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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH Silver Kathleen Norris Says: Fighty Years Ago Chicago's Wigwam Simple Stitches for Household Linens (Bell Syndicate-WNU head the list of iten tagonisms studens about which high school tp are most concerned, according y. recent Y. M. C. A. surve I R. CHAIRMAN, wish to announce that the Ohio dele- M gation ARIETY of motifs and variety of embroidery-all in one pattern-give you the opportunity of making quantities of small linens more attractive. Grand for articles for bazaar or shower. Pattern 2498 contains a transfer pattern of 28 motifs ranging from 2 by 12% inches to 1% by 1% inches; color schemes; illustrations of stitches; materials required. Send order to: Sewing Circle Eighth Ave. 82 Enclose 15 Needlecraft Dept. New cents in coins York for Pat- Name Address ..sccccces seseesdsevoee INDIGESTION may affect the Heart in the stomach or gullet gas . he fastestmedicines known for acid indigestion. If the DOSE doesn't prove Bell-ans better return to us and receive DOUBLE Money Back. 25c. True Work Sacred All true work is sacred; in all true work, were it but true handlabor, there is something of divineness.-Carlyle. Many Insects ON FLOWERS e FRUITS VEGETABLES & SHRUBS Demand original sealed bottles, from your dealer Bad Associates Debts and lies are generally mixed together.-Rabelais. Salt Lake's NEWEST HOTEL Opposite Mormon Temple HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Rates $1.50 to $3.00 &4's a mark of distinction to stop at this beautiful hoste ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Mer. WHEN YOU WANT THAT NEXT JOB OF PRINTING | 1H | Let Us Show You What We Can Do 1} | | | If you prefer, send the } order by mail or bring it to the office in person. | ih Carter, arose to announce the switch of four votes from Chase to Lincoln. Ohio had cast 29 votes for Lincoln, 15 for Chase and 2 for McLean on the third ballot. This gave Lincoln the required majority and touched off a tremendous salvo of applause. State after state fell in line and finally the leader of the New York delegation, which had been solidly behind Seward, moved to make the vote unanimous. Lincoln followers had placed a cannon on top of the Wigwam and let go a blast which shook the structure and notified all of Chicago that Illinois was furnishing the Republican nominee. The newspaper accounts of French influence, the strong Ry pean influence in Turkey, dates froy an alliance signed in 1535 betwe, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent gy; King Francis I of France. votes four The Chicago of 80 years ago was a metropolis of 109,260 persons, according to the census taken in June of 1860. The city was outranked by seven others in size -New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans and Cincinnati. It was very much of a frontier town and its reputation was such that one of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination, William Henry Seward of New York, came to the city with a "bodyguard of plug-uglies,'' to defend himself from the uncouth natives. Seward and his delegation arrived with extreme confidence. They could hardly believe that a man from Illinois would stand much chance of being nominated for the presidency, despite the record of honesty, integrity and sincerity which Abraham Lincoln had built. But he was a ‘‘backwoodsman"' and uncouth, so the Seward crowd was not much worried. Following two days of convention routine, the delegates got down to the job of selecting candidates. The Seward men were out parading and whooping it up on the streets for their candidate. When they reached the Wigwam they found the place jammed with friends of Lincoln and barely managed to get in. Seward's Men Confident. There was little abatement of the Seward confidence when the roll was called for the first ballot. The vote showed that out of the 466 votes cast, Seward had 173%, Lincoln 102, and the rest were scattered among a dozen favorite sons. It took 234 votes to nominate, and the Seward supporters were confident that after the routine of voting for favorite sons was out of the way, the swing would be to their man. The second ballot was taken and the count showed a shift to Lincoln rather than to the Easterner. Seward had 184% and Lincoln 181. The Lincoln delegates worked strenuously before the third ballot, and the Chicago Press and Tribune of that date reports that intense excitement prevailed. The tally started and when the twenty-fourth state had voted, the count showed Seward 180, Lincoln 231%. Ohio had been dividing its vote between Chase, McLean and Abraham Lincoln. A few minutes after the vote on the third ballot was announced, the leader of the Ohio delegation, a Mr. Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE transfers from Mr. Chase to Abraham Lincoln." Eighty years ago these few words touched off a thunderous round of applause and sent word speeding across the nation that Abraham LinRepublican the was coln choice to run for President of the United States. The scene was the Republiin Chicago, Wigwam can where delegates had gathered from 24 states to choose their candidates for President and vice president. Now, 80 years later, on May 18, Republicans of Chicago are a commemorative holding in the building ceremony which stands on the site of the Wigwam, to mark this four occasion momentous decades ago. the day report a celebration running far into the night. Hannibal Hamlin of Paris, Maine, was Lincoln's running mate, as the vice presidential candidate. Lincoln had been building his national following for some time. The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1859 had of course attracted widespread attention, and in early 1860 he had been speaking in many states on the question of slavery. The Chicago Press and Tribune on February 16, 1860, declared that Abraham Lincoln was the in Turkey - Influence French (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) 66 g War, lack of jobs and racial Service.) WATSON SCOTT ELMO Dollar High School Student Problems -___ -_-- By enn 371 959% A silver dollar contains of silver and 4] 959) fine grains grains alloy. Up, Mothers of Sons, On Mother's Day Wake Was the Scene of an Historic Event: lincoln's Nomination for Presidency =-=-_1 Se - mr Tate eae pee te HOTELS -_- hen "REPUBLICAN WICWAM, peer of anyone named in connection with the nominations. A week later the paper suggested organization of Lincoln clubs to build his candidacy. Editorially in the period from early February until April comment was made from time to time that Seward admittedly was the leading candidate, but the Press and: Tribune urged that Lincoln was the better votegetter. , When the Illinois Republican convention was held on May 9 in Decatur, Lincoln was chosen as this body's choice for President. The Democrats Split. Great attention centered on the Democratic convention, held in Charleston, S. C., beginning April 30. Douglas was the most prominently named candidate as_ the Democratic nominee, but bitter opposition to his selection was heard on all sides. The Democratic convention battled through three days and finally split into two sections. No candidate could be named. The rump section adjourned to meet in New York on June 18. The Press and Tribune repeatedly cited election trends in many states and cities in the spring of 1860 as a trend toward Republicanism. In Chicago, the city elec- Tablet on Goodrich building in Chicago which stands on the site of the wigwam. tions had given the Republican candidate a clear victory over his Democratic opponent. The meeting of 1860 was the first of 16 political conventions held in Chicago to date. The Republicans have come to Chicago 11 times and the Democrats five times, to select their candidates for President and vice president and to approve platforms. The Democrats return again this year, meeting in July at the Chicago Stadium. Located 15 blocks west and 3 blocks south of the Wigwam site, the Stadium is a sharp contrast to the structure set up 80 years ago to hold the Republican meeting. Largest Convention Hall. In its day, however, the Wigwam was a cause for national comment. It was the largest convention hall in America at that time and was a testimony to Chicago's energy and ambition to show the nation that the city was something more than just another frontier town located out the other side of nowhere. When it was decided that the Republicans would come to Chicago to hold their convention, citizens immediately started work raising funds with which to build the convention hall. On March 13, during the fund-raising campaign, the Chicago Press and Tribune suggested that Republicans who won money in the recent city elections contribute their winnings to the building fund, "‘thus using pro-slave dollars for the purpose." The site chosen already had a historic background. Located at the fork of the Chicago river, which in those days flowed into Lake Michigan instead of out of it, in earlier times the place was known as Wolf Point. Here had stood the Sauganash inn, the first hotel in Chicago and one of the first two frame buildings ever erected in the city. There is a dispute in the records on this latter point. Some claim the Sauganash inn was the first frame building, but others insist it was the second. In any event, the Sauganash inn was famous far and wide. It had been built by Mark Beaubien when he came from Detroit in 1826. Beaubien is a name which occurs repeatedly in early Chicago history and still is frequently seen of Chicago RENO, in the news Interesting Coincidence. An interesting coincidence is noted in connection with the building now standing on the corner where the Wigwam was built. The building today is occupied by district headquarters of three divisions of the B. F. Goodrich company, which this year is marking its seventieth anniversary. In the celebration on the Wigwam site, both the Republican and Goodrich representatives are re-enacting history-making events in which both played significant roles. Heading the delegation from Minnesota to the Republican convention of 1860 was Judge Aaron Goodrich, described as the first territorial officer ever to set foot on the soil of Minnesota. The national committeeman from Massachusetts at the same convention was John Z. Goodrich. Aaron Goodrich, John Z. Goodrich and Dr. B. F. Goodrich were distant cousins, all descendants of William Goodrich who came to America about 1648. Another cousin, Grant Goodrich, an attorney, was