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Show THE LOCAL POLITICAL MUDDLES. fllf , ' Hf i1 ' 'Bi The politicians in this region are in a deuce of a BUI' ' Bi fix. The Democrats see in the papers that their Breik I jM two old leaders, Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan, no Blu ' Bsl longer speak as they pass by, but after they get Bffa ,'' ! fli by they turn around and call each other all the fflSI Bsl ancient bad names in the Democratic decalogue. BUI )- afl They turn to their local organ for manna and get Bnl' ?Bb1 nothing but husks, and are not quite sure that . Bsr m ' Bsl they are not Republican husks left from the corn 18HHf: ( ' uBsl that was shelled and purchased in the last Sena- Max" "Bb torlal election. When they meet the look which Baa BI they cast upon each other, says as plainly as words Biffr ssss! could: "Where are we at?" Their walk is like Br ssfl that of the first visitors to St. Pierre after the flery BBft'l MB storm had spent its awful fury, the streets were , MlCn ijeil choked with the dead and the laboring mountain BKalfc IflB was still giving off its fierce detonations, presag- BB illBfl ing further disasters They seem to be in the same BB?l JBsfl mood toward their party that the French Govern- BBH IBBsl ment was toward Martinique when it cabled to its Brail HB1 Consul at La France, asking whether it would not BBri fflsfl bo better to abandon the island. They met to give BBpf Sflsfl Senator Rawlins as warm a reception as they BroN iBB could. They revamped their old speeches, re- BBfiklssssfl awakened the old platitudes giving both Jefferson SBif Sflsfl and Jackson characters; they gave to Senator PPWr-flflB Rawlins a vote of confidence, indorsed his efforts Brail ill BB to annihilate the army and navy of the United BBmIIBbI States and to haul down the flag in the Philip- BBrllislflB pines, and then went home only to read in the BAi!ilflfl evening papers that the news from the signal sta- fflfltiiilflfl tion was a prediction for the coldest Fourth of BsHalrilflH July ever experienced in Utah. For once the pre- ofiBn uHB diction was fulfilled and the faithful involuntarily BBB jBB associate the cold snap with their meeting at the iBliSf AH Lagoon. BsnBBl The Republicans are not much better off. Sen- BwBBb ator Kearns has gone off across the sea and the BB1BBB1 dispatches from Washington are dumb. We no BBllIiBI longer receive his opinions on the irrigation bill BBfli&B or the Uinta Reservation; there are no more BBifiiBfl banquets, no more calls upon the President, not a Bfiif IIBI hint of the lines on which the next campaign is BBsSmHB to run or who has been selected for standard BBmIBB bearers, and more particularly who is to have HBlmiBBl charge of the commissary and the quartermaster's JBIlffllBBI stores. There is lots to be done and there ought BiBiBfll not to be any mistakes. Then it will not do to BfiBBiB begin and take any chances of having the policy BBBIBB reversed when the chief engineer gets back to his flBBBBH Warren Foster looks on exultingly and believes BBBBfl that this community will yet repent that his teach- BBHHSB ings were not long ago adopted. Ho scoffs at th HfiflBBi blindness of the people, and for recreation reads BBBBflK how prophets and seers have been derided in their BHHHBI 1 SBnflHHBIifl H$ " , M I own country and says to himself "of which I am fkf one." Hflf ' ? 'I i Charlie Crane has decided that Cecil Rhodes was Bw ' right, that men cannot carry on great measures HM ij for the benefit of mankind without having a B r 'I healthy bank account with which to meet expenses, Hh '.? an is delving in his Idaho mine and dreaming of HR ' the time when lie will be able to take the helm of H jj! !' . ,"i Utah politics and steer the craft into a safe haven. Hlf t ! The political situation may be described as one Hn li' I of unrest; to politicians of all parties the honors 1 'I 1 an! the loaves and fishes all seem to be on shelves (1J too high to be reached by ordinary step-ladders. fyfi 1 1 Then there is apprehension lest the big com- , , I bine has a program that is to be sprung later, !!,; ( when the campaign begins to warm up, a someth- ' ing so formidable that it will be idle to combat it. (, '' i This particularly worries Apostle Reed Smoot and B ' his private opinion is that things have come to a Bj (j. '" ; pretty pass when an apostle cannot get a reliable 0f revelation. Altogether there is more doubt and BL ' j. more apprehension of traps that are liable to be B ' sprung than there ever was before at this season H' ''.) of the year. Hll u . ' |