The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
EASTERN AND WESTERN SENA-
TORS.

The dislike of some portions of the
east for the west is so intense as to
be amusing. Those who have this dis
like in the violent form are really
monomaniacs. Its outward manifesto
ton usually takes the form of denun-
citation of western senators.
In Illinois they are having a very
spirited canvass over the question of
who shall be chosen senator to succeed
General Palmer. whose term expires
March g. 1897. A meeting was held last
Wednesday in Chicago to protest
against the election of Alderman Mar
tin B. Madden. Mr.. Franklin II. Head,
who was Indian agent in Utah 80 years
ago, was permanent chairman. During
the course of his remarks he said that
until recently the senate of the United
States has been one of the most digni-
fed, statesmanlike, deliberate bodies
that ever was assembled in the world,
while for the last two or three years
it has been somewhat degraded by the
infusion of a lot of cheap senator's
from some of the western states which
ought to have been kept as territories
for another generation. And we do
not want to add from this great com
monWealth another of those job-lot
statesmen
Illinois is threatened with one of
these '.job-lot statesmen" and so seri-
GUS is the danger that the meeting over
which Mr.. Head presided adopted a set
of resolutions as follows:
Whereas, this country has emerged
from one of the grayest ~public crises
in its history, during which the Re-
publican party has been the sole bull
wark OF the moral and material inter-
ests Of the nation; and
Whereas, all good citizens, of what
ever party, still look to it for the pres
ervation OF national honor and integ-
rity and the restoration of public con-
fidence and prosperity and
Whereas, for the accomplishment of
the great measures intrusted to it's
care and the successful administration
Of the government, the Republican
party needs above all else that it be
in the senate of the Unit
ed States by the election to that body
Of men Of recognized ability, integrity
and experience, who have been and
are sincerely attached to the declared
cli0 <JOiiCy iOl the fscDuD-
ican party, and whose past records are /
above all suspicious or distrust: and
Whereas, there is now an opportunity !
TO elect such a man as United States |
senator from Illinois to the great and /
asting good of the Republican party !
and of the entire people; and
Whereas. in the face of the known |
1istrust and ayowed hostility of the |
people of the city of Chicago, whom he
low represents i'll the common council |
Is an alderman. Martin b. Madden is |
seeking the nomination for United /
states senator from this state; now.
therefore, be it
Resolved, that it is the calm and de-
iberate conviction of this mass meet
ng of his fellow citizens that Martin b.
Madden is unfit for election to the SEN
tie of the United States, that there is
n this community in which he lives
widespread and firmly rooted con-
lotion that his political methods have
'een- and are vicious and corrupt, that
lis record as an alderman has been
otoriouslv bad. and his influence a.
menace to good government and the
onest administration of the affairs of
his city; that he lacks every real quail
1catien for the high Office to which