The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-21

William Mckinley, president of the
United States, has snubbed the Repub-
lican committee of the state of Utah.
He. has virtually informed them they
can get themselves to a nunnery. or do
any Old thing; that when he wants to
appoint a man to place here he will
appoint him, and that settles it.
The receipt of this infor ~ ton has
caused a large COB of gloom to rest over
the city for several days. Several have
attempted TO attribute it to the burn
ing Of leaves: hazy weather, etc, but
that is an excuse so lame it ought to be
provided with crutches.
It's a sad tale, but it must be told,
else people would not know how it
happened, so here goes for the lachry-
NOSE details:
The committee held a meeting several
days ago. In fact, it is almost weeks
ago. AT that assembling the question
Of federal appointments came UP. The
committee, Which has not agreed on
any one thing since it was organized,
this time came together with q celebrity
| remarkable in the extreme. With one
| accord each member raised his voice in
dent of the United States, was not do
ing his duty by the party in this state.
/ Having arrived at this happy con-
clusion, the committee next considered
what was best TO do. and again all
! hands united in vociferating for some
| thing. 1t was finally decided to pro-
! test.
| The secretary put a new pen in the
! holder aid a fresh bottle of ink was
! obtained from some place and then,
on the stationery which the committee
used one year ago, when Bryan carried
! the state, a vigorous kick was formu-
lated and translated into the idioms of
English.
The document set UP, among other
things. that whereas. the party in Utah
has no one man upon whom it can look
as a leader, q. Moses, or whatever other
synonym for boss there is in the die
tiOnary, ergo, if any advice was 10 be
given, the committee should be consult
ed and its decision should be final.
The committee also set up that
whereas. it was DESTROYS of reorganiZ-
ing the scattered cohorts of Republi-
caniSm; getting together the little
Spartan bands which are camping here
and there over the broad political plains
Of Utah it would have a little pap to
distribute; and whereas the appoint
ments which were being made were Of
men foreign to this neck of the woods,
q change would have to take place, else
the enemy's cavalry would roam unmo-
Tested. an6 the small bodies OF Would-be
Republicans could never unite Tor eff
fective work.
The communication to the president
did not set FORTH any direct protests
against any one, but the cases of Judge
Blair aud II. n. NcGrew were incident
ally alluded to, and it was admitted
that no more had breaks on the part
of the administration should be indulg-
ed in, lest disaster swoop down upon
all the host with The result that. like
those OF Sennacheri5, when they arose
early in the morning, behold, they were
ali dead corpses.
IN me, the committee suggested it
be permitted to pass upon all applica-
tons and that every appointment made
in the future, even to the small post
Offices, should be Placed n its hands.
Having performed t;ls meritorious
piece OF composition. the committee
once more agreed. 4 was unanimous
in huggfng itself ara Saying that the
round robin was a good thing.
Next came the question: How shall
we send this to the president? Some one
suggested a two cent stamp, but his
suggestion was frowned down. as saw
oring too much of cheapness, where
upon the astonished member imme-
diately corrected himself and declared
that TO show Mckinley this committee
was no Cheap John affair, two stamps,
or maybe three, might be placed on the
envelope. He even went so far as to
offer to furnish the stamps.
He was finally made to understand
that the question of stamps did not
cut any figure. That he might lick
stamps till the cows came home and
paste them all over the eDistle, front
and back, and tie on a whole sheet in
addition, but that would not accom-
plish the result. What was wanted was
a messenger.
Having reached this conclusion the
committee cast its several eyes about
in search of a suitable person. Finally
some one suggested that Attorney
General Bishop was going to Washing
ton and would be a good man by Vir-
tue of his position to present the mat
ter to the president.
So it was decided to send Bishop.
In following out the old recipe, First
catch your hare. the committee had
little trouble. For Bishop didn't take
kindly TO the matter at all Bishop
was shy, coy, diffident and modest. He
didn't care about calling at the White
House; said the president had never
called on him: that they had never
been introduced, and all that sort OF
thing. but finally he was prevailed upon
to take the document, button it up in
his coat and perambulate down to the
capital
Bishop came back few days ago.
He didn't look like a man who had
been given the glad hand. He resem-
bled d fellow who had struck cold
weather with no clothes, other than
summer buster.
According to the tale he tells the
committee, he wandered into the
grounds in front of the presidential
mansion and, after being catechiSed by
the uniformed Waterman, was taken
to the entrance, where his card was
inspected and he was sent inside, where
Mckinley sat in his shirt sleeves, writ
ing the foreign relations paragraph OF
his message.
After the usual preliminaries Bishop
presented the document Mckinley
read it over and then sent out for ice
water. He gave Bishop a drink. Bishop
didn't take the hint, and so Mckinley
had to tell him all about it.
The president informed Mr.. Bishop
that at no time had the state commit
tee Of the remnant of the Republican
party of Utah ever united on any one
man for any place; that it's endorse
ments came to him all segregated and
divided, and that names of one would
be on one petition and others on f,l-
other, and so on and so forth, until
he and Mark Hanna and the balance Of
the push didn't know where they were