Show ANONYMOUS SLASHING wig WE HAVIR received an abony moua communication under the letter head of one of the hotels of this city enclosed is a printed slip containing an array of charges against theodore burmester they are very damaging and exceedingly sweep ing now we are not infatuated with mr burmester according to our view he be is not a specimen of mortality to be specially adored by anybody but notwithstanding that according to our estimate he does not in the scale of being stand by any means on the sublime summit of exalted manhood if any person who makes a covert attack upon him imagines that he can use this journal to do his underhand work he be has missed his bis reckoning the anonymous correspondent states that his charges can be authenticated by our reporter if he will inquire on the street the NEWS reporters are not used to do journalistic a monopoly of that business being left so far as this paper is concerned to those whose course ind indicates leates that it is their forte while the gentleman assailed is not to our liking as we have before stated we deny that au all of the charges can be authenticated by any means whatever for instance the slip states that he to is a purchased mormon tool too which is untrue the cormons mormons Mor mons 12 have no u use se for him film we name this charge because we can refute it we would be ashamed to publish the others the written communication explains the object of the assault it to is political and directed at W W gee t liberal nominee for justice of the peace for the fifth precinct who is asserted to be under burmes teva control an assertion that we would not undertake to dispute ind mr kahler kabler Bur clerk liberal Li berall candidate for the candidate for the same office in the third precinct these candidates are slashed over the broad shoulders of the irrepressible B as will be observed by this extract from the letter cant you do pomet something bing to help save us from the infliction of such officials on the people by showing them up we can only odly say on general genera principles that if the writer of the communication muni cation imagines that he considers these men any more unfit for the positions for which the liberal party have nominated them than we and a large majority of the citizens of this city including liberals do he is subjecting himself to a mental hallucination luci nation but why should they be thus singled out for attack when the majority of the candidates on the ticket are in the same box ox when one talks of infliction in that connection the political fly mister bl lster would be very broad we expect to do what we can to prevent it by urging sensible people who favor good government to vote for better men who will be nominated by the peoples party and thus lay the scrubs under the snow on the I 1 oth of february the better class of liberals are showing a strong si inclination to apply a counterirritant to the infliction in chief and thus prevent the consummation 4 of a political catastrophe |