The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-25
GREAT COUP PLANNED
BY CANNON MANAGERS
Desperate Effort Will Be Made to Elect Ogden
Man Senator Today.
Combination of Republicans, Democrats and FuSiOniStS Re-
lied Upon to Accomplish the Trick.

Frank Cannon is to be given his opportunity today. BE is sched-
, uld to be elected United States Senator by a combination of Re
= publican, Democratic and Fusion votes. The Cannon managers
\ have planned to elect him in this manner, and by the votes OF
= those members who re susceptible to the arguments that Ire be-
= ing employed.
Senator Cannon, it is stated N authority of unquestionable ac-
= curacv and veracity, expects to be the beneficiary today of crazy
r patch political logic. He is booked to receive Republican support,
\ it is said, on his promise to return to the Republican fold and
= henceforth to act within the lines of that party, accepting the d.
= rections of its leaders and needing the orders of its bosses, great
= ard small, from Hanna to Lannan- His renewal of allegiance X
> the Republican party is said to be cOmpete-so tan 5 h NepuD-
= lican members oft the legislature are concerned. Among them it
= is kept a secret, 81 that they may be able to play a trick o the
= Democratic Legislature by having it choose Of its fOemen for
= the highest Office in the gift of the state. Senator Cannons e.
, nunciaton of his Democratic tendencies is said to have been quite
= satisfactory to the administration leaders here; sufficiently % IN
= fact, to convince several of the Republican members that the sena-
= tor is willing to accept all Republican platforms and bolt n o Re-
Representative Law, a silver Republican, on the other hand, \
= is to vote for Cannon because he has been led to believe that the =
= senator places the silver cause above party. In the same class
, with Law is Ivers of Summit, whose partner, it was reported h
: other day, bet $1,000 that Frank would succeed himself :
Judge Powers former supporters his n longer Presiden =
\ Aqula Nebeker of the state senate, Senator ". G. Nebeker, Repre- =
= sentative Jackson and Representative Lapish ae also counted =
= upon to swell the Cannon vote =
= Should all of these votes go to Cannon, he would have just TWEEN =
= ty-six vOtes-six short of an election, a deficiency that the Cannon =
= managers expect to make up from among those Democrats who De- =
= isve Cannon to be imbued, in a measure, with Democratic prfn- :
> cples. Just who the men are could not be learned. That more Z
: than the needed number We're being worked upon by men of inhu- =
= ence was an open secret last night. =
There is a letter and IN argument that have been used with =
= effect by the Cannon managers. The letter is from President Nc =
: Kinley, and is an endorsement of Cannon, and, in effect, a e \
= quest for the Republican members to support Cannon. The letter :
? is SAID to bear the signature II President Mckinley himself The :
= argument is a more serious matter. 1t is that President Wood =
Z ruff, before his death, discussed the senatOrship with his cOun- =
: selors, and expected to see Cannon succeed himself. =
President George Q. Cannon is reported to have been working =
4 very actively for his son, but. in his individual capacity. He, how +
? ever, is credited with having made Roadway with both Demo- =
cratic and Republican members. +
y No one last night, outside of the Cannon camp, believed that 4
= the coup could be successfully performed. 1t was not believed =
= that any large number Of the Republicans would go to Cannon, =
= because several of them are pledged to their constituents and Re =
: Pub1cans outside OF Salt Lax % to vote fr Cannon under any +
= circumstances. Neither was it believed that many Democrats \
> could be beguiled into support of the senator when they under \
= stood the truth of the situation. \
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