The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-24

As q bond seller County Attorney
Whittemore is a miserable failure, but as
Hawkshaw and junketer he is a bowling
success. When the county attorney went
east q few weeks ago tat the peoples
eXpense) to sell the county bonds and in
cidentaIly endeavor to obtain a scent of
Preacher Hermans' trail, the great ma
jority of people knew that Schooner
jim" could have accomplished as much
as might be expected of Mr.. Whittenore.
Subsequent developments show that
such has been the case Not only has he
failed to accomplish anything in the way
of securing bids on the bonds, but there
is every reason to believe he pays more
attention TO politics and having a good
time than to business.
The outlook for the bond issue is not en-
cOuraging. In fact it looks now as il
there viii be no bids to open on the 9th
of this month, the time set for the sale.
Up to the present time no bids have been
received and according to Mr.. White
more the prospects are not bright Short
ly after his arrival in Chicago he wrote
back 10 the board Of county commissioners
the following interesting epistie, which
not only throws some light on the progress
Of his mission but tells some of his varied
political ideas.
PUTS UP AT THE UNION LEAGUE.
81 Inc letter runs as IOilOWS.
Union League Club,
Chicago, July u, 1896.
To the Honorable Board of County Com
missioners:
Gentlemen-The free silver planks in the
Democratic platform, the nomination of
Bryan and the excitement attendant upon
the convention of the ''unterrifed," has
stampeded the bond buyers, and as one or
them expressed it yesterday, we have all
taken to the woods" This expression
VS. Illa,fe by Mi. Farson, of the firm of
Farson, Leach & Co., and expressed the
ment among eastern people concerning
everything western is an admiXture OF
fear and anger The disposition seems to
be to punish the west for its efforts i'll
behalf of silver by bearing the markets
on western securities. The outlook for
the bond sale is therefore very diseOurag-
ing. / have interviewed every bond-buy-
ing ard financial institution of note in
Chicago and have received absolutely no
encouragement whatever. l shall push
on eastward, however, with the hope that
the situation may change before the 27th.
| will leave here tonight for Cleveland,
and from there win 60 TO New York and
probably Boston. l feel keenly the neces-
sity of succeeding in selling the bonds
now that they have been advertised and
will leave no stone unturned to accomplish
that result.
The great Democratic convention and
all its sensational incidents has not en-
Unused me a bit. The Democrats who
are shouting for silver land they are
greatly in the minority seem to be doing
so by force of circumstances, and because
they have nothing else to make an issue
on. Such efforts on behalf of the white
metal will be futile The great cause
of silver has fallen into the wrong
hands. The emancipation of silver, If It
ever comes, will be through the party of
Lincoln, Grant and Garfield. The great
mass of Republicans of the east are open
to conviction, and / feel confident that in
two years hence when they find that re-
lief from financial distress is not obtain
able through the tariff legislation alone,
that they viii turn to silver and we will
get a free silver house to join with the
senate in the enactment of. free silver
bill, and when that time comes you WIFI
find that Mckinley will not be a block
in our way as Cleveland has been. L
when 1 have time to size up the situation
there. Yours very respectfully,
C. o. WHITTEMORE.
P. S.-This letter is not official and
should not be put on record.
That Mr.. Whittemore has not been
meeting with any greater success in New
York city is evidenced from the fact that
a few days ago he wired the commits
sioners to postpone the sale of the bonds
for thirty days.
The postponement will not take place,
however. Mr.. Geddes stated yesterday
that the bids, if any, would be opened
on the 9th Further than that he could
not say. 1t is possible that some of the
bond buyers IN the east that Mr.. Whit
tenore has not interviewed viii see NJ
to put in bids for it is known that the
I commissioners have received number
4 of encouraging advices.