Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-03

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-u!t.,,LL,,s,. Democrats Of the
I zzkl6tg u country will be in
4 a51lSfASIE/ Chi cago this
K iT,}%MtcZ| week. Who are
IeSNkZtlg'HakT they What arc
IIyilzzIISCS ~ theyp How do
IsSS2ZgZNSAN they look, act and
W. ~. TALK A score Of
hem pass before my minds eye as |
grite. There comes William {. Whit
ey. who eountermauded his passage to
ngland and stayed at home in order
nat he might induce this convention to
cclate for a gold standard. That we'll
ressed, rosy checked man, with the
lack musiache, the straight nose. aud
he gold eyeglasses Is lie. Every one
Knows him. lie was ne OF the big men
5i the convention Of 1854. which nomi.
mated Cleveland the FIRST time. lie was
Gleyeland's Secretary OF the Navy and
could have had the presidency once
twice by the raising Of his hand. lie
ould get It now by working ior It, but
don't want it, aud he would not &C.
apt II On q Tree silver platform Mr..
Whitney is a man Ui convictions. lie
does not believe in tree trade, and he
lhas always been Tor sound money. lie
was disguised with Cleveland when he
Icame out Tor free trade. aud he told him
That his free trade message would lose
aim the presidency in 1855, as 1t did. l
Was a correspondent for the New York
World when Cleveland delivered that
message, aud called that night at Sec
elary Whitney house 10 get his
loplnion. lie hemmed aud hawed and
Iailked up and down tho room. and at
IS, begged me not to interview him,
he could not say anything on the sub
Get which would help the admiuistfa
lion. Secretary Whitney was at this
time the most popular man in Washing
Ton. His brilliant wife was then living,
ind she and Mr. Whitney were the lead
ng social figures OF the Cleveland adj
Imuistfaton II was Mrs. Whitney who
coached Mrs. Cleveland when she came
Ito Washington as q bride. She was OF
grcat aid To her husband and when she
died, am told, she lett him $500. 900.
Mrs. Whitney was the daughter OF cN'
senator Henry e. Payne OF Cleveland,
and II Is said tina, 10 Whitney ever wants
10 be President he can command the
support OF his btoiher-iu.law Oliver II.
Payne OF the Standard on Company
llver Payue Is almost as riGh as John
Rockefeller, and he may be worth
IooooO.oOo. Whitney, / understand,
loWeyer, does not like 10 be associated
Eth the Standard Oh Company. lie
ild begun to make money before he was
married., and he Is reported to have
gotten a single lee Of $3.50, 900 from Jay
| Gould Tor some legal work. OF late
| ears he has been making money IN
business, and venture to say that he
las himself accumulated more than he
ever received from his vile. lie got his
political training under Samuel J, III
len. and he Is today one OF the shrewdest
political managers and organizers Of the
United States. He will be power in
his fighting convention, and is slrik-
ing figure even in the piping times OF
poliucal peace.
Cal. BRICE AND ms AMBITIONS,
With Whitney see another dis
tnguished character. The man looks
for all the world as though he had just
stepped out OF the pages OF the London
Punch oil days gone by and was a walk
ing cartoon made by Mr.. Leach. His
curly, bushy, red hair hangs down over
his big forehead like a brush heap. His
| nose IS almost as big as your fist, and
/ bs sharp, cold, blue eyes look out from
| Under heavy broWs. lie Is dressed IN
business clothes. and he sioops little
as he wallis, Ills stoOp, however, Is not
that OF humility. but rather that OF the
| lighter who has chip on hls shoulder
and IS ready Tor spring, That man IS
| Senator Cal. Brice. lie still lives IN
| New York, but he has a mighty power
| 90 The state OF Ohio. During the years
Of his senatorshp he has had 4 select
list OF every prominent democratic ed.
l0r, lawyer aud politician Of the state,
and has sent them week after week
seeds and government documents. ac-
| C1mpanied by letters stamped with a
| good imitation OF his autogtapslc sigma.
TUE. Brice is for hard money. At any
tate, he Is not Tor free silver. He has
Dix pile OF gold laid up, and he wants
bis money TO have the best spending
| power. Sill, he seems to care little Tor
money, and TO accomplish his ends he
makes il flow like water. His life at
Washington has annually cost him ten
times his salary. lie gave one single
dinner upon which he spent more than
sI2 600, and his wife Is, perhaps, one Of
the most lavish entertainers OF the Uni.
ted States, Sli.l, | was told in Lima,
from whence BIlce came, year or two
ago, that when he was married he had
70 pawn his watch to pay the expenses
OF his wedding trip He was, you know,
/ the son Of a Presbyterian parson, and
was so poor that when he went from his
home to college he walked part OF the
distance to save the expenses OF a stage.
Nov he is worth no one knows how
many millions, and his nerve is such
s talt It is said he eau make or lose q
fortune, to use the expression Of one vi