The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-12
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| And now is the season of the wear
when the Republican county editor
starts his leader with these words: GAS
we predicted, the county has gone over
whelmingly Republican"
| There is a prevailing superstition
among hotel men, said one of them.
that to close the register brings bad
luck to the house You will find if so
at every hotel in the country. And
| every clerk feels like jumping over the
desk and humping the man who care
4essly closes the book. We never close
DOCK until it is filled to the last page
always place my hand on the book
untll the man who registers has left the
desk. Whenever man closes the book
we nave bad luck somewhere in the
house.
As the returns come in from over
the the state the enormity of the Repub-
lican victory becomes more and more
apparent. Cheyenne Sun.
| "Enormity'' is good. The approved
definition of the word is IAN exceeding
oHense against order, right or decency;
an atrocioUs crime; f1agitious villainy
an atrocity." a very apt, though, per
maps, unintended. description of the
Republican Victory.-Laramie Boomer
ang.
This story is going the rounds:
| DOUBTLESS there is one woman in these
United States who is thankful that she
iCI7 not marry her first love. When she
wa, a young girl She met on visit to
friends, a theological student, to whom,
eventually she became engaged. This
youth afterward showed himself tickle
and Tilted the girl. Later on he again
Jllted another young woman, and. al
though she forgave and subsequently
married him, he has never been any
thing more than an ordinary country
clergyman, whom the first girl could
not regret. She has since married, too,
and her present name is Mrs. Grover
Cleveland
The Laramie Boomerang hits The
nail on the head when it says:
''TYhe silver question is settled The
people of Wyoming at the recent cleo
ton, assisted in settling the silver
question. The result of The contest in
the various states gives the money
power complete control of the govern
mant. While there are enough Demo-
Gratis and Populists left in Congress to
see that the silver bill will be intro
duced in the Fifty-fourth assembly,
i there are not enough to save it from
complete and ignominious defeat. The
advance which the silver cause has
| been making for some time has been
temporarily checked by the success of
the Republican party on the 9Th of No
vemher
This success will undoubtedly have
the effect of making the silver planks
less conspicuous than during the recent
campaign.
states senators from Wyoming will
simply add to the power of the east
ern shylocks."
Colonies are getting to be nearly as
great a nuisance as the Russian cactus,
says the Fargo Argus They are null
tipyling and increasing with dangerous
rapdity, says an exchange. You can
scarcely throw a stone at a dog with
out running The risk of accidently hit
ting a colonel. Colonies in mufti
which may be broadcIoth or corduroy,
in stable frocks or barlleepers' aprons,
taking orders for books or rubber
stamps, or selling patent medicines or
plasters, are as common as straight
whisky in Kentucky or as new theories
OF government in a Populist mass meet
ing. 1t was once proposed to raise a
regiment composed entirely of colonies.
The troubles nowadays would not be 10
get the regiment, but to select from
enough applicants for an army corps.
Fargo. alone could probably furnish
more colonies than there are in the ac-
tive list of the army-arid some of Far
COS colonies are men who really have
served in the army. which distinguishes
them from the colonies OF most COM
munities. The captain" the '.jedge" !
and the major are not to be men
toned in the same day with colonels .
These old relics of southern barrooms
are vastly in the minority, and the day
of colonies is at hand /
L hope the Republicans will be given
the right of way tonight. It's their
turn to yell. Let 'em yell long and
loud. 1t is four years since they had
any excuse for doing so.