prominent in Chicago early history, active in municipal affairs and it is said he at one time offered Abraham Lincoln a partnership in his Chicago law firm. | CARSON $2.00 S. a HOTEL Free Parking Virginia St. HOTEL cf FINE USED CARS Seats, Radio, 1939 La Salle Coupe-Auxiliary Heater . MOTOR $1095.00. CO., 51 CANNON-RALppe So. KODAK State, Salt Lake City, FINISHINGeee 16 PRINTS 25¢ him, now lying so still, sweetness of with all her hopes for him buried with him under the deep earth. : Mother's Day in Reverse. And that thought has put a special value upon our own magnificent boys, has made us feel this year that the situation is reversed. It isn't for mothers to expect tribute from their sons, this year; there doesn't seem to be any sense in sitting back in pretty old-lady complacency and waiting for flowers and candy and telegrams to arrive. No, there's something we can do for them; something they can't or won't do for themselves, That something is to stir up continual agitation over the question of our men being sent to fight over seas. Our young men, that is, for the old men who send them never g0. We want to keep Washington continually reminded that several millions of American mothers, for the first time in all history armed with the vote that sent these legislators and representatives to Washington, are uniting for the Single purpose of electing the men who will promise that we shall be kept out of Europe's purposeless orgy of bloodshed. One of the sights they show in Mexico is the old altar of the Mayan Civilization that once prevailed there; a magnificent amphitheater whose stones were once running riyers of young blood. Thousan ds of young men were selected as religious offerings; indulged, petted, fattened for one year, and then led to the Sacrificial stone to have their living hearts cut out. The story is that on one single occasion thirty thousand boys were thus destroye d. Horrible, isn't it? American tour- + > small-pox epidemics, slavery, and a hundred other insanities and abuses that shame the pages of history. If thoughtful, established middle-aged men, men who are absorbed in offices or professions, who love wife and home and children, and golf and fishing and bridge games, had to get themselves into olive drab and sail across seas to solve Europe's never-ending quarrels, how quickly we should be reading some other plan for the solution of international problems! Even if their health and strength didn't match those of younger men, what of it? If life is to be destroyed, why not begin with the unfit? Send them into battle sneezing and rheumatic and taking soda mints, for war destroys health anyway, and all camps are full of invalids. There was young Stayed one men safe battalion of MUSICAL Band or rae - Sales Our time soon. epair Jennings-Butler Co., - Repair, your 25 E. | Lesgg servics Tam Conte: instruments 2nd So., Salt hoy TRUSSES Surgical Trusses porters. 48 W Instruments, Hospital Suppliq Manufacturers of Abdominal] § Elastic Stockings. s he Physicians 2nd South Supply St. - Company Salt Lake City, Uf ‘OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEW AND typewriters, S. L. USED adding DESK EX., %, a desks and chairs, file mch's, safes, bk-eas 35 W. WASHING Broadway, Salt MACHINES MAYTAG - APEX - DEXTER $10 - $20 - $30 ROLLS REPAIRING, ALL MAKES HOMER HANSEN MATAG SHOP 426 So. 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Unexpressed and perhaps completely unsuspected, is jealousy at the base of the policy that sends the finest men to their death? of each generation Sometimes it almost seems so. At all events, men obviously can't solve this war question. They never have and they never will, q e §), th . %& Flying Cadet pay of $75 per month #S with uniforms, living accommodations, ij, food, medical and dental service provided free. % Successful graduate commissioned Reserve Officer with pilot rating. - %& 2 or more years active commissioned service in Air Corps Reserve. Opportunity to win commission im Regular Army Air Corps. strong to destroy of the old { ie kets and uses for surplus products; it is the old men who make the wars. Is there in the long, long history of these decisions young life some shadow ~ |, ie ECONOMY FILM SERVICE Any Roll Developed with 8 Quality Prints- - - - Be Extra Prints - - - - Wrap coin and film carefully Wars. expanding 9] is served by Main-POPULAR Luncheons, 79} ‘ MEALS Lake MAYFLOWER at 154 South A _ with flat feet, who in camp all through their | dl Utah, bloody 1918, and went home happily to draw later. Ih 16 Re 25c, Ogden INSTRUMENTS - Instrument Rental | TCO Roll Developed and 16 prints prints 25c. REX PHOTO :: ° the dedication, which seems to have taken care of the deficit since no further comment is found on the subject. The Wigwam building was used for various meetings during the next few years, and was destroyed in the great fire of 1871. 