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Show i THE ARGUS. only of robbery. His position is untenable, and in the light of what he once was, he ought to be denounced : but being only Frank J. Cannon, a man not big enough for the honor thrust upon him, we will simply pity him in his sad predicament. We hope, however, that some friend of his will get hold of him just before the final vote and secure his ballot for protection. THE MYSTERY OF THE STUDIO. For a number of years the most highly prized model in the National academy classes in New York was a young woman known as The Veiled Model, says an artist of note to a Washington correspondent. No one ever saw her face. She was heavily veiled when she applied for and secured employment to pose for the class. The artist engaged as instructor for the class requested her to uncover her face. She refused. 1 am ready to pose nude, she said, but I must remain u cl known. If you are willing to employ me for the figure only I shall be glad of the position, but the pupils must paint and draw some other head than mine. The artist demurred to this extraordinary proposition. But when the mysterious stranger requested the privilege of standing before them in a state of nature they were so delighted with the symmetry of her figure and the purity of her flesh that an engagement was at once effected. The veiled model posed at the academy for several winters without disclosing her identity. The heavy drapery wound around her head was neither removed on the street or on the studio platform. Those who painted from her could get an occasional gleam of jet black eyes shining through the veil. The more curious of the pupils at first tried to follow' her home at night to ascertain her name and where she lived. But one night when they tracked her nearly to her home she suddenly stopped and said quietly : Gentlemen, it is my secret. To make it known would cause me great grief and mortification. Let it be as it is. I appeal to your honor. After that the mystery of the model was respected and she went to the studio and left it unmolested. Nobody knew her name, where she lived or anything about her. At the end of the week she received her money and departed silently to turn up on time the next Monday evening. One night two years ago she faded into the darkness as usual at II oclock. She wTas never seen, never heard of agaiu. She had utterly disappeared, and from that day to this the mystery of the veiled model has never been solved. A poor devil was prosecuted the other day for passing a worthless check on a jeweler of the city, although the amount was made good by friends of the wrong-doer- . Prosecutor Van Cott couldnt think' of letting him go. But the prosecutor has quashed a hundred indictments against a certain banker without making his scruples so conspicuous. ii If there is any indication of the growth of the silver sentiment in the Republican party it is not due, says the Provo Enquirer, to the action of such renegades as himself Senator Frank Cannon that the movement is growing. The Provo Enquirer says that in the face of last years Presidential vote, would it not be prudent to say nothing more just now about the people of Utah being conservative on political matters? ii The Argus is the leading weekly newspaper of Utah. PREPARING FOR ANOTHER SWITCH. RTHUR BROWN has gone to Washington now that Messrs. Lannan and Cannon have returned to Utah. The chances are ten to one that the ex Senator will find much done that he would like to undo, because two shrew'der schemers than George Q. Cannon and Pat II. Lannan never got away together with objects in view. And these certainly had objects of size, shape and color in each eye. Manager Lannan has no mind to allow Arthur Brown, of all men, to control the distribution of federal patronage in this state in fact, he is loth to let that prerogative depart from the Tribune office where it has found lodgment for so many years President Cannon is determined to stand in with the administration and the leading element in Utah politics for obvious reasons, and therefore cannot afford to tie up with Brown. There is trouble brewing, and when Arthur finds out all about it he is not the lad to let his opponents off without their share of the brew. A number of State papers are suspicious of the attitude of the Tribune since that trip of Lannan and Cannon. The Ogden and WarX-Ra- y ren Fosters paper have called attention to it, which was not unexpected ; so have the administration papers of the state, which occasions just as little surprise. But when silver Republican organs take the Tribune to task for its apparent change of heart it must indeed be noticeable. Excerpts from these different classes show that the course of the Tribune is carefully watched The Tintic Miner, always a defender of the Tribune, says : It looks as though the Tribune was preparing for a bold switch to the party of protection, promises and the gold standard. What has come oyer the Tribune?. It is certainly not on account of any good the present administration has done as yet. It is certainly not because President McKinley has appointed a bimetallic commission, because the Tribune has repeatedly stated that international bimetallism is only a dream and i3 