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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
TEARS IN POLITICS.

There is something new under the
sun. 1t is tears in politics, To Senator
Cannon of our own state is in large
part due this touching innovation in
our politics. He did the crying act
in a superb manner at st. Louis, in a
manner that Angel Fairbank would
most willingly have paid the full
sixty thousand could Mrs. Garter have
but acquired the art. Seeing that tears
in politics have their uses and are we'll
calculated to add a tender. dramatic in
terest to national conventions, the gold
bugs have adopted them as part of
their paraphernalia. Thus we are in
formed by the dispatches that at the
conference Of goldbugs held in Chicago
at which were present such men as W.
c. Whitney, Ex-Governor Russell, of
Massachusetts; Senator Gray, of Della
ware; W. F. Harrity. Wash Hesing
and others, Colonel John R. Fellows
cried, that tears streamed down his
cheeks. What he was bawling about
no one can tell. But for some reason
his lachrymose glands were surcharg-
ed and it was necessary that they dis
charge themselves.
Tears are a good thing in their flace
and they have their proper uses, the
best of which is to keep clean the eye
balls. They are also good on the stage
and they add an intensity to the part
ing of lovers when the cruel parents
separate them forever, he to go east,
she to go west. Ministers sometimes
cultivate them, as it is believed by
some that they add to <he contribu-
ton box receipts; but crying ministers
are fast going out of fashion. If tears
cannot be made success i'm the pulpit
it is sure they cannot upon the politi-
cal platform. A sniveling minister
is a contemplate thing; a sniveling
politician is a despicable thing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
THE CONFEDERATE vErER ANS.

The Confedera te veterans have been
| having a grand reunion at Richmond,
the capital of the old Confederacy.
! Throughout the whole country there
has not been raised one word of con-
| demnation of that great gathering Of
| brave and honest men. Their reunion
was that Of brothers who had fought
for a lost cause, a, cause in which they
sincerely believed at the time. The
Union veterans and all the people of
the land honor the Confederate vete-
rams for honoring their dead. The
memories of the great struggle on
either side make the country dearer
to all.
In responding to the address of well
come General Gordon said, in speaking
of the legacy which the Confederate
veterans would leave to their people
and children:
"On the other hand, no popular as
semblies of intelligent and high-spir-
jted citizens in the worlds posteTity
were freer from partisan zeal or self
seeking spirit or ignoble jealousies Or
sinister intent, and the muse of his
tory will yet eInbalm, in one Of her
sweetest stories, the absolutely unset
fish character and exalted aims of
these Confederate gatherings. The pa
thos of that recital will be deepened
by it's simplicity and its beauty,
heightened by the lesson which it will
teach to humanity. That story will
record the simple but sublime truth
that these reunions occurred year af-
ter year; and there comes behind every
stage OF their proceedings the indis-
putable proofs that these broad-minded
men were neither enlbittered nor dis
appointed nor dwarfed by ignoble pas
sions. nor warped by political ambi
tons nor narrowed by sectional preiu-
Cice, nor blinded to the common inter
ests of the country by selfish aims.
but that, made unselfish through suf-
fering, broadened and ennobled by sac
rl1ice. refined and purified in the fires
Of affiiction, they embrace as a brother
every true lover of their country and
acknowledge no suDeriors in devotion
to She common veal and in unfalter-
ing support TO the laws, the flag. the
honor and the freedom of this Ameri
can republic"
How happy the thought that section
alism in our country is dead; that ex-
Union and ex-Confederate soldiers
alike acknowledge and love but one
flag There are no more loyal citizens
in the republic today than the ex-Con-
federates. Their reunion has brought
forth nothing but the kindest comment
from all quarters
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
MAJORITY RULE.

If there is one settled fundamental
principle in American politics it is that
the majority shall rule, no matter how
small it may be. The only place where
this principle does not obtain is in
Democratic national conventions. There
the candidate must nave a two-thirds
vote of the entire convention in order
to be nominated. If there were any
consistency or reason in the rule it
should apply to the adoption of the
platform, but it does not.
The Kansas City Star, discussing the
rule. says that as a matter of fact it
never had any legitimate place in a
Democratic convention. That is true,
and it should be abrogated; that is. it
should not be adopted The Republic
can party ceased to make it the rule
of it's conventions in 1880. 1t is time
the Democratic party did the same
thing. The Star very properly re-
marks:
Ore of the fundamental principles of
the Democratic party is that the ma
jority shall control. The two-thirds
rule is subversive of this principle and
consequently stands as a contradict
ton to the aims and purposes of the
party. The best thought of the party
has been opposed to the rule for years,
but the selfish interests of candidates
and the political pretensions of differ
ent sections have served to prevent it's
ahraEation- -Four years ago it might
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have been eliminated without much
trouble, but the majority in that con-
venrion was so Overwhelming as to
make it Indifferent ON the subject But
this year the lines are more tightly
drawn. and the repeal Of the rule will
be necessary to prevent a deadlock in
the balloting for candidates. To avert
this the majority declares that the rule
must give way. and there is not much
reason to doubt that the purpose will
be fulfilled. as there will be few Demo
Gratis in or out of the convention to
regret IT'S fulfillment
The doing away with the two-thirds
rule in Democratic national conven-
tons IS thing that should be accom-
plished at Chicago. It is a. rule of OBJ
struetion, and nothing more. 1t is the
right of the majority to rule and the
Democratic party should recognize this
fact in the nomination of presidential
candidates. The two-thirds rule should
be sent to the party lumber room forth
with, and without any ado.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
Uintended Humor.

