The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-10
PEE WEE Is WORSTED
Simon Says Thumbs up" and up
They Go.
PRESIDENTIAL AFTERMATH
How the Presidents Stay in Salt Lake Was
Steered"-How the Hebrew President Cap
tured Him From the Philistines.


60 to his own state line to meet the Presi
dent, is phool. The governor of Utah
who not only went to his own state line
but cleared with one bound the state line
OF Utah and Idaho, and lit somewhere nea
those OF Oregon-well, he does not belon
10 the same class as the Oregon governor
Ine spectacle presented by our honore(
Zee Nee-we wish it to be understood tina
we apply this term solely to diminutiye
ness OF soul, nothing elSe-ever since i
was known President Harrison would yisi
US, mas been one TO invite first criticism
tnen rldlcule. From the first moment Har
rlson accepted Salt Lakes invitation there
n nns nee1 a struggle in certain
through which the President wa
TO gaze at Utah. One class - tina
IN authority-insisted on fitting him witt
the old, narrow, ill-ftting, WORKOUT, bes
approved pee wee patent of twenty wear!
ago. the other with Fred Simon at theiI
mead, wanted him TO survey Utah through
Inc broad guaged, luminous, progressive
cnaincer OF commerce lorgnette of to-day
Inc hight has been lively one; all The
advantages were on the side of the pee-wee
element at the start, and in some respects
| tney carried their programme through
yet, surveying the field as a whole. VIC
must incline to the belief that the Hebrew
Titan has the BEST cause to smack his lips
chpckle and rub his hands.
Everyone thought it was settled weeks
ago That the President would assist at the
opening OF the chamber of commerce, Wher
ns answered Fred Slmon's request to tina,
enecI that he was in the hands of the citi
Zens' committee; who would have supposed
tnat any citizens committee could Law 8
straw In the way of such contamination
Livery one realized that no event that could
nave happened or that could have been
manufactured to order-would give THE
ehamoer such ''send off, as
the participation of the Presi-
Dent of the United States IN
It's opening exercises. Think of it! 1,
would be flashed over the whole United
States, perhaps over the whole world. that
SALT Lake was of enough Importance To
nave the President assist in the openine
Oh the new Board of Trade building. What
a story that would tell
1t would tell just the sort of story the
zee Wee element didn't want told. II
saVored too strongly of regeneration. OF
progress, OF reform, of good feeling, of
peace, amlty and good viii. 1t wouldn't
do to let the country get that sort of i'm
preston: where would the Office holders
be! What would happen to the Utah com.
mission! What would happen to Pee Wee
himselfl " g
Accordingly, there hobs up a sub-com-
mlttee, among whom there is not one Nor
mon or one official of the chamber Of
ccmmerce-maybe there are one or two
Democrats, not more. This subcommittee
goes deliberately to work and arranges a
programme which II it had for its aim how
not to show the President Salt Lake as she
Is, could not more effectually have sue
oeeoed IN that design, He is to be taken to
breakfast at the Walker when at the Tenn
pleton the dlnlng-room is famed Tor The
magnificent view it gives of our valley, 10
say nothing OF It's superior accolDnooa-
tons. He Is to have the back of his neck
sunburneo at Liberty park, and to have his
vision Toasted on the romantically beautiful
fence that surrounds it, while study of
the olrds' nests that make up the foliage al
this season of the year is to give his orni-
theological tastes chance to exercise them
selves.
The chamber of commerce plan was
simply not in tit was laid aside as com
pletely as II 1t never been mooted. Some
one had animated that the buildings known
as the tabernacle and the temple, with the
great organ, possessed sort of side inter
est TO tourist, and that the President and
his wife might have sort of idle curiosity
to behold them, but the idea was ridiculed
and dismissed. The project to inaugurate
an informal concert IN the tabernacle by
the tabernacle choir of 800 voices was
frowned down. IL wouldn't do to show anv
such sort OF enterprise and progress among
the Mormons. and the bare thought of hay-
ing hand shaking in the exposition build
ing or IN any other place where citizens
might have the privilege of getting nearer
the presidential ear than Pee Wee ennis
sary could do in Pullman car was not to
De tolerated or thought of for single in
slant
Great was the amazement and discom-
future Of the little knot of citizens invited
to bear the governor company to the state
line, when on assembling, they learned
that the head Of the delegation had quietly
LIT out for Oregon forty-eight hours in adj
vance OF his party-what the President
and the people of Oregon must nave
thought can only be conjectured. Probably
that there was an uprising in Utah, or that
some ones term Of office needed renewing.
AT any rate the delegation went on, feeling
little ashamed, met the President and his
Pee Wee escort, swallowed their mortifca-
ton and behaved like good citizens.
Everyone is familiar with the details of
the last meeting OF the committee, Wednes-
day, when the Hebrew president arose in
his might and wrath and the great buIl5 of
The committee arose with him, and de-
manded to know why the chamber and tina
tabernacle were igncred-note these noints
on Wednesday evening or Thursday morn
ing Mayor Scott, at the instance of the
committee, sent this telegram:
To Governor Thomas:
See Presidential party and endeavor to Sc
cure an extension OF time for Salt Lake city ono
hour or more during which time the cornm;ttee
propose to take fifteen minutes exercise Mt
dedication OF chamber OF commerce and hail
hour at the tabernacle, where choral soc;atr
consisting of 400 voices, will sing, accomnanisIl
by Prof. Redclid on the largest organ in Am
erica. (Slgnea GEORGE M. SCoTr, Mayor.
JAMES ANDERSON, Sec.
What became of its Did the President
ever see it! Ask Fred Simon what he
thinks about it. Anyhow, nothing wac
heard here by way of answer. When Fri
day noon arrived the blood of the Hebrew
president began to nount-with the aid of
one or two other members OF the CHAMBER
he indicted an epistle to the President On
his own account. kun1or says it fairly made
the wires tizzle. When HERALD rsnortar
asked him for copy of 1t last evening
after everything was all over and Quiet
relgned once more in the city, Mr.. Simon
beamed and said he had made his noint.
better let 1t drop; it could do no good now
The following from yesterdays TribLnG
shows MIR. Simon's telegram took" Ii
also sounds decidedly as if the President
were totally unaware of the existence of
Mr.. Scouts telegram:
when the pilot train arrived at Cache
junction Governor Thomas was handed the
The President is in recent of
q message from Fred Simon, president of
the chamber of commerce, requesting him
to participate the dedication of the Cham
Der of Commerce building during his stav
in Salt Lake city tomorrow, and he would
be pleased to comply, provided you can
assign for this purpose twenty minutes out
Of the time aIlotted.'n
What answer the governor made we
DON'T know; it is said he replied that he re-
srettec very much, but as the programme
stood, it would be impossible to give MIR
Simon his twenty minutes, and that there
lpon the President promptly answered