Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-16 | Page 4 | Party Heroes

J I PARTY HEROES TO ANYONE who finds national political V 7 conventions interesting there must oc- oc come the ine melancholy thought that the great party heroes the heroes the patron saints so soto soto soto to speak whose names us II-us must always be mentioned meno mentioned men men- o reverently In the keynote addresses addresses- get a whole lot lotmore more devotion from their part parties parties par- par t ties after they are dead than while they are alive V Each party has its great heroes and each I party always drags out their Images at 1 its I conventions V The Republicans of course specialize In Abraham Lincoln and lately they have hav begun begun begun be- be gun t to enshrine Theodor Roosevelt in an ad adJacent adjacent adjacent ad- ad jacent niche The Democrats start with f. f Thomas Jefferson pause to bend the knee before the figure of Andr Andrew w Jackson and then drop the rest of the their r wreaths at the feet of Woodrow Wilson r I But a good many of those men got something something something some- some thing less than complete devotion from their followers during life Lincoln for example is on a pedestal now But the dawn of 1865 found his party bitterly 1 divided A large section was almost IncredIbly hostile to him If Booth had not killed 1 him Lincoln and not Johnson would have havet t felt the of I wrath the radicals In the late T GOs his attempts to save the south from the horrors o of the reconstruction period would i r have brought to him the blind hostility of that section of his party which ultimately 1 tried to throw Johnson ou out of or office jj S R Roosevelt likewise was not always the Idol Idoll of his party he was rO roundly snubbed in I 2 1912 and he ne had to break the party in half I and anci help elect Wilson to win back his place in the G. G 0 O. p P. P councils t And Wilson before his public career ended S eat sat at the head of a divided party Not all of of the votes that killed the treaty of Vert Ver- Ver t sallies In the United States senate came from C Republicans and in the campaign of 1920 there were plenty of party leaders who found It Inexpedient nt to do battle for doc- doc Not until after his death did his party r really ally enshrine him