The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-21
(Snecial TO The Herald.

Ogden, Sept 2O-'I am a candidate for
reelection to the senate of the United
States.
Il am making a fight to control the next
Democratic primaries of Weber county
There are many bimetallists, hitherto
classed as Populists or silver Republicans.
who should attend these primaries.
.'I am not Democrat, but a silver Re
publican and shall not attend the Demo
cratic gatherings
Such were some OF the more notable
statements made tonight at a meeting
practically a public one-by Senator
Frank ]. Cannon.
The meeting was the one in the Fifth
ward. mentioned in The Herald this morn
The intention, however, to have the
gathering in a private house was aban-
doned, and the meeting was neld IN the
The coterie of Sunday school teachers
who meet there for mutual 1nStructlon
each Tuesday evening We're informed that
desired and the Sunday school lesson was
turned into one on cooperation and the
methods of carrying primaries.
There were about 80 present, including
many of the senator's most loyal sup
ports<s. the Fifth being his own ward.
T. u. johnson acted as chairman or the
meeting and made lew Introductory re-
marks.
ARRAIGNED REPUBLICANS.
Mr.. Cannon eulogized bimetallism and
then arraigned the Republican party in
most scathing terms. The party had be-
come the tool of trusts and monepolies;
its tariff system as now applied, is vicious
only idea of how political results are
achieved is how much certain result
will cost in dollars and cents; man who
had a campaign fund of $1S O00, 600 to elect
Mckinley.
Between the periods of denunciation of
Republicans and the eulogies of Demo
cratic principles, Mr.. Cannon continu-
ously declared that he was silver Re-
publican and not Democrat.
Il am" he said, 'one of the keepers of
the halfway house in the middle of a
desert between Democracy and silver Re
publicanism 1t is 120 miles across the
desert and but for the halfway house
am q silver Republican. My party was
born to die but it has mission to per
form before Il dies.
dates for the senate. claiming that they
thought more of Office than of principle.
He said one man promised. back in Wash
ington. to come to Utah and work for CO.
back and worked for senatorship.
FOR ROBERTS AND BASKIN.
.I shall.r reiterated Mr.. Cannon, sup
port Roberts and Baskin. L shall stump
the state for Democracy, whether the
Democratic committee invite me 10 or
not. If they do not invite me, then
shall pay my own expenses. l want to
be reelected, and am going to make the
fight of my life. If carry Weber. county
and get q ticket nameo tha. ,vii :
port me, then l shall go out over the
state and present my claims to other
legislative candidates. If 1 carry this
county. then l think I can win the cleo
ton. AS 1 said before. l am making a
fight to capture the Democratic primaries
of Weber county. You ask how l pro-
pose to do it. and if silver Republicans
are to participate; Well. | am not
cratic primary. There are a whole lot of
bimetailists who have hitherto been
classed as silver Republicans or Popu-
lists, who are just as good Democrats as
some who have taken part in the Demo-
cratic primaries. You can make your
call narrow as YOU please. If a man
voted for Bryan and proposes to support