The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-13
How Lincoln Received News.

we LnGn continued TO the newspaper
office, went on Judge Zane, land while
there we met several people. Finally the
edltor slipped over to the telegraph Of
Ice, and L Went with him; so did a man
named Davis. When the operator started
TO write the result of that third ballot
saw that he was Intensely excited. He
handed the dispatch TO the editor and
The latter hurried out. 1 asked him what
was the result, and he didn't answer me.
1 asked the operator what was the re-
suit. He told me Lincoln was nominated
but that the editor wanted to announce il
first. / followed him back TO the news
paper office, and when 1 got there
jumped on a chair and commenced cheer
ing for the next president. The editor and
L cheeTed alone until the crowd grasped
what had happened, and then the editor
read the telegram. LincoIn's first remark
was:
g I thought this would happen when I
read the last ballot
Judge Zane said Lincoln was calm and
collected. He told how he received con-
gratuiations for awhile, and then re-
marked:
the street that's more interested in this
! than ] am"
He walked down the street. where he
met a group of Irish Democrats, who con-
graduated him, Judge Zane said his re-
mark was:
Let's shake hands while we can,
Judge Zane spoke of LincoIn's great in
I
most abstruse problem or legal point so
clearly that the simplest mind could I'M
derstand it. He told some reminiscent
stories of his success at the bar Darticu-
! larly of one murder case where his de-
scription of the effect of strychnine on
the human body was so clear and graphic
as to astound members of the medical fra
ternlty. Judge Zane was given hearty ap-
pIause when he concluded.
ii. K. Cunningham, state auditor Of
Montana, was present, and was called on
years OF Democratic miSrule and cor
ruptiCn," Montana had been redeemed -
He told two funny stories
postmaster Arthur L Thomas spoke on
Lincoln as a Statesman" and devoted
his remarks mainly to pOrtraying the va
rious achievements of Lincoln career. He
reviewed eloquently his speech at Gettys-
burg, and said it would live in literature
as iorg as literature endures.
Wells on the Third Term.
Ex-Governor Heber NJ. Wells spoke to
the toast Theodore Roosevelt" The
president hadn't been mentioned I'D to
| that time, but Governor Wells made m
for the omission by delivering as extrava-
CANT a eulOgy OF him as has ever been
pronounced anywhere. He ,auded him to
the skies, and virtually asserted that he
possesses every human virtue. He closed
by asserting that he would probable be
called to serve his country a third time as
president.
A1IuOOSh IHySelL an ar0enC though be-
lated convert to the principle of rotation
in office" declared Governor Wells amid
great laughter, 81 hereby nominate TheO-
dore Roosevelt to be the Republican can
didate in 1908'
Owing to the Iateness Of the hour. Judge
J. T. Prick, who was to speak on Lin
coin as a lawyer" declined to speak at
length W. D. Livingston, who was to
speak on THE Banner Republican Coun-
ty,' deferred to H L. BlunCk, manager. of
the new Republican paper, who. in a brief
speech. said his paper would scourge
grafters within as well as without the
Republican party.
Giasmann Clicked Off.
The only remaining speakers on the
programme were State Chairman William
Spry, who asked Judge Straup in view
OF the IateneSS of the hour, not to intro