The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-15


to explaining my vote Some of the
members seem to think that the silver
question hinges upon the election OF
FRANK j. Cannon. / happen to be one
VINO does not think anything of the
kind There were good men talking in
the interest of silver before Frank j.
! cannon was born. / have worked many
years in the subterranean mines of Eu-
rope, and know the sentiment of the
mining people. 1 know they are in ia
Vor OF the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. In
stead of Frank J. Cannon being the
only man who is working in the interest
OF silver, there are $4,000 men as sim
cege and earneS. as he in the cause of
silver, I vote again for a. w. Nc
! Cune''
| Referring to Senator Rideout's men,
ton OF erecting tombstones, etc, Rep
resentative Robinson, the Republican
leader, remarked that he and. his cod
leagues would continue in their course,
and at the next state election the PEG
| pie would erect monuments to the then
| deceased Democratic party.
SHEPARD EXPOSES SOME TRICKS.
! Representative Shepard, in voting for
| Senator Cannon, said:
Il, like Senator Rideout, hope that
this cup of bitterness will soon pass
away. For log ballots I have voted for
my first choice. He is my first choice
today, the Hon. a. W. McCunel After
due deliberation and thought I have
come to the conclusion, after state
ments made upon the floor OF the house
by members OF the minority of our
/ own party, that they will never vote for
the candidate now in the lead. They
are preventing the election of a Demo-
cratic senator. On the other hand,
have seen the little band of Mckinley
ties watched over by Glen Miller and
Arthur Brown The proposition is SIM
ply this: Shall we do our duty? Are
we going to come here and let the min
GRITTY OF the Democratic party deadlock
this matter for the next fourteen days
OF this legislature? As for me, ii seems
that there are two candidates between
whom this rests. There are and
have been from the start only
these two = Cannon and McCune
have said it from the start,
that either one of these two men
would be elected. 1t seems to be the
purpose of the majority of the Demo-
cratic members to keep a Democrat GUY
OF the senate. VIII we allow them to
do it? VIII we allow a small minority
to block this election?
I'VE have done nothing, and it seems
tc me that if we go on in this fashion
no senator will be elected. Mr. Presi-
dent, [ left the Republican party two
years ago. l left it because l believed
that 1t was committed to the gold
standard. L voted twenty-one years in
the Republican party. 1 want to say to
each and every one of you that the
cause of the Democratic party is above
and beyond any man. It is time, in
my judgment, that we arrive at some
conclusion in this proposition. / do not
want TO be misunderstood. I want to
N1f I1a rTriJ11 -l,s1
been my best friend ever since I came to
this city is not influencing me. 1 am in
favor, first, if we can, of etecting a
Democrat. If we can't elect a Demo-
craft, we SHOULD then take q bimetalliSt,
but, for Gods sake, don't let us be rep
resented in the United States senate by
a McKin3eyite. I want to say that
when L cast my vote, ann not voting
for any man because he made a sneech
in the Theatre. I am not going to vote
for any man simply because he ad-
Vanced the idea that the church was in
the contest. Now, I change my vote
for Frank J. Cannon
REPUBLICAN SENTIMENT.
Representative Sorenson explained
the attitude of the Republican mem
bers in this wise: LAS 1 have before
expressed it, I do not consider this our
fight. We have no Interior purpose in
Ills 4l54ll ~ Z Ccl1G mere openly ana
above board We had it in our power
once to elect Hon. w. H. King, but we
did not think 1t good political ethics
to do so. Later we have had the on
portunity of electing the Hon A. w.
McCune, but for the same reasons we
have refrained from doing it. We could
end this deadlock now, or perhaps in
the future, as other candidates may
arise; but we do not propose 10 do it.
As to the charge that we are being
herded by the friends about US let me
say that we are masters Of our own
minds, and We are masters Of this sit
uation. We do not care how soon you
end this deadlock, and how soon you
elect a senator; neither do we care
whom you elect, SO long as you do not
elect by the aid of any Republican
votes. 1t is not because we love our
Democratic friends less, but because
we love this state, this nation, and
our party more, that we refuse to in
terfere in this deadlock
Senator Alder repudiated the insin-
uation that he was casting his Ote for
a gold standard advocate, or that he is
influenced by Glen Miller Arthur
Brown or any other Mark Hanna man.
The senator from Sanpete again an
nounced his vote for George Suther-
land, "a bimetallist, a silver Republican
we'll equipped for the Office of United
states senator.
CHARACTER ASSASSINS.
Representative Hansen said:
Mr.; President: l simply desire to make
an observation or two. L was greatly.
may say profoundly impressed this morn
ing by the remarks of the honorable gen
tleman, Senator Rideout of Salt Lake for
/ knew they were sincere and honest |
For days past have been associated with
a committee that has diligently ATTEMPTED
whether he knows it or MOTTO furnish
him and other members of the legislature /
with the absolute proof of the groundless-
ness of certain charges made by a par /
ticular gentleman that one of the lead !
ing senatorial candidates was making |
cess. / want to say, Mr. President, that 1
we have used every legitimate effort TO /
get this gentleman TO appear before us (,
and face the music in the direction of |
establishing his charges. But in this we !
nave failed. We were anxious. as was /
Senator Rideout, to turn on the search /
lght OF investigation, individually or col
IectlVely, TO the end that the truth /
might be known. We are of the opinion.
as is the senator from Salt Lake that !
the:' have no foundation in fact We do !
legislature was ever bought by. or APP |
with money at any time or /
place. a charge that he has is most CON :
tempuble. It reminds me- Mr. President 1
of an incident in the career of Old
Thaddeus Stevens. While Dracticing be- /
fore the Carlyle courts one day he was
frequently ruled against by the Judge.
who was his inferior in both wisdom and
knowledge. Finally 'Old Thad" could
stand it no longer and becoming scarlet
with rage ne picked up his law books and
papers and proceeded to bundle them TO-
Sether preparatory to leaving the court
room. The judge became highly Indignant
and asked him If he were endeaVorine 10
show his contempt for the court, and he
was simply attempting to conceal it, That
Is precisely my condition at this time