| Show TOTALLY unqualified it is becoming more and more apparent that mr air dement of Lexington IlI is totally unfit for the office of surveyor general of utah it might be well for the president to withdraw his hia nomination from the consideration of the senate mr Den dement tient has figured conspicuously and his bis career since his lip appointment has been far from admirable he is essentially a small man and as is likely to be the case with small knall men he imagined he be was destined for vast accomplishments it was natural that he should bite off more than he could chew but having done so it is proper that he be should s uffer suffer the consequences the f facts acts in his bis case seem to be that he be bounced out to utah and almost immediately bounced hack back again with a cock and bull story about frauds f in the land department part ment he appears to have been iti inflated with the mistaken nott notion on that the nation looked to him to reform something it matter what so long as a splurge could oe be made that would redound to cements Deroen De ments ts personal glory intellectually small and consequently credulous dement seems I 1 to have caught up irresponsible tittle tattle in utah and to have magnified it to suit his own silly purposes he hastened to washington ton with his wildly linw sensa sensational Monal yarns lind and in our mind there is no doubt that behold be told the newspaper correspondents just what those correspondents aay ay he told them As between mr dement and the washington correspondent of the daily news we will believe the correspond ent every time but when dement discovered that he had made a wild raw woolly break he added insult to injury by appearing before a congressi congressional ca committee mull tee and alleging that the reports of the washington correspondents were lies the correspondents referred to were fred powers of the chicago tuned times J jules ales guthridge goth ridge of tt abe e daily news jt vis george G bain of the st louis post and thomas C crawford rawford tJ ot of tue new mew york world these b e genile eni meu who stand high in the theft profession declare most positively t that at ement dement repeated to them I 1 t thac t sweeping charges of fraud which he no now enles denies and there is no doubt that dement is between close rows of 01 stumps the prospect is that lie he will not be confirmed by bv the senate and in the light of his questionable career it ii seems eminently proper that he be should not be chicago news |