Since wit has been defined by Noah
Webster as the delicious association OF
objects not usually connected, so as to
produce pleasant surprise may not
the pupils of public schools who gave
The following answers TO their exanina-
tlon questions lay claim to it? asks the
Philadelphia American. The record here
given is bona hde, having been read re-
Gently at the graduation exercises of one
of the leading grammar schools OF Bos-
ton:
Who We're the pilgrims?"
ground
Name a domestic animal useful for
clothing and describe its habits
The OK. He don't have any habits, be-
cause he lives in a stable"
II you were travelling across the
desert, where would you choose to rest?'
i would rest on a STOOL
Mention five races of men,"
Men, women, children and babies"
Describe the white race, and show that
it is superior to other races"
"A white man will nod at you when he
meets you on the street."
"Of what is the surface of the earth
composed?'
Dirt and people,
Name a fruit which has its seed on
the outside
"A seed-cake.'
Name five forms of water"
Hot water, cold water, faucet water,
well water and ice-water.''
Name and locate the five senses
The eyes are in the northern part of
the face and the mouth in the southern. +"
Who were the mound builders?"
:, History, cannot answer this question
Science only can"
Define finch and use it in a SEN
tence.''
''Flincn. to shrink. Flannel flinches when
it is washed"
by what is the earth surrounded and
by what is it lighted?"
1T is surrounded by. water and lighted
by gas and electricity
Name six animals of the arctic
zone.
'Three polar bears and three seals"
what is yeast?"
Yeast is a vegetable flying about in the
air, hitching itself onto anything"
why do you open the hampers in a
stove when lighting a fire."
ITO let the oxygen in and the nitrogen
out"
What did the constitution do for the
country?"
ut gave the president a head
What are the last teeth that come to
a MANI"
False teeth"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
TROUBLE THE GOLD CAMP.

There is trouble in the gold camp of
the New York delegation to Chicago.
There are half dozen members of the
delegation who are for silver and who
are giving Hill, Whitney and other
leaders much trouble. The leader Of
these silver men is Mr.. C. L. Lock
wood, of the Thirty-second congress
district, a district where hayseeds
abound. 1t is a district composed of
sixteen wards of the city of Buffalo,
the home and political birthplace of
President Cleveland, the champion of
the gold cause. It is most ominous
too, that the silver sentiment should
be so strong in Erie county. But it
is not confined to this one county in
New York. The Democratic county
convention of Lewis county, which is
part Of the Twenty-fourth congression-
al district, declared for free silver. 1t
startled the gold men Of the state as
much as anything could.
Every effort is being made to break
down Mr. Lockwood. He is being
threatened and henceforth will be a
marked man. Notwithstanding all
this he says he knows now his people
feel on this subject of silve- and he will
stand by them. And while the New
York delegation will vote under the
unit rule he says that when the vote
of his state is called for he will ask that
it be polled.
The gold men at Chicago will have a
herculean task to keep their own ranks
intact without attempting any assault
on the ranks of the silver forces.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

In catarrhal inflammation, in chronic
displacements common to women,
where there are symptoms of back
ache, dizziness or fainting, bearing
down sensations, disordered stomach,
moodiness. fatigue, etc, the trouble is
surely dispellcd and the sufferer
brought back to health and good spir-
it's by the use of DR.. Pierce's Favortte
Prescription. It's the only. medicine
for women's peculiar ailments devised
by a regularly graduated physician
an experienced expert in this special
field of practice, and sold through
druggists. Its sales exceed the COM
bined sales of all other medicines of
its class.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
TALES OF THE DAY.
Pity Him.

