The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-07


arising at daybreak much to the scna-
tors annoyance. So the senator pro-
tested thusly:
''Scarce has the chantecler with his
clarion call summoned sleeping Aurora
TO arise from the purple ocean and
hearalded the rising sun that Is TO make
the beads of morning dew scintillate
like diamonds of rarest brilliance on
the blades of verdant grass that car.
pets thus footstool of the Almighty than
the Judge shakes himself free from
the clinglng arms of Morpheus and
stamps about the room like Titan at
play Believe Inc, sab, he is an internal
| nuisance
Southern Democratic delegates are
not only orators from choice and epvir-
onment, they are orators by heredity.
Early In the game the delegates were
aroused by. long g-haired young man
who championcd the cause Of William
Jennings Bryan. He shook his raven
locks and Glove the blue arch Of heay-
en- he was Robert Lee Henry, of Tex
as, great great grandson Of tho immor-
tai fatrlck Henry and grandson of the
almost equally immortal Robert Z. Lee.
another famous son of an ilIustrious
1orepear was Robert Lee Anderson
most southern Democrats of the present
"','h dio JlOUSfU lJoG SOmebOQY,
MI Anderson halls from Georgia and ia
the great.great- grandson OF Thomas Jef.
Ierson. Then there is Congressman
ROBERT j.. Lee, Of PENNSYLVANIA. repre-.
sentlng the north but essentially of the
south, grandson Of the iIlustrious war.
rior. i
Senator Murray Crane, the soft soled
qulet gentleman who did much to Sc
cure the nomination of President Taft
rlr
4 lew short laps Of fleetinc time bring.
senator Crane IN Chicago was roundiy
9enounced by Colonel Roosevelt as a
zoe or progress, an enemy OF popu.
iar government and rascal who was
employing every means to sti1e tho
VIII OF a distressed public. While Col
onei Roosevelt was delivering this in
few of his friends letter he had
received from Colonel Roosevelt only
lew months previous. The letter be-
gan " My very dear friend.D II ex.
pressed profound sorrow that Colonel
nooseVelt was not at the office Of the
outlook only few days previous when
senator Crane had called. Continuing,
Colonel Roosevelt said that he presumed
the senator had called with reference
to the rumor that Colonel Roosevelt
was to be candidate. He said that
ne wished he could have seen the sena.
Tor IN order to convince him how seri-
Gus he was in his declaration that un-
der no circumstances could he be n can
didate. He referred to the senator as
old boy and said that he expected
HIM as his Every good friend" to dis
welt closed the letter by saying that
he would regard any effort to force
him into the presidential contest az
genuine calamity"
Newspaper men who remember BRYAN
IN the days when he was star reporter
declare that an excellent reporter was
spoiled when Bryan became an unsuc- |
cessful presidential candidate, Bryan
tried his hand at reporting during the
Republican national convention but his
stuff was considered very mediocre
and cyclopediac. Newspaper men who
intend to remain in the game should
refrain from becoming presidential
candidates.
If not so conscientious, Chairman Root
was more efficient than Chairman Ollie
James. At Chicago, Chairman Root put
through the motions so rapidly that O. |
negro delegate finally observed that the
steam roller was exceeding the speed
limit, Senator Root admitted TIE
charge, but said that many of the dele
gates wanted to get homo for Sunday
so the steam roller continued un-
checked
The speed with which the reports of
Of the credentials committee was acted
upon at Chicago was ludicrous. On
every contest for seats two reports were
submitted one by the majority or
Taft members Of the committee and the
other by the minority or Roosevelt |
members Of the committee Each re.
port was read at tho delegates, but not
to them, after which the minority floor
leader moved the adoption Of the minor
ity report and the majority leader
moved as a substitute that the minority
report be tabled. This was done on a
viva voce vote. The galleries voted
"No" with the delegates and the noes
always appeared 10 have at least the
largest volume Of noise, but Chairman
Root invariably declared "The ayes ap-
pear TO have it-the ayes have it.''
Calls for a division were unheeded and
the delegates whistled "toot, toot' and
Henry Allen Of Kansas asked
unanimous consent TO read statement
to the convention. Chairman Root asked
If there were objections, Two hundred
delegates were Immediately on their
feet protesting but the chairman raped
the gavel and said quietly, Tho chair
hears none, the gentleman will pro-
ceed' Whereupon Mr.. Allen was
moved to remark;
"In a convention when the noes al
ways sound louder than the ayes but
the ayes always win, one is fortunate
to say the least in securing the unani-
nous consent Of the chairman.
Ollie James on the other hand in pre-
siding over the Democratic convention |
erred on the side of allowing the dele |
gates too many instead of too few priv.
ileges. Everyone had chance to talk |
and much time was wasted in callincl
rolls on adjournment and other ques. |
tions merely to satisfy the whims of a
few delegtes.
The genuine false alarm of the Re. |
publican convention was "Biln Finn. |
the militant political boss of Pittsbure.
Finn was looked upon as the "white |
hope' of the Roosevelt forces. Hei
was to lead the 50 strong arm brigade