The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-01

that very nearly the same conditions
exist in each of these three states, and
that the indications in one will point
the direction of the others.
There are a number of Mrs. Bryan's
| Lincoln friends who would like to
spend election day with her, but the
! house party will be small, owing 10
| the limited accommodations. Besides
| the three children, from little Grace
who has not yet seen her 4th birthday
and in consequence has but hay idea
! of the whole matter, to William, who
| viii soon be 6, and Ruth, who has all
| the wisdom of II years, have been
promised permission to sit up until
! they know whether they are going to
| the White House to be the first chill
dren of the land. or to remain at Lin
coin as the children of a plain Ameri-
| can citizen.
THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL WIVES.
OF course the wives of the vice pres
ldential candidates are just as anxious
to know what fate will bring them on
election day as the wives of the men
who are trying for the highest posi-
ton in the land. Mrs Hobart, the
wife of McKinley's running mate, has
followed every move in the campaign
closely and knows quite as much about
the condition of affairs as her husband
Besides Mrs. Hobart has a hereditary
love OF politics, her father having al
ways lived in political atmosphere
In event of Republican success, many
OF the duties of the first lady of the
land VIII devolve upon Mrs. Hobart.
by reason of Mrs McKinley's invalid
ism, and this makes the contest all
the more interesting to the wife of the
New Jersey statesman.
The imposing home of the Robarts
at Paterson will be connected by wire
with the New York headquarters and
news VIII be licked off a few seconds
after its arrival at the latter place !
MRS. Hobart says that she will know all
about II by O'Clock in the evening. |
because she knows the condition IN |
every county in the middle west states. |
and when the first two or three reports |
come IN she can use them as an indi- |
cation OF how-the others are going.
Mrs. Sewall, the wife of the Maine
shlpbu1lder, is the least concerned of
all the candidates wives. Politics are
not to her liking. and if she could have
her way, her husband would never
have entered the campaign. She breads
publicity, and if the fates should call
MI Sewan to Washington. Mrs SewalI
will take little part in the social life
or the capital. Her health is not of
the best, and for some years she has
llVeo quite a secluded life in her great
at Bath
But Mrs. Sewall is interested in the
outcome OF the campaign. and, while
IL VIII not cause her a particle of dis
tress on her own account should her
suffer defeat. she is too good
a wife not to feel anxious. A tele
graph wire connected with headouar-
tiers OF press association will carry
I me news to the Sewall home, and Mrs.
SeWal has announced her intention of
keeping track of the returns until the
question is settled.
Mrs. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia
IS TOO good politician to count upon
her husbands election. but she is am
lous to know how strong the PopuIist
party IS, and she will sit up all night
receiving the returns over the tele
phone. Mrs. Watson is as sturdy
Populist asher husband and has taken
part in numberless confabs of the lead
ers of the party
Mrs Simon Bolivar Buckner is hone
-ul that her husband viii make a gal
ant showing in Kentucky, and Mrs
John M. Palmer is anxious that her
husband should do well in Illinois
Aside from this the expectations of
hese wives are small.