The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-03
BY RUFUS ROCKWELL
WILSON.

HERE are many veterans of past
campaigns and a few newcomers
among the New England delegates
20 the Democratic national convention.
John L. Mitchell Of Concord heads the
New Hampshire delegation, and Pat
rick A. Collins of Boston the one from
Massachusetts,. Collins, who was per
Wanent chairman of the convention
W ich gave Cleveland his second nom
ihatiOn. has had an eVentful career
When the Marquis - Ripon visited the
Massachusetts state capitol i'm the
spring of 1871 he sat down alongside of
a beardleSS yOungster i'm the corner Of
one of the leather sofas The august
Canadian governor general 5N-<ered into
conversation with the bright-faced
yOUngSter who smiled Quizzically as
he replied to the condescending over
lures. His lordship somehow got the
notion that he was talking 20 page
and made his impression known in
some wa.
But am q senator the young man
sa5d with a smile.
What" said the marquis. with a
surprise that half a dozen exclamation
points would not express
Il am a senator. elected by a Boston
5jstrict." Collins repeated.
Were you born here I'm the city.
80 said the marquis.
WIRE. then2"
IN the island next to yours" with
2 sharp look and a laugh in his eve.
The marquis laughed heartily. too. and
ne remembered Patrick a. Collins
name and face and when the two men
T9et tin England a few summers later
Collins had a warm welcome from the
man who took him for a page in the
lie. =
met the marquis Collins was foreman
IL big upholstering shop He was
then - years of age and had worked
himself up through the usual grades
from an apprentice He landed in BOs-
ton when only 4 years old. and lived
for awhile in Ohio. where he got some
schooling. and worked at farming and
coal mining He was IS when he, re-
turned TO Boston, and apprenticed him
self 10 his trade Ever thrifty he had
$l.100 in bank when "A years old. That
was the time his friends took 10 elect
him 70 the legislature. and he at the
same time matriculated as a law stu
dent al Harvard He served in the
house two years and then. i'm 1870. pro
NOTED 10 the senate, the Youngest man
who has hitherto attained that dignity
With the adjournment Of the senate in
1871 he swung his law single to the
breeze. and kept on making friends and
business from the start Since then he
has been a member of congress. consul
general IN London and mayor OF Bos-
ton
JESn J. Fitzgerald holds first place I'm
they Rhode Island delegation, and that
from Connecticut Is marshaled by Ho.
mer :. Cummings Of Stamford. The
political rise Of Cummings. who is the
law partner Of sam Fessenden. long
the Republican <eader in the Nutmeg
state. has been a phenomenally rapid
one. He was one of those Republicans
who Mr.. DoOley' declared outnum-
5ered former Democrats at the Kansas
City convention four years ago. He
was in fact reared q Republican. but
came out for Bryan during the latter
first campaign. and quickly attracted
attention as an eloquent and fOrceful
speaker When the CO.1eCticut state
convention was held in 1896 Cummings
had been announced Democrat for less
than a month. yet he secured the NOM
nation for secretary Of state and at