The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

the people started. The people want
Holcomb, or they will want him, and
it's about time they were heard from.
/ You go over and get up a rolEsing citi-
Zens' meeting in Johnsonville, and let
him hear from it. That's what I'd do"
The politicians set off Immediately
and the citizens meeting, ives brought
off the first night the village band had
an open date. There was a crowd
/ brought out in one way and another,
+ and a delegation of leaders was chosen
( to present the call Of the people. The
/ Herald announced the, next morning
( that in the light of such a iemonstra-
/ ton from the heart of the people, there
could be no doubt that any hesitancy
which Mr. Holcomb might have felt
! about accepting the nomination would
/ be overcome, and quoted Latin to prove
it. No man could afford to disregard
! such a call.
/ But the Johnsonville men We're still
| in doubt about their man. He was of a
/ Scotch-Irish brand, which dislikes to
! be driven.
Send him over to consult with me.
! if you want to-" said Wilson He's
| been here before
Finally they induced Holcomb to drop
! in, and for a, solemn period of three
! cigars the glass door was closed, while
! the two men talked it over. Wilson be-
! gan with congratulations, and con-
! tinued with the air of a man who sees
resistance impossible. When a man
has the governorship thrown at him
like a boquet,' he said, he can't af-
ford to refuse to pick it up. Person
| ally, look at all these things as a dis
interested party, but it's mighty i'm
portant for you not to make false
move here"
But, good Lord. Wilson, said Hol-
comb, Imagine me trying to make a
| speech"
I'VE don't want you as an orator. we
| want you to work. You can say how
de-do, and We'll get an oratorical lieu
tenant governor to do the talking"
Holcomb went out in a state of sub
mission, and in the morning the Her.
aid officially announced that Mr.. Hol-
comb would certainly stand for the
nomination for the governorship. He
is the man for the place. it said, the
people have demanded him"
Such modern methods of political
warfare We're too much for the Gull
berson coterie. They We're overwhelmed
in the beginning in dignified defeat.
After his first rebuff Gov" Culber-
son could not be induced to have Will
son approached in any way in his in
terest.
81 refuse, sir" he said, when urged
ton whatever with that paltroon-that
dirty scribbler, SIR
Hence it came about that his name
was entirely ignored in the campaign
for the nomination. And as it was never
once brought before the people to any
extent, the people naturally did not
consider it, in spite of the many insin-
uations of his personal friends that he
could be persuaded to run. 1t is not a
time when the people arise unassisted,
and whatever popular uprising there
was favored Holcomb. He was a sue
ceSsful business man, an employer of
many people-and on the whole kind
one-and he had the powerful reputa-
ton of "bottomless BARREL" with the
politicians.
The campaign for the nomination
went on with a rush. The northern end
of the state soon swung into line for
our man, and the metropolitan press
there was full of such phrases as "a
captain of industry imam of energy
and decided character "a power in
financial circles" There was progress
sive enthusiasm and pride in our own
section.
Very few of US now noticed the tall.
gaunt figure who did not rejoice at
our feast. For few days after he
realized that his case was hopeless, Gov
ernor Gulberson, remained at his home.
partly because he was physically pros
trated by the blow and partly because
he thought the eyes of
be on him in the streets in pity and
scorn. AS a matter of fact people did
not think of him at all, further than
to understand in a general way that he
was sick. When he did drive out again
they noticed how much changed he was
by his illness. Indeed it was almost
startling; his face had lost it's color,
there was a little quaver in his voice
and an uRcertaintysin. shis@step which
had never been there before His
clothes were not so carefully tended to
and there began to be a suspicion of
dinginess on his immaculate sh:rtfront.
old man. You must take care of your
self, governor his friends said
In. the meantime the boom for Miles
cuses went solidly for him all over the
state; a young lawyer from the north
was to be made lieutenant governor.