The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20

used to send for him to go horth ana
instruct than, on political economy
and as Lone as he confined himself to
the tariff he did very wen indeed
The Oenoocrafic party, God bless it.
is a co.,'lns;te of Philip Sidney, Roger
de Co,,arisv Baron Bradwardine, Will
liz Hfsaa wber and Tam o. Shanter.
NoIr =, ;s the Tenth Legion that saved
80. cesar. and now ii is the squad
oLoee Ealstaff refused TO go through
Co,.o,try with. 1t is entirely human.
T. rs the simplicity and the abiding
e,idence of the honest country gem
s,en,an that thinks not. knows not, and
cannot understand guile. Is II not
written:
Verify / say unto you: Whosoever
shall not receive the Kingdom of God
as little child. shall in no wise enter
therein"
That is the way the Democratic par
ty receives everything. 1t has the same
mouth for crow as for chicken, the
same palate for gall as for nectar
That is what it makes ii immortal, and
that is what makes 1t the rudder and
the anchor Of this mighty republic
Be We of good cheer; it will escape the
wilderness where it was interned in the
struggle of 1896.
Well, Benton McMillin had a heap
TO do with it. In 1890 the American
people were contriteh for their iefeat
of Grover Cleveland in 1888. and they
were outraged because of the enor-
nifty of the first Tom Reed congress.
They gave voice TO their penitence and
their disgust in the eompletest victory
for the Democracy in the entire his
tory of our republic. before or since.
If the south had been silent in the
Fifty second congress, the Democrats
had a majority OF the northern MEM
bers and the south was solid, with a
possible minority not exceeding three.
Who did it? Cleveland. Carlisle,
Mills, the breckenridge. Turner, Will
son and that set. race came on for
speaker. Had the house been con-
vened in March, 1891, not ten votes
would have been cast against Roger Q.
Mills in the Democratic caucus. Nor
rison had been put out of congress by
Pittsburg tariff Doodle. Carlisle mad
been sent to fill Beck's shoes in the
senate. The inevitable, the logical, the
one possible speaker was Roger @.
Mills, who stood for the idea.
Benton McMillin had about as much
chance for speaker as ! had to be
pOpC VI ct Ut-
gan to form in 1891 with a single OBJ
ject-to beat for the nomination the
only Democrat who could be elected
president of the United States. and it
would have succeeded IL a similar COM
bination had not been triumphant in
1880. Crisp was the favorite of the
combination that was captained by
Tammany Hall. David B. Hill and Ar
thur P. German. McMillin. all of
whose eggs were in the Mills basket,
was induced to run, under the PERSIA
sion that he would be heir to Crisp.
There was not a Craftsmanship that
was not put 10 ransom, including ways
and means and appropriations. Had
Mills given a nod, or a wink, he would
have been speaker. McMillin was used
until he was a sucked orange. Crisp
was elected and the most precious
cause the Democratic party has had
in forty years frittered away.
No wonder it was that the first
whack the Democracy got at McMillin
he was struck between wind and wa
ter. His usefulness was gone. Bailey
beat him out of sight for leader, and
then he left congress to be governor.
He was governor, hoping to be sena-
tor. He may be senator yet for my
knowledge of American politics teaches
me that everything impossible can hap
PENN the state of Tennessee.
In late years l do not recall man
who left congress to be governor who
did not lose by the exchange. 1t is
all because. under Republican politics.
the nation is becoming everything and
the state nothing, unless New York be
an exception.
1 would rather see Ed Carmack in
the national house of representatives
than governor of Tennessee. Let him
come to the Sixty-first congress. He
might be speaker.
Copyright, 1907 by E. w. Newman)
shall order a flagstaff erected on my