The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-27
BLAfNE-M'CORMICK.

1t is not union of the AoNTAGUEs and
CAPULRTs that occurred at Richfeld
Springs, n. Y, yesterday, so that we may
reverse the malediction of MERCUTIo and
say-'a blessing on both your houses
The union of EMMoNs BLAINE to the beau
tiful and wealthy daughter of c. H. Nc
CoRMICK is not matter of national import
ance, but it is an affair in which all parts
of the country are more or less interested,
and is, as such, entitled to the mention
which it will receive.
The father of the groom is and has long
been the leader of the party at present in
power in the United States-JAMEs G.
BLAINE: while the brides paternal parent
was the man who, more than any other,
accomplished the enforcement of the
farmer from the actual drudgery of his oc-
cupation and placed it on a higher, better
plane. The nobility of toll, through his
woodworking productions, is phrase
amounting to something more than mere
generality; it has become realization,
state of existence which we do not suffici-
entity appreciate because of intimacy and
constant contact. And he was as much OPP
posed to the bridegroom's father, in politics,
as one pole is apart from the other. He
was Democrat, He had decided follow
ing for the vice-presidential nomination on
the ticket with the NAPOLEON of modern
politics, SAMUEL j. TLDEN. The place
was given to THOMAS A. HENDRICKS be-
cause, as the convention understood and
agreed, the candidate for the second place
-g,o lf,i n ybO tH,oc
ferior to the head of the ticket. MCCoR-
MICK was as good Democrat as any Of
them, but he had not had the political ex
perience which the party at that time con
sldered that any man on the national
ticket should have.
1t may be considered by the more fnical
that it is invidious to refer to politics in
such connection. Perhaps it is. 1t might
also by some of the more straight-laced be
said that mention of the fact that the boy
has pa and the girl a ma is putting more
into the record than the occasion calls for,
and this may also be true. But it is also
fact that as long as the event is deemed one
of sufficient Importance to justify the
sending of the details to us by telegraph
details in which even the raiment worn by
the high contracting parties and their at
tendants is made feature--there should
be no serious objection to considering
cognate matters of much more Importance
to the general reader.
THE HERALD and more of its readers look
upon the happy event as a union of the
two great parties which are now and for
nearly generation past have been con-
tending for supremacy in this country
not by any means. Nor would it or they
have any such consummation at present,
because the best interests of the ma
ton just now demand that the parties
be kept separate. 1t AMI they, how
ever, can and do express their best
wishes and kindliest feelings upon
the occasion which brings together
in the bonds of sacred and lifetime ALI
ance the son of the great Republican and
the daughter of the worthy Democrat If
the son partakes of the disposition of tire
father, may the gentleness, goodness, per
suasiYeness, virtuous and exalted example
of the wife be the means of retaining
him from his waywardness and making
him even as good as herself and her hon