The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-05

w ever k55wG y pubic lie!
asked Joseph @ Cannon. the
retiring speaker. ''That Is q pretty bIg
question in itself. To begin with, We
viii pat Abraham Lincoln out OF con
liberation. Lincoln ~as 20 big. so
! road 50 heroic 4 mold OF nan that
ror purposes 0t 5crI0g risou be i not IN
.he running. The p0s lGmous auprerja-
ion cf Abraham Liaa7lu Has ivarfei
wen the high arrrecia.ioa in which he
was beii while living.
"Ta'5cn CE all s.Iss ard from all
fSperts. tC- Eis UCv y constructive
t9t.srT-C -CsL'0. IN IC1i-ry,iD, N sane
I olt c'l se1sc srd II force in the halls
{ Legislation. ! would Ci,k Oliver p.
fort,l ~ .1i'I-9 me the greatest Re
G."oCn in ;ac history o. che party.
).c GA saw t-ls wis.ost de:-iuect 70
- iattti'ry leaders as we'll - ths
oliver p. Merton was q great, big
.adIaCteT and statesman.
leading Democrats Hard 70 PICK.
"That brings u dowa 20 the lead
Eg and tie al,cs, Democrats, sail
, scic Joe. '.Wcll. Democrats are
a.. Ter 20 picf thau are the Republicans
I :G.e known some superb statesmen
sld sTE.N fine Americans among tie
s@eIny. On the poiH- Of ability and
aeiSiat.ve fG-ce along constructive
'irss 7 thiak Joe Bailey stands pre-
eminent among the latter dav Demo
crafts. He IS clearly The brailiest and
he ablest man that his part' has de-
clo0sd within the last twenty years:
I might say, sCce 7 have been in Con.
5rtss. ! have watched bis career with
Interest. ] have watched il not only
.inCC he became a Senator, bu; ! was
H. J
TEc1 Bailey WAS 'l.s: sworn in. lie Is
wonderful man and power in de-
bate. in committee and IN the political
lie ot today.
Hage p southern RopubIi@an came 20
.e!l Uncle Joe abOut his hens lie j.
Dot OF active political life, getting rich
selling me products Of n big poultry
farm TO the New York markets
81 have the life Of lives to lead
now, ne SAID 10 the speaker. ~ am
aGjoTJ1g this hen culture FAR more than
ever did politics. There is something
comforting about hens. One always
knows what hens mean VIXEN they
csckIe- ] thought this many a time
wEer ! would sit at home and hear the
-aCc0Us announcements from nv hen
nery and consider that eggs were sell /
i1Z for 10 cents 2 dozen right here in
the New York markets. There is no
'AA'hyhHNat1 ~ tAdh q I'N -TNN- W ltu SlF
cackles II means something. There is
difference between 3 cackle Of hen
and presidential message that makes
. man satisfied 20 be out OF politics. -
The way the speaker laughed at this
statement would have brought a flush
70 any presidential cheek
New Party Unlikely.
"There will hardly be a new party
grow out Of the present dissensions in !
the older party ranks said MIR. Can
aon. ''I have little faith or belief in
these announcements OF the birth Of
new parties through man-madc
agencies. New parties grow and de-
velop because they are started from
parties; not men. II is no more pos
sible for one man TO plan and create
party than It is 10 bridge tho Atlantic.
No. not for one man no. ter men. nor
ten :bousand men 20 form a new marty
These new parties come and thev
go They spring up in the night and are
erased away by sunrise. ! have seen
nany OF them come aud go since the
foundation OF the Republican party.
'.The first that | reeollect was i'm
1861. There was an attempt by some
OF the strongest men in the Republican
party 70 form a newer party right in
the furnace heat of the rebellion. They
met at Cleveland. They had confer
ences ana they even went So far as 10
nominate john e. Fremont for Prcsi.
dent. but the party did not even live
until election day.
Then came the liberal Republican
movement Of 1872. That was the wear
J eaIse to congress. That movement
falled Of fruftioa. although IL took no
less Uersonages than David Davis and
Governor TTumbull OF Illinois and
General Nathaniel r. Banks oat of the
Republican party aad they made Gree.
lev their nominee.
THAT movement did not last.
Dear Old Peter Cooper
Then, the same year another partv
! iTied 10 nominate dear old Peter Cooper
for the presidency The Greenbackers.
/ / believe they called themselves. The
G-een5ackeTs came 10 the front again
IN 1876 and figured in small wag in
The campaign of 1880. Then we had
the P0pulist movement that lived and
died and vent the way of the Others.
| No. there wont be a new party