Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-10

Mr. Greeley seems 20 have looked upan
Mr huNay'H Views with great favor, for
NgfN Huun they appeared lu tho columns
~ The Tribune This publication OF Mr.
hovay'a proposition. az timo when ali
were eagerly looking FOR something 10
happen, no doubt effected an that Sir.
hovuy had hoped for.
Michigan has laid claim a. tho honor
~ naming tho Republican party, but
thnt claim q easily dlacatahllahrl by a
letter which Horace urrrlry wrote 10
Jacob M.liowurd, "a prominent member
N The mass convention which was 10
b. hold nt Jackson. Mich. on July ..
1851 In that letter Mr. Greeley rccom-
mrndn that the Michigan convention
adopt the nnmo Republican" Ia anti
clphii0u o. Wisconsin hcr sister Slate
~ the movement. having been advised
that Wisconsin Intended 20 adopt that
name, Michigan ala Ho. aud 10 her no
doubt. IN due tho honor of nrHt nlnrinF
the Republican banner out over a State.
for the Wisconsin Republicans did not
hold their state convention until July
~ following. az Madison. There can be-
no doubt from this and other letters
that Mr. ii0vay who had All this timo
honn IN communication with Mr Gree
Icy, ana who had worked an along On
tho idea. suggested tho name 10 cree.
Icy and Impressed upon him ~ special
MNNNAa
Tho party gained H. frst claim 90 ma
tlnnal fvcnFnltion IN 1860. two years
after tho llipop meeting. when Charles
burkrc was sent from Wisconsin nH "a
Republican 10 tho United States Zen.
ate, In the same year the national
party was organized nt pittHhurr. r..
~ o. convention 10 which twcnty-four
states acnt delegates. John a. King.
~ New York. acted na chairman.
Nj NIHWmN o. fuHHH NIuIuaa Lea VH...NHUaH.
y, y, with an only daughter. who is
married 10 a clergyman. Though N
years of are, ana FOR many ycarn re-
tired from active NO. he finds himself
Htill Interested In tho Affairs ~ tho
world. iie rolnts with modest pride 20
The success ~ hla great undertaking IN
tho political field. Under date ~ Anil
si 1899. ho writes 90 an old Wlpnn AL.
uunlninnco referring 90 two late llipon
residents who could speak OF their own
knowledge on the Huhiecti
yes, the nrst Republican orranirn-
lion was made IN Hin1n. Wis. and
there IN no doubt whatever about a.
There lives not tho man who can rise
md successfully dispute n. You will
recognize the names of tho witnesses
IN tho book which I sent you-Cnpt
Mapea Judge ~. l.. UunnlH and othors
and u " not 10 be- supposed that these
mon were specially friendly Ia me. and
therefore partial, for they were not
CAPT MnpoH was n friend On and on
hut Judge RunalH was not even -
much nH thut-0ur relations were adj
ways strained. Tho testimonials are
phfnlnteiv trie. and n IL also true and
undoniahle that tho Republican name
wnr heard in and about Hipon for
months before II was known or even
thought ~ elsewhere ~ tho coftust
name for The party which an mon Of
sense could zee was about 20 arise.
~ was then 20 years OLD ana good
FOR something, now ! am 81. and good
Tor nothing but the Old anatomy Htill
moves on. Yours truly
A. T.. BovAY.
"Hrooklyn. ~ y"
Mai noyny, 40 he was titled by SER
vice during tho civil war, was born
lu Adams county Y. ~ the nFo ~
~ ho graduated az Norwich Nt) Uni
vrraliy. Then NJ took 90 teaching. and
was made principal ~ the Glen Falls
and OawoFO academies IN New York
State and later be- became professor ~
languages IN Bristol Ga-l Military coll
lego. During this time he had been
studying law, and was admitted 10 tho
bar IN 1876. lie was n successful prar-
titioner of law, me- far MS the opnortuni-
tler ~ q rural town like Rip0n permit
ted. lie was a deep thinker and deep
reader and q winning ana conservative
leader Of men,