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Show 1 II If FaK.tr 'Bill Wants the Sena- Hf - HI ;i f tors hip Mr til Start a BBI 3 Hi I ill I Democratic llag. Bffl V ' Jill! The usual apolqgies always go, of course, as a BB n n IE m i 1 1 ; I ! prelude to any historical, political, or sundry men- K j ! ' f I t,on oC the mayor of Billtown. Of late this some- Bw H "11 what 0VerPlayed selling plater has been adding to j j j j f I tlie gavety of nations by divers acts, authenticated f M i i and otherwise, of such a nature that a brief re- BBm ' s '! I B i 3 ; I sume, touching the high places, would not be out BBS M ' ' ! B H ' J of plumb. To begin at the beginning, it might be BiflVflr M hB B 1 J I j 1 i well to say that Bill was re-elected mayor by a B 1 J $', Combination of circumstances in which no man f ; , ! can find even a shadow of moral credit. It Is B j i j , hi shrewdly suspected that this Republican old man B i j ); l ' j of the Sea was handed a renomination in order to B L i j J j put lllm out of narm's way for next campaign. H i J j j Tliat may not be more than half true, but it is ex- B'i ' "hi ' 11 ceedingly plausible. Again the droll humor of 1 K ' ' jlB some Republicans who like a hippodrome, coupled B j ' j I ' '8 wltn the SlarInS incompetency of the rabbit-heart- B ' , j I; im ed Democrats, conspired to re-elect the Republi- B f M ni can candidate. So far so good. Some one had to B J i lillil l)e elected and wll sha11 say tliat ifc was not Det" ' 11 III ter to contInue alonS the business lines of the B j ! 'Ill present administration than to take a chance with B j "i I tne Democratic nominees. That is how Bill was H j ; 'J successful. It might be added that when the B j j f ! voice of the people is heard on election day there BW i i' nliil Isn't anything to do except acknowledge gracefully Hi " ' $ iiil the wil1 of the maJorlty- Tnat is what we pro BB I f I l! IS! Pse to do in our own way, however. HBP Mi! Is I BB1 f i HEI BB'1''. 'i l Si But n0W comes Vll afterclap. Bill is re-elect- BBiP 1 w ed Notwithstanding several hundred of the more Bll'1 1 I! w conscientious Republicans refused to vote for him, Bvfr it H lie lias discovered in the returns that he is a prophet, who like the seei s of old, are not without honor save in their own country. But no less a prophet. The man who can detract one iota from Bill's estimation of himself is a peach. He has discovered that his own greatness, as reflected by the editorials and local adultations of the Standard, is too narrowly confined within the confines con-fines of a city or even a state. He wants to be Senator. This is no joke. Laugh if you want to. it doesn't cost a cent. Give your money to the poor. This is no relief corps. I say Bill wants to be Senator, and, moieover, he thinks he has Kearns skinned a mile. Can yon imagine anything more assinine? You say he is crazy. Well, yes, in spots, but there is method in his madness. The germ has not fully developed yet and it is impossible impos-sible to determine whether the malady will prove contagious. If there be those who doubt that Bill would have his shouters who would glory in the fakir's success, I Have only to refer you to Dowie. His graft is religious, while Bill's is political. That is the only difference. They are graduates from the same school and they both play the people for suckers. Both have met with some success. t t & But getting down to business close to the firing fir-ing line it is an open question whether BilJ will not meet with as great success running a Democratic Demo-cratic paper, he intends to start a morning daily early in January, as in running a Republican one. You say he is not a Democrat. What has that got to do with the case. What a Democrat wants is a Democratic paer, he don't care anything about the proprietor, and Bill is just as well equipped to supply it as Barnum was to fool the people when iq found out they enjoyed it. There Is more business acumen than sentiment behind Bill's scheme. He has a modern plant at the Standard office, thanks to his business sagacity two years ago. He now has 'a prosperous afternoon paper. There is no morning paper in the field. The Democrats Dem-ocrats have an afternoon paper that has woefully demoralized the circulation of the Standard. Now then, if there is room for two dailies here, Bill argues that the arrangement would be more acceptable ac-ceptable if one dally were a morning paper and the other an evening. Also, inasmuch as the telegraphic tele-graphic and local matter of each paper can be used in the other, the expense of a morning paper pa-per would be practically nothing. The only difference, dif-ference, in fact, would be the editorial. The same machines would set the type and the same press would print both. Now tell me, if this newspaper fight means a fight of extermination, who is the better equipped to survive? Of course, there is no question of the political picture in which Bill parades as a Republican in the evening and masquerades mas-querades as a Democrat in the m6rning, nor the moral aspect of the case. It is a matter of a coldblooded cold-blooded business proposition. If Bill can put the State Journal out of business he will do so. If he can be as crooked with tho Democrats, and get away with it, as he has been with the Republicans, he deserves to win and the people have only themselves to blame. Meanwhile, let us hope Og-den Og-den will take a tumble some day. i In a moment of journalistic paresis, the Herald referred in a head line to our prince of fakirs, as the King of Ogden, and now nothing short of a crown and scepter will do for fakir Bill. He wants to be crowned, figuratively, at the time the new administration is Inaugurated. To accomplish this end with proper eclat the occasion is to be graced by the all inspiring presence of such of the state officers and others In the public eye who have not been able to find a satisfactory reason for sending regrets to the mayor's pressing invitation. The date is set for January 4th. Those who can't come may write. Newspaper men are requested not to refer in public print, in poetry or otherwise, to the mayor's table manners. |