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Show A i.XAT SNUIIBEII. At last night's session of the City Council, nn Individual of the name of J. It. Walden, where only Importance consists of his being city treasurer, made his mtlvn smallncss conspicuous by offering tho following resolution: I respectfully request your honorable body to Institute a spring cleaning process n your council room, and that you remove from the walls some of lis present decora Uons, which. In my opinion, are col tn keeping with its present turroundiost We suggest to the formulatnr of this resolution that the council chamber can never be properly cleaned so long ns he retains a seat in It. If lie were removed front hi present position, and given one suited to his calibre, he probably would be laboring In a subordinate capacity under Mr. ShowclL There is uo mistaking the decorations decora-tions to which Mr. Walden referred. They were, doubtless, the portraits of Hrigham Young tho chief pioneer pio-neer of tills ininn-n.-c western regionand re-gionand of the cx-mayore of this city. The mental oiicity of tills great man (Brigham Young) is ac-knott ac-knott lodged In every quarter of the civilized globe, rind It Is not consistent consis-tent that a in-ram of such a mate-up as that of Uie present treasurer cf tho city corporation should feel comfortable com-fortable in tho presence of even" his shadow. The clephaut and mewrui-to mewrui-to arc con'truclcd on bases, so dil-fcrent dil-fcrent tliat they aro not suited to each other's society. It is creditable to the council that they properly tabled tho resolution. If Walden had received Ills just deserts de-serts ho would have been similarly treated at thu February election. As It was, the best clement of this own party voted against him, causing him to run largely behind oa the ticket. But for tho accident of his treasurctshlp of the city he would have remained In the obscurity to which his natural insignificance entitles him. In the eternal fitue-fl or things he must gravitate toward and reach that point at na distant day. |
