The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-05
EleHTY-FouRrH JOINT BALLOT.

King Dem.). ................ IL
McCune Dem-) .2S
POWERS (Dem.) <
Sutherland (Rep.). IL
cannon (Sil. Rep.) ............- 9
Absent and not voting. ......... 3
AoCal %
Necessary to choice. ..........31
The vote in detail:
SENATORS.
For King.-Bennion, Rideout, w.
g. Nebeker, Aquila Nebeker-4.
For McCune.-Cannon, Chambers,
Evans, Peery, Robson, Smoot.
Tanner, Thomas. Whitney. Wright
10.
For sutherland.-Alder, Howell
q.
For Cannon.-Kiesel, shurtliff-2.
REPRESENTATIVES,.
For King.-Betts, Fisher, Green
wood, Jackson, Larsen, Stewart,
Wheeler-7.
For Reconsideration, Bywater,
Clyde, Cummings, Fullmer, Farr,
Forman, Hansen, Horne, Lloyd,
Mansfield, McQUarrie, O'Neil, Parry,
Redd, Robertson, Roylance, Shepard
is.
For Powers.-cook, Lapish-2.
For Sutherland.-Crosby, Callister,
Christianson, Holmgren, Murdoch,
Richards, Robinson, Sorenson,
WeIch-9.
For Cannon.-N. j. Harris, Ivers,
johnson, Law, Smith, TayIor-6.
neutrality-suspicious. C. z.
Harris, Bramwel, Miller-3.
Yesterdays voting for a United
States senator from Utah was not IN
like a tug of war. Fourteen ballots
were taken without reaching an cleo
ticn, but the proceedings revealed the
significant fact that the Republican
minority in the legislature is cOmmenc-
ing to break up and transfer its sup
port to some one Of the Democratic
candidates. thus breaking the deadlock
end ending the contest, now three
weeks on.
McCune's strength was Undiminished
yesterday after the supreme test
His support to date rallied to him
and stayed to The END. giving him
twenty-eight votes. the largest num-
Der yet received by him or any other
candidate for senat Orial hOnOTS, and
within three Of election.
By losinS Farr to McCune, Kings
vote went down TO eleven.
The feature Of the day was the defec-
ton from the Republican ranks OF TWO
votes, Representatives Law and Tay-
lor. Senator Frank J. Cannon was
the beneficiary from this sloughing off,
and counting the support of Hepresen-
tative BramWCll, who was absent. the
rif.ir. --rsr- Il1e
The other absentees were Represen-
tatives c. 2. Harris and Miller, both
Republicans
Two ballots We're taken at the noon
session OF the joint assembly, amt
twelve during the > o'clock session
Five different times the minority en-
deaVored to secure an adjournment. but
each time the motion was defeated by a
decisive vote, the supporters OF King,
Powers ana Cannon generally voting
against the combined McCune and Re
publican forces fer (. continuation Of
the 5allOting. NOT until Senator Abel
John Evans, at the conclusion Of the
eighty-fourth ballo-, moved a dissolu-
ton, did the joint assembly cease bal
loting until Monday noon.
STARTING CANNON7S BOOM
At the noon session the seventy-first
ballot was proceeded with wichout incl
dent until Representative Johnson OF
Weber county responded to the roll
call. As he took the floor for a speech,
it was known by his colleagues that
the boomlet for Senator Frank J. Can
non was about to be touched OF. The
gentleman from Ogden said:
Since this senatorial contest began there
nave been few words spoken by the lit
tie band Who chose To cast their ballot
as they have done from the first day. T.
with .EEgrIstFe- have listened
interest TO the remarks that have been
made in favor OF the different candidates:
and we have yet to learn whether there
is no reason I0r the course that we have
mapped out. During all this tine We
have heard eulOgleS pronounced upon
the various candidates. in which il mas
been said that this man ana that man
was ready at all times and at every place
10 stand up Tor MS parry-ready TO 90
anywhere and everywhere in the interest
Of his party i confess my friends, that
this reason appeals TO the generosity Of
any generous man.
On the otEe- hand, We have heard that
il behoOVes us. in this choice for senator,
TO elect q man who. through his genius
and power and influence. VIII DO some
thing for this fair state of Utah And
my friends, inns appeals 10 our hearts. our
reason. TO our very life, because il makes
US feel thai by clectlng such man we
are doing something Tor ourselves, our
state ana our nation.
But, Mr.. President. during this contest
we have been cropping in the darkness.
We have DeeG u. ms IN the lleOl DsifE
that hover over the valleys peioW- Now.
I invite you today TO higher regions.
What are we here f0r2 Is il to stand
narrowly on our creed Of Democracy Is
il 10 place its name above its true mean
ing2 My friends. you all know that the
Democratic party has q grand, a glorious
mission TO perform And We must not Ior-
get that mission IS greater thdn name.
Our object is to place as a polar star a
sound currency that VIII meet the de-
raands of our great nation. Your belief
hi IS f-,trr
deDends the happiness Of this people their
children and children's children
If you are not enthused with the spirit
of this question. then sou are not Dem
ocrs-ts ana should join the ranks of the
gold party. There are only TWO parties
They are forever opposed to each other
They cannot join shoulder to shoulder Tor
any purpose. DO You no. remember thai
fatal year Of 1913, when, as IL by an assas-
sin creeping through a window in the
darkness, free coinage OF silver was
stricken down by single blow. For
more than twenty years now. the Ameri-
can people have been promised that the
crime would be corrected; but the
promises have turned 10 ashes on the
Inns ana nothing has ever been done
Finally in 1896. only Two short years ago !
It began 10 be realized that this was thl
great question before the American peC-
ME. Then they had become worked up
70 such a condition that q new declaration /
of independence was declared-a declGra-
tior which asserts that the poor people !
have the right 10 be respected. that the
moor people shall be protected. Who. now
nv friends went forward to that mighty
conflict VINO went with US in that houI
OF trial?
instead OF their own, they named your
candidate and mine. And as you remem-
her. in thai St Louis convention. crowded
with the Representatives Of Mammon,
there were those Few, a single few very
Few. the few that stood there amid the
Kissing. the scoffing and the sarcasm
froTa Dit to gallery-those few stood there
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