The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-01
THE FINAL FLICKER.
The Maxwell and McNiece
Campfire"
THE LIGHrwEIGHTS' NIGHT.
he Presiding Bums-Logan Kid
naped-Drake's ZOuaves-That
"Tribune" Mormon Insult.

The last of the camphres went out
with something of q flicker last eve
ming; General Logan left for the west
during the afternoon, taking everyone
of any note along with him. There
were few stragglsrs left, however, and
some fifty or sixty more arrived on the
regular trains. so that there was enough
incentive for holding another ''cs .
fire" which it had been thought at one
time would not be done. There WAS
another reason too-it WOULD give OPP
pOrtunlty for some of the small,r fry 70
air themselye and such fish as Maxwell
and McNiece who had been put into tn
background on the fashionable even
ings, might now pe brought out without
50 mach fear of the consequences. Ac-
cordingly aEabout 9 O'Clock the gather
ing-which was ~ meagre compared
Z with that of the previous ght, though
IL still numbered several hundred peO-
ple-rounded up its shoulders and Cen
eral Max well was let loose upon it, Mr..
McKag and the judges, colonies. law
I yers. etc. who had graced the stand on
/ the big nights, had made their escape.
I He rambled on IN the Scruify, cOck-a-
| doodle-doO, police court, highfalutin'.
Old Rye sly lie so familiar u him, and
rung the usual number of changes on
the half-masting. disloy. lily. marriage
| relations, etc, etc., concluding with the
remark that on the 9th of March, 1877,
when Daniel II. Wells was liberated
! from the penitentiary. he had seen with
mis- own eyes the stars and stripes trailed
in the dust of Main Street by the Nor
mons, Tall of which is of course the veri-
! est rot that Kentucky Bourbon ever
| generated.l
Comrade Black gave q rough but in
teresting account of mis- experiences as
a prisoner among the Confederates. and
the champion lightweight, Rev. Nc
Niece, was trotted out. be still wrig
giles and Writhes in the cheerful manner
that suggests a cross between Uriah
Heep and Mr. Fagin. and his bosom
still bubbles over with the milk OF hu-
man kindness towards everything in
the shape of Mormonism; the milk was
so rich last evening that the cream
could fairly have been scum" of
it IN hunks. He said he had been
aston here for nine yesrs - a
statement that verifies The additional
hardwood of the Presbyterians- but
during the past week he had been feel
ing as If in some mysterious way he
mad been moved pack into the United
States az IN. (Appiause.) There we're
two classes of Mormons, he said-one
the fanatical, allied with the priesthood
and represented by The HERALD and
the Neics. This fanatical class had not
been so badly scared for thirty years,
al. tnf haa nd
threatened them with destruction.
They had attempted 10 make light OF
the q. A. L. gathering, bad laughed at
il before 1t occurred, but slice the
glorious cRmp-fres, and the glorious
speeches by Judge Dickson, Governor
Murray, Governor West, Judge Powers
(ayenging Gods > and others, they were
not exactly uproarlous with laughter.
he then related { negro minstrel
legend of boy who laughed 10 himself
he went up to tickle mules heel,
who was kicked about two rods away,
and who congratulated himself that he
had done his laughing in advance. The
educational effect of these camp-fires,
be thought, would be prodigious. He
looked TO see one of the results wheB
Congress met next winter and legisla-
ton for Utah was up again. The sec
ond class of MOrmOns, he said, were
not doing much talking Just nov. They
were thinking. attending these meet
ingS, and going home 10 store up the
things they heard. They CO II not break
from the ranks Just now, but once
let Uncle Sam take hold Of this Terri
tory as he ought, and there would be
such jumping and scampeiing TO the
other side as could not be counted. The
Mormons claim be said. that they had
made "the desert blossom AS the rose"
Was this sol Decidedly not. From
what he could observe, they had rather
made their noses blossom as the rose"
Tie paused for applause after this
sWeet-scented statement, but his audi
ence was too much amazed to yield il
and h went on). Revenue collectors
would tell you that there we're thirty
seven distilleries here from 1865 TO 1863,
before the Gentiies had begun TO
gather here. He had investigated
/ Mormonism thoroughly, he said, and
/ he affirmed boldly that il possessed not
one commendabie or redeeming feature
peculiar 10 itself. Good MormOns and
/ hospitable people there were Of course,
/ but MOrnOnism did not make them so.
/ MOrmoQism Stinks all over the nation
I il can bssmelt as far away as in Maine.
| When people sniff the air OF there and
learn that il is the foul miasma Of
MormOnism that smells, they wonder
how do the loyal people in Utah stand
the stencil , etc. etc etc (This is merely
the skeleton of an address teeming
with similar brotherly love and
Christian charity, but it will probably
suffice 10 convey an idea of the whole
There Was then sOme singing and
some interesting story telling by the
CHEEKY old Admiral Kingston type of
man Chaplain LOzier. whose name
could not be ascertained Friday even
/ ing. A song, e Piuribus Unum, was
rendered with fine effect. ana was
vastly cheereI. There wss then a little
more story telling and another address
/ by a comrade from Pennsylvania. and
the final camp FIRE sized and went out
to music by the band.
THAT MORMON INSULT.
The Tribune stated that the finance
committee in making its canvass had
I been insulted by a number of Mormons
TIE HERALD has several times asked
| the sheet of infamV TO specify " no these