The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-09
BY sAVoYARD.

on politics and president making
That was in February, 1880. Roscoe
Conkling, assisted by Don Cameron,
had charge of the Grant boom. Mr.
Blaine In person led the Blaine forces.
John Sherman. then secretary of the
trea conducted his own cam
paign. A select few were for Senator
Edmunds. who was not a candidate.
There were numerous dark horses
WINDOW. Washburn and Garfield
among them.
In the other camp the old Demo-
cratic party went laundering along.
Every Republican in the Union in
stinctively felt that Samuel j. Tilden
as the opposing candidate would be
invincible, and the one Democrat wfo
could be elected. Sam Randall was
about the only prominent man at the
national capital who saw what was as
clear as MONDAY. and that made him
Tilden man. All the others said that
four years after the Republicans stole
the presidency the Democrats could
elect a yaller dog, blind to the mex
orsble logic that IL you presented the
issue you must accept the nan who
was representative in the issue. That
logic was INDICATED in 1892
Proctor Knott. chairman of the
house judiciary committee, himself a
profound lawyer, able statesman and
delightful man, sought to secure the
nomination of Mr.. Justice Field of the
supreme bench. for some opinion or
other he had rendered in a litigation
growing out OF the Reconstruction in
fanny. "Johngee" Thompson was push
ing 1.-The Old Roman" then and for a
dozen years the greatest senator i'm
congress. Voorhees, and the Indiana
squad were for Hendricks. Hancock's
strength was spread over q large sec
ton north and south. due to his ia
NOUS order No. 40 magnificent
state paper. worthy of Thomas JEFF
ferson himself. Old Dave Davis had
his rod up hoping TO catch the Demo-
cratic lightning, as though he had not
already cost the Democratic party
president by resigning from the bench
10 go into the senate. About the time
'the roses came again" that spriTS
there was a Seymour boom that would
lhave swept the convention off it's feet
had the thing been pulled off a month
earlier than II was.
Grant had the nomination nailed
down If the unit rule had held. but
Robertson. Relden, 'Old Salt and
some others led a revolt in New York;
.washburn deserted Logan in Illinois:
Cameron confronted a rebellion in
Pennsylvania, and thus the Grant
crowd was reduced to 30S. In Livy you
will read of the exploits of another 800
AN army of that number, every mem
Der of the name of Fabius. and all of
the family of Fabii. In battle all were
slain save one cadet, scarce past his
third lustrum, and he was an ances-
tor of Fabius Maximus who saved
Rome from the cOnqueTing arms Of
Hannibal. 1t is striking coincidence
--396. representing the pagan common
wealth of old Rome and the Christian
republic of new America.
Il
And now more than a quarter Of q
century later Washington is again en-
gagged in the delightful work of per
soral political speculation. VIII tie
next president be Taft, or Hughes, or
Spooner, or Knox. or Fairbanks. or
Cannon, or Cummins, or Shaw. or For
aker, or La Toilette, or CortelyOU?
Will Theodore Roosevelt get another
term? Time alone will tell A bad
crop season would throw the thing into
an awful Eluddle business depTes-
sion would make the Republican nom
inatiOn a thing of much smaller value.
On the Democratic side of the hedge
there is a dictatorship William j.
Bryan Is every man himself He viii
take the nomination II he shall think
there is a fair chance of election. and
he will send another TO the slaughter
If he shall conclude that il is a help
less case. He will have year to make
up his mind on that question, and that
Is ample time for a resourceful poll
tician to try a dozen or more other
fads on the dog. So il is not necessary
TO say anything OF and concerning the
Democratic situation until Mr.. Bryan
gets ready to tell what his wishes arc
in the. premises.
With Roosevelt out OF the calcuIa-
ton, Taft is the leading man for The
Republican nomination. whether there
shall be a fire i'm his rear in Ohio or
not. They say the colored troops N
that state are opposed to him. The pro-
ifessional negroes are against him.
That is evident: but on the day Of
election Taft or Roosevelt or anybody
else bearing the standard of the G. O.
p. will poll more than 80 per cent Of
the negro vote of Ohio and of every
other state. The professional negroes
who are resoluting against Taft will
swell his ranks with two white voters
where they take from him one colOred
voter White human nature in Ohio IS
exactly what white human nature is in
Mississippi. and intends to run the pol
itics OF Ohio.
Salmon P Chase, Allen G. Thurman
and Johr Sherman We're much greater
men than Rutherford B. Hayes. James
A Garfield and William Mckinney. No
one of the first three attained to the
presidency, and for the reason that no
one of them was fortunate enough to
have a solid Ohio for him in cOny en-
ton OF the last three. each had
solid Ohio behind him in convention,
How II will be with Taft I IL nor
know II prosperity holds. he may be
able to knock the plum. even if the SEN
ators should be sufficiently influential
10 put on the delegation eight or ten
anti-Taft delegates. There is no unit
rule in Republican conventions. and
the rule only holds in Democratic con-
ventions because it smacks of state
sovereignty.
X
do not believe that William II Taft
is as great a man as Grover Cleveland,
or anything like 1t; but he is more like
Grover Cleveland than any other pub
lie man. now on the political carpet. II
cleveland had had the tact that Nc
Kinley had, or Taft has the success Of
his last administration would have