The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-10
THE WELCOME.

The people of Salt Lake city and those
who came in from the surrounding towns
to see the President and participate in the
reception proceedings have no occasion to
censure themselves for anything which oc-
Cured on Saturday. They all did grandly,
acquitting themselves with honor The
city was gaily decorated, the people were
out In full force and full of patriotic enthu-
slasm, and they were sincere and honest in
the welcome which they extended and the
respect they showed to the nations execu-
tive Nothing but the loudest praise can
be bestowed upon the masses, who will
long remember the day as distinctly marked
in their lives
1t is to be regretted that this honest
praise cannot be extended to all who had to
do with the event 1t has been apparent
from the time the coming was announced
that it was the deliberate and cunning
purpose of few to make the Presidents
visit here anything but what it should be-
The little coterie of politicians who assume
to run" things hereabouts laid out to
capture" HARRISON, to keep him away
from others, and to use him for their pur-
poses, exclusively. In pursuance Of this
contemplate scheme the pee wee governor
sneaked off to Oregon-crossing an entire
state in his journey, and grossly insulting
the good people of Idaho-and impudently
camped with the President so as to see to
it that nobody was admitted to HARRISON
who was not agreeable to the pee wee.
Then the ceremonies here were carefully
arranged In a manner TO belittle the people
and magnify the gang; to give the Presi-
dent wrong impression of what had been
done il this country and of who did it.
And THE HERALD is bound to confess
that the scheme was to a certain extent
successful. The tricksters played their
cards well for their purpose but we believe
that In the long run they will learn that
they made mistake, for the town is full of
grumblings and criticisms against the
schemers, the upstart THOMAS being
roundly denounced by men of his own
party who have heretofore insisted that he
was not the narrow-minded, contemplate
sneak that those who knew him best long
since discovered him to be.
OF course we regret that the unfriendly
influence had its effect upon the mind of the
President We are sorry that the President
could not recognize what had been done in
this country and who had done it. We are
sorry that he was blind to the progress
which has been made in the past few years,
and could not see that conditions have
changed and new era been entered upon.
We regret that IN talking to the people
who gathered to shout him welcome and do
HIM honor that he did not deliver an adj
dress as of today, and not as of FIVE or
eight years ago. If he had permitted him
self to see things as they are and to rec
ognize accomplished facts, he would have
doomed In the eyes Of the people as broad
minded, clear-headed statesman. He did
not, however, permit himself to do this,
and the result is that while the people feel
that they have done their duty, their ad-
miration for the President has been con-
siderably lowered. They excuse him. in a
degree, for they feel that he has
been preyed upon and his mind pos-
oned by the enemies of the territory.
by the men who would rather see destruc
ton come upon the community than that
they should lose the power which they hold
and exercise for the oppression of the
masses.
We can assure the schemers, and with
them their victim, President HARRISON,
that yesterdays incidents will not soon be
forgotten in this community. All that oc-
Cured. from the sneaking off to Oregon
by the governor, down to the unworthy
insinuations in President HARRIsoN's
speech. will be retained in the memory to
be recalled when it shall become desirable
to work revenges.