The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-09
SENATOR CANNoN's ANTI-TAR-
IFF VOTE.

The vote of Senator Cannon against
the tariff bill was sure 10 be as severely
condemned by The Republicans as pos
sibre. and while his course is to be ccTn-
mended their condemnation. and indtg-
ration. is justified from Republican
party Standpoint Parties do net relish
having a senator kick the very plat
fc.en on Whioh it won and he climbed
ir-o the senate from under him; and
thar is exaotJy what Senator Cannon
has done. When ne walked out of THE
ST. Louis convention IL was because of
The financial policy there adopted, but
new the senator rejects fhe very cor
nerstone c. The Republican edifce.
After having swallowed the Mckinley
bsll. 1t certainly does seem as though
it were stralntng al a gnat to reject ilae
Dinsiey bill. The one was framed on
exactly the same principles as the other
ard the same interests THAT dominated
the one dominated the other.
The Provo Enquirer. which has al
wla-rs been a consistent and out-and-
cut straight Repucaican paper. COM
meHss on Senator CanRon's vote in
these terms:
Senator Cannon's vote against the
.ICtec'-ive tariff bsll on the final bal
lot sewers his entire connection with
the Republican party. The only prjn-
oa9le that gave kfm any claim. to The
Eonored M ne OF ''ReDCb.ican, which
ne std inssitsd On bearing after hLs
bzd ho,t at Sit. Louis, was The pubic
announcement that ne still stood for
protection. He has now proven that
even protection, the principle Of the
-aiOneers, he can tTanlple under foot
with imDuldty, IN order to keep faith
with HE reported alliance of boilers
and Democrats at Washington. " is
most ddsgracefuG record he has made;
and when ne is considered in the light
of his former protective campaigns in
Utah ard his election on a strongly
protective platform, his change of
front nc'w is ngCeit despGcaible.
Senator Cannon w2n find that he
mas been PLAYING a losing game ever
since he bC1tsd his raIity at ST. Louis.
He is row M1isscut recognition by
ether organization, his influence is
zone and .he worst OF all he is re-
ea2ded as burg disg-cnest with his
CeneLltuerrs. II is no light offense to
disregard p-is-roWn pledges, as he has
done. Men are elected in this ccun-
try on Their homer. and there is r. n
inE else Gan be aEPealed TO but that,
after their election. TO see that ahoy
stand by their platform. TT IS a.
pleasing fact to knew that few, if any,
Instances in the rcct;scal fistorSy of
our country are recorded wherein men
have acted as Senator Cannon has
done. They have invariably stood by
their Platform on which they were
eiected, and when they could no longer
co SO they have resigned.
IL is getting TO be an old thing fer
the senior senator TO tell of how nsuch
it means for him 10 go against his
constituency and the platform on
which he was elected. AT St. Louis
he even shed tears. but That kind of
dramatic disr1ay does net make reSlti-
tui-do- for the wrong he has done the
Republicans Of Utah by his reversal.
He should remember that It
Gives them more rain, in their sore
disaDFoinEments in him. than he
ever can feel. Some day he viii meet
thaE feeling here at home. and II WIN
be TO his everlasting Chagrin, for the
neG2tiTe vote of a score of such men
rs Franz J. Cannon cannot kill the
principle CT lie picneers-protection
in THE hearts of the Utah people.
It cannot be denied that Senator Can
non. h his vote against the most i'm
ccctart measure otIampioned or to be
ot1amridned by his panty, has eriev-
ously disappointed his whilom political
associates in this state. And then his
explanation doesn't explain.