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Show A GREAT ILLUSION. It has been said that it' the folks at home could see their representatives in Washington they would he surprised at their diminutive political stature, i The solou who in his own opinion and in the opinion of his constituents and parasites looms so awesomely big as almost al-most to obscure the Washington monument monu-ment frequently turns out to be an "also ran." When the disclosure comes as the result of the solon's own efforts the case is melancholy. Senator Also that is to say Senator Smoot had been quite contented with himself of late because ho thought he bad "put it over" on the homo folks by a system of clever deception through the columns of the paper which he con-i con-i trols and which he devotes to daily praise of himself. The horn folk were led to believe that "Our Senator ! Smoot" was to be the bright particular star at the ceremonies for the hero dead who sleep in Arlington cemetery. One would have thought from the peans of praise in the Smoot organ that the solemnities were to be some kind of a celebration in honor of a great statesman from Utah. The members of the Cf. A. R. were pictured as waiting awestruck for . this Demosthenes who .; was to speak "in the president's stead" at Arlington. And now comes the cruel and blighting news that Senator Smoot 's importance at. the Arlington solemnities was microscopic, if indeed it : could be detected at all with the aid of a microscope. In a flamboyant editorial edi-torial Senator Smoot was pictured as the one chosen "instead of the prcsi- -, . dent" to deliver the address at Arling ton. According to the Associated '( Press, " Senator Smoot also spoke." In . the Smoot organ on the following day ! a single-column head was devoted to the president and Champ Clark and a two-column head to Senator Smoot 's schoolboy oration. How have the mighty fallen! "Ob.-j what a fall was there, my' countrymen! country-men! " It is indeed, a situation for i : tears. Senator Smoot in Washington, and everybody, from the news editor to the office boy, at home combined com-bined to paint a glorious picture '. , of this Napoleon among statesmen '" who was to figure in a sort of magnificent apotheosis at Arlington cemetery; a sort of glorious apparition , from the clouds. With one hand grasp ing a classic oration and the other tucked solemnly between two buttons of a Prince Albert coat in the region of the heart, while a vast audience acclaimed ac-claimed this mighty man who had come "instead of the president," Senator Smoot stood tiptoe on the pinnacle of fame. It was a beautiful illusion; it would have formed a striking scene for a moving picture scenario the great Senator Smoot addressing a multitude " instead of the president." Tli ere is a photographic trick by which the central figure iu a picture : : tan be ma.de small and a dimiuutive ligure made to domiuate the scene. This ' was the kind of trick attempted by ;. ; Senator Smoot and his journalistic J'akeis. But along came the cruel and ruthless Associated Press and destroyed the picture. It was Champ Clark who i was invited to speak "instead of the ; ' president," and the senator from Vtah ,:' was mcrelv "also," and not a very , :iig " also " at that. Therefore, L'tahus, if yoj have tears do not spare them now. It is a sad case when a great jlatcsman is caught with green goods uti his person and a gold brick iu his satchel. Therefore, more tears. |