The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14

of twelve thousand, it has as much enter
prise and stir as many town of a hundred
thousand il the east. 1t has electric lights,
a 100000 university, one of the finest rail
road depots of the country and it is full of
snap and enterprise. You ask me what
think the government ought to do for
Wyoming. l reply she ought to give US
some public buildings, let the state have
the disposal of the arid lands, and
strengthen the military posts We are on
the edge OF the Indian country and some
alarm is felt among the people as to the
possibilities OF an Indian warn
INGALLS, MAY RETURN.
Senator Plumb tells me that ingalls, will
probably be returned to the Senate, and
that he has number of friends among the
alliance legislators, which in addition to his
Republican friends will secure his election.
Senator ingalls, himself will say nothing
about his election for publication, but I'M
derstand that he considers his success GER
/ tain. There is general desire here that
! ingalls, be returned to the Senate and eX-
pressions of this kind are common even
among the Senators who have been the
most bitterly attacked by him. The news
| paper correspondents without an exception,
are anxious that he should remain as he
furnishes better descriptive material than
any other man in the body. and always has
a new idea TO offer upon every subject that
comes up.
THE ALLIANCES INFLUENCE.
find general impression that the Al
lance party viii be ephemeral, and that it
will not have much influence. on the next
presidential election. Senator Plumb said
last night you CAM tell W b at will be the
state OF things two years from now. Times
may be better. and the effect of the Nc
KInley bill may show that il will be good
rather than a bad thing for the country.
The farmers alliance party will have a
number of Offices to distribute Its leaders
will probably quarrel among themselves
and it may all so TO pieces before the pres
idential election. Judge Tyner, ex post
master general, and now attorney general
or the postoffice department, thinks with
! Senator Plumb and he says it reminds him
of the Granger movement which struck In
diana about the time he ran for Congress.
Re was advised not to accept the Republican
nomination on account of the strong farm-
ers' element of the district, which would
| certainly be against him. He took this ad
vice and another man was nominated. He
was weaker candidate than Tyner, but he
was elected, because the Changers fought
among themselves and could not at the
end agree upon 4 candidate. Roswell z.
Flower thinks the Alliance has too many
crazy ideas as to fiat money, ETC., to hold it.
self together, and George @. Jones, who
was the Greenback candidate for the presi
dency some years ago, believes that the
old Green back element will unite and that
they will rally around Senator Stanford as
the next candidate for the presidency.
SENATOR SANDERS IDEAS.
called on Senator Sanders of Montana
last night. He says there are no alliance
people in Montana, and ventures the state.
ment that the alliance party will within
two years be thing of the past. 1.-THE
people of the United States" said he
''will not support any party which holds its
meetings in the dark. Such actions are
against the spirit of American institutions
aud they are part only of the craze of the
times. We are growing insane over secret
societies. If you will go into any crowc
you will find more buttons and badges thar
1 you can count and it would take more learn.
! ing 10 read their meaning than it would
| to write history of Moses and the
prophets. Parties have been in a
! transition state for the last ten years
ard just now there is going on
all over the United States a dlsintegratiou
of parties and change of social conditions
which make 1t almost impossible to pro
phesy for the future. This is an age OF
| trusts, of false values and of great for
tunes. 1t is an age OF fortunes made dis
honestly and it would seem to me that q
day of reckoning must come sooner or later
Our great corporation values are based on
false estimates. Our railroads are oDer-
ated so that their directors and managers
and great proprietorS are little better than
thieves ia regard to the public and the bal
ance sheet must be made out sooner OIL
later AS to the Alliance party l don't
think that it is & = law tn bring this