The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-17
BUNCOED AT CHICAGO.
A Newspaper Editor Loses His
Trunk Whilst Travelling.
Judge Goodwin Does Not Go to Washington
on the Notifying Committee,
and Whyg

II, as Byron says, there is tue in the
affairs of men which, taken at its food,
leads on to fortune, it is no less true there
are periods in the lives ofmen when every
thing goes wrong. The fracture of mir
ror, the breaking of cord by which pic
ture is hung upon the wall, may forbode a
run of luck. against which it is in vain to
swear or pray 1t was so with the Com
stock club in it's palmiest days, and no sur
viving member can escape the pursuing
Nemesis for i'll fortune is only retribution.
1t is not for the present scribe TO relate
all the troubles that have lately come upon
that Nestor and illuminator of the press,
the Hon. G. G. Goodwin, editor of the Salt
Lake Tribune. Readers of TIE HERALD
know the agony of mind into which he has
lately been put iu the effort to coax the
Minneapolis credentials committee into be-
lieving him to be genuine Republican, and
the melancholy satisfaction he showed to
be credited with being half of one. Whilst
his disappointments were yet ranking in
his bosom, Pelion was piled on Ossa by the
discovery that he had been, outside of the
convention, successfully played as a
suckeri We have the authority of our re-
liable contemporary, the NelCs, which gets
its information from United States OH
Ger who vouches for its accuracy, for the
statement that Judge Goodwin was lately
buncoed out of his trunk.
The scene is laid in Chicago. Judge
Goodwin had been designated as the Utah
member of the committee to wait upon the
president to tell him he had been nomi-
mated as the Republican candidate, which
ceremony is to take place in Washington
next Monday. The Nel0s says the judge
was standing on the platform at the rail-
road depot awaiting the departure of the
train for Salt Lake, when man offered to
re-check his baggage, upon which the frac-
tional delegate handed his check
over to him, only to find that the
sharper got away with the trunk.
What there was in the EDITORS ap-
pearance to suggest that he would do such
thing as that-what bucolic air there
was about him to lead q bunco steerer to
suppose he could play such a trick upon
the old gentleman-does not appear. When
peoples minds are occupied with some
great grief or some ''divine despair, sub
lunary things are apt to lose their interest,
and 1t is probable that If the crook had
asked the judge for his linen duster at the
same time, he would obediently have taken
it off and given to him.
The probability is the NeCs misunder-
stood its informant relative to one point.
The judge could hardly have been starting
Tor Salt Lake, with the Washington mis-
sion before his mind. In that trunk were
the EDITORS best clothes. They were gone.
Not shirt was left. The raimen5 in
which the judge would have arrayed his
anatomical parts at Washington, In order
to meet the president at the White House,
was being carted off to some secondhand
old clothes Dealers place. The trip was
spoiled. The assemblsge of notifiers to
join next Monday under the glittering
candelabra of the blue room. amidst the
laces and soft carpeting of that beautiful
apartment, perfumed with the rare doors
stealing in from the open conservatory,
could not, therefore. be graced by the pres
ence OF our esteemed contemporary. There
was nothing for it but to come home to the
Tribune office, where, indeed, he is evil
IDENTIFY much needed and where as we un-
derstand, be arrived yesterday somewhat
dishgured, but still IN the ring"