The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-13
THE WESTERN DELEGATIONS.

They were jolly lot of Republicans,
that train load of Californians who
passed the day with US Oh Tuesday
enroute for Chicago. They are ali
clever people, and the delegates to the
convention are among the brainiest
men on the Coast. Furthermore, they
will be among the brightest men IN
that great gathering of brains ano
brilliaucy of mind and eloqueoce Of
tongue which will as enble in the
City by the Lake next week.
They viii make their influence
felt in the convention, for their intel
lectuality will assert itself and be re-
eognized. The convention will be made
to realize as its members have never
done before, that off here on the western
edge of the continent there is great
community, a vast and growing COM
monwealth, which is producing and
developing bright minds, big brains.
sturdy physiaues and grand hearts,
The representatives OF one of the mighty
political parties of the nation who Will
meet in council in Chicago, when
they see and hear the men from the
Occident, will conclude that per
haps the "rowdy west" is not alto
gether rowdy, that it is producing
something besides hoodlums. that prob
ably it will be worth while to admit that
the trans Rocky Mountain section of
the republic has ceased to be region
OF recklessness and instability.
AT the other great political gathering
in st. Louis, last week, the Pacific Coast
wac not ashamed of its brains or its elo-
quence. Western citizens OF all shades
Of political faith and profession were
proud of the men who represented
the Slope; they were proud to realize
that in that wonderful assemblage OF
the nations political intellectually, the
men whose homes were on the shutdown
side of the Rockies were the peers Of
the ablest minds in the convention
Never before had the Pacific Coast been
acc. rded such difference and recognition
in national convention; never before
was it SO influential never be-
fore we're its brains and
tongues permitted to assert themselves
in a way to command the attention and
respect to which they were entitled.
The east has had an idea that the far
west didn't amount to much anyhow.
The former has acted IS if it toler-
ated rather than respected the latter
The east was williug TO concede that the
western men were big-hearted, whole
souled fellows, good enough in their
way, but would not consent that
they were statesn en-, or even
clever politicians! What is be-
ing done this year. will change
ali this. 1t will open the eyes and PEN
citrate the minds of those who have
hitherto sneered or been Indifferent,
and will teach them that whatever the
west NAV have been or done in early
DAYS, however much OF "rowdy" it
once was, to-day it can command the
respect which is due to education, to
culture, to refinement, to brains and to
vigorous and progressive manhood.
The west has tried to occupy the back
seats, while those not its betters in
any respect held the front rows.
Having gone to the fore, the west will
hold its own, and the east will concede
its right to do SO.
The HERALD, with the great west
generally, is proud Of the Pacific Coast
delegations to the two national conven-
tions. We are proud of the brainy and
brilliant men, and of the handsome
women who have crossed the Sierras
and the Rockies to attend the councils
o: the national parties. We are proud Of
their ability, of their generosity and
of their aggressive and assertiVe
dignity.
MAINE SETTLES IT.