| Show WHITHER ABE ARE WE DRITT INal no sentence that we have been seen descriptive of corrupt politics compares in terse eloquence with a recent utterance of a baltimore reformer 1 I feel eaid said he be speaking of the tyranny of a certain political ring as if the hoof of an unclean beast were on my neck the tile way matters are just now if that unclean beast beat does not get gt his hoof on the throat of the nacional Na ional government it will bew be through an intervention which two hundred years hence will have the strong complexion of a mi racla the exposures of political infamy and that have corao to liht light ethe presidential campaign have had bad this government at least the intrigue an I 1 violence accompanying pro slavery retaliation were noble in iri comparison with mith tha partisan schemes that have hake come into or practice at any rao we luring recent years some of the fruits of the new regime are now sufficiently bauc autly public to be recognized As an example we have the tile J B foraker scandal an exposure of a character that for two successive terms hs has been the governor of one of the advanced elates states of the union and whose presidential ident ial aspirations were not by far as unpromising AS some home who have gained the tire goal of american ambition A twin compan companion iou of the foraker affair is the tile so called ca ailed dudley case which has llao been cartooned cartoon ed and otherwise paraded before the public till the mere mare mention of it is enough to turn the stomach of an honest voter A A somewhat lesser crima of the same general order is the famous montana election dispute disgusting after claps are still in a state of rapid development with no apparent prospect of a conclusion cornice coming a little nearer to date we have bave the north dakota fraud which willett is too fresh in the public mind to require further reference and a a still till fresher example is the municipal election in our neighboring city these are illustrations of the drift ot of the lawmaking profession the situation no tion plainly mated stated is lit that honesty and decency are being BO so eff effectually t no 11 routed from politics by the t lie bluster alte r w with ith which they have to contend that professional knaves and ward bullies aie all but in possession of the peoples rights rik ht it is time that a roll was wan c called of the count rys patriots to see where our future is CLEM SCHRAMM ie Is the subject of congratulation or condolence 0 on n his appointment as deputy registration officer for ogden oily city he ile will make an affable off official idal BO so the citizens are to be congratulated |
