The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-22
Office and honor you have conferred
upon me"
SENATOR CANNONs ADDRESS

] great OulDufSC ana speaker. Denny IN
troduced the second senator. Mr.. Can
non was also warmly received, after
which he said:
Citizens of Utah. for what you have
conferred, l thank you. 1t is beyond
my present deserving. but l hope not
beyond my future deserving. Some one
has said there comes a time when des-
tiny is hanging on one human will
With you that time is now, almost with
all the world that time is now, because
your action today changes the complex
ion, changes the power of the highest
legislative body in the greatest nation
under the sun. (Applause.)
When you voted today you voted tc
make men free in all the world, not
only in the United States, but every
where. Utah has always made his
tory. 1t has been a territory of emer-
gencies, a people of power, a race
which knew how to meet the exigencies
of every time, and she is called into a
national being and into authority al
a supreme moment in the affairs OF
the nation when patriotism is needed
tremendous applause)
The gravest questions of these times
are our questions, and have been dis
tinctly so. What is the need Of the
world today? The need is to do away
with pauperism, with the tears, the
duced by human deprivation.
"Out of the lessons or her wonderful
past even little Utah can teach the
world how to live without poorhouses
and without paupers, for she knows
! a perfect thunder of applause came
/ in RESPONSE to the last remark, after
which the speaker continued:
To-day she holds in her hand the
sword with which she carved for her
/ a inf
to any state in the Union. To the eX-
/ tent CT their authority let her repre-
! sentatives vote as honestly, as sincere
! ly, dS coCrag eOuSlY and as untaintedly
! as the legislature has voted today"
! The speaker knew how to play on rhe
| feelings of his hearers. His last words
! touched 'the responsive chord so deft-
! lY that it was some minutes before he
| could proceed because of perfect tu-
mutt of appreciation. Continuing, lie
said:
"Not a blemish on her monument
There it stands square, white, majes-
tic. for all the world to see. This is
not SAID in any personal sense. Mr..
/ Brown and Mr.. Cannon are free citi-
zens with you of the land we love,
and though you could give a higher
| title to US than senator, you could not
bestow anything so dear as that name
frae citizen of the state of Utah
Ny friends. of course We go pledged
to silver. Why should not we, as ours is
only the part to speak. There is not a
pick thrust into these hills bat that
| helps to make men free. If our con-
! stituents can work, can't we vote?
| We viii try to vote the way they work,
not only in behalf of that great indus
try which is not for the west alone,
but for the world-the protection of
silver and its maintenance as a
money metal that men may no longer
endure unjust serVitude to an unjust
tasknlaster but in favor of every in
dustrial policy of this land for the men
who herd the sheep on the lonely hill
sides. the men who till the farms, the
men who work in orchards,
the men engaged in the factories
and who will be employed when
justice comes in behalf of all of them
You have intrusted an authority to
your representatives which L believe,
inspired by you, they will use wisely.
L have only one thing further to
say, and that IS to thank God with
you that this day has come for you
a day which repays us for all the suf-
ferings of all who went before, and l
hope the courage that has animated
us in the past may animate us in the
future, that they who suffered and
they who died; that they who trod
the wilderness with bleeding feet, and
they who made Utah strong in the
midst of her suffering may not have
toiled and died in vain, but that all
her future may be as magnificent as
her peaks and her history as pure
as her eternal SHOWS.
The house and the spectators once
more INDUCED in a prolonged demon
stration of approval After it had sub
sided the speaker called the house to
order and DR.. Condor moved a recess
of fifteen minutes, which had no more
than carried, however, before the house
was again called to order and mo,
ton to adjourn was made and
carried The new United States
senators held levee for few
minutes, while their supporters, friends
and admirers shook them by the hand
and congratu lated them. Gradually the
crowd filtered away. the two people of
interest took their departure and the
hall of representatives was soon after
deserted, except for few members
more conscientious than tie others,
who remained to write to their con-
busted themselves in preparing for the
joint session today. Thus ended the
first United States senatorial election
in the new state of Utah.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Frank J. Cannon is a son of George
O. Cannon, and was born in this city,
in January, 1853. He attended the
university, graduating in 1878, at the
age of 20 He learned the printing
business and was at one time the
editor of the ogden Standard. He was
a delegate to the Republican national
convention in 1892, and has twice ran
for congressional delegate from Utah,
being defeated the first time, 1892, by
Hon. ]. l. RaWlins. Last fall he was
successful His term expired when
Utah was admitted.
Arthur Brown was born in Michigan,
in 1S4S He came west in 1879, settling
in this city He is a leading member
of the bar and is a partner Of Judge
Henderson. Mr.. Brown acquired his
education at Antioch college, Ohio,
and his leaning in the law at Ann
Arbor He is an uncompromising Re
publican and has worked for the inter
ests Cf that party in Utah for many
years, being an advocate of division
before many of those who yesterday
selected him for the high Office of
senator. He favors the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to /.
A HOT CAMPAIGN.
The campaign which has closed with
the selection Of Frank ]. Cannon and
Arthur Brown, as the first senators to
represent the new state of Utah, open
ed last spring Since that time it has
been fought with vigor AS soon as it
was settled that Utah should come
into the union as a state, candidates
were announced by their friends.
Judge Goodwin, Colonel Trumbo
Arthur Brown, Frank j. Cannon and