The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-25
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II was an odd circumstance that in
the canvass which has just ended tens
of thousands of persons were ready to
declare with positiveness just how
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and
Lincoln would have voted on Nev. 8,
1900, if they had been alive, while no
body except Mr.. Cleveland and the
few who were in his confidence could
have told on which side the ex-prest-
dent would cast his ballot. Everybody
knew that he was opposed to Mr. Bry-
an on the money question and was
against Mr.. Mckinley on the Philip
pine question He was with the Dem
Ocrats on the latter question and with
the Republicans on the former, and
thus perceived a divided duty which
was more embarrassing than Desde-
mOna'S 5. The eX-preSident declared
shortly before the election that it was
most distressing campaign but he
gave no intimatiOn as 10 the party for
which he would cast his vote. EX-Sec-
rotary Carlisle and eX-Speaker Reed
let it be known that they were likely
not to vote at all, while eZ-President
Harrison, though in sympathy with the
sues, declined to make any speeches II
the canvass. -
Ex-Secretary Carlisle was large
figure for much longer time than ex
President Cleveland, though of course,
at no time such a potent parsonage
Though a Union man during the war
he remained a Democrat, and entered
public life soon after the war closed,
first IN state Offices and afterward on
the national stage. In the twenty
years in which he was in national pO-
sitiOns. beginning with his entrance
into the house Of representatives in
1877 and ending with his rptiTpTs1pnf
from Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet at the
close of Cieveland'S second term in
1897, Carlisle was a big figure in his
party. Since the death of Beck, whom
he succeeded in the senate, Carlisle
was the most powerful personality in
Kentucky. The drift in his party away
from Cleveland, however, in the last
year Of Cleveland's second term, turn
ed many Of Cariisle'S old friends
against him, and he left Kentucky and
located in New York. In the past three
or four years he has virtually been
man without a party. Although in
sympathy with the Republican side in
the canvass of 1896, as in that of 1900,
he took no active part in politics. The
field of political effort in which he was
a distinguished figure for over a, quar-
ter of a century suddenly seemed to
have lost all its charms for him, and
the active work Of political direction in
his party was done by men who, in
general, were far below him in ability,
as we'll as in experience. Thus, in the
campaign which has just ended he was
a political clip
Ex-President +, 4rrisOn's isolation in
the recent campaign was not quite so
marked as was that of Messrs. Cleve-
land and Carlisle. Unlike them, he was
in harmony with his party on most of
the issues of national concern. More
over for his refusal to make speeches
or take any active part in politics he
could plead the demands of advancing
age. General Harrison is 81 years old,
and he has engaged in the heavy work
of campaigning for u third of a cen
fury. Advancing age was, virtually,
the reason which he assigned for not
appearing at any Of the gatherings of
the Republican party. Only eight years
ago General Harrison, the titular chief
of his party, was also an active pO-
litical worker, but the intervening time,
short as it is, has put new men at the
front, and many of the older magnates
of half dozen or half a score years
ago are as obsolete as if they belonged
TO a different generation.
Ex-PreSident Grant presided at meet