Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-06-19
INsUFFERABLE EGoTIsM.

the Chicago Tribune, is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. When asked about the
outlook for 1888, he said:
The West is solid and unanimous for |
Blaine, and will be until the convention |
meets. It is not sporadic sentiment, but
it is epidemic among the people and the
mass of people who recognize Blaine's abil-
ity and craftsmanship. The old ticket is
echoed on the street corners, in the shop,
among farmers, aud indeed wherever you
go, and there are Republican voters outside
OF New York State. l can speak positively
that Blaine will have solid delegation
from every State II will be an enthusiasm
that has not been witnessed in great many
| years. If New York sends a delegation Tor
| him there will be no ballot whatever, but
his nomination made unanimous by rising
vote. like Grants in 1861"
The DEMOCRAT published the fact, a
few days since, that Blaine and his lieu
tenants influenced one leading daily
paper in each of the centers of population,
and to prove it now points to the Tribune
In Chicago, the Tribune here, and the 7ri-
| bune- Republican in Denver, as three that
have thrown off the disguise and are in the
field for Blaine for the next Republican
nomination. AS committed supporters OF
the Blaine boom, they are open to criti-
cism. Mr.. Medill has for some time been
afflicted with a gradual softening OF the
brain, which was greatly aggravated by
his complete annihilation in the last
Presidential campaign, and the effect
upon him was so overpowering that all
he sees since partakes Of the same dimen-
sions as his defeat. at is not sporadic
sentiment" says Mr.. Medill, "but it is
epidemic among the people, and the
mass OF the people who recognize Mr..
Blaine's ability and craftsmanship"
Just so, Mr.. Medill. You neglected to
fill out the sentence, that is all. The
DEMOCRAT will do it for you, to-wit:
1t is not sporadic sentiment, but
it is epidemic among the people
that is, the mass OF the people
who recognize Mr.. Blaine's ability and
craftsmanship. The sentiment is epi-
demic among the class who recognize the
massive brain power OF Blaine, but when
it is considered that Utah cowboy could
round up the whole Of the masses so
afflicted, in one June morning, their sem
timents are not likely to leaven the lump
Of public opinion to any great extent, as
it were. Then, with the conspicuous
nairete for which Joseph is famous, and
the utter absence of egotism, which, by
the way, he is also famous for (?), he
says: 81 can speak positively, that
Blaine will have solid delegation in
every State" This leads us to believe
that Joseph has at last found his
true vocation, which is to look
into the future and foretell what is
J in store for poor humanity. He would
be drawing card with the Steens, and
should not neglect his opportunity. II
Joseph was not the most egotistical and
insufferably self-important newspaper
; man in the land, he would hardly cause
such utter trash to be wired over the
country. 1t is true that Joseph owns n
private wire from Chicago to Washington,
, but utterly false to assert that he has q
private wire to the hearts and brains oi
the people OF the nation, which is i'm
piled in his bombastic statement. at
, will be an enthusiasm that has not been
= witnessed in great many years." he
= says. Yes, Joseph, it will 1t will be
an enthusiasm that you will start in
your paper, and it will be taken
up by your duly selected leutenants
> in the profession, and it will be duly in
y fiated until it becomes bubble of enor.
= nous proportions, in your diseased imag
ination, and then the good horse-sense oi
= the people will prick it with the sharI
pointed pin OF public condemnation, and
twill go into airy nothingness. You
. coadjutors believe that two years is toe
long to support boom, Joseph, so the
DEMOCRAT has right to tell you softly
: that you are as usual, little too pre-
,, vious, but the people are patient and
long-suffering, and can stand you and
Halstead for one more season, in the
long-deierred hope that a special Provi
dence may again visit us with big wind
and that both OF you may dry up and
blow away with it, for your peculiar
phase OF egotism is OF the kind that
never dies.
The day is past when the power OF sucl
self-constituted censors as Reid, Hal.
stead, Curtis and Medill, can enthral
the reasoning powers OF the people, as
, the wonderful growth of the Democratic
press throughout the country proves, and
. though they die hard, as the fgureheads
of condemned policy, they will never.
theless die, and the nation will be well
rid OF so many mischief makers.
THE ANARCHISTS.