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Show STANDI OF SENIOR SENATOR OF 01 IS UNDERESTIMATED UNDERESTI-MATED Saturday Evcnlnp Post Writer Forgets the Greatness of Senator Sen-ator SmootIIorald Takes a Rap at Intcr-Mountaln for Lauding Senator. Under the caption of "A Pair of Two Spots" tho following artlclo appeared editorially In the Herald: "Samuel G. Blythe, generally regarded as tho best-known of the Washington correspondents, as well as one of the brightest writers of today, has nn article on tho now United States senate In tho Saturday Satur-day Evening Poet that shows nn amazing Ignorance In ono particular. Of course, he Is fairly accurate In h's treatment of the subject, rnd t' e oonoluslong eoncrall; may bo taken as authoritative, but he fails woefully woe-fully in one particular. Those of us in Utah wh6 have been compelled by professional duty to read Senator 8moot's newspaper know that the Senator is probably the greatest of tho newer members of the senate, if not tho greatest of any of them. We have been assured as-sured by the senator's official organ and it is always truthful about him that few semt rj since the lays of Webster and Calhoun have made such an immediate and profound pro-found impression on their colleagues. col-leagues. It hag not Vcn atmouncr ed officially, but jt 111 the impression prevails that the president takes no really important step without consulting con-sulting the senior senator from Utah, and we are assured without reservation that the senate itself waits for IiIb opinion before it acts on anything from financo to the duty on frogs' legs, from colonial government to tho popular brands of nose paint. Having this assurance, wo bavo read Mr. Blythe's artMp expecting to find at leagt a oolowt devoted to the now comet of tho scnato, the giant of the west, the Honorable Reed Smoot of Provo. With loss expectation wo have searched for a tribute to that intellectual and scholarly associate of tho Provo wonder, the Honorable George Sutherland. Do we find Mr. Blythe appreciating appre-ciating Utah's statesmen as . he should? Ts there any indication that he has felt the almost unlimited unlimit-ed influence they exert at the ca pi-tar?-""ItTinvrTiTotiTTiTslibTor respondent rise to his opportunities and let an eager world know what the forty-fifth state has done and is doing to uplift the senate? Nary a rise takes Samuel. Listen to this and weep at tho feebleness of comprehension it shows in the treatment of a great subject! "Gamble is not of much weight and Smoot and Sutherland are negligible neg-ligible quantities." Not so uiuch as a sentence apiece; not a phrase between them; no praise, nut even the condemnation condemna-tion which shows distinction. Just "negligible, like a breath of hot air on a summer day or an old bird's nest or a discarded two-spot In a i big game. And yet some folks think that i this man Blvthe known pnmotlnm' about the senate and Its members. |