The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-24
HIS PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
WANTS LEGISLATORS ELECTED
REGARDLESS OF POLITICS.
Enough Democrats Must Be Induced
to Desert Their Party to Garry
His Fusion Programme Through
Only Salvation For Silver In
Utah Is Through This Plan.
(special To The TIerald.N

Ce-iAAioi anu NiAt TeluIlltu from the
east yesterday afternoon, and went at
once TO their home. The senator spent
the afternoon attending to private bus
mess and shaking hands with friends
In the evening he accorded an inter-
view to The Herald, and conversed
| freely of the excitement in Washing
ton during the last session of congress-
and also discussed the political situa-
ton, locally and nationally.
In reply to the question: 'Will the
! war and the popular interest excited by
1t be apt to change the political issue
at the next election?" Mr.. Cannon
said, in substance:
Among unthinking people, who are
prone TO drift with the current of pop
ular excitement, perhaps yes, but not
amongst those who do their own think
ing. believe in general the financial
issue VIII still be paramount. This is
not Republican war, nor a Demo-
cratic war The people made it and it
would be narrow view to give to the
administration party either all the
Diane or all the credit that attaches to
II People Will uphold President Nc
hlnley in his honest efforts TO carry it
out successfully. They will support
him faithfully, but that done they will
sun remember that the financial qUes-
tiou is and must be of paramount i'm
pErtance until it is settled, and settled
right.
Unless we conquer Spain we are de-
stroyed from without; unless we gain
financial reform we are destroyed from
within. Why, the very conditions
brought on by this war will make
financial reform more urgent. EXpan-
sion of interests, territorially and COM
mercially, will bring about broader and
fiercer competition. and this will of
necessity keep the financial question to
the front. The great expense of this
war will in time begin to be felt. and
felt heavily by the common people. 1t
is no longer costing simply 81 GEO. 900 per
Gay, but il is approaching 81, 900, 900. |
Temporarily a benefit is felt Local !
money has been put in circulation, wool |
interests and industries have been slim !
ulated by government demands, but in |
time reaction must come. The coun- /
try never has experienced anything like |
such expenditure except in the time of /
the civil war, and then the shock was
somewhat deadened by a liberal issue |
ton is of greater Importance today /
than it was last year, and is apt to be |
of greater Importance next year"
The Republican party" said the !,
senator, can no longer be called a BIZ
metallic party. The effort at interna-
tional bimetalliSm viii never be re-
newed by that party, and it is now
dead. The action of the National
League of Republican clubs shows that
this assembly adopted a platform
which starts out with the line, We are
uncompromisingly in favor OF the gold
standard That sentiment is in line
with the tendency of the national Re
publican organization
Speaking of the method of campaign,
II. a. II,
for the union of all the silver forces in
all the states. He considered this the
only way to win.
Referring to a recent editorial in The
Herald, wherein the views of certain
public men We're quoted. to the effect
that the defeat of silver in Oregon
showed the failure of fusion. Senator
Cannon said that in the opinion of
James K. Jones, Senator White and
others this simply emphasized the
need for fusion. Referring to the
claim that cooperation would endan-
ger the organization of the Democratic
party. the senator emphaticaBy denied
his claim.
What particular method would the
cooperation of forces require in
Jtah?"
That is a question for the people '
themselves to decide If the people
want cooperation they will have it.
believe they viii find a way to express
themselves. Two parties have prac
ically declared for co-operation-the
liver Republican and the Populist y
'arties. If. said the senator, the Demo- /
ratio convention should decide to CO. I
perate with them. then the way would :
e easy. The plan of campaign would 5
eVelop itself. If the Democratic con- &
ention shall decide otherwise. still 5
here will be plain method to follow.
Enough must be won over from the
side to give the victory 70
he cooperative forces. This can be
one in the election, if all the true :
riends of silver vote fer true silver Il
len. Let there be an election with the !
nancial question as the issue. Let all \
he true friends of silver of all parties L
mite and carry the election of legis- a
itors, irrespective of all other ques- 7
ions. The rest Will take care of it ?
Asked directly regarding his own
for senator. Mr.. Cannon said
his was not question of candidates,
ut of principle. The thing to do, in E,
is judgment, was to elect a legisla-
IRE composed of silver men. drawn :
rom among all the silver forces. Then
t these men bring up the question of
it need not be feared that
ley would not represent the people
nd carry out their wishes.
The senator expressed himself very
opeful for the sake of the cooperative
Ian in Utah. as in all the other states.
-e based his hopes on assurances re-
lived from men Of various parties. and
lrther said he reads the signs of the
mes, in certain recent vigorously
ritten editorials in The Herald. which
oppose the fusion movement. His rea-
m for thus interpreting those signs
ere as follows: Men do not work for
othing. They have well-grOunded mo-
YES for their hard work, and since
be Herald is vigorously laboring in
)position to the fusion movement. he
cues that The Herald has seen that
le cooperative plan of campaign is
aiming ground.
The senator made ii clear that his
dividual efforts and influence would
2 used TO bring about the cooperative
an of campaign. Mr.. Cannon will
ave for Salt Lake in the morning