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Show Psnck is getting into hot water in congress, but he is too much for his assailants. He is an ardent free silver sil-ver man and will always carry with him the full sympathy of the entire west. Pence is a gallant, eloquent and fearless man, and aside from some of his populistic vagaries is one of the ablest representatives of the people on the floors of congress. He iB thoroughly western and that goes, or should go, a long way trith western people. Pence is no coward. He is brave to a fault and has a very rugged way of calling a spade a spade. The similarity between him and our own and only Rawlins is very marked. The writer knows Pence long and intimately. inti-mately. A truer democrat does not I live, and the only reason he is lined up I with the populists is the course of I Cleveland on silver. j The semers do not feel as safe as I tbey did sometime Bince. The game ! I fish, however, occupy a rather insecure J f j position. It may turn out ta be all right, but'onthe other hand the situation situ-ation my be full of trouble. Just why our trout and black baes should be sold in Denver markets in safety, while our home people can't get a smell at the great pan fish, is one of thOBe things that a feller would like to find out, but can't to save his life, Miss Millard is telling the people what marriage is under certain circumstances. circum-stances. Miss Pollard is showing us what it is not. There is a wide margin between the two statements. As neither of these ladies have any definite defin-ite practical ideas on the subject we will witbold any rash statements of our own, for a while. A republican judge suppressed a democratic daily paper at El Reno, Oklahoma, the other day, but bef c re night they had another plant, and the Democratic Globe appeared on time in place of the suppressed Herald. Oklahoma Okla-homa democrats are hard to snow ul-der. ul-der. The Herald very properly-remarks that economy when carried to too 'great an extent becomes anything but a blessing. This in connection with Booth's tee bill, which has been sat upon by the lower house. The Union Pacific meetB the Atchison Atchi-son and Santa Fe and will go a tosB beyond. The rate to San Francisco and return from the Missouri river is $35.50, $20 one way. Now then, who dares to stay at home? The Mexicans find the last slump in silver to be rather too much for even them with their low wage prices. Below Be-low sixty no country, no matter what its wage schedule may be, can afford to dig and smelt silver. The rate war to the Pacific has been commenced by the Santa Fe already. In a short time we will be able to get a chromo and go to the Pacific coast for nothing. According to FoBter, we are to have a devil of a time between March 7th and April 13th. Let us build ourselves upon the theory that Foster don't know much more than anyone else. The way to hold a federal office in Utah is to make an offensive partisan of yourself on the other side. It has never been known to fail, so far. j Mb. Woodruff, the first president of Zion, is 87 years old, a ripe old age to be sure. May he live many honorable honor-able and useful years more. The capital iratler is not settled yet and the chances are most excellent for the hopes of Provo yet Monday's proceedings in the Hawaiian, Haw-aiian, matter seems to have been but a whitewashing bee. President Woodruff's birthday celebration cele-bration was indeed worthy of the man and the occasion. y The recent killing at Whitewater is one of those affairs which , discount Texas badly. We are sorry to hear of the continued illness of Commissioner Lett. |