The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-28
rHrRrY-F1Rsr JOINT BALLOT.


The joint assembly yesterday ac-
knowledged that there was no present
hope of breaking the deadlock and
after two ballots had shown that the
forces of each candidate were as solid
as upon the preceding day, it ad-
journed for the day The members
have become extremely desrous to
proceed with the important legislative
work, and by common consent the SEN
atorial contest will no longer be per
n,itted to monopolize the time and at
tention of the members. It will be
taken I'D each day at u O'Clock as the
special order, but there viii be no pro-
Ionged sessions until there are indica
tions of important changes in the
votes.
The party caucus proposition was
the subject Of further discussion yes
terday, but the movement took no
definite shape. While the man gers of
two of the candidates professed to
favor it. they show no disposition tc
aid in bringing il about. The truth IS
that each candidate now looks upon
a caucus proposition with suspicion,
fearful that il may be q trap set by
the enemy. In the present case they
hold aloof, in the belief that some
deadly combination or dark horse
scheme turks behind the proposition.
There is also some disagreement con-
cerning the method of voting in eau
Gus, the Thatcher people faVOring an
open and their opponents a secret vote.
The advocates of the caucus plan are
still urging that it be adopted and
seem sanguine Of success.
A FALSE ALARM
While there was no important change
in the situation last night, for a brief
period early in the evening two of the
candidates believed they were undOne.
Some of Judge Henderson's friends de-
tected indications of wholesale deser- I
tions to Rawlins. The story was cir
culated that at joint caucus of Hen
derson and Rawlins members II of the
Henderson men agreed to vote for I
Rawlins today. Hendersons friends |
became so thoroughly convinced of i'm |
pending disaster that it is reported an /
appeal for assistance was made to the |
Thatcher camp. 1t later developed that /
no joint caucus was held and there was /
no real cause for the alarm.
Mr.. RICHARDS DENIAL.
c. c. Richards, one of the Henderson,
managers. last evening uttered a
strong denial of all the combination
lated. There has been" said he, no
caucus, consultation, conference or
meeting of any kind between the Hen
dersOn and Rawlins supporters. Neither
is it true that there has been at any
time an agreement to deliver Hender-
son votes &c Thatcher. We have no
votes to deliver to any candidate, but if
anyone has votes 20 deliver to us we
are quite willing to receive them
At none OF the headquarters was
the belief expressed that today's ball
loting would result in any change. The
Thatcher managers still entertain
hopes that Calls viii come to them,
as he received several additional tele-
grams from MS constituents yesterday
The Rawlins leaders believed they
might possibly gain vote or two but {
the source of their expected increase {
was not revealed. 5
DARK HORSE RUMORS.
The report was circulated last even :
ing that one of the prominent dark /
horse candidates would be led out to- s
day, but the story was discredited A +
canvass of the members of the legis- / ?
ature yesterday showed tha. an over
whelming majority are not inclined ts r
even discuss a dark horse proposition r
At the present time. In addition to this II
adverse criticism is the fact that until 7
some Of the present candidates with r
iraw, the dark horses viii remain d
)ocketed. p