The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-03
HOW POLITICAL HISTORY
WILL BE MADE.

years. The chairman Of the OegOn
delegation is George +. Chamberlain,
the sOuthern-bred governor Of that
state. whom Pacific coast people would
like to see nominated for wee presi-
dent
There are many well known names
and familiar faces among the delegates
from the southern states. Delaware
sends ex-senator Kenney and the
younger Willard Salisbury; Maryland,
Senator German and Ex-Governor
Smith: Virginia. Senators Daniel and
Martin. and West Virginia, ex-Sena-
tors Davis and Camden Senators
Blackburn and NcCreary and Governor
Beckham are delegates at-large from
Kentucky; Senator CaTmack from
Tennessee Senator Tillmau and Gov
ernOr Hayward. from South Carolina;
Congressman Maddox. from Georgia.
Governor Jennings, from Florida; Ed
ward ?. Russell and Congressman
Richardson. from Alabama, and John
s. Williams. who viii probably be tenn
porary chairman of the convention,
from Mississippi. Senator Bailey, who
is slated for permanent chairman. cap
tains the Texas delegates Perhaps
none of this group will exert greater
influence on the affairs Of the cOnven-
ton that German, Davis and Nc
Creary.
Senator German has been in politics
almost all his life. for as a growing
lad. he was a page in the body CT
which he is now a member and later
served as its postmaster His career
as a member of the senate began in
1881. and. having been out for four
years through a temporary overthrow
I'm mis- state, he is now in the second
year of his fourth term. He is an
adToit manager Of men. and from the
first has been one Of the real, if not
SNOWY. leaders of the senate. He has
also played a leading part in every ma
tional campaign of his party during
the last twenty years. and to his eff
forts in 1884, more than those of any
other man. was due the first election
of Cleveland. That ne has not been
for a dozen years an avowed candidate
for the presidency has been due to his
habitual caution and to the fear that
his career would be finished if he made
an oDen and unsuccessful bid for the
nomination. He coveted the honor in
1892, and only an eleventh hour con-
ference with William C. Whitney. who
was in charge of Cleveland's interests
ed him to forbid his friends from press
ing his name. The conference ended
thus:
Whitney" said German. tell me a.
a man and a friend how certain you
feel that you will win in your effort to
nominate Cleveland"
AS certain" was the reply. sas I
am that the sun viii rise in the morn
{ ing"
The following day German an
nOunced that his name must not be
i presented, much to the disgust of his
I friends. who had expended several
! hundred dollars for German badges.
When all was over tbs MARYLAND SEN
atOr turned in AMI helped Whitney
manage Cleveland's campaign. He is
still as cautious as Of yore. and history
may repeat itself at and after the st.
Louis convention.
Ex-senator Davis is easily the rich
est man in West Virginia From a
f brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad he has grown TO be many
times q millionaire He owns it is
/ said. over 100000 acres Of wooded land
on the top Of the Allegheny mountains
( i'm Maryland and West Nirginia be-
) sides coal mines. railroads and rail-