impossible. It cannot be because the Dingley tariff bill will probably be passed in at least the form of a high tariff measure, because the Tribune has repeatedly asserted that prosperity cannot come by increaski taxation. It cannot be that the Tribune is going to be an administration paper on account of any faith in President McKinley and his policies, because that paper has over and over again condemned the public utterances of the President and declared that under his administration we could expect little or no relief. Why, therefore, we ask again, is this evident change in editorial policy? Within the last two weeks the Tribune has condemned in bitter terms that grand old man of Colorado, Senator Teller, because he dared to take the administration to task for an admittedly policy, and yet during the late campaign Senator Teller was the chief hero of the nation to the Tribune, and is such now to all of Colorado and 90 per cent, of the people of the West. Within the last month the Tribune has found nothing to say in regard to what it must admit is a most calamitous condition of the country, and growing worse ; on the contrary, the Tribune ha3 in the main been devoting itself to defenses for McKinleys policy on the very lines where it formerly denounced him, and has in the minds of all its careful readers stultified itself by a most radical course of contradictions. We, together with a majority of the people in this section, have a profound regard and respect for the talented editor of the Tribune. For yearn he has represented the ideas of the people of Utah upon this great financial question, but it now looks as though we must disagree. We think we have a right with other readers of the Tribune to ask why this change. Have the recent visits of . un-Americ- an rap-idly-growi- ng Manager P. H. Lannan to Washington been the cause? Is the Tribune business office now dictating its editorial policy, and is the Tribune now getting in line for the position of a goldbug Republican organ in 1898 and 1900? Have the flesh-potof Egypt tempted the stalwart management of Salt Lakes great daily, which has heretofore stood boldly for principle irrespective of outside considerations? We do not say that such is the case, but it looks to us and the Tintic readers of the Salt Lake Tribune as though that paper was day by day carefully paving the way for a gigantic switch, and that if it preserves its present course it cannot help but land in the gold camp. s The Tribune, wincing, replied : At great sacrifice the Tribune last year gave such devotion 1o principle as no other in Utah ever did. Which leads tie 0. d n St icdaid 'o enquire: The Standard wou'd like to know what sacrifice the Tribune made in supporting Bryan? Did the Tribune lose any subscribers because it supported Bryan and silver? No, not at all it ra ceived additional subscribers. Did it lose any advertising patronage? No, it did not. Then what sacrifice did the Tribune make? Was it because the Tribune management was at heart goldbug, and, in order to save the paper, wai forced to support Bryan? If not, then what was the sacrifice? Was it the loss of a part of Mark Hannas barrel? Or was it the loss of a federal appointment under McKinley that made the great sacrifice the Tribune refers to? What else could it have: been? Suppose the Tribune had not made its sacrifices, how much of a paper would the Tribune now be publishing? If the Tribune had supported McKinley, it would have lost practically its entire subscription list, and with it, of course, would have gone the advertising patronage. Instead of the Tribune now owndollars newspaper plant, it ing a quarter-millio- n would have been glad to change places with the Provo Enquirer or Ogden The Tribune supported Bryan because it had to do so to save its business. But instead of making any great sacrifices it profited by the support of Bryan; The Tribune never makes a sacrifice. p-ipe- .. . r . . X-Ra- The Manti Messenger, an administration organ, welcomes, the Tribune back into the fold whence it wandered last fall and to which it now seems to be heading, as follows : The Salt Lake Tribune is opening its heart to President McKinley, and it is one of the most ably eon- ducted free silver papers in. the country. Last summer and fall the Tribune sang all its songs to one tune the tune of Bryan. But it seems to have sung its swan song. . Commencement week at the University of ' Utah begins evening with the baccalaureate sermon by Apostle F. S. Richards at the Theater. The exercises are continued daily at the University Hall until Thursday evening the entertainment winds up with a ball at Saltair. The public should show its appreciation of the' good work done during the past year and en- courage the students by attending the exercises. to-morro- w ' 4i By counting an absent member of the City Council present last Tuesday night an appropria-- ' tion of $1500 was voted out of the already famished city treasury to put up temporary decora- tions for the jubilee. As well turn it over to Colburns salary fund. The Evening Star announces that highway robberies are increasing in Washington. The presence of the trusts is spreading contagion. And now the Jubilee managers say it will be necessary for them to have $30,000 more. ' " |