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Show By wantonly insulting the Gwind Army of tho Republic, tho Smootized county commissioners did not cost the Smoot mahcine a single vote, and they knew they were safe in doing it when they did it. Except for a few old soldiers who are holding public place under the machine, practically practi-cally every Grand Army man in Utah is enrolled under the American party banner and was before this effort was made to insult them. In fact the insult, in all probability, was administered In revenge re-venge for the political attitude of the old soldiers. President Roosevelt, in whoso name the insult was offered, will doubtless be rejoiced when ho rends tho editorial in the Deseret News organ of polygamy, lechery, bestiality and treason a rebuke re-buke to the members of the G. A. R. for "affiliating "affiliat-ing with tho traducers of tho best friend they ever had in the presidential chair. The strenuous presidont is in a bad way when the only newspaper newspa-per defenders he can find in one sovereign state of the union are organs owned and controlled by polygamists or edited by ex-Indiana copperheads. |