The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-15
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTH
JOINT BALLOT.

King (Dem-)
McCune (Dem.) ........... 81
Powers (Dem.1 ......... 6
Sutherland CRep.) ...... X
Cannon (Sil. Rep ..........l Il
Absent and not voting .........
ioCal %
Necessary to choice ........3l
The vote in detail:
SENATORS.
For King.-Rideout-1.
For McCune. = Bennion, Cannon,
Chambers, Evans, Peery, Robson,
Smoot, Tanner, Thomas, Whitney,
Wright-11.
For Powers-Aquila Nebeker-1.
For Sutherland.-Alder-1.
For Cannon.-W. G. Nebeker, Kies-
Ell, Shurtliff-3.
Absent and not voting,-Howell
Il.
REPRESENTATIVES.
For King.-Betts, Fisher, Green
wood, Larsen, Stewart, Wheeler-6.
For decentralization, Bywater,
Clyde, Cummings, Fullmer, FAIR,
Hansen, Horne, Lloyd, Mansfield,
McQuarrie, o'Neil, Parry, Redd, Rob
ertson, Roylance-16.
Fer Powers.-Cook, Lapish-2.
For Sutherland.-Call Christ
hanson, c. 2. Harris, Holmgren,
Miller, Murdoch, Richards, Robin
son, Sorenson, Welch-11.
For Cannon.-Bramwell, Forman,
N. j. Harris, Ivers, jackson, John
son, Law, Smith, Shepard-9-
Absent and not voting-Taylor-1.
Yesterday saw the ending of the
fourth weeks balloting for a senator
in the Utah egislature-twice the
length of time and more than double
the number OF ballots taken in 1897,
when Senator Joseph L. Rawlins was
e!ected-and Senator Frank J. Can
mons successor is yet 10 be named.
Only two ballots, both resulting the
same, were taken yesterday. There
were some changes, but none of suffi-
Gent Importance to excite any special
interest. 1t was a day OF speech-rlak-
ing.
The changed votes from Mondays
ballOting We're:
Senator Peery from AquiIa Nebeker
eker from ". n King to @. W. Powers,
and Representative Shepard from ILc-
Cune to FraEE j. Cannon.
The absenUees we're Senator Howell
(RepuDlcan) and Representative Tay-
Tor, one OI C5uEoa's new found sup
pOrterE.
fdEG a.iL4SGUsT'.S EL0QUENCE.
The frs: speech was made BY Sena-
tor RideOut IN beEa!e OF Congressman
Kings candidacy. lie SAID:
Mr.. Presidential is due to you, to ny
self and especially to my cOrs-ituency
that / explain why l have voted so long
with the minority. ! came to the Iesis-
lature unpledSeG. The man whom : be-
lieVed above all others should De hOnored
with the vote OF this body. refused TO be-
come candidate, but you offered 10 him
the support or thIrtY-tWO OF yOGr mem
hers. On that day the sun shOne with III
cfeased brightness, for then and there
you paid debt of honor due to one of
Democracy's greatest heroes / VOted four
days for Judge Powers, believing that
under the present conditions he could do
more than any other TO stay the rising
tiGe OF public sentiment against Utah but
soon l became convinced that the Great
ma jOrity OF the voters of this county PIE
ferred Judge King 10 any other and in
obedience 10 their Viii have voted for
him up to the present time. The deadlock
continuing SO long has caused many of
these to WaVer.
j have been importuned to vote for the
considering the adViSG bility of so doing
and 50 expressed myself when 10. the
heSJS OF King came down on me in great
numbers by letters. personal interviews
and petitions. When ] shall become con-
WINGED that the majority. OF even a large
ma lOrity Of the voters of this county wish
me 20 vote for the majority candidate or
any other candidate VIII bow to that
viii.
The Republican minority mas refTained
from interfering in this contest. This l
half al ~ ia ia
! trust that they wiz continue To weave
garlandS. write epit&pES and erect tomb
stones TO the mentcry of departed friends
and permit the Democratic majority 10
work out its own salvation.
But to the question. / cams to this
assembiy with the firm heller that two
potent forces We're combined 10 elect the
majority candiQate. namely money and
high ecclesiacticai influence. As far as
the first charge Is. concerned ! have sought
for evidence to cOnfIrm the rQmOrS of
bribery: have found none. and therefore
dismiss the charge as without foundation
ia fact If there Is a man or a woman in
this assembly 50 base as TO accept 4 bride
let him 20 hence with the scared con-
science Of one who has sold his birth
right Bat until further proof I shall give
all tne same high rating claim for nv
self when / say that there IS not money
CROUCH in all this world to buy one vote
! have or shall cast on this floor. Gap
a. to tie second charge. 1 wish I could
dismiss it IN the same way: but the evil
Geuce is too apparent. You nave read the
letters and when 1 say letters. You all
lIlsow to what l refer The state OF Utah
rests under the charge OF bartering Il
ssnatGrship FOR money. The words l shall
speak now have been weighed. l would
that were not necessary to speak them.
i would that the cup could pass, but l
desire tc say that If the hand that wrote
those letters and the mind that dictated
rAerl have -been instrumental in shaping
TIE policy or the Democratic party in the
past. it should not. must not be in the
future
costing a reflection on the dominant
church. 1 could not do that. and would
r,esert il were il done by another. The !
1,allfs.able president Of the dominant /
chIIq-ch is entirely oft of and above poll !
tics: ae has SAID that there are TWO spots /
in ITsaz where politics cannot be talked I
the first presidents office and the tenn
me- Across the sacred thresholds the POI /
jtieian must not come. God bless these |
words These utteranceS have placed the !
standard of the church upon 4 high plane. !
afel nov if ] may presume. let him so /
F,irth,.r and say to the apostles. come IN i
RI me and let us look backward along We /
luminous pathway of human greatness /
40 the ereat central figure of all this |
-carld and 10 his apostles. tell them that /
T1a1lI the greatest Of pulpit orators. would |
1ose its brilliancy did we discover that /
81 connection with his higher calling ne |
re become a Tweed a QUAY. a I
CroIer. Tell them TO profit by their eX- /
annie and that their duty is tC teach the /
.[fsI,eI of the master. and then will the I
OF the church be carried to a 4
Io.sit with admiration. with respect and I
-, 10 Thereby the confidence of the 4