The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-08


trust as a private treat. The supreme
court has since decided that Mr. Hamer
was right, but just the same the old
fight has been revived since Mr..
Hamer's nomination for the legisla-
ture and his opponents are confident
that they will be able TO cause his
defeat at the polls. During my talk
with Mr.. Hamer I asked him about the
matter and he said that he was pre-
pared to prove by the records that he
saved 20 the taxpayers. of this county
$4,000 by the way he conducted the
anairs of his Office and that
where the fees were collected they were
from delinquent foreign taxpayers who
had no interest in the county save that
which their holdings gave them. AS
the matter is to be made an issue Mr.
Hamer is going to personally prove, on
the stump, to the taxpayers, the in
justice of the charges made against
him.
PEYTON IS COLLARLESS.
Colonel w. L. P. Peyton, who does
not yet know how he came to be nom
mated, declared that he was a 16 to 1
silver man, who wore no mans collar
nor no political cliques brand. II
have always been a Democrat" said
he, and received my political educa-
ton in old Virginia, but l was ready to
forsake the party this year if it did
not do something for silver. I will not,
if elected to the legislature, vote for
any man to succeed Senator Brown
who is not a silver man and who does
not consider silver the paramount is
sue"
John n. Perkins declared that he
would not vote for any man for the
United States senate who is not sound
on the silver question. Il am said
he, "unalterably in favor of the silver
plank of the Chicago platform and en-
dorse that instrument frcm opening
word to closing period"
OTHER CANDIDATES vOUCHED
FOR.
Prominent Democrats assured me
that l.. w. Shurtliff, who is absent
from the city, Mrs. Anderson, and An
gus Mckay, who is a farmer residing
at Huntsville, were equally as sound
on silver as are their colleagues whom
I interviewed.
And thus is another of Bill Glas-
mann'S political bubbles pricked with
the lancet of truth The indignation
caused by the canard had some anus
ing features. One Democrat said that
Glasmann once said in his hearing that
if Bryan was good enough to vote for,
enough for him. Another said that in
the not long ago Bill emulated David
Bennett Hill by dramatically eXclaim-
ing: Il am a Democrat. Henceforth l
viii advocate Democratic doctrine!
Henceforth my pen will be dipped in
ink sacred only to the holy cause of
William ]. Bryant" Now the Bald
Eagle of the Weber is hugging to his
editorial bosom the Bryan electors and
n inc he Of
Bill Lucky Ogden.
UTAHS MARK HANNA.
1 had talk with Lindsay Rogers.
He is by all odds the smoothest politi-
cal manipulation in Weber. He is the
Republican national committeeman
from Utah, is looked upon as the holder
of the Utah end of the Mark Hanna
sack, and is popularity believed to be
the manager of Senator Browns cam
paign. After expressing his pleasure
over the harmonizing of the Republi-
can factions in the county, he said:
$50 far as Weber county is concerned
the Republican party is now working
under the banner of harmony and the
members of the heretofore contending
factions will carry out to the letter the
agreement made. We concede that the
county will go for Bryan, but we ex-
pect to carry the county by the usual
majority of the state, legislative and
county tickets. While, perhaps, we
will not carry the state for Mckinley,
1t is my hope that the party Will keep
together on the national issues. If we
do so we ought to elect a representative
to congress and be able to select a SEN
ator."
BROWN WILL SUCCEED HIMSELF
If
What do you think of Senator
Browns chances for reelection" 1
asked
$50 far as I am advised" replied Mr..
Rogers, SENATOR BROWN WILL
SUCCEED HIMSELF IF THE RE-
PUBLICAN TICKET is SUCCESS
Full. HE IS THE LOGICAL CANDI-
RECORD AND SINCERELY BE-
LIEVES IN THE FREE COINAGE
OF SILVER AND IS A STRONG
PROTECTIONIST."
Mr.. Rogers answer prompted me to
inquire as to the condition of the Nc
Kinley campaign fund he is believed
to be the custodian of.
81 have not received a campaign
fund" was the surprising reply.
That is contrary to general belief
was my rejoinder.
II can't help that" replied Mr..
Rogers. What I tell you is a fact,
nevertheless"
But" l began.
There is no but to it," interrupted
Mr.. Rogers. Il have not, as 1 say, re-
ceived any campaign fund"
But l couldn't see my way clear to
let go. In one brief, fleeing moment,
1 saw all the boys in Salt Lake City
who daily look so wistfully in the di-
rection of Senator Browns office, and
I resolved to extract one grain of COM
fort for them from Rogers, if I had to
stay with him all day.
But you expect to receive assistance,
do you not?' l asked.
Mr. Rogers is a diplomat as we'll as
an astute politician His reply was:
Il believe it viii be the pleasure OF the
national committee to render all proper
add
The answer was not very satisfac-
tory one, but it will revive hope in the
breasts of the boys
REFERRED TO Mr.. DOOLY.
1 then asked Mr.. Rogers of his in
tention to send out a corps of cam
paign speakers, and his reply, which
is respectfully referred to Mr.. Dolly
for consideration, was: THE state
committee should and undoubtedly will
manage the campaign. That is all I
have to say"
Mr.. Rogers reached for his hat.
Hold on!'' 1 exclaimed. Il want to
ask you about Holbrook. What do
you think of the interview published
in Sundays Herald?"
But Mr.. Rogers excused himself from
being interviewed further, on the
ground that he had to attend to a case
in court, and 1 did not press the ques-
ton.
Charley Meighan, member of the