The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-02

a debater in the senate as John NJ
Palmer He was always a Democrat
and doctrinaire, except on the slav-
cry question. and when the negro was
freed, then Palmer, like Chase and Jul
Ian, returned to the Democratic fold.
But Palmer was not, and could not
be, blind partisan. When the Demo-
cratic party broke pellmell for the Pop
ulist camp, he refused to follow He
got more abuse for it than he had been
the object of all his life previously, and
minded it not in the least.
He died in 1900 aged four score and
three years, great and an honest man.
a patriot, and a statesman. Buckner
in some respects even a greater man.
yet survives at even a greater age.
Shelby NJ. Cullom was born in 1929,
and the following year his father moved
from Wayne county, in the mountains
of Kentucky, to TazewelI county, Him
ois. Cullom was reared a Wing, and it
was quite natural for him to be Re-
publican. He was a follower of Lin
coin, John J. Hardin. Richard Yates,
Dick Ogiesby, Linder and other Wings,
who had also come from Kentucky En-
dowed with excellent common sense,
correct morals, and patient and per-
sistent industry, Shelby NJ. Cullom
would have gone TO the front in any
state of the union. and he was especial
ly adapted to the atmosphere of the
then frontier state of his adoption.
Lyman Trumbull, William j. Bryan's
political mentor, was another Illinois
Democrat, who served in the United
States senate as a member of the Re
publican party. He was the author of
some Of the worst of the reconstruction
measures, IS65-iS75. But, originally
Democrat, he returned to that party in
1872, and died in the odor of party sane
tity. Bryan studied law and politics
under his tutelage. He served three
terms in the senate, and had he, instead
of Greeley, been nominated for presi-
dent by the Liberal Republicans in 1872.
il is quite likely that what was proph-
esied of him by an old citizen. when,
youth, he left the Connecticut WALLACE
where he was born, with a light purse
and a small pack containing all his
chattels, and set out to teach school
in Georgia-it was prophesied; That
boy will some day be president of the
United States" II Frank Blair had
stayed away from Cincinnati, Trumbull
would have been nominated.
Stephen A. Douglas was thrice elect
ed senator, but he died when he had
served a few months more than four
teen years. John A. Logan was three
times chosen senator, but he died when
he had served less than year of his
third term. But Cullom has been five
times returned to the senate, an honor
Illinois has conferred on no other of
her sons. He is not a brilliant or
snowy man. Douglas, all in all, While
not so able man az Calhoun or Web
ster OF Toombs. was perhaps the great
est debater the senate ever knew, ig-
norant man that he was i'm all branches
of learning except American political
history, which he knew from lid to lid
as we'll as John Quincy Adams whom
he disastrously overthrow in debate
on the Mexican war in the house of
Trumbull was a great
lawyer. ranking with the leaders of the
American bar. Palmer understood all
the principles of our system of govern
ment, the powers and duties of the fed
eral esta blishment and the delegated