The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-11

for it is certainly an important feature
OF the candidates vote winning equip
ment.
Major McKiniey's smile is sedate and
unassuming. He may laugh aloud in
private life, but in public his pleasure
is only shown in quiet way. The ma
jors eyes smile first and then the
laugh creeps down to his mouth. The
dimale in his chin becomes more pro-
nounced and the lines running down
each side of his mouth assume d hu-
morous twist. Major Mckinley friends
say that he has a lively sense OF the
humorous, and phrenologists who claim
to have applied their science to his
Uranium supstantiate the assertion. But
while the bumps on his head may indi-
cate this, he seldom shows it; but per
kaps mis- merriment is OF the internal
kina-
TIE LOUD HA-HA.
The majors immediate rival, William
Jennings Bryan, has laugh which is
nos easily concealed. The poet who
wrote something about 'The Merry
4a-ha' mus have had in mind a man
whose laugh IS akin 10 that of Mr.. 8ry-
ans. Mr.. Bryan has many different
kinds of smiles, but there are two in
which he generally INDUCES when on
the stump. One is Silent affair and
the other is the reverse.
The silent smile is of brief duration.
IL is generally called into life when some
one in the audience which ne is address
ing calls out a humorous remark. This
smile takes in the whole of the candi-
dates face. 1t almost closes his eyes
and curves his mouth upward at the
corners until that feature is nearly
crescent shaped. 1t sticks dimples in
his cheeks and plants curious little
wrinkles in his forehead. There is no
sound but the evident lnerriment ma Ae5
that unnecessary.
AN CLD-FASHIONED LAUGH.
His other indication Of happiness is
a regular old-faShioned laugh in which
''ha-ha's,' ''he-Ae's,'" ''uh-uh's," and
"eh-ohs' rule supreme. This laugh is
never INDUCED in on the platform, but
is reserved for conferences with his
travelling companions and campaign
managers. This laugh belongs TO that
class generally described as contagious.
If il rings out in a railroad car all
of the other passengers turn around
and unconsciously smile, although they
haven't the faintest idea of what the
laugh is about.
Mr. Sewall of Maine has what might
be called a staid smile. The best story
teller in the world might relate to him
the funniest tale ever composed. and
its effect on the candidate would be in
Intestinal Mr.. Sewalrs face would
soften the least bit, there would be a
slight trembling of his mustaehe. his
massive chin would tilt upwards and
he would say Yes, yes
Mr.. Sewall has been described as a
man whose sole occupation is his bust
ness responsibilities, never uttering an
unnecessary word and being abrupt.
terse and emphatic This may account
for his slender stock of mirthful indul-
gence.
Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey is
the best smiler of the lot Whether
this is the result Of living in New Jer-
sey, or Of a natural inclination to take
a pleasant view of everything which
comes along, is question. At any rase
he is smiling most of the time. Even
when news is brought to him of chang
ed conditions in a section which had
been regarded as safe for his party,
Mr.. Hobart takes the matter smilingly.
Like his companion on the ticket, he
laughs with his eyes, wrinl1ling them
up. His heavy mustache acts as a
shield for his mouth, but his chin oscil-
la1es, his cheeks swell out and he chuck