| Show PIGMIES AND ANI PIGS Speaking of at the gentlemen who compose the tho Utah ration delegation in tn congress conr con can r gress greSI the Tribune concludes a spasm of of detraction in thc these e words But nut the they constitute Utah's delegation delegation atlon a- a tion in fn con congress ress h by virtue of ecclesiastical eccles s- s favor or they have o been placed high h. Yet et as the great Senator Turpie Tur- Tur plo pie o of Indiana once said said- Pigmies perched on Alps arc aro pigmies pigmies pig pig- mies still In the first place Senator was b by no means the tho author of the tho epigram In the he second he ilC he was far 4 from irom a great man nian senator or otherwise other other- wise lie He was a a. pretty consistent I Democrat throughout a lon long life but buth h tit war time when lie be had a chance chanco chancot t to approach greatness he fought Con- Con Greman Colfax with a 3 bitterness V earne earned for Cor him the tho nick nick name nune of ot lJ Dirty birty Dave Turpie a title which he ed ciri carried into the after years ears He lie was a man of wide reading and a good law lawyer er And he may be the Tribunes Tribune's measure of greatness But Buthe Buthe he isn't But Dut getting back from pigs i s an and pigmies pig pig- mies to the Utah delegation delegation- It IL is S Sj j natural enough for lor the Tribune to do doall doall dot t all in its power to discredit tho the senators senators senators sena sena- tors and the representative from Crom this state That paper and Its owner did all possible to defeat deCeM them and to defeat the party In the state The TIe traitorous scheme failed tailed and to this da day Tom I and all 1 whom he can control liwe e made malIc It their business to belittle the services of at the states state's representatives at the national capital It is doubtful If there has ever been a parallel of the he camp campaign campaign cam cam- p l n conducted b by man manor manor or paper in a n state against th th public pub pub- 1 lie lic men of that state Scarcely an r 1 f l Issue sue of of the Tribune has been heen given ven I Ito to the world without a stOl story der I ga-I I tory to the character or the reputation reputation 1 tion of or one of the three men Thy They ye vo never been treated with fairness fairnesS The ruth has not been told about 4 them because the they have been marJ marked ed for slaughter by br tho the big man who once came camo near near controlling the politics atthe of at the state the state the man who since that tha da lay day has been the constant enemy of the state an and of every overy good Interest in it And the campaign against Utah's delegation is the more unwarranted I because never ne before has tho the state been so fortunately situated situate In this regard Either one was senator of or orone one party part and the other othel opposed him or at least two members of or the tho trio were out of harmony with the adminIstration administration admin admin- i and unable to secure for the state the recognition It deserved In Inthe Inthe the present case casu all three arc Republicans Republicans of the soundest loyalty loyallY and all three arc are In accord with the President President dent and he has the most implicit confidence in iii them As a result the they I have been becu able abl t to 16 tb do more for the state slate of Utah than has evel ever been done at nn any session in the ten years cars the state has belonged to the Union This is a fact Cael patent to every man who Is inclined to be fair It is equally certain that n never ver In the tho past has the thc state been represented by three men who have been united for the party or able to win the support of or ortho tho the administration in Iii the thc plans Illan they might entertain for Cor the good of or Utah True there arc are pigs and pigmies In Inthe Inthe the state One of or them tried to get into the senate of or the United States and failed Another tried to get back into the United States senate and he failed Another begged and wrote letters letters letters let let- and aud himself to win the of or his Alpine ambition and 4 he failed And toda today the they are arc al all over o at the thc Tribune ollice fighting like i rattlesnakes for the poisoning of the public mind striking at the men who have routed them out and revealing their snake nako nature by c crawling in the presence of or bitter better men hissing g a at greater men and rattling their threats threat i. at everything lo that Is i Pigs Pigs they are and pigmies and so they will remain And while the they are arc str struggling for for the tho ruin of Utah the b best st men inca an and women of or the state a ar approve ap- ap t prove prove r ve the thu work worl an and the character of the men who have been in Washing Washing- i ton And the tho state goes forward without without without with with- out out a a ah h halt lt I |
