The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-04
THE TWO CANDIDATES..

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what the Republican candidate had
done during the past two years that
the people of Utah should send him TO
Congress- The chief Republican paper
of Mr. Cannon's town, a paper which
Mr.. Cannon himself used to edit. tells
what he has done. Having been edited
by the Republican candidate and Still
being his organ in his town, this paper
speaks with peculiar authority, and
when it names the grounds upon which
Mr.. Cannon should be sent to Congress.
it names his chief claims.
1t speaks of the work done by Mr..
Rawlins in Congress. 1t says:
Rawlins introduced two bills to open
I'D Indian reservations. He introduced
bill to give Salt Lake city univer-
sity site out of the FIT. Douglas military
reservation, but what did he do for
the people outside of Salt Lake? Pass
statehood bill with a string to it.
Mr.. Rawlins not only introduced bills
to open up Indian reservations. but got
them enacted into laws. This will open
up to settlement some millions of acres
of the best land in Utah.
When he secured a site for the Uni
versity of Utah. he secured one for a
territorial institution, an institution for
ritory, and one of which they are justly
proud This is the same institution the
Republicans sought to cripple by cut
ting down the appropriation for it, that
they might give bounties.
Passed a statehood bill with a string
to it." The discovery of this string is
something new. To give to a quarter
of million of people local self-govern-
ment; to secure for them a voice in the
control of the Nations affairs in the
House and in the Senate; for the peo-
pie of Utah to have a say in the selec-
ton of the chief magistrate, surely all
this is something, something greater
than was ever done for Utah before.
Mr. Rawlins also secured the return to
the Mormon church of some four hun
dred thousand dollars worth of es-
cheated property. All this is no small
amount of work to be accomplished in
two years. And it has all been for the
people of Utah without distinction.
Now let us see what Mr.. Cannon has
done.
He went east and labored for the in
veStment of a million dollars to build a
great power dam, which will be the
cause Of building hundreds of factories
in Utah.
So far as known, that power dam is
a thing of the future. If the scheme is
ever realized it will be a good thing.
But Mr. Cannon is interested in that
scheme in the hopes of making very
large money for himself and those asso-
ciated with him. 1t is all for their ben
eft primarily; the benefit to the people
is a secondary consideration. No one
will find fault with this, but because a
man has been laboring for his own pri-
vate gain, is scarcely a good reason for
sending him to Congress. Let it be
borne in mind that Mr.. Cannon S
scheme is all a thing of the future,
while Mr.. Rawlins' work in opening
the Indian reservations, in causing to
be restored the Mormon church prop
erty, and securing statehood, is an ac-
complished fact. And this has been for
the public benefit and not for private
gain. Does not adj this outweigh labor
ing for "the investment of a million
dollars to build a great power dam"
Remembering all Mr.. Rawlins has
done, let the people of Utah heed what
Mr.. Cannon's organ in his own town
says:
And it will be proved beyond doubt
that Jos. Rawlins is not in it when the
REAL VALUE OF his work is compared
| to that Of the work Of Frank j. Cannon.
If Mr.. Cannons work is of such great
value and he is such wonderful man,
would it not be doing him a great
wrong to send him to Congress, where
his light would be hid under bushel
and the people of Utah deprived of his
labor for the investment of million
dollars to build great power dam,
especially when the power dam is not
yet built?