The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-28

ing.
The visiting editors from all the
Rocky mountain states were given a
great day yesterday. They began at
o'clock by making a gallant parade
through the highways of Zion, then
assembled at the theatre and listened
TO siiver-tongued oratory, made re-
sponses and wound up the festivities
of the first day with banquet and
hall at the biggest pavilion on Salt
Lakes great inland sea.
The Press association began its
preparations for the days programme
10y holding a meeting at it's head
quarters at o'clock All details for
giving the scribes a grand time were
there completed and everything was
-Geady and in apple-pie order when the
tme for beginning the days work
Acme round. President Rognon and
Wecretary TomSon were the busiest
men in the state and early in the day
had their heutenants skirmishing
through the town securing rooms at
the hotels, arranging the details of
The banquet and making other neces-
Sary preparations. At about ! o'clock
the delegations began to assemble at
the headquarters in the Atlas block
and soon after the long-looked-for
WISCONSIN press representatives came
in a body.
The Parade.
The marching journalists did not
leave the Atlas block on the parade
unSii about $50. At about that time
five carriages were lined up in front of
the building TO convey the more dis
ris1ev Tfe-l1 Of IN 70 fa1r
part to the theatre. Held's brass band,
too, came TO the building and began
some stirring music, which was kept
up all through the remainder of the
day
The assembled Journalists soon got
into marching order. The brass band
took the front of the parade, and af-
ter the musicians came the line of car
Tiages In the first Of these sat Gov
ernor West, Mayor Baskin and George
Q. Cannon. The next carriage held
several visiting editorial writer's of
note. and then came The Trunlbo We
hicie in which Editor Penrose accom-
panied the colonel and his wife.
Then followed carriages contain
ing some Of the city's most
distinguished lady writers. incud-
mania B. Pratt and other ladies
equally well known. Coming up in the
rear and forming the bulk of the
parade were the visiting delegations,
headed by President Rognon and mem
bers of the local Press association. The
representatives OF each state were di-
viSed into squads, and each held aloft
a banner Indicating the state from
which it came. The march, as already
outlined in The Herald, was west to
West Temple, north to Temple block,
~asu to Main street, south on Main to
~fThird South. east to the Knutsford no.
tel and from there directly to the the
atre.
The interior of the theatre. in which
the delegations assembled by states,
sx1Ssented pleasing appearance. JAKE
reeneWald's artistic hand had trans
formed the stage into a veritable gar
den. containing palms and potted
plants of various varieties. Old Glory
formed the background and in the
centre was hung a banner bearing the
inscriptions. Welcome. The Pen is
NIightier than the Sword.
The Sixteenth Infantry band occu-
pied the orchestry seats and kept the
delegates enthused ny rendering vigor-
ously number Of national airs. As
the members of the convention seated
themselves, Marching Through Geor-
gia" was struck UP, and the whole as
sembly arose with enthusiastic cheers
as the band wound up with THE Star
ASsngled Banner"
TIT was about 3:15 wnen President
Rognon arose and called the conven-
tion TO order Briefly he rendered the
welcome of the Press association, and
the people generally, to the city 5
guests. and then introduced Hon.
George Q. Cannon as temporary chair
1a3n of the convention.
Mr. Cannon arose amid loud ap-
plause. He said that the honor of pre-
siding over the convention was uneX-
pected, but nevertheless appreciated.
not many hundred yards from here,
he said, the first irrigation by an An
gio-Saxon man was done in the west.
The theater is also a more or less ven
cradle landmark. 1t is the oldest place
of amusement between the Missouri
and San Francisco.
Governor West.
Governor West was then introduced
to tRe convention and greeted the Wis
dtS,rs with a speech of welcome on be-
.AAlf of the whole territory. He said
[ tnat Utah was proud to have within
&c borders representatives of that
ssSnighty power, the press 1t should he
the hope and aim of all that the pen
will be welded by hand that is hon
est and be dictated by a mind and
heart of unquestioned fidelity. That
power which can shake monarchies
and bring blight or prosperity to a
land should however, be untrammeled
AND free. Yet 1t should be conservative,
well regulated and high in it's aims.
The representatives of the higher
elements in the profession should meet
together. They should form a code Of
ethics that viii act as a limitation to
those Of the profession who may be
dictated 10 by mercenary motives. The
people Of Utah welcome the scrihes to
their borders. The song of the bah