The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-23


West Virginia and Missouri. one of
which is thoroughly Pennsylvanized
and the other a great deal more west
ern than southern. AT an early day
Delaware was somewhat inclined to the
Federal party The Bayard of that
period was a Federalist, who, advised
by Alexander Hamilton, decided the
tie vote between jefferson and Burr in
favor of the former This is one of
the capers of that harlequin. fortune.
that made a Federalist the instrument
TO elevate the father of the then Re-
publican, and now Democratic party to
the presidency of the American repub
lie. The Federalists were cut down
about the beginning of the last century,
but later, from the stump, came the
shoot that grew into the Wing party.
that was strong in Delaware. giving.
as 1t did, John NJ. Clayton. to Orna-
ment American craftsmanship and lend
luster to the United States senate.
No man can name thing that has
received more advice than the negro
race, unless it be the Democratic party
and, like the negro race the Democrat
ic party is l0ftily cOntemptuous of adj
vice. 1t just plunges along without
guide on land, or compass on sea- a
tramp and a derelict, trusting to the
luck that is ever elusive. And yet
there has never been a single day that
a ma jority OF the American people did
not incline to the true principles of
the Democratic party as illustrated in
the preachments of Jefferson and Til
den. and incarnated in the deeds of
Jackson and Cleveland
Just now the Democratic party Is adj
vised TO nominate George Gray for
president, Cut bono? Alton B. Par
ker would be president this blessed
moment If the eastern Democrats had
striven as zealously for his
election as they did for his nomination
and If the friends of William j. Bryan
had supported him as Loyalty as Judge
Parker supported Mr.. Bryan in 1896
and I'm 1900. Who will go bail that the
eastern Democrats would not lay down
between the convention and the cleo
ton in 1908 as they did in 1904, if Gray
were nominated? And who would un-
dertake to deliver to the ticket the full
Bryan vote west OF the Allegheny
mountains?
And it is this uncertainty that has
brought the conservative element of
I the Democratic party to view with alb
sOlute complacency the prospect for the
third nominatio of Mr.. Bryan, and
what disturbs them is the fact that
Bryan viii win if the coin falls heads,
and they will lose If it falls tails-that
10 W say mat NIL VIII SHlIh
the battle If it appears hopeless, send
ing another Parker to the slaughter
and seiZing the nomination for him
self If the signs are propitiOus. What
would the world have thought of Rob-
ert z. Lee if he had surrendered the
command TO Gordon or Longstreet
when AppOmattox became clearly in
evitable
George Gray was born at Newcastle,
Del. May 4, 1870, and has resided there
ever since. l suppose his was a Pres
byterian family, for he was sent to
Princeton for an education, and was
graduated in the class OF 1889, when
he was nineteen, receiving the degree
of A. B., and three years later the
degree of A M He studied law in his
fathers office, and then attended the
famous law school of Harvard univer-
Sity. In 1863 he came to the bar. He
was twice attorney general of the state,
and ranked with the foremost lawyers
of the North Atlantic seabOard. He
was delegate TO the Democratic con-
ventions of 1876, 1880, and 1884, in all
OF which he strove for the nomination
of Thomas Francis Bayard, the great
est Democrat and the greatest states
man Delaware ever produced.
When Bayard left the senate to be
secretary of state in Mr.. CleVelands
first cabinet, Delaware sent Gray to
supply the vacancy in the senate, and
he ranked with the ablest and best
men in that body during the entire
fourteen years he was a member of it.
In 1880 ii had not yet come in fashion
10 pull down great statesmen and put
in their hopeless stead mediocrities.
And here just a little pedantry may
not be resented
X X
When that big, bluff, coarse. vulgar,
rude, beef-eating, ale-guzzling English
man, Robert Walpole, was a master of
Great Britain, the one man he was de-
teTTnined should not be his rival in
the state was Bolingbroke. BY a cap
rice of fortune Bolingbroke had lost on |
the throw of the dice when Queen Ann |
died. He attempted to restore the |
Stuart. and would have succeeded if |
the old queen had not been so precipf-
tate in dying. The house of Hanover |
came in. BolingbrOke went into exile. |
became prime minister of the preten- |
deTs court without a realm, was tried |
and convicted of treason and attainted /
Old Walpole had as much good ma |
ture as he had good sense and suffered |
Bolingbroke to return TO England and |
put himself at the head of the Tory
party-out of parliament. Macaulay /
cites the following array of talent |
WtiO dSSdlltO Ine administration: Boil |
ingbroke, Carteret, Chesterfield, Ar |
gyle, Pulteny, Wyndham, Doddington. !
Pitt, LittletOn. Pape, Swift, Gay, Ar !
buthnOt, Fielding, Johnson. Tompson.
Akenside and Glover. OF these Boiling |
broke was the most brilliant. and the |
one Walpole most feared. Though a /
Tory, BolingbrOke's political writings
In that great Walpolean battle" |
would serve for a great deal better |
Democratic platform than any we have
had since 1892. The spirit of liberty
and the arraignment of arbitrary /
power is magnificent in every paDer /
couched in the brilliant literary styIe
of the foremost political writer of even
that splendid age. He was even a |
greater orator than he was a writer
and that was why Walpole, who might
have sent him TO the scaffoId. held the
attainder over him to keep him out of
parliament
X
Walpole lost, and was kicked IN
stairs" to the House of Lords. where
his rival in the Commons. Pullenv.
soon Joined him-also kicked IN
stairs" But Bolingbroke gained moth