The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-07
A BIT OF BUNCoMBE.


If the Washington correspondent of
our morning contemporary has re-
ported P. H. Lannan correctly, our
townsman has been talking nonsense
to a Post reporter in reference to Salt
Lake and the national Republican con-
vention. Here is one of his arguments
in favor of that convention being held
here, as thus reported:
We are going to have a delegation
of our best citizens here next week to
urge the claims of Salt Lake for the
Republican national convention, and
they can make a mighty good showing.
too. In the first place we have not
only the best convention hall in the
world, but a pair of them. Our famed
Tabernacle, one of the grandest struc-
lures in the world, will seat $4,000 peo-
pie comfortably, but if the delegates
prefer novel and picturesque surround
ings, there is our magnificent pavilion
that rests on solid foundations a mile
out in the lake, "a thing of beauty and
Joy forever 1t will hold quite as
many people as the Tabernacle, and
many might prefer it, owing to the
charm of it's location. Salt Lake is the
halfway house of the continent 1t is
splendid, hustling city, with every
convenience of the day, and has ample
facilities for taking care of the big
crowd that always attend national con-
VentionS.
OUR" famous Tabernacle is good,
coming from that source. And the
exaggeration of its seating capacity is
rich, considering the many efforts OF
the Tribune the other way, getting
down to even as low figure as little
over 5000 That, however, is a small
matter-for folks who are not particu-
lar to a few thousands either way when
it suits them to indulge in a little nu-
merical variation. But how did the
gentleman learn that the Tabernacle
could be had for such a noisy, tobacco
using crowd as a political convention?
If he was not talking through his hat"
he must have been seeing through
glass darkly."
Then the notion of the Saltair pavil-
ion for national convention! What
speaker, even though he roared like the
famed bull of Bashan, could make him
self heard in that beautiful, unique and
properties are ':all at sea-" and the
human voice faints and falls a few feet
from the stand?
But how about the Geographic and
other facilities essential to such q gath
ering? Passing by the inability of Salt
Lake, at present, to accommodate such
an immense number of visitors in
Ill Associated
and Western Union lines-aH we have
for outside communications be
next to useless for such purpose.
Doubts are expressed as to San Fran
cisco's telegraph facilities in such
case Yet it has u wires from the
Western Union, or 10 from the Postal
Telegraph and Cable company and
madam Pacific.
It's all right to boom our city and to
speak of it as a fine place for a home,
fo~ a pleasure visit, for business in
vestments and for ordinary conventions
and congresses but for a national Y1o-
litical convention it will have to grow
largely, and even then it is hardly
probable that "Our" Tabernacle would
be turned into a political convention
hall
If a delegation of "our best citizens
is going to Washington for the pur-
pose of trying to bring the national
Republican convention here, we hope
those gentlemen will find out first
where it can be held, where the dele
o1atac will n11f I'M how mich thew will
have to put up for expenses, and
what means can be had for Geographic
reports of the proceedings.
There is another thing that perhaps
might as we'll receive some trif1ing con-
sideration from "our best citizens"
That is, it is understood that 100000
VIII have to be subscribed to the ma
tional fund of the party by the city
gaining the convention. OF course,
that is not much in the minds eye of
extravagant boomers, but when it
comes to the hard cash it would form
a mountain in our way. We are in
clined to think that there is a. great
about our beautiful city as a national
convention town. But perhaps, after
all, the Washington correspondent has
been indulging in that verbal latitude
and vivid imagination, in reference to
the remarks of P. II. Lannan, which
have characterized other communica-
tons that have been made special
huff sed.''