The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-05
OGDEN DEPT.
REpHLD BRUNCH OFFICE,
513 UTAH LOAN g. TRUST EUILDING.
Ogden, October 5.
THE POWER DAM IN roL1T1os.
Ogden, October 5.

The Republican legislative ticket for
this county is not a bad one, that is it
might have been worse, but on the
whole, for a Republican ticket, it is
a very good one.
The nominees are all pledged to Mr..
Cannon and that is going to be the
issue so far as the senatorial contest
is concerned.
Mr. Cannon, of this county, wants to
be a senator from Utah, which rs a
laudable ambition, and no man should
dispute his right TO aspire to that nigh
office
The same plan of campaign will be
followed this year that was followed
last fall when Mr.. Cannon was candi-
date for delegate to Congress. Then
it was urged that his election would
mean the completion of the power
dam, and the people of this county,
and especially Democrats, were urged
TO vote for him on that ground.
Now there is no person in this county
who does not desire that the great
power dam and plant shall be speedily
built and they will do anything in rea-
son to aid in THE furtherance of the
enterprise.
1t should be understood, however,
that the power dam does not depend
for success or failure upon the triumph
of any political party. 1t is purely d
business proposition and it will sue
coed as well under one party as an
other.
If Mr. Cannon and his associates are
depending upon a political issue for
the backing necessary to secure the
funds with which to complete this
work then it is very uncertain because
money lenders want something more
substantial than that upon which to
base their security. 1t will be remem-
bered that during the latter part of
the campaign of 1894 Mr. Cannon, in
a speech delivered at Huntsville, de-
| clared that the power dam enterprise
was failure because of the passage
OF the Wilson bill and he has since re-
peated that declaration in substance in
a private converse ton. The Herald
! referred to the public declaration of
Mr. cannon at the time and so far as
| known it has never been denied. Yet
after the Wilson bill has been in force
for several months Mr. Cannon. in
his reports as manager of this great
corporation, says that the prosnects
financially are brighter than they ever
! We're.
1t would seem then that he was mis-
taken about the effects of the Wilson
| Dill. and following out his own line of
reasoning if the power dam is ever
bulH 1t will be due to the effect OF
Democratic principles as applied Is
governmental affairs and private enter
pr:ses.
Protection and bounties is the war
cry of the Republicans in this cam
palgn and yet when the Mckinley bill
| was in force the Farr Wooden mills ur
near THE site of the proposed mower
| dam renamed idle, but soon after the
passage of the Wilson bill fhe
mills commenced operation and
they are f1ourishing today. 1T is such
industries as wooden mills that the
completion of the power dam will fos-
ter. and 1T must be admitted that no.
day the prospects were never more en-
couragtng for such enterprises than
they are under a Democratic tariff
raw Mr.. Cannon will have no more IN
nuence as a senator than as a. private
citizen in revolutionizing the sentiment
OF his party, which is strongly. against
any change in the present tariff law,
and IT his election as senator meant a
return TO the Mckinley law, or any
thing similar to it, the great mass of
Republicans, with Tom Reed at their
head. would rise UP and protest
against it. This matter is discussed
IN this way because the ReplbIican
managers in this county, backed and
encouraged by the state campaign
manipulators, have purposeIy made If
an issue in Weber county. and the
Democracy, both locally and as a. state
Issue, will accept the challenge and
fight 1T out on this line Before the
campaign is over here in Weber
county, the Democrats will demon.
stra'te to a certainty that they are as
loyal to the interests of Ogden and
Weber county as their Republican on
ponents ever were. When the Demo-
cratic legislative candidates are named
the people will have as much conf.
dence and faith in their ability to rem.
resent the interests of the entire peo.
pie of the county as the gentlemen
named by the Republicans.
Personalities will be avoided bv the
Democrats unless Republicans invite
them, but it should be remembered Inv
the people of Weber county that f4ey
have other interests in which they are
If anything more interested than thev
are in The choice of United States sen.
ators, and a, great deal will depend. Sc
far as local interests are concerned
upon the men who are chosen to rem.
resent the county in the first state
legislature. :,
This is a Democratic year.