The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-24


I Washington. Dec 23.I Special. I'm
doubtedly a great many Of the over
enthusiastic citizens of idaho who are
head over ears in love with the poll
Iticlans who compose the states dele
CATION in Congress were foolish enough
Ito believe that with the arrival of
Senator Shoup in washington and the
tgetting together of the three nsen the
differences between them would be
| patched up and all would 60 as merry
las a marriage bell, If they did, they
lare greatly mistaken. There can be no
doubt that both Shoup and Sweet
would like to see a semblapce Of corr
ldiality, If there. could be such a thing,
land allow each of them TO stay in the
race for the senatorial contest In
Ifact, until within the last nine months
| the relations between these two mem
bers OF the delegation have been as
pheasant as could be desired.
Are Wide Apart
At the present time there can be
found but little evidence that there
Will be a reconciliation Shoup is try
ling in every way, by the most ingen-
ious excuses. to put himself right be-
fore the people in this matter of The
senatorial contest. When he came
down 10 Washington ne evidently had
some idea of patching the thing up
with Sweet and Dubois, for he so stat
led to The Herald correspondent Upon
his arrival On this basis he made
lseveral visits to Sweet while the lat
ter was sick and endeavored, as IS
stated in Sweets letter, to arrive at
some understanding. But by his sub
seouent announcements that he is stll
! in the race the understanding was de-
sired nv him to go only so far as TO
| satisfy Sweet without doing him the
Justice he demanded
| He was Surprised
no axnressed amazement that Sweet
! had made an open letter to him on the
| subject instead of combining the corre-
I spondence to private channels until
/ some goal was reached, where eacn
/ cculd understand the other. lie dl0 not
| know that the letter WAS open until
The Herald correspondent so INFORMED
! him. But his amaZement was not par
| donable. He had gone into print quite
1 V.
lington, Notwithstanding he knew Sweet
was so ill all the time that he could not
| saw a word in his own defense. 1t was
! peculiar then for him to expect that
| when Sweet was cQnvalescing ancs
! every day received evidences of what
use was being made of his enforced
but impatient silence he would longer re-
| main passive. Certainly the only thing
| for Sweet to do was to deny in toto
| that there had been any mention in
! Shoup's withdrawal of the latter's de-
| sire to make 1t contingent upon the
action of any convention.
| Under the circumstances there could
/! be but little on which to base warmth
! of feeling between the two belliSerent
seekers for the tOga. Even were there
! a suspicion of it, the correspondence and
the efforts of their friends, as we'll as
| the alliance of Shoup with such a politi-
| cal rOustabOut as Mcconnell, would
I serve to keep them apart. They have
not met since the interchange OF letters,
and it is doubtful whether they will
! even speak to one another. They may
do this, however as matter
| of form; but their greeting
would be frigid enough to make
the teeth of even an ice-hardened
/ Esquimau rattle like castanets.
| Doesn't Like Dubois.
I
tween Shoup ana Dubois, since they
have had their little explanati tons and
and it is hard for the two men to meet
on the floor of the Senate and endea-
vor to keep their differences from be-
ing noticed by their fellow members.
Shoup seems to have become con-
WINGED, through the efforts of McCon-
InelI and q few others of the guberna-
torial ring. that Freddie is trying with
all his might to buck him out of poll
tics" There is no doubt that Dubois
has the desire, because ne knows full
well that the north is determined to
have a Senator either this time or next
and there is nothing in the world that
would hurt his feelings more than to
have the guillotine put to work on his
own neck.
The only evidence of cordiality is
that between Sweet and DUBOIS. They
are thicker than bees in their enGea,
vors to carry on their mutual plans.
| This, however, is a truce for cOnyen-
fence sake. There never has been any
real warmth of feeling between the
two men. In fact neither has ever
cared to express the most cordial opin-
ion of the other until the present SEM
atorial race brought them together in
a mutual war against the common foe
! who threatens to wipe them both ont
unless they can break the combination.
Their alliance is only another proof OF
Tie uidAlHl tudI 1OulICo LldhC oil ctHSc
lbedfelIows."
VIII BE Hot and Bitter.
If the feeling exhibited in Washing,
ton is carried into the legislature one
of the hottest senatorial contests in
the west may be looked for. The
struggles two years ago in Wyo-
lining and Montana will not be
la circumstance. In this case
there is a threat that the Re
publican party will be split wide
lopen. 1t is hardly probable that there
will be even a caucus, as Shoup is too
imuch afraid that Sweet would have
full control of that by his pledged
| votes. The party is likely to go into
the fight with each man for himself
snd money flying around with surprising
rapidity. The contest may be long and
then one can expect sudden changes of
votes from one candidate to another
and as sudden signs of wealth on the
ipart of the man who changed his vote
However, even the fact that money can
be brought to the front may not settle
the affair and there is a strong posi-
bility that the disunited factions will
try to come to an agreement on a
dark horse or that one or the other
will make substantial concession to the
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