The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-31
Salt Lake City, Oct. 30, 1894.

To the Editor of the Herald:
The answer to the articles in the
Deseret News and Tribune Of October
% and 80, which 1 hand you, was sent
by me to the Deseret News office at L
D. IN. today. / am informed that they
will not print the same. Their failure
TO do so shows how manifestly unfair
Ind partisan that s. called independent
paper is. o. w. POWERS
To the Deseret News-On the evening
of October 16, at Springville, in pub
lie speech, 1 put certain questions ito
the Republican candidate for Congress,
calculated to elicit information with
relation to an alleged connection of Mr..
Frank J. Cannon with the infamous
Sugar trust.
The questions were published in the
Salt Lake Herald on the morning of
October II. On the evening of October
1t MT. Cannon spoke in Salt Lake city,
-,.fNes made no reply TO and no reference
10 my interrogatomes. Consequently, L
repeated the questions in a public
speech at Provo on the evening of Oc-
tober 90 Last evening, eleven days
after my questions were first published,
Mr.. Cannon. in a card in the Deseret
News. entered wholesale denial to the
questions.
FOUNDATION FOR THE QUESTIONS
NV foundation for the questions was
based upon the following evidence:
On the 18th day of September, 1894,
Hon. Joseph L. Rawlins, in his speech
accepting the Democratic nomination
for Congress. referring TO the obstacles
which he had 10 overcome in order to
secure the passage Of the Utah state
hood bill. made the following state
ment:
Tariff legislation being out of the
way and after the bill had been re-
ported to the Senate, and just before
a ne time arrived when it was under
Eood the bill would be taken UP, it
REas given out in the city of Washing
II ION that a bargain had been made by
(which a certain railroad scheme should
he set on foot and carried to success
.skil conclusion in the territory Of Utah.
Xhat the Sugar trust was to advance
Ahe money 10 make the enterprise sue
cessful. That Colonel Trumbo was to
be one Of the senators who would be
satisfa Glory to the Sugar trust, and
General Clarkson might be another;
and that Bishop Clawson was there 10
speak for the Mormon church This
statement was telegraphed to the lead
ing papers throughout the country 1t
can well be understood what effect this
would have, at least upon Democratic
sena tors. in dealing with the proposed
admission of Utah. which was thus,
\ according to the story. to be turned
Her. first. to the Republican party,
EaFd. second. to elect senators and repre-
Sentatives who were to be devoted. not
TO the public interest and welfare Of
the people whom they represented, but
to the use of one of the foulest monop-
olies that ever sprang into existence.
The gentlemen involved did nor see fit
Sia 70,
tradict this statement-tbis foul asper-
sion upon the character of the people of
Utah, who were, according to the story
to be made the victims and tools of an
infamous bargain"
EFFECT UPON THE SENATORS.
With reference to the effect that the
foregoing charge had upon the senators.
MIR. Rawlins said
Senator Cochrell one of the most
honest and fair-dealing men that ever
was placed in public life, who would
do no injustice to any one if he knew
1t, felt called upon, by reason of the
suspicious circumstances, tc vote
against the bill. If it had gone over
one day, what would have happened
Of course we can only conjecture But
Il assured these men, as did Senator
Faulkner that whatever might be the
truth or falsity OF this report. that the
n
that there was no power under the sun
what could deliver them to the use Of
such monopoly. And the Utah bill be-
came a law"
NO DENIAL MADE.
So far as 1 am informed. up TO the
present hour, there has been no denial
by any person, either in authority or
as a private individual, of the serious
Charges contained in the quoted para
graph of Mr.. Rawlins' speech.
On Friday, October 18th, a gentleman
of repate and whose word / had not
ta1ea slightest reason to doubt, called at
my office and stated that he was sat-
isfied that q connection existed between
Frank j. Cannon and the Sugar trust
RESULT OF AN INVESTIGATE
He said that he had carefully investi-
gated the matter and knew that such
was the fact He submitted to me in
writing statement containing the re-
suits Of his investigation, a condensa-
tion Of which statement is as follows:
First-The Sugar trust was able to
contrcl legislation in the Senate Of the
last congress.
SSecond-lt is today manipulating
political affairs in Louisiana, hoping
thereby TO secure the votes and in
fuence Of the senators from that state
ITO advance its nefarious schemes.
MI Taird--Two senators from Utah VIII
&tbe just as valuable to the trust as the
Esenators from any other state. as their
Notes will be Just as powerful as the
kptes of senators from New York
AFourth-That the Sugar trust has
Entered upon q. commercial war In