| OCR Text |
Show Qui) Gets Notorosity An issue or two back Tiik Rerun-lican Rerun-lican had occasion to refer pleasantly to Hon. Aqullla Nebeker, valet to the Beat lake monster, as the recipient of many of nature's bounties In recent months. Incidentally, It was suggested sug-gested that perhaps this year might prove a happy one for him politically, also. This Inspired the editor of the Inter-Mountain Republican to the following fol-lowing humoresqueness: "And now, behold, the pretty little boomlets of Aqullla Nebeker for governor gov-ernor of this glorious commonwealth, and of L. R. Martlncau for congress-man-at-large, blossometh apace. Like the mountain-blooming sego llly.theso budding flowrcts of political growth come forth from the by-places to gladden glad-den tho world In the morning of political politi-cal recrudescence. With a modesty typical of these two gentleman, their admirers broach the subject from afar, to watch the effect upon tho Democratic Demo-cratic pulse, and note whether it shall quicken with joy at the mention, even as the mountain stream grows vigorous vig-orous and joyful as the advancing sun pours the melting snows upon its erstwhile erst-while placid bosom: or whether the Democratic burro shall retire In downcast down-cast spirit when- these names smite his toweling ears. Wc are told that the honorable Aqullla should be placed in the guber-national guber-national chair because, forsooth, the calves In his numerous herds were all heifers last season. This Is a far cry, and a glad one; from veal to glorious position. Little the gamboling cowlcts recked that their sex would become a ponderous political lever, perchance to sway the destines of a great commonwealth, com-monwealth, and decide as to whether Its presiding genius should favor the good old Republican doctrine of protection, pro-tection, or flounder In the heresies of free trade. The chronicle admits not the arrival of even one bovine to scatter scat-ter a fe(w rays of sunshine amid the gloom that settles like a pall over the Republican tents. Again, we are Informed, with vast unction, that the gentleman's oats went as high as eighty-live bushels to the acre. Fascinating number! Eighty-five bushels should entitle the toiling industrialist to a bill of sale of the governor's chair. Does not rich soil signify otllclal acumen? And if not, why not? Again one shudders at the thought that the oats might have readied clglity-slx.ln which case nothing noth-ing but a scualarship would have satisfied sat-isfied the gentleman's friends. By the consummation of these commendable com-mendable aspirations, the beautiful little county on the north edge of the state would be doubly honored, as both gentleman have or do now claim Cache as their residential spot. And If this were not enough, tfieru aie a dozen other followers of Bryan in that valley, who annouueo their willingness to bear the burden) of public olllee Ambitious Cache! Nothing is too good for thy green-flecked allejs, thy towerlngniounialns.thy great-hearted populace! , However, it cannot be. Neither gentleman can be spared fgom his present arduous duties Willi Mr.' Martlneau in Washington, who would lead the Democratic hosts to victory? Who but he, with that genial and enthusiastic disposition which has characterized him since birth, could cheer their drooping SDlrlts and dispel dis-pel the clouds that enshroud their political landscape? None better than i Mr. Martlncau, whom defeat does not Afe y despair nor doubt deter, could keep their hopes full high. Furthermore, could Mr Nebeker bring himself to forsake his mtsantl beef steers for the. I ry rolios of gubernatorial honor? Mi- cannot be spared from the ranks of those whose patient and entrgctl efforts have made of Utah the niliiy commonwealth common-wealth it Is today lvrmii il irlend-less irlend-less veals lo droop for lack of the owner's fostering can? Allow the oats to drop to coiuinoopliice eighty-four, eighty-four, or perchance In plebeian eighty-three eighty-three bushels to the acre? Perish at once sucli ignoble ihougiits! Nay, nay, Pauline! "Governor Nebeker" 'must never, as one scribe has It, ripple trippingly from the Utoulan tongue. Rather, let some good Republican, as for many years past, guide t lie ship of our fair state through the shoals, under un-der the. beneficent and succssful policies poli-cies of the Republican party |
