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Show POOR FRANK. WM Ex-Senator Frank Cannon is entitled to the i H commiseration of all generous people this year. j H By his own confession, he has been awafe for i H many years of all that it is charged Is going1 on I jHI this year; he has often been besought to raise his fl voice in protest, but "he has been still. He appears j 'HI now as the sponsor for a man who has been ' fl aroused by what? A principle? "Well, hardly, for 1 the noonday sun Is not clearer to see on a cloud- ' fflH less day than the fact that the awakening from ImH that same would never have come, had riot hig J flfl entirely selfish ambition been baffled; had not i III his boss-rule been threatened. i jH No one will object to the ex-Senator's pleurae flH of the patriotism and unselfishness of the sonic? H Senator. It shows the magnitude df his inventive fl powers, and how subtile is his sense of the ridicu- HI lous. Genius in almost any form commands the aH admiration of men, and if they 'can laugh even gH while admiring, that but intensifies the charm. H Then, when it is all over, and the ox-Senator can seek the seclusion that his own cabin grants, H he can himself laugh until tho tears run down jH his cheeks. In a grave, and stately way the ex- H Senator, without sacrificing his own dignity in the ilH least, is adding immense y to tho hilarity of the H present campaign. Then', lie is not destitute of H hope of exquisite regards for himself. When tflfl he was younger; when he was hardly of sthe age H necessary before he could aspire to so . high a ; place, the Republicans of Utah gathsred around IH him and elected him to th United States Senate. IH He was given a seat in that august chamber whloh H has been hallowed by the voices' attd the footfalls' H of the giants who have shaped the destinies of- H our country so long. If now he can assist in di H feating the party which so honored him and as 9 sist in sending there some genial soul like the- H Hon. Joseph Rawlins, will not he be properly H avenged upon the party that would not follow H him out among the ice floes? H And still we fear he is not quite happy; thiU M he does not feel that tho ground under his feet i WM w. It very solid ground, and that ho sometimes wishes ) for the fakir's charm when he can by an illusion M: make the world bqlleva that something substan- fc tial can be created, from shadows. Lw |