Show THE CLERKSHIP much to the sor surprise prise of his friends who constitute this entire community mr 0 II 11 mcclure hag has resigned his clerkship ot of the district court greatly as this step must be regretted by all who have come within the sphere of mr at mc me chures labors and personality yet tile regret is tempered by tho the knowledge that lie will step into a more advantageous if not more con congenial conse zenial nial position in life A new clerk hag has not been appointed and under ordinary circumstances judge miner miller might well be left without suggestions from the bar or the newspapers but the political and situation being so exceptional the republican party should prefer this simple that the judge 1 select a straight trai glit republican whose service to the party entitles him to such a profitable recognition and phoso incumbency will be satisfactory to the bar we do not doubt that judge 31 miners iners usual courtesy justice and republicanism will bo be mail manifested in this important affair aff fair and that he lie will thus win anew golden opinions in ill utah IN A spirit of fraternal regard the mt pleasant pyramid asks the tile newspapers of utah to cease blurring slurring and fighting at each other upon this general proposition the pyramid is eminently correct and it is entitled to the tho reward of the peacemaker but when it uses THE STANDARD and the post as types of quarreling neighbors it ia is surely doing an anju injustice slice THE tue STANDARD does not slur at the post nor quarrel with it just as soon as we learned from the columns of our evening contemporary that its finances were in desperate strait and that journalism was altogether joyless wo we extended pity to the tile post in unlimited quantities and since the editor of tho the post has learned something about newspaper business lie lias has ceased to bicker and fight THE KINDLY welcome extended by the democratic country press to THE STANDARDS editor upon his resumption of work at tho the old stand has a strong under current of exultation it is a pleasure to tobe be once more where we can exchange courtesies with the gentlemen gant lemen of the press wo we never did care much for politics anyway and as for congress well it ft republican delegate would bo be very very 10 lonesome 1 i 1 1 esome at washington THE tae charleston news and courier boasts that lion ilon win porcher mills president ofa of a sugar planters association in louisiana hag has not abandoned the political faith in which lie was reared states rights mr porcher is who recently congratulated mr cleveland that his election meant a reform in government did lie mean a reform which would resurrect the doctrine of states rights THAT ALWAYS accurate and now noy brilliant journal the deseret news is on oil the trail of the newspapers which make mako erroneous statements concerning the electoral elector al college the latest offender is the salt lake herald which is corrected in two of its mistakes on this important subject by the news it is to bo be hoped that the herald will not find it necessary to charge church inter ferend 0 o in politics on this account THE tim POCATELLO tribune makes an appeal which will bs by every republican newspaper in the country we lve wish the dally daily papers in sending reports about the sliding of tho the mountains on the oregon short I 1 line ine near the columbia would use some other term than landslide that little epitaph has a singularly striking effect upon us that makes us feel like walking on oil ice lee barefooted A correspondent CORR ES lias has written to the examiner for the number oi of murders suicides and divorces in san francisco last year and lio lie receives the information that tile murders were 28 that the suicides were and that no statistics were furnished of divorces divorce 3 granted presumably divorce is so merely incidental that it is not worth the time to keep the figures HON R 0 is is working up liia his boom from tho tile outside his old town plumas in california is nominating him for senator from utah thesis this ig very adroit and by tho the time the boom has rolled into salt lake eboth both jen bilkins wiseacre judd and hon ilon 11 II P henderson may find themselves ed by the gentleman with a sack ack 0 THIS tills is fame to bo be elected delegate and have your youe namo name spelled wrong in the newspapers the ileno reno gazette calla calls him rawlings Ilaw lings and a wyoming paper tb the other eother day spoke of aimas him as rollins but probably mr rawlins Ilaw lina will not caro care if only the clerk of the house gets it right of which there ia is no doubt PROVO has nominated a nonpartisan non partisan board of education and the enquirers frightful crime of charging cliar ging too much for a bill of job printing for the schools is temporarily forgotten THE silver tells how to restore the drowned As eoon soon as our party gets back from salt river with its immersed candidates the information may ma y bo be of value GOVERNOR THOMAS pleased the people of tho the second judicial district when n he li e assigned agdens audgo miner miller to hold court at beaver |