The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-04
THE NOMINEES.

The Indianapolis convention has
named as its standard bearer. Senator
John NJ. Palmer of Illinois. and for
second place, General Simon B. Buck
ner, of Kentucky. 1t is a noteworthy
coincidence that both are natives of
the Blue Grass state
General Palmer has been a favorite
son of Illinois for many years, and he
may be said to have been somewhat of
a Topping son. In 1910 he supported
I Van Buren, for president In 1852 "a
he was a state senator, but opposed the
Nebraska bill and resigned his seat in
the state senate, being unable to follow
/ his party. In 1856 he was the president
of the first Illinois Republican state
convention, and the same year was a
delegate to the national convention. In
1860 he was an elector on the Lincoln
ticket. On the outbreak of the war of
the rebellion he entered the army, be-
ing elected colonel of the Fourteenth
Illinois. At Stone River, for gallantry
and Skill he was made a ma general
of volunteers. After the close of the
war he located at Springfield. From
1868 to 1872 he was governor of the
state. In 1871 occurred the great Chi
cago fire During that time General
Sheridan used federal troops to guard
the city without first obtaining the per
mission of Governor Palmer. This so
outraged his sense of the rights of the
states, to control their local affairs that
he left the Republican party and has
been a Democrat up to the time of the
Chicago convention of July 7, 1896,
which he bolted, being now Ma
tional Democrat" In 1890 he was nom
mated for senator by the Democrats,
they carrying the state by 10000 plural
i9y. A hundred and one Democrats
were elected to the legislature, WHO
voted for him 1873 ballots. On the one
hundred and fifty-fourth ballot the In
dependents united with the Democrats
and he was elected United States SEN
ator. His term expires March s, 1897
General Buckner's fame Is almost en-
tirely based upon his military career,
though he was elected governor of
Kentucky in 1887. He graduated from
West Point in 1874 served through the
Mexican war, resigning his commits
sion in 1855. In September, 1861, he
became a brigadier- general in the con-
federate army, serving with distinction
throughout the war. He is one of the
few millionaires of Kentucky His nom
ination is noteworthy as being the first
nomination by amy party of an ex-con-
fedeI-afe to the Office of president or
vice-pres.dent. 1t shows now compile ely |
the war is over. He has no chance of
election, but if he did have, the fact |
that he is an ex-confederate would not |
greatly initiate against him.
From the above it will be s,aen that /
variegated political career, bounding
from party to party with the same I
agility that chamois bounds from crag
to crag. Ever since the Chicago con-
vention formulated its platform Of prin-
ciples and denounced arbitrary inter
ference by federal authorities in local
affairs as a violation of the constitu-
ton of the United States and a crime
against free government, General Pal
mer has been very voluble in his pro-
of love of country and devo-
ton to the free institutions of America
and in his denunciation of Altgeldism
Yet today he. stands upon a platform
which upholds that very interference
by the federal government in local af-
fairs for which, when he was governor
Of Illinois, he left the Republican party
to become a Democrat. If federal in
reference in the local affairs of Hi
nois in 1871 was wrong and unconstftu-
tional, why was the same kind of in
reference not wrong and unconstitu-
-ional in 1894? Perhaps General Palmer
Will explain the difference IN his letter
If acceptance.