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Show The grief of the public will bo unlimited upon learning that Mr. H. B. Booth is not after all to receive the appointment as district attorney for Utah, after he' had tangled himself up with the Smoot machine at the last state election with no other intention than to secure the position to be shortly vacated by one Joseph Lippman. Mr. Booth is but another fat example of the ingratitude ingrati-tude of Senator Smoot, who, like his local satellites, satel-lites, Callister and Anderson, always throws his political friends over the bannisters as soon as he has secured out of them the maximum amount of work in his ill-starred designs. He knows nothing noth-ing about any code which should prevail even among political tricksteis and is particularly prone to forgetfulness when the applicant for federal preferment has never taken the oath of allegiance to the Mormon prophot. The wonder is that Mr. E. D. R. Thompson, who has strained all his tendons ten-dons working in the political plots that Mr. Smoot has framed up during the past two years, received any federal recognition, although even he had a hair breadth escape from being expurged from the Smoot roll of honor. Mr. Booth probably feels deeply incensed enough to change his politics, but the lesson he has received ought to be a great help tohim and the other gentiles who were duped with specious promises into joining the discredited discred-ited and disgraceful political band of which Mr. Smoot is the head. With Mr. Booth's obliteration as a possibility for that position, it looks as if Mr. Smoot would probably recommend Benner X. Smith for the place, even if 'the latter failed to join the Senator-Apostle Senator-Apostle in the calamitous Intrigue which resulted in the nomination and election of Cutler the Sad. If Mr. Smith receives the appointment, it will be gratifying generally to local members of the bar, and will certainly not be an indication that Mr. Smith has contracted to approve of all Mr. Smoot's past and future political misdemeanors in this state. |