63 9 APARTMENT columns Between came to sstop at day) Block from Temple. Reasonable -Rates: 9) furnishea Completely month. or week RICHMOND, 70 E. No. Temple, Salt papers. was assessed. and 8,000 persons NEVADA GOLDEN-Reno's targest most popular hotei. RENO KIT with Bath Room Chicago's First Election. Here on August 10, 1833, came It isn't for mothers to expect tribute from their sons, this year; there doesn t the entire list of qualified voters seem to be any sense in sitting back in pretty old-lady complacency and waiting (all 24 of them) to select the for flowers and candy and telegrams to arrive. There's something we can do town trustees for the City of Chifor them. cago, the first election held in the city's history. Here likewise was ists, in their smart silk frocks and By KATHLEEN NORRIS the first drama in the West probroad flowered hats, have been duced, in late October of 1837. OTHER'S DAY has known to faint, contemplating the Beaubien sold the building in had an especial sig- scene, even so many years after the 1834. It burned to the ground on Mayan religion has been swept nificance this year. March 3, 1851. It had been abanaway. Because the hearts of mothdoned as a hostelry in the late But in what way does the slaughforties, apparently, and was ocers everywhere are torn with ter of innocent boys across the seas cupied by only one man at the fears and misery, the dignity improve upon these barbaric days? time of the fire. The property in In one way, today's wars are even of that relationship has some1851 was owned by the Garrett worse. For the Mayan had at least how been emphasized and estate, which later founded the the feeling that this was destiny; Garrett Bible institute and promade important, and when he was helpless and he had been vided the foundation for estabwe read of English boys chosen for death. But our English, lishment in later years of NorthFrench, Russian boys cheering as their ship sinks German, western university. have no such consolation. They in the icy waters of the chanThe townspeopie who were have no feeling against each other. nel, and Russian boys piled They have committed no crime. working on the Republican convention obtained the site from the in windrows under the deep They hate no one. And too often Garrett estate and started conFinnish snows-innocents all, they writhe into slow, agonizing, bitstruction of the great Wigwam in slaughtered like sheep at the terly lonely deaths with every crimApril, 1860. The structure was inal instinct of their natures roused orders of older men, then the and brought to life; hate, a desire 100 by 180-feet, with its main entrance on the street known now first thing we say is ‘"‘God for revenge, a complete loss of as Wacker drive. faith in everything their mothers help their mothers!"' A gallery was built on three taught them of goodness and forA current newspaper carries the sides, a stage constructed across giveness and generosity. philosophical statement that only one end. The stage would seat Their mothers! Here we are 890 aviators have been lost to Britbetween 600 and 700 persons and back to their mothers again, as ain since the beginning of the war. the hall itself was constructed to Mother's day passes by. It is no Not even a thousand yet! Aviaseat between 10,000 and 11,000 use to watch their babyhood sicktors are young men, above the averpersons. nesses, to train them in boyhood to age in intelligence, resource, courThe Wigwam was lighted by goodness, only to fail them when age, aptitude. They are no Foreign gas. Its interior was left in a the first bugle blows, and send them Legion, composed of ex-convicts, rough, unfinished state, to be decforth to freeze in muddy trenches, loafers, failures, adventurers. No, orated ‘‘by the light, graceful and to meet hot death in the air, to they come from fine homes, they entirely successful handiwork of are students, they are entrusted to drive their bayonets into the bodies Republican ladies,'' to quote the carry out the of boys they never saw before, just most delicate and Press-Tribune of the day. The ladangerous business of war. as shrapnel or bullets pierce their And 890 dies banked the walls with freshof them have already come down own splendid bodies, to rot unnoted ly cut evergreens. Seals of the to violent death in smoking fuselage in crowded, fetid hospitals, and finalstates were hung around the and tangled wreckage, and even if ly to lie still and unremembered- walls, and busts of prominent not every one of them had not a by all except Mothers!-in foreign men of early American history mother or wife to mourn him, hunsoil. were placed on the supporting pildreds of them had. Let Men Over Forty Fight. Hundreds of lars. Over the stage was susmothers have lain awake If I could I would get a bill restless pended a huge gilt eagle. | and dry-eyed through through congress prohibiting the enthe endless The structure cost between nights ever since, and will not know listment in army or navy of any $6,000 and $7,000. There was a sleep or rest for many and many man under forty years. This would deficit to clear, so on the night a night to come, thinking of the stop war so fast that soon its memof the dedication, Saturday, May young fine body, the loving, eager ory would blend with witch-burning, 12, an admission charge of 25 heart, the gayety and cents 7,000 in IOTEL 350 Rooms-350 Family Rooms Baths for 4 - $2.00 to persons - Air Cooled Lounge and Lobby Grill Room. . Coffee Shop. Tap ® Home of Rotary-Kiwanis-Executives Exchange-Optimus-"20-30 Chamber of Commerce and Ad Clab Hotel Ben OGDEN, Come as Lomond UTAH you are T. E. Fitzgerald. WNU - Week No. 4020 - SALT q |