| Show I 1 MR GOODWINS RECORD 0 here ie is a bit of news which will not bo be likely to gain any in interest by keeping although at least one of the bait sall lake like papera papers seeing seems to think ak go at the meeting ol 01 the democratic club lut tuesday a resolution wa was offered refusing the support of the dab club and of alt all the k democrat democrats so 10 far ai as the dub club cm can influence them to audze goodwin Goodw ln on the ground I 1 that b he was w in favor of the lodge election bill most of the member members of the dab club and perhaps of the party la in salt uke lake city be IDI lot southern Bouth cra democrats the ilia resolution found alfoot unanimous favor and ft it required the mot most vigorous vi gorou demonstration on the part of the minority to cause the resold lion tion to be amended to the effect that hat a corn com 1 of fire be appointed to tait watt en cu the liberal nominee and request him to state hit bits position on the torce force bill upon hit his an anwer then the support of the democratic era tic dub club is I 1 to depend salt sall lake aymes most of his contemptible views in this same line of political domineering be he baa ban adhered to with an audacity that almost inspires aa an admiration hence we will wait awhile before wore giving it out that he be will stultify himself with a denial indeed bis his position on the force bill is GO so well understood t that we are inclined to think it would require a greater amount of audacity to deny than to affirm in this case I 1 the truth about mr goodwin is that hii his labors in tha the disfranchising franchising dis industry to which the said force bill is dose close akin compass quite a stretch of years if it there is in long experience I 1 any virtue to a such each character as he essays M bis IS ought by this time to have mae roalo him pretty much of a veteran in the business there are indications however that a failure of memory is coming on in which case some friend should induce him to retire from the sanctum and I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 aka I 1 1 ei i I 1 7 IVA I 1 I 1 10 bis his dotage with making s poetry then none of bis his inconsistencies would baleto have to be accounted for under softening of the brin brain a ecamp scamp can sometimes tarn turn fool with astounding suddenness we are reminded of this by the enthusiasm thusia sm with which mr goodwill goodwin right recently has rallied to the defence of the catholics of late people who have discovered anything in catholicism that was not beautiful were tho the scrubbiest scrub biest sort of scrubs la in mr goodwins Good wills estimation he ile appears to have forgotten that he the waa was once a resident of virginia city and editing about the same sort of a sheet with respect to its moral accountability as that he be is connected with at present preE ent unfortunately for his present ambitions his record which he thought was dead and buried was only sleeping to refresh big hi on this catholic subject for which he has more than once showed an especial fondness we would like to ask if it he ever heard of a secret order in virginia city called the tile crescent a society by the way which was organized to rob catholics just as the loyal league was organized to rob mormons cormons of their political rights a society which employed every means fair and foul to accomplish its purpose of keeping catholics out of office and would hare hav a robbed its victims of their suffrage just as the tribune tt abune league would rot rob the mormons cormons of theirs it if it bad bean able to do tic BO so does mr this society and the very energetic assistance he rendered it buring its eventful existence 7 we mention this matter with the best of intentions believing that a glimpse at these fading memories would ba a stimulant in this more than discouraging campaign of his and probably bring back to bis his pen a touch of that fiery eloquence in his industry which made his editorial assaults upon the catholics so valuable to the cres crescent cent society in the meantime we shall wait with a good deal of anxiety for his opinion of the cabot lodge force bill |
