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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
SENATOR TELLER ENDORSED.

The Republican convention for the
at Pueblo endorsed Senator Teller and
asked him to lead the Colorado dele
cation to st. Louis. The platform en-
dorses his course on the silver ques-
ton and his stand and actions in the
senate on the tariff, in maintaining
that no tariff legislation should be
passed by congress until silver is re-
stored to it's proper place in the cur
rency of the country, and there is free
coinage of that metal at the ratio of
16 to 1.
Such an endorsement of his course
must be eminently satisfactory to the
Colorado champion of silver for that
course has been open and manly, with
no attempt to conceal his views.
Every delegate to the Pueblo conven-
ton knew his stand. Only last Tuesday
a letter from Senator Teller to Chair
man Howbert was published in the
Denver papers in which he again de-
fined his position. That position was
defined in this language:
I wish to say to the state conven-
ton, through you, that do not desire
to go to the national convention, and
cannot go unless the state convention
is in accord with my ideas in declaring
that in the coming campaign the sill
yer question is the paramount issue
The state convention should act with
the full knowledge that L do not intend
to support candidate on gold stand
ard platform, or on a platform of
doubtful construction. If this course
puts me out of sympathy with the Re-
publican sentiment Of the state, as a
portion of the Republican press alleges
it will. l accept that result with all it's
logical consequences in preference to
an abandonment of principles and stul-
tifcation of my record made, as 1 con-
ceive under the instructions of every
Republican convention held in Colorado
during the last twelve years.
There is no equivocation there, no att
tempt to straddle; it is as square up
and down as it is possible for language
to be.
Senator Wofcott did very polite
thing when he sent a telegram declin-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

The Chicago Chronicle directs atten-
ton to the fact that both the president
and vice-president of the United States
may be elected from the same state,
| though this is, as it says, contrary to
the popular opinion. 1t then quotes
the provision in the constitution gov
erning the matter. It is found in the
twelfth amendment and reads:
The electors shall meet in their re-
spective states and vote by ballot for
president and vice-Dresident, one of
whom at least shall not be an inhabit-
ant Of the same state with themselves;
they shall name in their ballots the
person voted for as president and in
distinct ballots the person voted for as
vice-president"
The practice has always been to
take the president and vice-president
from different states, and from states
widely separated geographically, the
geographical reason really being politi-
cal and to satisfy different sections of
the country
The truth of the matter is that the
electors in every state in the Union,
save the two from which the president
and vice-president are nominated, vote
for inhabitants of other states than
their own
If both candidates hailed from the
same state only the electors of that
state would have to vote for candi-
date for one Or the other of the offices
from another state. This would cause
that state to lose its electoral vote as
to one Office, which it could we'll afford
to do when it would thereby secure
both a president and vice-president
There is little likelihood that it will
be attempted to make these possibili-
ties actualities. but no constitutional
provision stands in the way No state
will feel that it is so flush with great
men that it can demand both Offices
Nor will the greatest of these great
men care tc imperil his chances for
nomination for first place by trying to
seize everything for his state. Policy,
if not magnanimity, would dictate
that he avoid any such attempt. Crate
full as Mckinley must feel to Mark
Hanna, still his gratitude is not likely
to take the form OF asking his party
to give Mark a '1eg" up behind him.
Mckinley is no hog though he is a
citizen of pork-pacl1ing Ohio.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
NEW RAYS.


Will men still say the light is good,
When, thrown on living flesh and blood,
1t shows skeleton revealed?
We aye have loved the softened rays
Which will not let us see too much,
But wrap, as in a kindly blaze,
The things that shrink from human
touch
We hide our skeletons away
part,
And shut them from the light of day
Within the twilight of the heart.
And all the wrongs that shock and shame
Our tender feeling or our pride
The sullied honor, furnished name
In dim forgetfulness we hide.
But now we dread lest some fierce beam
And make us look where only seem
Unlovely relics of our love.
And yet, it may be, we were wise
To welcome each new ray of light
And face with frank, courageous eyes
What now we bury out of sight.
'Tis not, perchance, true self-control,
Nor any part of charity,
To shut the windows of the soul
'Gainst all we do not choose TO see.
New light which shines on earth, may
tell
How brighter rays, which shine above,
Can touch the lowest depths of hell,
Yet touch with tender tints of love
Chambers Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
MOSES rHArcHER,s CONSISTENCY

