| Show THE U S the fact that utah Is the youngest state in the union does not at all account for the interest regarding a senatorial contest that sets in a good while beforehand and increases as the time shortens the older states it might be said the oldest ones at times exhibit the same weakness some of them in a much more pronounced form there axe are reasons for this and they are not inadequate or unsatisfactory reasons either it is an easy matter to say united states senator the election of one is an event which to is so ao democratic and so near by while the one chosen is always one of us and these things have a tendency to make a great many overlook the real consequence and dignity of the place the greatest men of the country have not necessarily gravitated to the Preside presidency ncr which as we are all aware is sometimes filled by one whose training and instincts have been in altogether different fields from those of law diplomacy or statecraft and all presidents have discharged their duties with capability and faithfulness no so with senators the senatorial arena is not one which carries cairies with it that sustaining educating influence which to some extent surrounds the chief magistracy and makes it only necessary for the one who fills the latter place to be patriotic educated sensible and determined the senator must be qualified beforehand or he never will be his official surroundings draw upon his abilities before contributing anything to them and to be unequal to the preliminary the early experiences perien ces is to be practically bowled out thereafter the intellectual giants of the country have in nearly every case been recognized by congressional terms but the presidency when almed aimed at was in a majority of eases cases a tantalus cup to be seen but not enjoyed henry clay was a candidate for president on three separate occasions and decisively defeated every time yet the people sent him to the house of representatives senta tives where he became speaker and then to the senate daniel webster had presidential longings which were never gratified and perhaps it was for the best since in the senate chamber he was a tower ot of intellectual strength which might never nevel have been the case in the executive department so with calhoun the flaming orator of south carolina and hayne antl and benton and cass and crittenden and douglan Doug laa and many others who cereas their partisans claimed too big to be president but not too big to be senators their peculiar lines of statesmanship would ha have found little or no development inthe in h white house but in the councils of the nation they expanded to their fullest proportions perhaps the cycle produced produce 4 the great men spoken of has completed its revolution and we have entered another in which men are more practical and less psychical in their power do bo that as it may we still have good ratu men and able in abundance utah being far from the rear in the splendid pageant assuredly we have nothing to bo be ashamed of but much to feel pleased with in the contemplation of the representation sen tation we have all along had that the next senator may be at least fully albreast abreast of his predecessors a man la in all respects equal to the honorable which shall be set met andu undu him Is isa tw eoa summation most devoutly whether he be democrat populist independent or what nat ift 1 it be seen to that he is thoroughly representative and altogether a fit person to insure the greatest amount of satisfaction to the largest number of people |
