Show RUE nUB FOR fOil REMEMBRANCE HEIE Well ell It was a beautiful corpse More than two twenty-two Democrats gathered In solemn conclave at al the time Salt Palace yesterday l and resolved resol that the they were not dead But the they knew better belter rhey They were tIme the truest body hod of mourners that thal ever mo moved with quiet tread and spoke in whispers The They knew know they ther were dead dead and they meant to go like lUe gentlemen And they did hen When the convention was called to order every one looked for the how v ers Ono One of or the committees Indeed d ha had asked aske Councilman Hobday who wito Is as aM much an authority on floral decorations as oil eu on politics to 10 send up a across across across cross or an anchor or a broken column col- col column column col col- and Tom rom said ho he thought the tho column that went vent up In the tho street streetcars streetcars streetcars cars was sufficiently broke V But Dut that ripple of or face tin was pa passed pass ed cd over and tho ho little purveyor of oC funeral bloom smiled behind his black bordered professional handkerchief and asked what color of oC flowers the Democrats wanted They conferred and asked the professional pro pro- fe lonal what hat was tho the usual thing Well Vell said sald Tom If IC you ou fellows arc are going to vote voto the K arns ticket et get set yellow ellow If Ie u arc are going to vote voto I the Republican ticket get white while If you ou are aie going to vote vole the Democratic ticket get et wall vall ers fio you flowers you ou may need as aJi many as aj half haIr a dozen The Tho committee retired behind a screen s-creen of China asters and consulted When hen they emerged the look on their faces was positively bright They had arrived at a a. decision the decision the hardest thing Imaginable for a Democratic committee to do when It has no wireless wire less from Kearns And the spokes spokes- spokesman man delivered the first 1 unanimous de decision decision de- de e- e the part party has known since the state stale was admitted We e will said he take a pillow of the white with here and there a dash of gold golden rod And those were the decorations of tho the remains displayed yesterday at the Salt SaIl Palace There Thero was sas a sen sense c of abandonment of oC lonesomeness on the part of or the who had not nol been paid their expenses because there was not money mone enough In III the treasury The They looked at the U record of or their party parly In Iii the Iho past and were tilled with regret reg They looked at the hope for It 11 In the tIme fu future future fU- fU ture turc and were filled with gloom An Anthe And the they looked at al the possessions for the present and realized that there there was nothing left let but hut Matt Thomas and the thc biography of or Andrew Jackson and the they were not sure of or Matt But Dut thc they ero a bravo brave lot Courage Courage Courage Cour Cour- age e In the pre presence ence of or death Is always an Impressive thing thins And In the absence absence absence ab ab- ab- ab sence of or anything anything- tangible It must have ha been beon courage which Inspired any man to rise and speak of or the part party There were so man many things about which the speakers could not speak There was Cleveland whose name was waR put In cold storage o by b the Democrats hi Jn 1896 and armil has never ne been deo deodorized deodorized deodor deodor- or- or since There Thero Thereas was as Hearst and the they dared not applaud him without the fear of angering tho the regulars There was Fred Dubols DuboIs and the theon on only time lime his name namo was mentioned the undertaker fell In a dead lead faint and had to lo be treated to three fin fingers of embalming fluid Tho The progress o of tho the party part In Idaho the thc triumph of Democracy In Missour Missouri Mis Mis- sour SOUlI the of or the party part in New York state slate at nt the last election elec clec- tion all tion-all all were things about which a great silence allence had to tu bo be oh observed ened The arrest of Chairman taggart g of their national committee for running c. c gambling house house- without a limit was Ignored in spite spile of tho the Western love lo for Cor a n. good game sport And the failure of or the prophesies les of Bryan had to be treated with tho Iho silence observed observed ob ob- ob- ob served ser b by a man who discusses ses the virtues of or hl his first wife In the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of or his second Nothing was left but the three fifty thousand Democratic majority In Utah Ulah In 1896 An And when a new dele dele- gate gale fired In imagination with the splendor of that thai result risked asked how much majority the Democrats got ot In later state stale electionS even the Iho corpse smiled It was a hue fine funeral There was wasu wasa u u. smell of carbolic C acid and burned tar lar paper all over O the place and the most cheerful thing time the convention did was to adjourn Vale Democratic party parly I Uncertain of leaders abandoned of oC followers ban batTen barren en of issues and willing willingto to lo accept any principles which nobody nobody no no- bod body else wants tho the delegates to lo the Salt Palace Palce dropped their badges on the ice-cold ice form furn of oC the deceased c and kicked the loose dirt In over their hopes It was as resolved to l keep keel the committee together until November so 80 that arrangements for fOl a n fitting filling monument could be completed But that i is all |