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Show The cattlemen of western Colorado have determined to slaughter the sheep on their ranges. This is disgraceful. Their rights will not thus be determined. deter-mined. It is mob law as bad as ever was invoked by the Ku Klux in the south, and the state government of 0 olorado should see to it that the sheep are not killed. The law which protects pro-tects cattle and all other kinds of property pro-perty ought to be able to protect sheep as well. If the speehmen are violating the law in any particular, they should be dealt with by the law only. God did not create our mountain ranges exclusively ex-clusively for the cattlemen, nor did He clothe them with authority to dispose dis-pose of the property of the sheepmen in any such way. Now we will soon see just what sort of material entei s into the composition of Colorado's new republican redeemer governor. He will fall down, just as sure as guns. It is quite likely that Attorney-General Olney will be appointed secretary of etatj. We believe Mr. Cleveland could have gone out of his cabinet and secured a far grea'er and better man v for the place. However, it is his busi-eBB busi-eBB and not ours. Mr. Olney has not covered himself all oyer with glory in the department of justice ,and if he is appointed, we hope he will improve upon his record aB attorney-general. The Standard is busy throwing cold water upon Editor Goodwin's senatorial senator-ial boom. Indeed it does rot seem that a great deal of water is necessary, j as the boom is quite limp and altogether alto-gether bedraggled already. Give him a rest. Bill. Let bim go to the senate if he can. It is a good place for aged decrepitude to spend the latter years of 5ts life in, and then the pay is not a thing to be altogether despised, either. 'Honest I'olitica" writing to the Standard from American Fork accuses ac-cuses the republican chairman of Utah county of bavinc maae a combination with .Frank J. Cannon and the Tribune Tri-bune to deliver the republicans of the county to that combination at the nt-xt state convention. liHonest Politics " doesn't think it can be done. Bill Glasmann thinks it can, and time only will show which is correct. The Herald was twenty-five years old on the 5th. Congratulations are in order. Few now living will see its next 25th natal day, or its 50th rather. Those who do wil' see the expression of the progress made" by the state of Utah in twei ty-five years. Nothing indicates progress as does the growth ot the newspapers of a city or a state. Of course the republicans can do as they please, but the democratic candidate candi-date for president in '9G must pledge himself NOT to veto a free coinage bill it one iS p.itsd. It is not unconstitutional unconstitu-tional to demand th.it sort of a pledge of a candidate, and we are assured that the democratic convention will i-mand i-mand it. The Short Line leceiverehip turns loose a whole Pandora's box of troubles for the Union Pacific system. The Omaha end of the affair doesn't seem to be very greatly obliged for the good things chucked to them by Judges Gilbert Gil-bert and Sanborn. The Tribune is rather skeptical, as to the intimacy of Hoke Smith's ancestry, an-cestry, with Marshal Ney. Will the Tribune be g d enough to tell us what this matter has to do with Utah statehood or the adoption of the constitution? The Panama railroad and the Pacific Pa-cific Mail Steamship company have engaged in a lawsuit which will cost a couple of hundreds of thousands of dollars before it is settled. It is a sad waste of money. The dreadful fires which have been raging in the oil regious in Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, have been extinguished by heavy rains. Is it to be aEcribed to the density of the ram, or the tame-ness tame-ness of tha oil? The New Star's head-line now reads, The Evening Star Since when I haB the change come? We only see the paper semi-occaiionally and the new name is a stranger, in consequence. Utah county people are all free coinage people, democrats, republicans, pops, and the female element as well. The party which nominates only free coinage men, will make no mistake. The receiver of the Short Line will 6urely establish his headquarters at Salt Lake, ebpecially if the Utah part of the line is included in the part of the system given over to his care. |