Show C LY ELI Os-ELI OVERPLAYED Enemies of tho the Republican party a arc aro rc considerably overplaying ln their h hands ands A state senator senator- yesterday l laughingly tol told tolI a a. friend rien he ho had just jUit justeen b been een Informed b by a a. citizen that ho tho the c citizen taw saw Reed Ree Smoot receive o forty t thousand housand dollars from Fre Fred J J. J Kiesel Kiese a and nd tako take it to Republican headquarters o ono one ne lay day 10 In l last t trails rails campaign campan Ho lIo a added that th the mono money was In a sack The Tho thins gets funny Wo decline t to o be pe angry at these there stories They are aro shamefully untrue of 01 course But t the they hey arc are so 80 palpably the product of enmity so clearl clearly without even a reasonable semblance of probability that surely aurely no sane cane man will bell believe ve them hem Of or course in starting thc these 9 canards both the tho Herald and tho tIm Tribune seek to divert attention front from their attitude toward railroad resul regulation The Tho Herald has openly refused to help the tho business men of the tho elt city and has Insolently told them that tho the Herald is a private ato enterprise Patrons of or the Herald can hope for forno forno forno no help from that quarter And tho Tribune Is equally un under er the thumb ot of Former Senator W. W A. A Clark Both papers are aro in a 0 shameful pre pvc I But if it they can divert attention at at- from their dishonorable service sen service ice their attitude of ot hostility to their thoi own patrons and get the public spec spec- on extravagant stories about abou the federal bunch and Impossible romances about The Republicans Republican's new nev press BO so much the Letter bettor for tor th the tho lI Herald and tho the Tribune But they have havo shot overshot tho the mark S Their lurid lies have grown so bI big hIe that sensible people aro are laughing at them Only tho fools are fooled foole |