AT that Logan high council meeting
Joseph F. Smith paid Hon. Moses
Thatcher as high a compliment as it
was in his power to. Mr. Smith said
that all through the political fight in
Utah Mr.. Thatcher had been the one
apostle who had refused to take counsel
as to how the people should be divided
up. He further stated that when the
first presidency and twelve had decided
upon certain policy to get the relief
they needed from the government, Mr..
Thatcher had stood out against them.
All know what that plan was. 1t was,
according to Mr.. Smith, to turn Utah
over to the Republican party, TO show
that party there We're more Republi-
cans in the territory than it thought
there were. This arrangement, said
Mr.. Smith, was made with the late
James G. Blaine, the late Senator Stan
ford and Thomas B. Reed. And Moses
Thatcher refused to be a party to any
such Infamous deal He took the de-
clarations made by his fellow religion
lists to mean what they said, he took
them to be honest and he acted upon
them as an honest man. He refused
to be party to the plan to divide"
the people of his church up like so
many sheep, to be put into this corral
or that corral as the dicBer for the day
might be. And because he did, because
he was true in politics and refused to
play the part of a hypocrite, Joseph F.
Smith says he stood out against his
brethren. All honor to him, for he
stood for truth and integrity, for the
right of the people to be free and I'M
trammeled in their political affairs.
And this man is one whom the Demo-
cratic party named as its choice for
United States senator from Utah. 1t
is proud of him, prouder of him today
than it has been in the past, if that
could be. He is man, he is a Demo-
crat, he is an American.
Mr.. Thatcher's health is far from
good, though mending somewhat, and
he has to husband all the strength of
that .frail body which holds his great
soul and his party desires that he
should and will ask no effort from
him. The Democratic state conven-
ton meets on the 9Th of June to elect
six delegates to the Chicago conven-
ton. Let the state convention name
as the leader of the Democratic dele
cation Moses Thatcher, with the right
to name his alternate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
ELECTRICITY FOR RAILROADS.

1t is not at all improbable that in the
not distant future electricity will sup
plant steam as the motive power on
railroads. Everything seems to tend
that way. The electrical engineer of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad says: I'm five years we may
be running into New York from Boston
| behind electric locomotives" I'VE be-
| lieve," says the master mechanic of the
Pennsylvania railroad, that inside of
five years the greater part of the entire
| Pennsylvania system will be operated
by electric locomotives
These are the opinions of men who
are practical before ,all things else.
They are neither dreamers nor theor-
lists, but men whose every day life is
study of the problem of power for the
purposes of transportation on railroads.
OF the successful operation of street
cars by electricity there is no longer
any question. Why cannot it be as
| successfully applied to railroads?
If an announcement from Boston be
worth anything, the whole problem is
about to be solved. This announcement
is that DR.. William w. Jacques, an
electrician and chemist off that city,
has discovered how to generate cleo
tricity directly from coal In his appli-
cation for a patent he says: 81 have
discovered that if oxygen, whether pure
or diluted as in air, be caused to COM
bine with carbon or carbonaceous ma
terials. not directly, as in combination,
but through an intervening electrolyte,
the potential energy of the carbon may
be converted directly into electrical en-
ergy instead of into heat
For some years past Edison has been
working on this same problem, and he
is not a man to devote his time and
energies to problem in which there
is nothing. He has maintained that
electricity would yet be generated di-
rectly from coal and that when the dis
covery was made few bushels of coal
would drive the largest vessels aaoat
across the Atlantic at the same or
greater speed than they are now
driven.
Has DR.. Jaques made this discovery?
1t does not seem nearly so impossible
as that men should look through the
human body and photographs be taken
through solid substances; yet within
six months all this has been done.
Truly there are more things in heaven
and earth than are dreamed of in our
philosophy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.

The senate Wednesday passed
the river and harbor bill. 1t
carries with it an aggregate
appropriation of $4,000, OOO Dur
ing the debate upon it the fact was
developed that it is the largest river
and harbor appropriation bill ever
passed. There is no necessity for any
such an appropriation at this time. In
the past these river and harbor bills
have been looked upon as the great
opportunity to do something for every
congressman district. Their purpose
has largely been to debauch voters with
public money. Every section of the
of this money and has not failed to
put forth some specious argument why
it should have an appropriation. The
case is we'll frustrated in the remarks
of Senator Bate of Tennessee. He had
sought to secure an increase from $780,
600 to S250.000 for the Improvement of
the Cumberland river in Tennessee He
stated that while he approved of econ
omical appropriations, yet it was hard
ly to be expected that he would stand
by and see people getting whole loaf
and he not getting slice. He was
right, and put the whole case in
nutshell. If in this saturnalia of river
and harbor appropriations he is to have
the biggest favors who has the biggest
voice, then every one will yell as loud
as possible.
Senator Germans remark that ne he
were secretary of war he would apply
the rule suggested by Senator Sherman
OF not obligating the government for
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

