Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-25

exhibition at 81 Lou
- sM= Is have specified July
is.s.i, ~ I,s..s.,N as the best day for
the intending visitor
to arrive in the Mound CITY thousands
have selected that date and viii gov-
ern themselves accordingly The OPP
portunity TO see "A worlds fair and n
national convention at the same time
and for the same expenditure does not
occur frequently For that reason,
aside from the general interest in the
proceedings the Democratic national
convention OF 1904 viii attract an un-
usually large attendance.
The shortened appellation Demo
cratic has been accepted so long both
by leaders and by rank and file In the
party that the fun title--whioh is used
nowadays only by hypercritlcal cam
pagn orators and platform builders
almost produces a shock. Yet the fact
remains that even to this day the cor
rect expression Is Democratic Repub-
lean" At its first inception, indeed, II
was known as the Republican party"
II was so denomlnated by jefferson In
letter to Washington, II was the
short lived successor TO the better
known Anti-Federalist party. The
term Democrat was inspired by en-
thusiasm for the French revolution At
first It was looked upon with great con-
tempt by the new Republicans The
Democrats formed clubs all over the
country and called each other "citi-
zens" to the horror of the other po-
liiical parties. who saw nothing but
revolution I'm the term. In the Third
congress U793) the Republicans and
Democrats united, and ever since that
time the proper name Of the party has
been Democratic Republican.
The conditions marking the assem-
bling OF the two great nominating con-
ventions are vastly dissimilar. The
Republican nomination for president
was entirely outside the realm OF spec
ulation. At st. Louis an almost exact
antithesis win prevail. Uncertainty
will be the rule, and speculation will
have no bounds. The surprises and
possibilities OF n presidential conven-
ton are too fresh In the memories Of
aspiring statesmen to permit OF apathy
on the part OF single delegate.
No man who has twice been the re-
clplent Of the Hottest gift nation can
bestow and who is the only living ex-
president OF the United States need ex-
pect to be forgotten at national con-
vention of his own party. Grover Cleve-
land, twenty-second and twenty-fourth
president, was born at Caldwell, Essex
county, N. j., March rs, 1887. lie was
the son OF a Presbyterian minister The
family removed TO Clinton, N. Y, when
the future statesman was boy, and he
was educated In the schools of that
town. In 1853 his father died and he
was Obliged to go 20 work. His first
position was that OF teacher I'm the
State Institution For the Blind. Soon
afterward he started for Cleveland, o.,
whore he expected to study law. Pass
ing through Buffalo, he was induced to
stay there and obtained a position with
a leading law Arm. Admitted to prac-
tloe IN 1859, he was assistant district
attorney for Erie county in 1868, He
was defeated as Democratic candidate
for district attorney In 1865, but was
elected sheriff in 1870. In 1881 he was
chosen mayor tie was elected gov
ernor In 1889 having the remarkable
plurality Of l92,S5i, At the Democratic