The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-15
REPUBLICANS WILL COOPERATE
MARK HANNA UNDERSTANDS
THE SITUATION PERFECTLY.
Same Scheme Was Worked In Colo
RADIO Last Year, But it Injured
the Silver Republicans.
Washington Office of The Herald,
1415 C Street. N. w.

Washington, Aug. I1.-Notwithstand-
ing Boss Hanna's orders to his deputy
in and for Utah, Marshal Glen Miller,
there seems to be no doubt that the
Utah gold Republicans are expected to
cooperate with silver Republicans
wherever permitted to do so by the
latter. Hanna's only desire in the mat
ter is that the Mckinley state conven-
ton shall not declare for silver But
this is solely for political consumption
outside the state. 1t is big gold dol
lars to dry doughnuts that Mil
Ter and Thomas will try to play in
Utah the same sharp political trick I'M
dertaken by Senator Wolcott and his
friends in Colorado last year. There
they endorsed silver Republican candi-
dates without the consent of those
candidates. The endorsement really
operated to defeat the silver Republi-
cans, and thus deprive the gold men
of a chance to report a reunited Re-
publican party in the mountain states,
which had become victorious. The Re-
publican leaders here are hoping for
better results this year in Utah. They
are. however, somewhat embarrassed
by the fact that Senator Frank Can
non will be the choice of the silver
Republicans for senator. Hanna and
his friends all eagerly desire the re-
turn of President George Q. Cannon
and all their political manipulations
have that result in mind.
The official report of Thomas A. Will
liams, assistant agrostologist of the de-
partr0ent of agriculture, on grasses
and forage plants of the Rocky Noun
tain region, just issued, is a very in
tereSting document. In this report he
gives an account of experiments made
at the Utah station in the growing Of
fesque. 1t has been grown with fine
success as an element in permanent
pastures and meadows. and it is re-
garded as altogether likely that it can
be so used in many portions of the
Rocky Mountain region. Many native
forms of both sheep and red fesque
occur in this region, and. although
the cultivated varieties have been
given little, if any, attention, it is not
unlikely that they could be used to ad-
vantage in reseeding the ranges par
ticularly in the foothills and lower
mountains. The meadow fesque is only
occasionally seen in cultivation-usu-
ally in mixture with other grasses or
with clover. On rich loamy soils. with
abundant IRRIGATION. it seems to do
quite we'll. Favorable reports have
been received from several points in
central Colorado and central and south
L
northeastern Wyoming. 1t is frequently
met with along irrigation bitches and
in public parks in the cities and towns,
often occurring in waste places as an
escape and already well established in
favorable situations. 1t does not seem
70 thrive in soils containing much al
kali.
The views of the assistant agrostolo-
Sist on the subject of the Improvement
of the ranges are given at length He
says one of the most important fac
tors in Improvement would be to estab-
lish system of control which would
allow each rancher the exclusive right
20 craze his stock on q given piece of
land for long term of years. las long
as the open range is free to all. ranch
men VIII continue to try to get their
share of it. and there will be no pos
sibility of any substantial improve
ment. Under the present conditions
there is no incentive for a rancher to
make any special efforts to improve the
range, except il so much as it has to
DO with the immediate necessities of
his stock He knows that if his stock
does not eat the grass that of some
body else will, and naturally he thinks
he might as we'll benefit by it as any
one. In his efforts to get his share he
contributes to the general destruction
instead OF trying to avert it, If the
rancher could secure long lease to A
portion of these public lands IL would
then be to his interest TO improve and
maintain their productivity He could
then afford to build fences and ADOPT
other measures for the betterment Of
his holdings being sure that he and
not someone else would get the henelt
OF his endeayors- HOSFORD.