The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-05
PEOPLE WE'RE DISAPPOINTED.
Joint Session Visitors Expected an
Election Yesterday.

JOINT Session visitors Expected an
Election Yesterday.
Il feel as though had been cheated, %
said a visitor returning from the joint
session yesterday afternoon. I went
Gown there TO see the legislature elect
= United States senator, ana ali those
fellows did was to keep on The old, old
round until l was sick OF The whole
business
That just about sizes up the feeling
of the general public on the subject last
evening. The idea had become pretty
general during the day that q senator
would be elected, and the assembly hall
was crowded with spectators during the
voting as it has not been for days. But
every one went away disappointed, and
their disappointment was shared by
thousands of people all over the state.
Whence came the rumor that an cleo
ton was possible it would be difficult
10 say. The general idea seemed TO be
that either there would be a landslide
10 Senator Cannon, or that Mr. Nc
Cune would receive the four Democratic
votes necessary to elect him. And, too,
there was an idea that the Republicans
had at last come TO the end of their
string. and mighk leap over the barrier
or craftsmanship into the ranks Of one
of the Democratic candidates. A break
up was freely predicted, and the break
up came, though not exactly in the
manner which had been proDhesied.
Representative Johnson's brilliant
speech for Senator Cannon at the noon
session had the immediate result of
drawing Representative Law into the
WeSerite camp, and in the afternoon
ii was expected that others would fol-
low him. with the result Of a general
scatteration 10 all points of the cCm-
pass.
Chairman Robinson of the minority
party gathered his little flock into one
of the committee rooms after the joint
session at noon, and there State Chair
man Wesley x. Walton met with them
and eXhorted them TO stand by their
guns yet 4 little longer, for there We're
rumOrS of many changes in the Demo-
cratic columns, and 1t was possible
that an election would be accomplished
without their Interference. He also ad-
jured them to oppose an adjournment
as long as possible, so as TO give the
Democrats all the chance they wanted
10 finish the fight
Representative Lester Taylor of
Grand county. as well as Representa-
tive Law, had refused to go into the
caucus. and on the first ballot in the
afternoon Mr.. Taylor slid gracefully
into a seat in the Cannon chariot with
out even as much as a word in eXDla-
ration of his vote Mr.. Taylor's defec-
ton only added to the general im9res-
sion that an election was inevitable, for
il seemed to give credence to the belief
that the minority party was completely
divided against itself. But Mr.. Wal
tons arguments seemed to have con-
Tinced the other Republican members
and the programme laid down by him
was religiously carried out throughout
the long afternoon.
The Cannonites were gleefully jubi-
liant last evening. The two votes ac-
quired by Senator Cannon during the
day made them feel that their time for
shouting had come at last, after
whole month of weary waiting. When
pressed as to where they were going 10
get the other votes, they smiled and
smiled, but refused TO be pumped prob
ably because that is the very thing they
themselves don't know.
And Judge Kings people were feeling
happy also. There is no denying that
they feared that an election would be
reached during the day, and that their
candidate would not be the elected man.
Hence the respite Of even fOrty-eight
hours was a welcome one.
Mr.. McCune's adherents were not in
the least cast down because the week
had ended without the victory they
have been hoping for. I'VE did not e,--
pect an election" said Manager Harris
last evening. We are stronger right I
now than we have ever been since The
race began. To be sure, il would have
been pleasant to have closed it up this
week, but We never really thought il
could be done, and we are perfectly sat /
ished with the way things look now" |
Judge Powers remains serene and !
confident and unterrifed. The fact that /
he had doubled his vote the day before !
was sufficient for him. and he was not /
afraid Of the result, he said