The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-27

ence was not. That was demonstrated
when Booth attempted what would
have been designated as a piece of sar-
casm, by declaring that he was in ia
Tor of inserting the name of Bryan in
the platform. He ran against a snag
right then and there. The galleries and
the Salt Lake, Sewer and Wayne dele
cations took the matter up and cheered
tie standard bearer of Democracy for
ten minutes. Booth thought to carry
out his idea and then added Sewall.
This brought the house down again
and some of the gold delegates shouted
20 have the galleries cleared. But the
people kept it up until finally Booth
mentioned the name of Watson. Hes
better than Mckinley yelled fifty
voices. and Watson came in for an ova-
ton Then Booth advocated going over
TO the democratic party and to his sur
prise this was appiauded to the echo.
FINALLY the would-be statesman sat
down IN disgust
me convention was marred by some
Oh the most disgracefui scenes with
winch were ever permitted on the floor.
Inc sergeant-at-arTns did all in one
mans power to preserve order, but
could not hold the delegates down. The
! presence of ladies was no restraint to
the warning factions. and all dignity
was forgotten. Several times the Wig
orous efforts of GoodseH alone prevent
I ed collisions and even at that Lindsay
Rogers came in for a crack over the
head at the hands Of one of the men,
| bers from this city.
Some Of the Mckinley men worked
! hard to compass the defeat of Holbrook
in the convention. but could not. Every
trick known to them was tried, but
failed. But the result will be the same
salt Lake county would have bolted
had not Holbrook been selected. Now
that he is selected, nearly all of the
Mckinley Republicans will bolt Lind
say Rogers and John z. Booth 50 an
nounced ere they left the convention
| hall. Dozens of the Mckinley men de-
ciared they would not vote at all for
congressman. 1t was the threat of Salt
Lake to bolt which caused the nomiG-
alton Of Ho-brook. Otherwise some of
the weak sisters would have gone to
Booth
It must be confessed that the silver
men are not enthusiastic over the Sc
lection of the mayor of Provo. His
speech after his selection was the weak
est ever made by any candidate any
where. He attempted to say some thing,
but made a miserable failure. Every
member of the convention felt an ache
of sympathy Cor the man who was IN
dertaking q task which he was utterly
incompetent to fill. He did not touch
on d single live issue. and the 12-year-
old school ooy who could not handle
himself better than did Holbrooi1 would
be marked deficient by the sorriest
school maiam in the land
Arthur Brown, the permanent chair
man, tried for harmony, when he saw
how matters were going. He voted for
Holbrook. Two or three times he
gave the silver men the best of his rul-
ings, to the manifest disappointment
CT the goldbugs. of whom he is the pat
ron saint. Brown is q. good chairman,
and it is due to his efforts that the
convention got through without Kill
kenny fight.
George NJ. Cannon proved an enigma.
to all present. He declared he was go
ing to vote for Bryan, but believed the
election Of Mckinley was assured, and
that prosperity woTid follow his cleo
ton Later ne explained thar he be-
lieved more prosperity would follow the
election of Bryan, and thus saved HIM
self from being laughed at.
Arthur L. Thomas was not there. Ar
thur is a. qritter. lie gave his proxy
to John E. Dooly and thus escaped.
Secretary Of State Hammond did
much toward securing harmony and
the election of HoLDrook. Although he
did not accomplish much in his own
county, in others he made his influence
felt. To Hammond, Holbrook owes
much.
3 diagram of the proceedings OF the
convention resembles the following pen
Gil description:
A number of the Salt Lake delegation.
among them John Henry Smith and
George M. and Angus NJ. Cannon, came
up on the Union Pacific train and
from the time the party left until Ogden
was reached, this eminent trio labored
for Harmony and Eolbrook." John
Henry wasn't as enthusiastic as he
might have been along at first, and
talked in a listless sort Of way about
his friend Holbrook," but George NJ. |
switched him into line by declaring that
he must be more emphatic in his de- |
cIarations.
Speak with your old-time vigor and
VIM said George. hitting j. H. on his
chest protector by way of admonition. |
Let 'em know where you are at by !
telling them you cannot accept under /
any circumstances and that you want !
harmony. Give it to EN- strong" and |
John Henry said he would.
This was enough for George NJ. and
in a short space of time every man
on the train knew that John Henry had
declined all honor in the interest of har-
mony.
At first the delegates would not be- /
lie.e it, but whenever George NJ. found |
q doubling Thomas. he damned him up
against John Henry and gave him the
proof.
ARRIVAL AT OGDEN.
The Rio Grande Western brought up
the larger portion Of the Salt Lake I
contingent and the delegates from the 1