The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-03
SENATOR cANNoN's POSITION
Misrepresentation Concerning His
Washable Club Remarks.

club and others who heard the address
of Senator Cannon in the court house
Wednesday night, say that an entirely
wrong impression is given by the Stand
ards account of the lecture, especially
by the headlines, which made the claim
that the senator is a Washable, and
that he Endorsed the test question sign
ed by all aspirantS for membership in
the Washable club.
To see what flop it would really be
were the senator to subscribe to such
a set of questions, they are here print
ed:
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP.
II hereby make application for mem
bership in the Washable club. and an
SWer all the following questions in the
affirmative:
81. Are you a Democrat?
"2. Do you endorse the Democratic
platform adopted at Chicago in 1896?
"3. If the Democratic party should,
in a future national convention, repu-
date that platform, would you leave
the Democracy?
a. Do you believe the money question
to be the paramount issue?
80. Are you opposed to the retirement
of the greenback currency?
Sc Are you in favor of an income
tax?
81 Will you vote the straight Dem
ocratic ticket, national, state, county
and municipal, as long as you are
member Of the Washable club. in case
you are elected to membership, so long
as the Democracy dominates honorable
men, who believe in and will support
the principles laid down in the Chicago
platform of 1896?
49, Having any enmity now towards
any Washable, do you put all sucA en-
nifty or bad feelings entirely and abso-
lutely aside before you are admitted to
membership"
CANNON'S POSITION.
The claim is made by a number of
Mr.. Cannon's friends that he did not
| subscribe to the questions personally.
but believed in the formation of such
societies on general principles. The
| point he wished to emphasize was the
ACCESSIBILITY of having men declare
themselves for or against great public
questions After the reading of the
test questions, Mr.. Cannon was intro
duced, and began his address. 1t was
but natural that he should comment on
| those questions.
Mr.. Cannon said that international
bimetallism by the Republican party
was as impossible as a trip to the moon
in an airshiD. 1t was certainly time,
then, for an organization in Utah for
/ silver. so that its friends and its enc
mics might be known. New York was
advised to organize a Washable club.
Mr.. Cannon advanced a number Of the
usual arguments in favor of bimetal-
lism, and commented with sarcasm on
| the work, or lack of work of the VOL
/ colt commission. Democrats in Utah.
he said, are now trembling for the
! cause of silver, saying forces are at
work TO have the next national plat
| form repudiate the last one.
| Mr.. Cannon also expressed his sense
| of the fitness in the name Washakie
as the senator had known the old chief
tain.
OF course the Washakie club could
have no objection to Senator Cannon
! becoming a Democrat, by endorsing
their principles, and would, in fact, hail
such an acquisition with satisfaction,
! but as matter of fact, they say he did
not become q Democrat. and it is IN
fair to SO misrepresent him. They re-
| gret that Mr.. Cannon should be so rep
resented as to his utterances on an oc-
! casion when he was their guest. Since
! he wishes to be known as a silver Re
! publican, they say, his wish should be
respected Therefore, it is left for SEN
ator Cannon to explain how a man can
! be a silver man and a Republican, when
! Republicans can no more accomplish
| bimetallism than they can take a trip
! to the moon.