The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-25

sent. In the house Clark received
thirty-four votes; Osborne, three; one
absent. Clarke's total voteS forty-sev-
en-; Osborne's eight.
There is general satisfaction in WyO-
ming over the senatorial election and
that the present legislature is free
from the prolonged contest which is the
principal feature of nearly all h legis-
lative sessions in the country. An idea
which prevails largely in the east that
money is the chief factor in determin-
ing the selection of United States SEN
atOrs in the west is entirely erroneous,
so far as Wyoming is concerned. In
the present years contest, Senator
Clark, VINO was unanimously selected
by the Republican caucus on the second
! day of the session, had as competitors
/ Colonel J. L. Torrey, a wealthy cattle
man of Fremont county; John G. DAVIS,
1 q banker CT Carbon county, with money
enough to want TO retire from business
and enter political life; Otto Gramm, a
well-to-do manufacturer OF Albany
county; and, early in the contest, j.
II. Carey, one of the richest c2ttlemen
in Wyoming and an eX-Member Of the
United States senate was urged by a
number of his friends for the place.
OF all the candidates. Senator Clark IS
the poorest equipped financially. At
least one of his opponents used money
guile freely III q legitimate hoSs DAi-9
ing. at his own expense, a number of
his friends from various parts OF the
state to act as advocates at The capital
for his election. The total cost of Sen
atOr Clarks campaign did not exceed
$100, including the expense or main
tanning headquarters where refresh
ments were cigars and ice water. Four
wears ago. when Senator Clark was
elected to the senate, his expenses were
NUt cT1.
The Of ex-senator Carey,
who was elected to the senate in 1890,
when Wyoming was admitted to state
hood. and Of Senator + q. Warren, Who
was elected at the same time, were
nominal.
The only senatorial contest which in
volyed the expenditure Of money was
in 1893. when the Democrats and Popu-
lists controlled the legislature by one
majority. Ex-Governor Baxter, who
was a candidate for the fusion vote,
was backed by eastern friends with q
large sum-, and he maintained mead
quarters where the hospitality was
lavish during the entire forty days of
the session. His expenses We're said
at the time to have run UP to a sim
equivalent to a snug little fortune me
bighest vote he got, however. during
the session was seven His principal
competitor, General JOIN Charles
Thompson, VINO dld not SPeilu Uol4Si
during the contest, secured t~wenty-four
cI1t Of the twenty-five votes necessary
to the choice, failing of election because
one of the Democrats refused to vote
when the critical vote was taken in
the contest.
senator Clark. whose election to a
second term in the senate was handled
so successfully, is a comparatively
Young man. being II years old. He has
been a resident of Wyoming for eight
cen years. He represented h state
in the Fifty-first and Fifty-second
congresses, but was defeated for re-
election to the Fifty-third congress by
a fusion of Democrats and Populists.
He has a very pleasing personality and
has an immense number OF friends IN
wyoming In the senate he is chair
man of the committee RAILROADS u
an important member of the committee
on foreign affairs and judiciary