The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23
REPUBLICANS ROAST
STUPID MAJOR DICK.
All Right to Buy Pops, But Awful to
Be Caught.
His Bad Break viii Help the Demo
cratic Cause = Chairman Jones
Says His Reports Are Encourag-
ing-Discrimination Against the
West in Consular Appointments
An Olive Belt In Utah.
tsneclal to The Herald.o


Washington, D. c., Aug. 22.-Senator
James X. Jones. of the Democratic ma
tionai committee, is again in the city,
and is in constant correspondence with
the Democratic committees in the sew
eral states in which elections are to be
he'd this fall. He saws that his reports
are encouraging. particularly from
Ohio, and he has no reason to doubt
that this VIII prove to be a Democratic
Year. There are elections tie be held in
Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Massachu-
SettS, Iowa, Kentucky and Nebraska.
The most important of these elections
are those in Ohio and Maryland. for
they involve senatorships.
Notwithstanding the close proximity
OF MARYLAND to the national capital, the
interest of politicians of both parties
here is nearly all centered in Ohio The
Republican and Democratic national
committees, from headquarters here,
are both in close communication with
The Ohio organizations and are taking
an active part N the work Of the can
VasS.
Major Dick. secretary of the Repub-
lican national committee. has been
freely guyed for his performance in the
role OF a purchaser OF middIe-of-the-
road PODulists. He actually gave checks
and made them out against the Ohio
National bank of this city, where the
funds Of the Republican national com
mtttee are now ON deposit. The major
has been called a clever politician, bat
this last achievement has caused him
TO be numerically roasted, even by
mem bers Of his own political party.
These gentlemen do not see anything
particularly heinOus in the buying of
delegates, but they freely criticise the
clumsy manner in which ne did the
lob.
why" said a celebrated Ohio Re
publican politician to your representa-
tive. 'the Herest tYro in that business
does not give checks
How does the clever man do it. col
onel?"
why. he gets the long green, Of
course. and hands it over Money talks
it is said. but not as loud nor as long
as checks Dick simply put himself in
the power of ahose men. The real thing
10 have done would have been to have
raid the cash and taken their receipts.
Then he would have had those Popu-
lists on the hip, which is precisely
where thew now have him"
WILL HELP THE DEMOCRATS.
The general impression here is that
the exposure of the Hanna methods of
manipulating nliddle-of-the-rOad con-
ventions VIII inure TO the benefit of the
lDrdllOtIdllG llNhCI. l. l- 1COullSl iC0O-
erS NOW. in turn, are unanimous in
their declarations that there is but one
thing for true Populists to do in Ohto
and that IS to support the Democratic
ticket against CoXey- They say Coxey
has no claim on the party whatever. He
has openly declared that he was not a
Popul4st. and has sought in every way
to sidetrack the silver question, and
press some of his own freak ideas to
the front. Representative Gum of
Idaho is particularly bitter against
Coxey and COXeyisn, and says that if
Coxey is a good Populist, he (Gunn) is
not one, and would not want to belong
10 q party that recognized that kind Of
leadership.
Captain Gum Will remain in the east
for a month longer. He has spent con-
siderable time in Philadelphia and New
Z ork, where he is endeaVoring TO dis
pese of stock in several important
Idaho mining properties. He reports
progress and says he hopes to close the
transactions before the first of Sep
tember.
a GOLD BUG FAKE.
Friends of Senator William NJ Stew
art of Nevada say that the report that
ne has shown the slightest inclination
to desert the silver cause is a mere
gold bug fake" He has been the most
radical of silver men, and the frequency
with which he has made the crime of
'73 the theme of his speeches has given
the photographers OF the press many
golden opportunities to satirize both
Stewart and the cause he championed.
There seems to be little doubt that
Senator Jones of Nevada is getting in
position to cooperate once more with
the Republicans. but all Senator Stew
arts friends here say that the old man
will be found next session, battling
away as stubbornly as ever. for the sill
yer cause.
NO UTAH MEN
The special bulletin whiS has just
been issued from the Bureau of Ameri-
can Republics, relative to the diplo-
matte and consular service of the Unit
ed States contains q great deal of in
structive matter. For instance. it re-
Veals the fact that at present not one
Utah man is honored with a position in
the service. This discrimination against
Utah is the more noticeable when it is
considered that eastern states of but
little larger population than Utah have
many places. Vermont has II positions
in the. Diplomatic and consular service.
The east was conspicuously preferred
to the undesirable west by President
Cleveland. and the newer administra-
eion has not found il convenient or de-
sirable 10 change that order of things.
This is .gen Illustrated by the fact that
the six New EnGland states have seven
United States ministers. and Go conSuls.
The following group Of western states
has the same potency in the electoral
college as New England. Yet w37ar. a
change is here