The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-17

Brokenstraw Ranch.
EAR NED:-And SO, after all. you're going to
congress. With the convention already held
and the opposition in such a state Of almost
can possibly fail down
Yes I'll bear witness to the fact that you've ALWAYS
stuck TO it that ambition would be completely
satisfied if could be sent to congress from the old
district OF course, know that wasn't true although
you thought IL was-and think now. When good
nv E,lieICah cltzen, who has tasted the blood
OF public Office, sets stake his ambition ana saws
mus Iaf and no farther" and promises himself per
re- c'ieAI "hen ne reaches that mark. he puts him
self in the position the old fellow down In Arls,sas
VINO Ved 10 eat and insisted that If he could get
payne, he'd never care 10 eat again i'm This 1vorld
5 you We once fairly warmed your seat the
muse YOU II Ieii<e that you've only begun live
the United States senate is the only real diamond
noIhtea sIopplng place FOR an able mans ambition.
nnst aItst you We landed IN the senate and grown
little familiar with the scenery there the yfts Eo,,ss
VIII De ABOUT the only landmark that viii loom up
your hofl1oh AT nrst youH be ashamed to acknowl-
edge the thought, in the secret place of ,,ogr
own inner cohselentiousness. Next you'll argue with
youLsslL ma there nave been whole lot Of worse
presidents than you would make and that the woods
are Lell o. pTesiaential timber hollow in the trunk
ana showing ueao nIlps at the top It's not the thing
we have in hand but the that's lust ahead OF ms
tnaI We hahkef TOT IN politics as in everything else.
but you aIS an flght Ned IN your determination
10 make every hour of your congressional service count
and count hard You say that you want some advice
tnat gets rlsnt down 10 brass tacks and viii help you
10 make good with people before the first croD
OF soreheads has chance TO 10 seed. Before went
INTO ponies USED 70 think that Canada thistles
the hardest things in the world to kill down and the
sNlAtesl 70 spread since discovered that
political sorehead has grip immortality thaf
makes the thistle thing OF the passing moment I'm
TOLD that queen-bee lays something 20000 eggs
day and leaves the tending them entirely to slaves
but even 81 that Mrs. Bee is Disadvantage in
the work OF perpetuating the species compared with
political sorehead who knows enough tell plaus-
bic lie and stick 10 it, scandal in Il country town
is slow spreacer alongside a welI-direccted spirit
Of dissatisfaction with the work of congress
man. Keep your sOrehead crop moved tight to the
ground and then cover the spot with salt every
week or Two In other words give them the Canada
thistle trea ment in it's severest form And even then
they're sure TO show their heads in place every
title while.
You might wei make up your mind right at the
start. Ned, 70 defer being statesman until after
you're dead. II you're good enough politician while
living. your mourning constituents and the news
apers viii take Of promotion to the states
man class after you're gone. This isn't saying that
you are to think OF nothing and work for nothing
outside of gettings things for followers hold
ing your seat.
As near as I was able to size up the situation,