The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-22
THE FREE LANCE.

General Witcher is quoted as saying
that botn the Teller and the Faulkner
Game bills were introduced in the interest
of the Mormon church. We don't believe
IT. General Witcher is a Virginian by
birth and soldier by profession. He has
lived in Utah but a few months, and it
would not be decency, much less chivalry
in him, to malign people of whom he
knows absolutely nothing. GeneralWitcher
has good lighting record. and that alone
precludes the possibility of his talking like
fool or member of the P. o. S. of A.
t T +
Y. L. stands for tbs last letters in the
alphabet, and likewise for Young sZane.
When for the latter, it represents the most
offensive partissnship Imaginable; often
sive, not because Y. z. is a Republican, nor
because he assumes the leadership before
he has served an apprenticeship, but be-
cause less than year ago he elevated his
aristocratic nose in resentment of the sug-
gestion that he might go into politics,
which to his reasoning was equivalent to
assocating with the canaille. Has the
youth experienced a sudden change of
heart, or has he picked out his office since
then.
! Watch the Liberal ship how it losses and
careens on the pillows OF the political sea.
Has it sprung leak. Not that. But the
captain is away and the crew is demoral-
lied. Governor Pat Lannan is in Wash
ington and his subs titute at home is afraid
TO open his mouth without orders. Little
Thomas is making dismals failure
of his effort to keep command OF
the craft To the rabid Liberal
Republica can who foams at the mouth when
statehood is mentioned, he is fernist the
proposition-but in the strictest confidence
To the straightout Republican, on the
other hand, he looks wise, agrees with the
proposition that statehood is bound to come
and then-in the strlctesG confidence Of
course-intimates that he is mighty glad o.
it. Now these expressions, while intended
simply to tide over the span of the rea
governors absence from Salt Lake, have
resulted in much confusion and disorder.
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When he communes with his own small
soul, uncontrolled by his owner, the acting
governor feels on the statehood question
just as the darkey did on the money ques
ton. Good Lord" prayed Sambo, g
need money mighty bad, and if Thou will
send me thousand dollars, dear Lord,
will give five hundred dollars of it TO tn
poor, but if Thou dost not believe me, oil
Lord, then send me five hundred dollar
and give the other five hundred dollars t.
the poor yourself" Thomas prefers to hol,
on to his office infinitely, dear Lord, but i
he cannot do that, then he is willing t
compromise at one-half.
In case OF war with Chilli the Sixteenth
infantry stationed ct Fort Douglas coul
furnish number of officers experienc e
on the field OF battle. Indeed all the feel
officers and captains, with the sole excep
ton Of the junior, have excellent fghtin
records. Almost all of them, and certain
all OF the war captains, entered the arm
, at the outbreak of the late unpleasantnes.
!, fresh frcm their respective homes and IL
response 10 their country's call One o
them, Captain T. E. Rose, brevet briga
; der general, is the hero of an exploit tia
in old Greece would have been immortalize
> in epic verse. There will be no war, bu
if Patrick Egan should insist on one, tn
Sixteenth infantry would be heard from
Long may it remain at Fort Douglas.
,
To show that outside of Foraker an
some of his compatriots in the rear, th
. bloody shirt is buried, a glance at the Arm
4 Register will suffice OF the younger off
: GERS in the Sixteenth infantry-those VIII
. have graduated at West Point or otherwis
8 entered the army since the civil war
i fair proportion comes from the souti
? Thus, Captain Woodbury. and Lieutenar
Q Tyler are Kentuckians, Lieutenant Allen
Missourian, Lieutenant Lassiter Mort
Carolinan, Leutenants Thurston an
Hackney are Alabamans, Lieutenant Buc
3 is Mississippian, Lieutenant Vance a
Arkansan, and SO on. Uncle Sam is a
;. right even though some politicians, r.
J.. sembling the Liberal party of Utah /
v spleen and malice are all wrong.