The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-21
ON THE RAGGED EDGE
Elections In Kansas, New Hamp-
shire and Washington.
THE SENATOR'S IN THE BALANCE.
Delegate Game Talks of Utah and Polygamy-
Utah Not at All Anxious for
Statehood.

Statehood.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is, 1S9O.-ISpecial cor
respondence of TIE HERALD. Three
members of the United States Senate will
have no rest during the Christmas holidays,
These three are Senators Ingalls, of Kan
sas, Blair of New Hampshire and Pearce
of North Dakota. All are candidates for
collection and the legislatures Of these
states pass upon their return in January.
Senator ingalls, says he is confident Of his
reelection but he will give no interview
Tor publication concerning it. The trouble
IS ingalls, cannot talk without saying some
thing and his words are always distorted
by his enemies. He gave an interview last
spring to the New York World in which ne
said, "The publication of politics is an ir-
ridescent dream" He meant merely to
20 state fact, but his enemies claimed that
he believed in impure politics and that he
was brazen enough to acknowledge it.
Some of the ministers preached from their
pulpits about this interview, and the Sen
ator received something like seven hlndred
letters concerning it. There is a general
desire here that ingalls, may return. The
Senate has little enough brains as II is, and
when 1t gets a genius like ingalls, it cannot
AFFORD to lose him. Senator Sanders calls
him the lurld meteor Of the Senatorial sky,
but he is more than a meteor. He has been
for the past eighteen years the fixed star
of the Republican side Of the Chamber, and
ne mas sad more good things and more
sharp things during that time than any
other two men in the body He has been
one Of the students of the Senate and he is
as well equipped for his duties as any other
man in the body. His head works like
steam engine run by perpetual motion and
IL IS the best idea factory in Washington.
ingalls, does deal Of work which never
appears over his own signature He gives
many newspaper man ideas for letters
and editorials, and the gems which drop
from bis vitriolic tongue are only u few Of
the thousands Of his expressions which ind
their way into type.
''wHAT WILL TIE TINES Do.'
Senator Blair tells me that the news
papers cannot afford to lose him either
Said he yesterday:
"What will the New York Timss do
when I an gone. II has devoted half of its
editorial space for years to denouncing me
and making fun of me. What viii the sun
do What viii all the New York papers do
and what viii the other papers of the coun-
try do if l disappear. l think. however, [
am going TO be reelected. My opponents
say that l nave had two terms already and
am third term candidate. have not had
two full terms and it seems to me if a man
has had two terms it fits him all the better
for third term
BY the way. Senator I asked, How
BOout your bill which was introduced wnen
you first came TO Congress to make the
headwaters OF the Mississippi flow into
~ F7v
mean the bill your enemies said was en-
Titled "A measure ID compel water to flow
up hlll.n
- have never told the story of that bill. -
REPLIED Senator Blair, q have been laughed
AT numerically in regard to it and have
been slandered concerning 1t from Dan to
Beersheoa. 1t happened at the close of my
hrst session in Congress. Just at the last
moment Tor the Introduction OF bills / re
ceiyed letter from manufacturer Of New
Hampshire asking NE TO present TO the
Senate the petition enclosed. There was
only moment TO get the thing in. / looked
at It ana II seemed 10 be IN proper form,
and without thinking / sent it up to the
clerks desk. Well, heard from it from
all over the United States. The man who
had sent the petition had acted IN good
faith. and rather than denounce him, / let
the matter stand ana maze no explanation.
] knew tCat | was not a fool even if some
OF the papers did call me one, and the poor
fellow who sent the petition felt so hurt at
the trouble he had gotten me into that he
wrote 10 me again and again about it, and
offered to do anything ne could to remedy
the evil His petition asked for survey
OF the land between the head waters of the
Mississippi and those of the Canadian
rivers with the view of the construction of
z canal bringing the two together. He had
also a scheme to make Hujsoa's Bay a great
s,ala 4 1n,1 s.-t II, a. r
Stream should flow, and thereby as he
claimed should equalize the climate Of the
continent. As TO my election, however. con
cluded the Senator, Il am wasting no
sleep, my digestion is perfect, am in prime
physical condition ana don't think [ will
lose flesh whether the ballot goes one way
or the otber.n
sPoFFoKD on THE GREAT AMERICAN BRAIN.
1 dropped into the National library to
daY and had chat with Mr.. Spoffori as To
the great American brain. We are going
through q period OF wonderful activity and
more literary inventions are copyrighted
every year than mechanical inventions are
patented. During 1880 more than thirty
thousand copyrights have been issued and
this Is about TWO thousand more than were
taken out during the same period of last
year. In addition TO this there are a mum
Der Of applications for copyrights which
are rejected, and copyrights are taken out
on photographs, engraVings, drawings anC
paintings, as well as upon books. The re
iected articles during the past year have
been chiefly Tor railroad tickets, coupons
advertising schemes and mechanical draw
ings not connected with the publication Of
book great number of copyrights are
taken out Cor newspaper articles, and the
newspapers copyright their cablegram'
from Europe.
A CURIOUS CABLE COPYRIGHT STORY.
Speaking OF cable copyrights, I hearc
curious story last night as to how
Governor Gilpin of Colorado had to pa,
about two hundred dollars for one of thu
first cables that went over the ocean. Gil
pin was good natured sort of fellow ant
he probability is that he came into the tel