Show DAD BAD BILLY ILLY MASON lASOS BUI Billy Mason of ot Illinois is a a. candidate for or tho the United States senate Ho is making his campaign on tho the following pledge printed on cards and fans and street treet car literature lIter and Illuminated with his ow own n portrait This Is William E. E Mason 1 the only candidate who if iC elected to the United States senate is pledged to voto vote against Apostle Reed Smoot or any other man who teaches slavery polygamy polygamy polygamy po po- anarchy or Th Tho pi primaries pi ai af at hi tho th iR P f t lints made selection of or their party for tor forthe tho the United States were hold yesterday From tho the best bost r returns turns available a. at a a. late hour on Saturday It was pretty clear that Mr Ir Mason is not ot tho the choice of or the people Ho should not be bo Twelve years ears ago ao Billy BUll Mason Mason Ma Ma- son made another campaign for tor tho the United States senate and was nas elected People who tried him through the senate six years and who havo have any memories at all all noel never want to see him again Inan in an any position of or trust trost or honor The ono one and only recommendation of ot Mason Mallon is that he I is a good story teller No man in Illinois has a bl bigger fund of ot nasty stories Tho yarns ho he retails In tho the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of or Illinois audiences Are aro not creditable to him nor flattering to the tho good taste of tho the people who permit It lt Tho The stories are vulgar profane and their only merit I is a a. good grade of barroom wit and an almost almo t matchless art In tho the telling But whether hether or not the people of or Illinois send Mason to the tho the tho people of or Utah have havo aright a right Ight to protest against the tho sort of campaign he offers He Ho has mado made Senator Smoot an issue The untruthful and slanderous terms of or his pledge quoted above fairly represent Billy Mason It should hould bo said ld at this point that Senator Smoot docs does not teach either cither slavery polygamy or an anarchy an- an arch archy Senator Smoot Is not nol a slave sla nor a a. polygamist po- po nor an anarchist If It Billy Masons Mason's life had bO been as clean as that of ot Reed Smoot decent people could with better grace graco him himas as aa one of their acquaintances But Dut his life uro has not been clean If any man alive 0 is responsible for tor a death of or a 1 brother mant manIt man mon It t In is I Billy Mason Mallon Ho He of or all others sent Ch Charlcy Charley Perkins to La his doom At the time of or Masons Mason's election to the United States senate he ho was at tho the head of a little group 1 of ot talented men all younger than himself men who admired his telling story ability and ond who vainly tried to equal his record in drinking Ho no was as tho master spirit of or tho the old club In Chi Chi- cago Ho He mado made hard drinking obscene singing and vile vila story telling the tho motives of ot that club lIe He was the leader and inspirer in its maddest revels He Ho was ono one who applauded and defended tho the club when it t took ok tho the body of or a dead comrade into the sand hills alon along the tho shore of or Lake Lako Michigan and burned it That Sunday morning spectacle when Masons Mason's dl disciples laid tho the still form torm of ot a A. human human human hu hu- man being on a pile of ot wood and watched the flames devour It it Is a chapter In BIU Billy Masons Mason's life lire which he should not tan fall to tell teU to the good people of 0 Illinois Ho should not fall taU to tell them that the boys he had taught tho the bo boys S 'S whom ho he num numbed with hea heavy drinking stood around the funeral pyre and sang Heros Heres a toast tout to tho the next one ono who ho dies We e mentioned d above a a. te few fer of or the tho attributes of or ornU nU Billy Mason There Is la another which should not be bo forgotten That In Is his ability to drink whiskey all aU night long He lie was very ery proud of It lie He H exhibited exhibited exhibited ex ex- his wonderful faculty before the young men It was his hi joy to lay thom then in b bestial Intoxication under the tho table Ho mado made them feel teel grief that they could not drink as much as could Billy Ma Ma- Ia son Ion Charley Chancy Perkins went ent to his hla death sodden I with liquor that Bill Billy Mason Muon had put to his hi lips I Charley Seymour one of ot tho the brightest men news news- I has ever n known knon lost JOlt all power of ot s self lf restraint In the years of or his association on with Uh this hypocrite and died before h hU time b because u Billy Mason luon had polluted his erst system cm and weakened his hi will nm with the vicious influence of or his own bad life Ute When Wh n Mason was In tho the senate he W was I the shame of or Illinois Washington remembered Douglas Douglas Doug Doug- las and Trumbull and Logan But tho the fame tamo of or their service Ice was 1 shamed hamd and disgraced with the tho private ato behavior lor and public It activity of ot this Falstaff Falstaff Fal- Fal staff tatt from Chicago Ho was wa the most brazen absorber ab nb- absorber orber of or graft bratt tho the m most t unblushing advocate of or political indecency and with and with tho the exception of or Tom Kearns the Kearns the most tireless debauche tho the senate te has hu over known It would be well nell if It Billy Mason Iason could emulate tho life of ot Reed Smoot It would chango change him throughout It would make him an hone honest man It would make mako him a a. decent man It would mako make him a 11 puro pure man And the tho men who have best and longest known ST him will testify that h ho Is neither of things now Polygamy slavery and anarchy have havo their best friends In con conscienceless conscience conscience- le less s scamps like Billy Mason It may be that the fi first t reports from the primaries primaries maries In Illinois Illinois are arc incorrect It may mIJ be later developments de will t show sho that Bm Billy Mason is tho the choice of or tho the party part there for tor the tho United Stat States senate Whether or not what The Republican has here said ald is libelous If It it Is not true It would t afford afford af n.- ford Cord us great groat pleasure to demonstrate before acourt a n acourt court anywhere In tho the Union that It Is not libelous Bill Billy Mason will prove by his Inaction that it Is s true |