The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-28
POOR POWERS.
He Tries to Explain the Great
Fight He Made.
The Sschem Thought Judge Henderson Acted
Very Strangely In Smashing
Things.

stepped of the Tuscsrora baggage car yes
terday morning. Had he fallen through
every skylight Of S6-story building and
laid in the cellar month, the stoker
wheeling cinders over him, he could not
have presented more banged up, gener-
ally done-for appearance.
The cause of the judges iammod look is
thus explained.
A railroad Official on reading the Tri-
bune's telegram about the Tuscaroras los
ing their baggage gave very knowing
smile. 1t now turns up, according to this
authority, that the Tnscaroras in their
haste to get out of Chicago put their bag
gage into the sleeper while they
piled themselves iuto the baggage car.
They were very weary and soon
fell down among the trunks and were soon
fast asleep. II was not until they reached
the Missouri river that they woke up to
Ind their mistake. They st once went
back in search of their baggage and found
that the indignant train hands had trans
ferred it from the sleeper into the baggage
car that stood on side track at some point
in Missouri.
This is the explanation of the side-track-
ing of the baggage car as given by a rail
road man OF long experience in transport
ing Indians and it certainly has many
things in its favor.
But more curious than the lost baggage
car is Powers explanation as to how il
happened that after he had "a dead sure
thing OF it, he got left on the outside of
the convention.
This explanation is one of the most skill
full things ever Powers did, and under the
extenuating circumstances may be treated
seriously.
One Of the first things that Powers ran
across that he had not calculated on was
Judge Henderson.
In describing the obstacle he met in the
judge, Powers pathetically, and in tone OF
repentance, said: Henderson was not
the same man at Chicago as he was al
home. l told Henderson he was acting
strangely in trying 10 smash things the way
he did, but it didn't do any good. At home
Henderson is a miid-mannered, suave man,
but in Chicago he worked himself into a
rage and showed the tiger claws. | actu-
ally was afraid of him, as he seemed as if
he had just got out Of cage. Henderson
behaved very strangely, and | was sur
prised to see him go out OF his way to
smash the Tribune"
Imagine the astute Powers getting this
of without cracking a smile, and that to a
newspaper repOrterl
And Powers was very much astonished
that Henderson did not show himself
more OF politician. Had the convent ton
seated him and shut Henderson out he
would have been quick to see that the
proper thing to DO was to catch the
speakers eye and say: Gentlemen OF the
convention, these men. too, are Democrats.
Arizona. with less than half our popula-
ton, has six delegates, and / ask the con-
vention to give Utah six seats, so that
both delegations may participate in the
proceedings of the convention
THAT" continued Powers, would have
been lnagnanimous. It would have been
politics. Do you seel We would then
have been bound by our honor to work
with the party. But now we have come
back with blood in our eye and will fight
until we force recognition. The Tus-
cRroras have 800 votes and they vote as q
unit. If we would lose half OF them we
would have 750 and l tell you that number
Of men when acting together are a power.n
The judge ran over the figure they cut In
the Windy city. They arrived in thunder
storm and their feathers looked like wet
chickens They had the cards packed
against u.s." he went on, "but we never
squeal. Had the best drum corps and the
While they got the votes we got our pic
lures in the papers. Harpers' Wcehly sent
a man around TO sketch us. Newton with
his head gear was feature We knocked
them out on fight but they knocked US out
on cards.
$50 far as the trip was concerned. it was
9 great success. We had a double object
in making the trip. The first was to gain
admission to the convention and the second
WAS to advertise the Tuscaroras and the
territory. The Tuscaroras are now known
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The ma
tionsl committee was against us.
Brioe went back on his promise
Massachusetts and Virginia were in favor
OF seating US. When Connelly made his
motion objected to him as a man who had
always been fighting me. Keisel also pro-
tested. Mr.. Lamb Of Indiana said he
would give US n hearing before the entire
committee. l urged him to give US hear
ing before the whole committee. Out of
the forty-seven members OF the committee
there were not more than fifteen present
when the Utah case passed.
Connolly moved the adoption of the re-
port seating Game and Henderson. Burke,s
position Is accounted for by the fact that
the Mormons ia Idaho would stand bv
them only If the regulars were seatedi
I'VE talked with the Missouri delegation
and they said that word from Mr.. Hyoe
would settle the whole matter. l met
AAlob L1dlucEs VI Tic IHliOldl committee
who had letter from Mr. Hyde, and he
said, i am with you; God bless you; wen
sweep them OF the board. OF course he
mistook US for the other fellows.
"There wasn't Tuscarora but that be-
haved himself like gentleman, and while
we didn't get into the convention we did
get $50, geo worth OF advertising for the ter
ritory.n
1t was evident from the tone Of the Judge
that he had undergone great change Of
heart. He went to Chicago to estsblisb
Americans in Utah and he came home to
fight for recognition. Even pudding can
change going down hill, and Powers is Id a