The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-27

no interviews with the gentlemen with
whom he seeks an alliance. Chief JUS
ice Bdrtch kept the pavement warm
between the church offices and the col
+ onels residence for several DAYS before
MS recent departure for Washington.
HIS honor's term EXP res with the pres
ent year, and If certain circuit judge
snip plans go aWry it would be highly
agreeable to have his name on the win
ming state ticket Hence he IS not
averse TO lending his aid to the colo
neIs plans. The judge is now at the
national capital. John Henry Smith,
the apostolic politician, and Bishop
CiaWs0n are also there. What author
lJy they have 10 pledge votes in eX-
Chdnge for Hanna favors is not known.
but Information at hand justifes the
prediction that action on the constitu-
tonal amendments VIII be suspended
pending further negotiations.
Obstacles Encountered.
But despite the apparent smoothness
with which the plan has worked TO the
present stage there are first-class indi-
cations that the promoters Will be un-
done. The Lannanite faction demands
assurance that it viii be allowed to die
tate party nominations in the coming
special and general elections before
agreeing to abandon the proposed con-
SututIOnal amendment. They want a
direct promise from the Republican
leaders high in the Mormon church that
they win have official cooperation from
the hierarchy in this years elections.
That promise, it is said positively. has
not yet been given, and it is said fur
Their that no assurance of the sort viii
be given with the sanction of President
Snow
Then there IS powerful element in
the Republican party that would go to
any length TO defeat the proposed plan.
The most prominent Republican in thu
state, one of the leaders of the oppOsi-
ton to Judge Bartch's federal Judge
ship aspirations, said yesterday that
the party viii repudiate the whole
demonstrating outfit, including its or
gan, at the coming state convection
and that this determination is the lief
obstacle to the BaTtCh-Lanuau plan for
a reconciliation of the church and the
party The opposition believes that the
only way To show the paTty's sincerity
and desire for a genuine reconciliation
IS to turn down the few leading Re
pubiiCanS who are responsible for the
attacks on the good faith eff the state
and lis people. He declared that every
prospective candidate i'm the party. in
GLIDING William Glasmanu, is in favor
of an open declaration, excepting pos
sibly Secretary of State Hammond. who
Is i'm line with the Bartch-Lannan
scheme. He was wei aware that ne
gOtiatiOns on the subject were carried
on between the church offices. the Trib-
une office and the Republican state Off
CeS for several days before Judge
Bartch's departure, and that the judge
himself was the bearer of all the mes
sages that passed back and forth.
Would Be a Bunco.
The idea that Mark Hanna or any
Republican national leader would en-
ter into any agreement in the interest
of Utah polygamists, in exchange for
the slight party advantage that a Re-.
publican victory i'm Utah would give
them is derided by the opposition to
the BartCh-Lann9n programme and
they declare that it would be gigantic
bunco.
Altogether the Lannan Republicans
are not as happy over the prospect as
they expected to be a month OF SO ago
Then it was believed that as soon as
Roberts was disposed Of they would be
able to stop the storm of their own
and proceed to take every
thing in sight with the approval OF the
very people they had been maIigning.
The hitch within their own party has
spoiled the programme so far and it
remains TO be seen whether the church
OF its chief opponents viii lend their
approval to the Lannan- Bartch-
Henry Smith undertaking.