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Show THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA. When Mr. Smoot concluded to secure an organ to He about his political malefactions in this state, and to make his political crimc3 appear as white as the snow which gilds the peaks of the Wasatch, he enlisted the services of a gentleman from an obscure town in Indiana to dip his fingers into the dirty limbo and do the work for him. The hiring of this journalistic thug is reminiscent reminis-cent of the old gentleman who had a grudbJ against a lot of enemies and who hired a prize fighter to pick a quarrel with each of themas an excuse for beating them up Individually, aggressively aggres-sively and fearfully. He performed the job with admirable skill on a number of occasions, but one night ho returned with one eye out, several molars missing and a severely misshapen frontispiece. He announced that he wanted to break the engagement, en-gagement, and was. asked if he did not like the job. Ho replied that he liked tlie job all right, but remarked to his employer, "Don't you think you are the least bit quarrelsome?" It seems possible that some such reflection by this time might -have entered Into the truly great brain cells of the gentleman whom Mr. Smoot recently re-cently consigned from the jungles of Indiana. His first act upon arriving here was to try to pick a quarrel with everyone in the vicinity who did not believe that Mr. Smoot was an Immaculate exemplar exemp-lar of political purity, and a night or two ago In a drunken orgy, he referred to tho editors of all the other dailies, with the natural exception of the twin satellite, the News, in language which would have meant a first class lynching party in any community where people had not become tolerant tol-erant by reason of long suffering. All of this occurred oc-curred in a bar-room, out of which Mr. Smoot's verbose hirllng was summarily ejected, for the reason that his references were extremely distasteful dis-tasteful to the proprietor and to several other gentlemen, one of whom the Smoot journalist was not. The personal foibles of the Smoot journalistic representative could lie overlooked, and his bibulous bibu-lous tendencies could pass without comment, but his arrogance and effrontery In coming into this community and after a week's coaching from a discredited apostle, attempting t teach people what tho poltlcal situation here really amounts to, is a little too heroic a potation to be passed with-ont with-ont notice. People out here who must be credited with having a certain endowment of human intelligence intelli-gence have been trying from twenty to forty years to solve the Mormon problem, and to affect some cure for unbearable and unwarranted interference inter-ference in local politics by high ecclesiastics. Up to date, even after profound meditation and study, they have been unable, without the assistance assist-ance -of much needed and just congressional enactment, enact-ment, to arrive at a solution of the difficulty, and their astonishment was consequently intense when some perfervid hack writer from Indiana launched "himself boldly and bloodily into the community and announced with the voice of Esau that he had found an antidote for the whole miserable political politi-cal malformation, which, summarized, was to permit per-mit Apostle-Senator Smoot to continue without check his political depredations and reduce tho voters of this state into a condition of placid quiescence which would have made Madame Tus-saud's Tus-saud's wax works look like an. animated lot of farm wives at a quilting bee. The gentleman from Indiana appears to be a little too hasty for these parts, and like the other hired bruiser referred to, it seems possible that after awhile he will grow a little tired of his contract. If he wishes to establish that all other newspaper men in this community are rogues, it will first be necessary for him to prove to tho reading public that he was anything but a petty poltroon when he permitted himself to be bartered for as the defender of a man who is a wretched executor of a relentless religious despotism, and whose political career is -a- shame upon civilization. civiliza-tion. Other wise Daniels have come here to explain away the Mormon menace, but we have failed to observe any of them going away with drum and fife sounding the glorious fruition of their enter price. There is certainly reason to bQliove that this new voice in the wilderness, which is at present sounding so lustily, will shortly susurate jH into a feeble echo, and quickly join that other ghostly and invisible choir, made up of long for- gotten apologists for Mormon misdeeds. Our advice to the ambitious gentleman from Indiana would be to pause a little and get a bet-tor bet-tor idea of his bearings. With Mr. Smoot as mari-ner, mari-ner, his poor little misnamed journalistic barge is moving in treacherous water's, and when it strikes the breakers and is submerged as it inevitably jH ' must, there will be very few people in this vicinity to mourn either over its early demise, or the pass-ing pass-ing of its misguided but vociferous Indiana pilot. |