The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-05

pale and determined. He wore the air
or man who has a rather disagree
able duty to perform and who wants
10 get II over quickly. Mr. CritchlOw
started on with a. laudatOTy reference
i 10 Mr. Sutherland. He said he was a
I close friend TO the prospective nom
NEE. and If he did not know that Suth-
erland didn't want the nomination he
would espouse his cause as heartily
as any man in the convention
Sutherland's Letter Read.
Then Mr. Critchlow reached into the
inside pocket of his coat and drew out
a letter which he read, 1t was from
! Mr.. Sutherland, positively refusing 70
! take the nomination.
The reading of the letter was car
RED on amid a perfect stiffness Mr..
CrltchloW spoke in rather low tones.
but he was heard distinctly in every
/ part of the opera, house. There was
no demonstration during the reading
or at lis close
Mr. CritchlOw paused for perhaps
/ half minute. Then he plunged into
a speech nominating Major Grant He
placed the name OF the soldier before
the convention in q, mastery way. ap-
peallng TO the patriotism of the Repub-
mean party and asking that it be man
lfested by the nomination of the
| Dewey Of the army There was
| respectable outburst of applause at the
mention of Major Grants name. but II
/ was nothing like as pronounced as the
I one that greeted the presentation of
/ Sutherland.
Says Sutherland VIII Accept.
Almost before Mr.. Critchlow could
toward the front Mr.. Allen seemed
/ greatly excited and spoke at first with
/ difficulty He thought il was for the
republicans of Utah to say whether
l Mr. Sutherland would or would not be
a candidate No one had dared TO say
/ he would refuse a nomination if il was
/ rendered him, and no one would say
/ So
In his heart. said Mr. Allen. al
though the words carried an inferen-
I tlal charge of hypocrisy, George Suth-
erland is saying, I will accept as
/ loyal Republican If I am nominated
He VIII march in our front and lead US
to victory"
]. NJ Bowman seconded the nomina-
ton of Major Grant He started out
I by saying that George Sutherland was
not the only man who could save the
Republican party this year. Suther-
land had told him he would not ask
for the nomination, and Major Grant
was his second choice.
And Now the Hon. Bill.
]. F. Chidester of Garfield succeeded
Mr. Bowman Mr. ChideSter said he
desired 10 nominate a man who had
/ only two enemies on earth Those enc
mics were Bryan and AgUinaldO. The
speaker thought his candidate would
be able TO dispose of both of them in
short order. After five minutes more
OF most fattering talk, Mr.. Chidester
named Glasmann.
Then enSued demonstration that
even surpassed the cheering for Suth-
/ erland- The Hon. Bill. who was in the
audience, vas seen 70. do a little ap-
plauding himself. and nobody blamed
hlm- Tor the enthusiasm was cOnta-
Slous. When the noise died away John
A Bagley of Ogden started another
round by secOnding hIr. Glasmann's
nomination on behalf of Weber county
After A F. Doremus of Salt Lake
had seconded Sutherland's nomination,
n. S. Tanner of Salt Lake presented
the name Of Chief James Devine. His
effort was far and away the best of
the nominating speeches 1t was elO-
quent and at the same time argumenta-
] tive Mr.. Tanner presented a number
of cOgent reasons why Devine should
be chosen, and was rewarded with a
liberal amount of approval from the
convention.
Mrs. Jones Talks For Grant
Mrs. w. H Jones of Salt Lake was
the only woman who took part in the
nominating speeches She read from
manuscript notes clever little argu-
ment in favor of Major Grant. Mrs.
Jones remarks were well received
Right On Mrs. Jones heels came
George W. Meyer OF. salt Lake TO sec
ond Devine. He urged the delegates /
not to misunderstood George Suther-
land He asked rather pointedly if
they supposed the lawyer was trying 20
play double part by sending that let
ter-if they believed him capable of
1 trying to throw dust in the eyes of his
party representa- iVes. or if he was Il
deceiver2 The anti-Sutherlands took
up the point with cries of mo, no.
and all the ~Roosevelters'' said was,
Sutherland, give US Sutherland
No" cried Mr.. Meyer George
Sutherland meant what he said in that
communication, and you cannot Se-
around it
Now Comes Colonel and Gear.
Along came Colonel George b
SquireS. and first removing his dilapi-
dated but unit. cigar from between his
teeth, he launched out in a speech foT.
Major Grant. It was perhaps the SEN
sauonal feature of the convention. The
colonel said he had expected q STAN
pede when Sutherland's name was
mentioned, but he had failed to observe /
anything. answering that description.
Sutherland told me q few days ago,
said he, that under no condition OF
circumstances could he accept the nom
inatiOn Of this convention. or my voice
might have been raised in his behalf
/ phat is all the colonel said about
Sutherland, but he went on to talk OF
the major and other war heroes. He
reminded the convention that there was
another major in the Philippines who
viii be received from San Francisco in
a few days by the Democratic party
with open arms The colonel vigorous
" objected to Major Young writing his
opinion of the Philippine conquest and
TO the distribution thereof by the Dem
Ocratic committee.
Then Colonel Souires started to rail
against what he charged to be a lack
of patriotism in Utah A majority OF
the delegates thought it was poor taste
on the cOlOnels part, and they further
believed that it did more TO wrinkle
the Grant balloon than anything.
Why" said the colonel. getting red
in the face and roaring like a penned
bull, "a short time ago 10000 sons of
the civil war marched through the