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Show The Telegram joins with a host of citizens in congratulating the Commercial club on the election ot CoL Edwin F. Holmes to the presidency of the club. He is the right man for the place. His incumbency in-cumbency of the office f is a guarantee that this splendid body of progressive citizens will this year outshine its achievements of the last. At the same time the thanks of the club and of the city are due I the retiring president, Mr. W. A. Nelden, for his faithful and intelligent services during the year past. If the club is always as fortunate in its choice of presidents there can be no' doubt of the immense good it will accomplish in building up Salt Lake City. ' ; . M. De Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the London Times, who has just died in France, was a remarkable journalist in a way: Xo court intrigue of his day was successfully engineered without the guiding hand of M. De Blowitz, if we are to believe the latter. According to his own claims; Dr. Blowitz Blo-witz made and unmade kings and had acted as the official adviser of the crowned heads of Europe for the last fifty years. , , : The passage of the Senate bill creating a Department Depart-ment of Commerce and Labor will give the Government Govern-ment another executive branch into which every undesirable un-desirable and casf-off Tbureau in Washington has been dumped. The Legislature should not fail to give the irrigation irri-gation measures the thorough consideration they deserve even If the member are obliged to neglect other legislation to do so. ;. -, Compulsory vaccination is certainly required in Utah. Pass such a law and the smallpox germ will soon be driven out of Salt Lake. ( ' Ajgain we hear that old familiar cry: "Xo one but Piatt is in the New York Senatorial race." The Kaiser's warships are trying mighty hard to make the American eagle scream. . . : . . '. . |