| Show THE COLONEL the salt lake tribune everywhere recognized as tho the only great newspaper in utah has its likes and dislikes just the same as most 0 of us during the recent campaign it took little interest in hughes and its editorials ito rials were obviously apathetic it tolerated morris but ono could read through its editorial references that it preferred bamberger the two persons whom it hates with truculent mendacity are senator reed smoot and theodore roosevelt in last fridays issue of the tribune that journal paid its respects to fighting teddy in the following language from time to time wo we delight to return to the most original of our rough riders colonel theodore roos ovelt of kettle hill and oyster bay just now we suspect the colonel can see the whole nation returning to him in 1920 rough riders in all parts of the country are writing and wiring him to prepare for the great contest down in that county of new mexico which was named after him they are not sending many of these messages because the county went tor for wilson we are daring enough to suggest however that the voters of roosevelt county should take heart for the colonel is bearing the defeat of mr hughes splendidly he wants to use that citizenship to some effect in 1920 the colonel speedily recovered from the campaign for mr hughes it has been something of a strain and he has gone to a secluded resort tor for rest but the strenuous colonel needs no rest from the shock it if the colonel were asked confidentially by a close friend about the shock of defeat he would wink an eye and naively inquire what shock going back to new york the colonel bubbles over with glee when interviewed he expresses the opinion that perhaps tho the country does not care to hear from him and he tells the story of the New bedford skipper who said to the mate what I 1 want from you is silence and damn little of that now no one would expect the colonel to doff his boisterous free ways of the rough rider for the nautical reserve of a first mate sailing out of new bedford from the colonel we all expect garrulity vociferousness and large joy when he Is silent we know that he is plotting that he is canny when he is talking we know that he is enjoying life and that he means no harm his silences are sinister we wonder however where the colonel gets the courage to look forward with such glee to 1920 he has not yet double crossed everybody who has been in political life with him but very nearly everybody but per haps the colonel expects to be shrived shrivel of his sins and taken back into good graces of republicans and progress ives in spite of his offending the colonel is looking forward to a breakdown of the wilson administration after the war then will come the bitter times in business and the democratic party will be discredited along about 1918 and the discredit will endure for many depressing months the colonel probably argues that he will still be the most conspicuous of undefeated politicians on his side of the fence and that the republicans public ans and progressives Progress ives will turn to him and he effervesces with gaiety when he thinks that the fight in 1920 will be merely a skirmish as compared with the great fight made by hughes in 1916 |