one dollar of these contracts until
congress made provision for revenues
to meet them, is the only true rule to
be followed in making appropriations.
When there is an appropriation made
for any purpose whatever, provision
should be made to raise the revenue to
meet it. if the revenue is not already
ample for this purpose.
This congress has been called the
do-nothing congress. In the matter of
appropriations it bids fair to out-do all
other congresses.
1t ignores the fact that already the
governments revenues are inadequate
to meet its expenditures. Its appro-
priations are made on the theory that
everything will come out all right no
matter what congress does or what
the state of the revenue is.
If this bill reaches President Cleve-
land he should veto it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
addressed letters to all the members of
the Republican national committee
stating that McKinley's nomination is
conceded and asking if they had any
preference for vice-president. With the
exception of three preferences for Ho-
bart, of New Jersey, they all favored
Thomas B. Reed for vice-president.
That is only the preference of the Re
publican national committeeman, but
it may be taken as a very good indi
cation of the choice of the party. At
ter Mckinley he is certainly the most
prominent of all the presidential candi-
dates in his party. 1t is not to be eX-
pected that he will consent to accept
second place on the ticket before the
first one is filed, for certain as it
seems now that Mckinley will be nomi-
mated, something may happen to pre-
vent, while it may be set down as sure
that if he is not nominated on the
first ballot he will not be at ALL Then
would come Reeds chance and he will
not be disposed to surrender that
chance until it has ceased to be. When
that time comes he will do wisely to
accept the second place if it is the
strong desire of the convention that he
should, and there is no great fight for
it. 1t will be for him the flood tide. If
he neglects to take advantage of it, it
will never come again.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Police Captain Donovan was run into
and knocked down by a bicyclist We'd
nesday. The captain was not seriously
hurt but his uniform was badly dam
aged. People are frequently run into
and knocked down by bicyclists on the
sidewalks When such cases occur the
riders are invariably going two or three
times faster than the city ordinance
permits when passing pedestrians, and
usually as fast again as the law per-
mlts them TO ride on the sidewalks.
If there was more attention paid to
enforcing the bicycle ordinance there
would be fewer accidents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
THAT GIRL.

Somewhere upon this continent there
dwells a maiden rare,
A girl quite different from the rest q hope
that she is fair),
And as L know it has not been my lot to
meet her yet,
They say that there awaits for me some
girl I've never met.
Somewhere for me her heart beats warm,
there's wftchery in her eye;
For me, they say, the chosen girl casts
many Su;tors by;
For me her life is pure and true because
OF love and long devotion from the man
she has not met.
If this be true, this girl of mine unknown
though pure and true,
But knowing has the purest love that
maiden ever knew,
And if for me she sometimes longs with
unrequited tears,
Some day she'll know, when we have met,
she's had my love for years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

1t has been proposed by several news
papers, now that Cripple Creek is to be
rebuilt, that it might find a more eu-
phonious name. 1t is not believed that the
people of that community will pay any
attention to these suggestions. Cripple
Creek may not be euphonious, but it is
distinctive and attracts vastly more at
tention than if it was more pleasing to
the ear. 1t singles out the great Colorado
mining camp from all other localities and
gives it place on the map which is
wholly its own. Oreville or Paramount or
Hillsdale would be ''prettier than Grip
pie Creek, but what would either of them
n?-Kansas City Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

ing to permit his name to be considered
in electing delegates. saying he was
too good Republican to wish to
create any division in his party in
Colorado. 1t was a shrewd move and
will make him more friends in his
party than anything else he could have
done Then if there is a bolt at ST.
Louis he is saved the necessity of de-
Gliding between his party in his state
and his party in the nation.
Senator Teller's triumph has been
signal, and he is to be congratulated
upon it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Senator Brown voted against the
river and harbor appropriation bill He
was the only Republican who did vote
against 1t and he is the only Repub-
lican who was not willing to sacrifice
the treasury to PARTISAN exigencies. He
was more Democratic than those Demo-
Gratis who voted for it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Jack Trice. the Florida negro who
fought and stood off fifteen white reg
uHators." Qncluding the town marshaD
or ruffians rather, who were bent upon
regulating his fcurteen-year-old son,
killing two of them and mortally
wounding another and seriously
wounding another. did his duty as a
father and a citizen. These ''regula-
tors" are generally nothing but MUIR
derers in disguise. Their ostensible
object is nothing but a pretext for in
duleing in wanton brutality. Trice and
his son are being pursued by blood
hounds and an angry mob. 1t is the
Duty OF the gove~nor of Florida to pro-
Eect that man and his SON.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Don NJ. Dickinson denies that Presi-
dent Cleveland has written him letter
saying he viii not be a candidate for
the Democratic nomination at Chicago.
1t was scarcely necessary as it is gen.
orally believed that Mr. Cleveland
thinks the latch string still hangs out
for him. Herein he is much mistaken.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Baby Mckee is i'll with what is
thought to be pneumonia. All will
wish him restored to full health, but
the announcement of his illness has
ceased to have any political or other
interest for the public.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Asked if he thought Mckinley would
be nominated, Chauncey NJ. Depew an
swered: Meeting is never out until
the last hymn is sung But this seem
ingly neglects to take notice of the fact
that all the preaching has been done
before the last hymn is sung.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Wyoming Republicans place tariff
above silver as being of first import
ance. They are in full harmony with
the great majority of their party on
this important question.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