Pity Him.
Great drops of perspiration stood on the
young mans brow.
Il have it!' he exclaimed, suddenly,
as way out of his perplexity seemed
to open before him.
But nor he added, despairingly, a
moment later. That will not do,
either!"
He rose and walked to the window.
The gay, thoughtless multitude passing
and repassing outside, intent upon its
own pleasures and. oblivious of the suf-
fering, the heartache and the desolation
that blight so many human lives, seemed
merely TO mocken his misery and deepen
the gloom that pervaded the apartment.
He turned away from the window with
'groan, threw himself into a chair,
leaned YEARLY on the little table in
front of him and buried his face in his
hands.
81 cannot! o, 1 cannotr he muir
INJURED, IN broken voice. Il give it
up!'
He was campaign poet, trying to
find a rhyme for Mckinley and Ho-
bart.'-Chicago Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
A GoLDBuG BOLT THREATENED.

Signs are not wanting that the gold
men in the Chicago convention may
bolt in the event of the adoption of a
free silver platform and the naming Of
a free silver man upon it. Ex-Gov-
ernor Roswell P. Flower, of New York,
has no hesitation in saying that if an
out-and-out silver platform is adopted
the gold standard men, "as represent
ing true Democracy" should leave the
convention. Senator Hill would not
commit himself on the question, merely
saying the gold men had several days
in which to work, and things might
change in that time, but Colonel Eel
lows says that if the silver policy pre-
walls the gold men should leave the
convention. other leaders of the party
who favor gold and are absolutely OPP
posed to silver would not say what
they would do. The policy of that was
to avoid stirring up the silver men any
more than can be helped.
The question of bolt by the gold
men having been sprung and discussed,
and some very decided views
III IdNOI VI II having DeSH
expressed, 1t is altogether likely
that the idea will spread. The gold
men may possibly bolt and honestly
think they are UNFOLDING the standard
of true Democracy, but they would be
boilers and would be as much out of
their party as are the Republicans
who bolted the st. Louis convention.
A threatened gold-bug bolt from the
Chicago convention is certainly an in
teresting thing to contemplate. Should
it occur. which we hardly think prob
able, where would the boilers go to?
or would they flock by themselves?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
OUR OWN.
If had known in the morning
How YEARLY all the day,
THE UnrdS 11rLrind

If had known in the morning
How YEARLY all the day,
The words unkind
Would trouble my mind
I said when you went away,
| had been more careful, darling;
Nor given you needless pain;
But we veX our own
With looks and tone
We might never take back again.
For though in the quiet evening
You may give the kiss of peace,
Yet well it might be
That never for me
The pain of heart should cease,
How many go forth in the morning
Who never come home at night;
And hearts have broken
From harsh words spoken,
That sorrow can ne'er set right.
We have careful thought for the stranger
And smiles for the sometime guest,
But oft for our own
The bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best,
Ali lips with the curve impatient;
All brow with the look of Scorn,
'Twere cruel fate
Were the night too late
To undo the work of morn.
Margaret E. Sangster.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

future alliance with the other silver
advocates.
There is a lesson for the ill-advised
friends of Senator Teller. Let them
follow his example and surrender par
tisanship to patriotism. The course
they are pursuing at present is one
well calculated to do great injury to
the silver cause.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

prehension concerning it. People talk
about repeating it,, as if it were an es-
tablshed law of Democracy, always in
force, which requires action by the con-
vention in order to annul it. Nothing
could be farther from the fact. One con-
vention can no more bind another by its
rules for succeeding congress.-Chicago
Times-Herald.
With six, and perhaps ten, Massachu-
sets delegates preparing to vote for free
silver at Chicago, the home missionary
field seems to offer all needed oppor-
tunities for the activity of eastern sound
money men.--New York Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

The Cleveland Plaindealer says: 1.-The
plain issue in the presidential cam
paign this year is, shall gold be the
standard and the only money of final
redemption in the United States, or
shall gold and silver constitute the
standard, with the full legal tender
power, backed By an honest use Of
both metals without discrimination?
That is the issue, the whole issue, and
Nothing but the issue.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Prejudiced and unthinking goldbugs
declare that the advocates OF free sill
yer wish to repudiate their debts and
pay them in ffty-cent dollars. A per-
son who desires TO repudiate his debts
generally does it without the formality
OF offering fifty-cents on the dollar in
payment of them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

j. Sterling Morton, secretary of agri-
culture. says: IF 1 vote for a free
silver Democrat, 1 cast ballot in
favor Of the protection of silver. If I
vote for Mckinley L cast a ballot in
behalf of protection for everything but
silver" Evidently the secretary of
agriculture has reached that stage in
which prayer alone can avail him in
making a choice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

