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Show HHHppif q" e Finish for T. Kjearns. jm BBHMBHyBMi ' ' fl fHHUHHHHmai Utah, was put over a ffliillidtesr, and everybody took HHb9HMI dignity en passant. And HflHBBKlliii tfta & He and tne HHHHmP''WWt to the convention with HSHDHpPMi to insert in the platform HHflHBHHMlI' th6 administration on its HHHHHRf Cuban reciprocity, and he HHHHKA"lht Even had he been da-BBBKHKMm da-BBBKHKMm Undoubtedly have been the HHHHpihdd to spring it in the convention, HHHHHHpliMft have made'7 him "it" with the HraBBflHiil of hie heelers remarked, and the BBgJWMHBwft?0 made a bad mistake" and layed BSIHflBSKl, critical time. Out fought in the HiHHfl&iMtttraled in the convention, beaten HfHBJHNHfigpiPB to have Beveridge stampede IflHflflHiflip" Keams failed. There were no flflHHfiflHP & make it was a matter of flHHHHHH&pjton won out HHHHpMpMt dne word spoken in the conven-bSSwS conven-bSSwS ftttbject of Cuban reciprocity, there is PPtatttv absence of any direct reference to it in BK pWdtiterm, and the victory over the dictation HKh jyytopdosing clique which is trying to run HUIhKM complete. RmHHHMMfsting of the committee on resolutions, HHHHDtifth's pink tea politician, introduced HHHflHRpf && read, "And we are heartily in EHfnHPfipf trade relations between our coun-HHHPPp coun-HHHPPp as will prove most beneficial to her BllliPl$ng industries and not injurious to our Hewik interests, to the end that Cuba shall not be fl compelled nor permitted to create an enormous fl public debt at the very threshold of her career I that shall prove her undoing and our shame in the fl years to come. We, therefore, endorse the hum-I hum-I He utterances of the late President McKinley and the repetition of his sentiments by President fl Roosevelt defining our commercial duty toward f the peoplo of Cuba." Senator Kearns asked for the adoption of this resolution, he pleaded for its adoption, but the I committee by a large majority couldn't see it, nor I the sabstitute which read, "And we are heartily B P in favor of such trade relations between our B country .and Cuba as will prove most beneficial to . B her languishing industries, the assistance to be given to be so rendered as to bear, if possible, upon up-on all our protected industries alike, without material ma-terial injury to those of any section of our country." coun-try." It looked cloudy in the west for the Kearns forces which consisted of a few officeholders, and the salaried attendants. Then they came off the high horse, and where they had hitherto made a demand, and then an appeal, they wanted to compromise, and with no direct reference to the question the President was endorsed. The other fight in the committee was on the resolution which pledged support to Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. The Sutherland people would not have it, and did not, but little did the Kearns people suspect the real object of this action until George Sutherland Suth-erland arose after the reading of the platform and moved that it be the sense of the convention that Roosevelt should be nominated in 1904 as his own successor. The spontaneous shout that followed and the unanimous adoption of the clause told the effect it had had on the delegates. How it gave the lie to the dirty slanderers of this honest representative statesman. And it was another beat for the crafty Kearnsites whose bewildered proceedings throughout the day were a source of joy to the assembled multitude. Everything had been made ready to have the convention bow to the will of the parvenue dictator, dic-tator, from the free distribution of convincing Tribunes at 'the front door to the speech of the Senator from Indiana, who was to address the delegates before the platform was adopted, and there was nothing doing. While the committee on resolutions were in session the air was full of rumors on the question of the time Senator Beveridge should speak. It was planned by the Kearns people to have him speak immediately on the reconvening of the convention, and then the trouble started. A Tri-State Tri-State rally had been announced, Mr. Beveridge was to speak at that rally, and everyone would be glad to hear him, but no thought of letting him speak during the deliberations of the convention conven-tion had been entertained, and the sugar men refused re-fused to let the ring butt in with their orator to "j 'I influence the delegates before the adoption of the 'f ffl platform. fl And then the Senator announced that if he H ! coulu not speak at that time he would not speak j I' Jfl at all. Then Mr. Beveridge was informed that if fl , he would not speak in the evening he needn't I ll speak at all, and he reconsidered. I ( t .jH Kearns and Heath met him on Wednesday, 't brought him here, and saw that no one else saw ' him, took him back to Ogden, and framed up the ' J jfl game which was blocked. i , J jfl But my, my there was consternation in the J ' fl Kearns camp during the noon hour, which contin- ' ' fl ued till John C. Graham moved to hand the un- " ' 9 pleasantness to the committee on permanent or- j " fl ganization and order of business recommending jfl that the Senator be invited to speak after the u U I fl business of the convention was concluded. Just t Ji fl after the permanent officers had taken their seats, j 'Mfl Hayes of Ogden jumped up and in one last de- ! fl spairing effort moved that a committee of three '" f be appointed to wait on Senator Beveridge and liH ask him to speak while the convention was wait- i"B ing for the report of the committee on resolu- f fl tions. j fl The Senator was not asked to speak. ll f & fl P-iJ And speaking of this same Senator, there were t&fl many who changed their opinions of this bright p UfJHfl young man on Thursday. In the few minutes he jfa jfrfl spoko in the Reed hotel in response to a serenade C flffl he said, "I have traveled across this great land f ?fl of ours, I have been in many lands, but in all my , f "jfjfl life, and in every land, I never heard anything , 2fffl finer than this magnificent band. Every note was j I f TJfl an inspiration, etc." - 1 t f f fl It was Held's band that he referred to, but at 1 H that remark everybody said H . v fl And the gush that followed in the evening with j : ffl reference to the junior Senator was sickening to J I'lfl every intelligent man. We are not all savages, 1 ffjJlfl and these Indiana bubbles are a little too big to t jfrfl cairy any weight. I, JfLH I lilsfl The convention so far as the proceedings were f ifPB concerned, was if not a triumph for Sutherland j . j fl at least an overwhelming solor-plexus blow to j M l fl Kearns. In the main Mr. Sutherland drafted the j ' f&fl platfprm which was adopted, and looking over , j iSB the whole day there was not one ray of sunshine '5 ? Hfffl for our junior Senator. 3fl , in |
