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Show SMOOT HIS SUCCESSOR. The Smoot case has been permitted to drag sinuously through a thousand committee meetings, until people hereabouts, both those who prefer for him the senatorial guillotine and the saintly ones who look forward longingly for a verdict in his favor, had begun to despair of a decision being given until tho apostle had arrived at tho be-ripened be-ripened age of an octogenarian. But it now looks as if there would soon be a decisive agitation, and it is thought generally that tho public will soon have the delectible privilege of watching the flapping flap-ping tails of Mr. Smoot's frock coat as he speeds back Into private life. Among people who hold that the apostle is doomed for ejectment from the chamber where he has been the most unwelcome visitor of the past one hundred years, there Is already considerable consider-able speculation as to who will be the probable successor of the Provoite. And when that subject is discussed there is always present the doleful and alarming thought that the successor of Apostle Smoot may be even more objectionable than he is, although that is a possibility almost too frightful for the timid to contemplate. The indications are that, in case of his ejectment, eject-ment, Congressman Howell has been promised the privilege of walking into the senate over the apostle's apos-tle's prostrate political remains. If this happens it will come as a reward of Mr. Howell's political perfidy, when, at Smoot's behest, the congressman stole the Cache county delegation from Secretary Hammond of that county and presented it as a live and quivering offering at the altar of Cutler the Sad. That was a grand achievement to be rewarded, re-warded, even if it did result in mutiny among certain of Howell's friends and would have resulted re-sulted in his certain defeat for the nomination had there been another available candidate at the eleventh hour, but even at that such an award would be strictly according to precedent, as most of the high honors that have been accorded men in this state have come as a recognition of political polit-ical ignominy or dishonesty. But it is by no means certain that, with the passing of Smoot, Howell will be permitted to hug to his bosom the doubtful honor of a senatorship beyond all probability, but a careful scrutiny of i " from Utah. The great throne of the Prophet in the Bee Hi'ye will quiver with the reverberations of his indignation if the apostle is abased, and a man of his naturally uncultured and vindictive temperament Is liable under such circumstances to plot a vast revenge upon those who brought V-1 about the downfall. In that case, what would be more likely than for .a decree to go out for the selection of Fussy James Anderson as the occupant of the vacated seat? By many this may be looked upon as being Jimmy's past great performances shows that the prospect is not in the least unreasonable. He has always been the church's real political leader, the astute premier whose fussy fingers shook the throne. It Jias always been his proud boast, and one which is as conspicuously justifiable as it is discreditable, that he was the original discoverer of Smoot. Possibly Smoot and the church presl- ' dent feel that in selecting him they could subserve sub-serve a dual purpose; it would reward the Fussy for past untiring services, and at the same time deliver a staggering blow on the point of the maxillary bone of the gentile public. Why not the Fussy? If more objectionable in other respects, he is less ignorant than Smoot, less blaring in his effrontery, less addicted to a violation of the amenities of civilization. Besides, Be-sides, his election would prove over again to the nation that the Utah political situation called for drastic treatment. It is known that no prowling Gentile of sycophantish aspect can be given the honor, and if a burlesque is to be staged it should be a good one. At that the Fussy with all his faults is far preferable to either the present pyrotechnic pyro-technic senator or the present parvenu congressman. |