Show LAYING I 1 IF IV ON TOO THICK IN this mornings issue of a virulent auti anti mormon paper of this city is a characteristic article it is ia as thin as mosquito muslin A keen been observer can see through it to the other side with one e eye ye shut the article is devoted to a fulsome eulogy of one the district judges recently appointed to utah the writer of it has s so 0 tar far overshot the mark that the emanation reads in come some respects like an obituary acom 1 um mm instead of a respectful respects ul compliment to a living mortal the subject is compared to Cinci cincinnatus onatus 11 that is followed by such expressions as this were his own son arraigned before him he would try him on the evidence alone and if convicted he would without a of face or quiver of voice send sead him to the penitentiary or scat fod even if his own heart were to break with anguish then there is tin an expatiation about the gent kent lemans puritan i inflexibility flexibility rt and southwestern straight straightforwardness fo bardness ward ness 11 now what does all this mean simply that the judge who is made the objective point of this sickening bombardment of taffy taff V has in the opinion of the writer of the journalistic trifle exhibited some symptoms of antl anti cormons mormons bias hence the taffy stick is held enticingly out to induce his honor bonor to step on in the same direction that he be may be cap aured and being captured controlled the journal that published this transparent bait could not see that the very expectation of its being snapped at by the gentleman tor for whose benefit he article was pt panned cuned is in the nature of a gross reflection upon ais his good sense and perception such an ai anticipation bici was necessarily based upon the supposition that the gentleman had a soft spot on his big head that would cause him to be puffed up by this overdose of flattery laid on in thick layers with a lavish hand we think better of the judge than that so far as we have been able to perceive in relation to his as yet brief judicial course thus far he appears to be an official ot of good capacity backed by an intention to do his duty one who is not liable to have his head bead turned by hyperbolic compliments from a source that is liable to change the regime to a torrent of abuse or a stream of base insinuation such as is tendered tea dered another utah judge in the same article fulsome flattery dealt out by wholesale for a purpose is the meanest kind of an insult being a gross befler tion upon the good judgment and modesty of the subject of the application |