancd devotees devo-tees of self turn from tho public crib, salaam nnd cry: "Woodrow is great! Wc hope he will bo good." There arc those, however, who would rather fake chances with tho organ's unreasoning hatred than with its unnatural un-natural and deeply nauseating affection. affec-tion. President Wilson has doubtless road about "Greeks bearing gifts." lie would do well to bewaro of Federal Fed-eral bunch officials throwing kisses for Hopes |