The Detroit Tribune says that the
stiffening Of stocks which was pledged
to follow at once upon a declaration
for gold by the st. Louis convention,
seems to be falling of the sharp. snappy
fielding the Importance of the subject
merits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Senator Teller's friends are telling
how much strength his candidacy as
the Democratic nominee would lend
the party. They overlook the fact that
st might take far more strength from
the party than it could possibly give it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Phoebe Cousins advises the women
to quit trying to reform the world and
turn their attention to the task of pro-
viding homes for themselves. That
suggests very wildly Don Quixote's
awakening from the dreams of knight
errantry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Up in Milwaukee the merchants
frighten robbers away by having Tit
tie German bands" play in front of
their business places. What effect
these bands have upon customers is
not stated
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

The gentleman who is going to con-
duct a balloon expedition to the
north pole couldn't have more pro-
pitious weather than what we now
have. North pole weather would
really be a relief.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Mr.. Mckinley yesterday virtually told
the country that new tariff will restore
prosperity, and that a Republican vic
what way does he expect a new tariff
bill to reach him? He knows that the
silyerites will hold the senate for the
next two years at least. He knows that
through six years ago until he yielded
them the ransom of the silver purchase
act.-New York Evening Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Mckinley dlslikes to speak of and
acknowledge the existence Of the 1nan-
cial issue as much as a millionaire dis
likes to speak to and acknowledge a
poor relation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

John r. Mclean has opened head
quarters in Chicago but his friends are
not doing much active work yet. They
are pursuing the wise course, as all
Of their work in his behalf would be
lnct
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
- :, :,
% llr

Stomach, sometimes called waterbrash,
and burning pain, distress, nausea,
dyspepsia, are cured by Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. This it accomplishes because
with its wonderful power as blood
purifier, Hoods Sarsaparilla gently
tones and strengthens the stomach and
digestive organs, invigorates the liver,
creates an appetite, gives refreshing
sleep, and raises the health tone. In
cases of dyspepsia and indigestion it
seems to have Z" a magic touch"
For over IL years suffered from sour
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

At the meeting OF the gold men in
conference in Chicago Colonel John R.
Fellows solemnly declared: Il am a
Democrat" Senator Hill must have
made the phrase over to Fellows.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Mr.. Whitney and the five hundred
leading Democrats who go with him to
Chicago are going there not for the
purpose of leading but of misleading.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Chicago hotel men are making no
objection to having their bills paid in
silver, but make sure that they are
getting hundred-cent dollars by doub-
ling their prices.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Everyone declares that the carnival
was a great success. And so it was.
There was nothing to mar the harmony
and pleasure Of the whole affair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

There viii be no post-convention con-
troversy as to who wrote the gold
plank in the Chicago platform. 1t
WON'T be there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Just wait until the Democratic con-
vention puts forth its free silver plat
form and there will be another de-
claration of independence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Mckinley is said to be receiving 1000
letters per day, which means that his
candidacy is worth $40 day to the gov
eminent In the matter of postage.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

A Chicago physician claims that
prunes are a specific for nervousness,
Here is a case where the remedy is
much worse than the disease.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Mrs. Carter, it is said has INDUCED
much in bicycling since the trial in which
she appeared. Conspicuous in her make
up are the two long strands of plated
red hair, by means of which Mr.. Belasco
was accustomed to enforce his lessons
Her golden hair was hanging down her
bike.'-Boston Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Because no word has been found to
rhyme with Mckinley may account for
the great discord in the Republican
party in New York.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

1t was a grand parade yesterday,
but we should have liked to have seen
a float representing Coin Harvey's
composite cabinet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Burchard Hayes is at Canton. O.,
resting quietly 1t IS doubtful if Nc
Kinley is, as he may fear that he, too,
will be Burchardized.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Another Hermans has been caught in
idaho hermans himself is becoming
as numerous as MS supposed victims.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

II we had as much money as Mr..
Whitney has. we shouldn't care a cent
whether it was cheap or dear.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Senator Cannon cries at ST. Louis;
Colonel John f. Fellows cries at Chi
cago. 1t will certainly be known in
history as the crying evil.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

England is said to fear Mckinley.
Presumably il is because Of his strik-
ing resemblance to Napoleon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Pennoyer will please take notice that
there is all the difference in the world
between Oregon pine and presidential
timber.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

There is no rhyme in McKinley's
candidacy whether or not there be
reason in il.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

The Chicago hotel men are not refus-
ing to take the silver dollars of the
silver men.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Of course. Billy" Russell will not
be candidate at Chicago. He knows
beans when the bag is open.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Two tramps were tarred and feathered
by q Minnesota mob Tuesday. One of
them was guilty of fighting with a
farmer the other was innocent of any
misconduct. Evidently these southern
outrages ought TO be stopped kansas
City Times
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

How is it that the weakest men often
make the strongest candidates?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

Much as has been written about the
''two-thirds rule of Democratic conven-
tons, there still seems to be some misap-