while not wishing to throw the slight
ters," wrote the editor of the Podunk
Paralyser, honesty compels us to say
that the lay of the hen is much more
popular in this office than the lay of
rhe spring poet."-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

The Correspondence Militaire of
Madrid says if America wants war
she must have it, If Spain wants to
have a good licking, and lose Cuba into
the bargain, all she needs is to have
war with America
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

His Honor-This is the tenth time
you've been before this court, prisoner?
Prisoner know it, sir. Fact is. I'm
fond of vaudeville, your honor, and I'm
too poor to pay my way into the theater,
so l come here. You're the funniest old
codger I've ever seen doing turn.-Har-
Der'S BaZar
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

In deciding to postpone the execution OF
the American subjects captured on board
the Competitor Spain has taken the wise
course. No doubt the action will abate
the rising excitement in congress and
quell to certain extent the ferocity of
the Spaniards themselves. The case will
be delayed until the United States govern
ment can present and secure considera-
ton for its claims under the treaty of
1895 and the protocol of 1ST.-Chicago Re-
cord
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Quay's friends are not dismayed
How can people be dismayed who never
did have any genuine, honest faith in
their hero's candidacy?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Just ninety years ago today, on May s,
1906, died Robert Norris merchant and
banker the financer OF the American
revolution In recalling the individual
men who seem to have been most indis-
pensable to the achievement of independ-
ence, the student of history must join
with the heroic persistence of Washing
ton and the shrewd diplomacy of Frank
lin the financial skill and courage of Nor
ris, without which it is impossible to be-
lieve that the revolution would not have
collapsed midway.-Philadelph Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

What, then, will occur if the Democrats
adopt a free silver platform, and make
nomination consistent Herewith? We
shall be able to congratulate Governor
Mckinley most heartily on the great
honor OF presidential nomination. 1t
will be joy to US that the Republicans
have taken one OF their best men. But
election day will close the presidential in
cident in Mckinley's life. The only hope
for bimetallism is through the Democratic
party.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Regarding how the Michigan conven-
ton was manipulated. the Missouri
senator put Don NJ. Dickinson in his
Vest pocket.
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soaIE EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

The Indiana Republicans have a strange
shall we do with our ex-presidents?' The
Hoosiers have not only Inundated the ex
president, but they rubbed the humiliation
in by handing the state over to the man
who attempted to betray Harrison at
Minneapolis.-NeW York Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Do the Allison managers expect to
catch any delegates with lucent cots
and 25-cent meals?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

The chief need for the Republican
convention 20 meet al st. Louis is to
name a candidate for president.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

In Colorado the rainfall has been be-
low normal Hereabouts in Utah it has
been abnormal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Edwin Gould promises to make it in
teresting for the match trust. He may
find that he is no match for the trust
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

The total surplus created by the
Mckinley act was $49,495,979; the total
deficit was S72, OOO,O 900, leaving net
deficit of s22,5O4O21. Do the Republi-
cans who are shouting for Mckinley
want to re-enact this deficit producer
and commence destroyer?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

What's in a name? When it is Nc
Kinley it looks like there was nomi-
nation in it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
z or Shine

great past week
here just the
well
unshiny We
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

Jameson's raid and England's atti-
tude towards the same may be sum-
med up in three words: Invasion, ova-
tion evasion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

So long as SO many are vouching
for his financial views Mckinley thinks
there is no occasion for him to speak
out in meeting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15
The members of the New York polio

force are in trouble by reason of Jasper
sions on their parts of speech. That is
to say, they have been officially notified
that they must quit writing nab pulp
pants when they mean trousers, in
their official reports. This may be re-
garded as the latest effort to boom New
York over Boston as literary CENTER
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

The Anneke Jams heirs are said to
be getting UP a button They need to
as they are all short a button.