The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-23

The special .pleaders for Frank J
Cannon are kept very busy nowadays
explaining why he was abent from the
( Cleveland convention at a time wher
he might do the people of the territory
some good. The criticisms were
/ particularly leveled against Cannon
/ because he is at present drawing about
$14 day for travelling around and at
! tending generally to his own business
with small prospect of being called
upon to do any great work in Congress
/ in the interest of Utah. Under the
! circumstances he might have gone tic
/ Cleveland and done something to help
the cause along in the party that is
most opposed to the white metal. The
excuse he gives that he was not mott
fed of his election by the Republican
convention here in time to attend, will
not hold water He is not the kind
of a politician to let any mention of
his name in the Salt Lake papers
escape his Vigilant eye. Besides that
every member of Congress is exofficio
delegate to such conventions.
frankie must get an excuse that will
wash better than that.
frankie n StraddIe Bug.
But there are other reasons why
Frank Cannon did not attend the CON
Vention. Just at present he is not as
wild silver man as he used 20 be
when he was asking for an election at
the hands of a people who are for sill
Yer above everything else. He is
thoroughly in line with the policy of
Tom Garter and the rest Of the Re-
publican machine men who will stay
with the party if it straddles most out
rageously. In fact he is already lay
ing wires throughout this territory TO
keep the Republicans from going with
the Democrats when they declare for
silver in 1896. 1t is anticipated that 81
our next territorial convention the
Democracy here will make it very
plain that they do not recognize
Cleveland as the leader of the party on
the issues that are now coming up,
and that they intend to be in THE
fight against him for the control of the
Democratic organization and conven-
ton next year. There has been some
talk among the Republicans here of
coming out on a straight silver plat
form and serving constructive notice
on the Republicans who are following
the lead of John Sherman and others
of his kind that the party in the west
will not stand with their eastern
brethren on any platform that does
not give full and fair recognition to
the white metal
Republicans First, Silver BE Hanged
But already in the territory the in
f1uence Of Frank Cannon and his close
allies IS being eXerted against this
movement They are pressing to have
the tariff question kept to the front
this fall and made as strong as pos
sible. in anticipation of the straddIe
in 1896. The Cannon and Tribune ele-
ment genera llV are IiftiDo their. I-oicac
in eXtenuatiOn of the action in 1896.
1t is a betrayal of silver But then it
seems to be in the interest of the Re
publicans. Just now they are figuring
on platform on which they can carry
the east solidly, with some breaks in
the solid south and a holding of some
states in the west. Cannon did not
dare go to Cleveland. If ne had he |
would have been forced to make 2 |
fight for silver, and under Yhe present
deals that is the last thing he wants |
to do.