The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-10
SENATOR BROWN
SUSPECTS FRAUD
Does Not Believe Salisbury
Was Elected.
SAYS LANNAN WANTS
UTAH DEMOCRATIC
Charges Loose With Trnachery
and Explains Other Things.

Ex-senator Arthur Brown arrived
home from the east in the best of spir-
! its, in spite of his overwhelming and
unexDected defeat in the election of
Orange J. Salisbury as Republican ma
/ tional committeeman for Utah.
| I don't know how it happened" he
! said last evening, "and I have grave
/ doubts as to his ever having been legal
/ ~ elected. 1 am sure that l know
nothing of any meeting of the execu-
/ tive committee of the Republican ma
tional committee at which it is claimed
! that Mr.. Salisbury was elected. There
might have been such a meeting. but
if there was such did not appear be-
/ fore st. and 1 know of no other Utah
man who did.
I remained in Philadelphia the Fri
| day after the convention for this pur-
pose, and had consultations with diff
ferent members of the committee, but
was never invited before the commit
| tee, and knew of no meeting. 1 have
been told that the records of the COM
mittee viii show no action in regard
| to the election of Mr.. Salisbury, but
that IS hearsay and may not be right.
There is a significant fact in connec-
| ton with this, and that is that the an
| nOUncement of Mr.. Salisbury's appoint
ment appeared in just one newspaper
| in the United States, and that is the
/ Salt Lake Tribune. My opinion is that
| MIR. Hanna told Mr.. Lannan that he
might go on home, that Salisbury would
| be all right, and that was taken as a
! settlement OF the matter
No Use of a Protest.
Senator Brown was asked if he would
make any protest. He replied: ''Oh. no;
; that would do no good, and the matter
is not of so much importance. anyhow.
I OF course if Utah should go Demo-
| cratic the committeeman would cut
quite q figure in the distribution of the
! federal spoils, and for that reason his
I manager viii be anxious to have the
| state go Democratic. But if this state
| goes Republican. that means the cleo
( ton of a Republican United States SEN
| atOr, and the senator viii naturally
, take the place of the committeeman in
| the dispensing of the patronage"
1t was suggested TO the senator that
! the wrangle over the campaign fund
/ Of four years 60 was used against him
/ IN the fight in Philadelphia.
/ Il don't believe It," was the reply.
Il have heard a great deal about that
| campaign fund. and there have been
all kinds of stories floating around
! about It. 1 know that some say that
| the fund was not accounted for to the
] satisfaction of the national committee;
/ that the blame for this was thrown
upon Lindsay r. Rogers, the national
committeeman, and that ! was held re-
spOnsible for the appointment of Mr..
/ Rogers. 1t is true that 1 was resDOn-
sible for the appointment of Mr.. ROg-
! ers; II is not true that the campaign
g
| ed for. l went east myself and got that
s., OO0, and I got it TO save the Repub-
| lican organization from going over en-
tirely to the Bryan cause. I was afraid
/ that John E. Dooly was going with the
! Bryanites because he was in with the
| Tribune crowd.
How Money Was Used.
THE money was got from Payne, and
| at his suggestion il was AlSed by the
national committeeman instead of the
/ state chairman. Later Mr.. DoOly wrote
| for money, and was told by Secretary
Dick of the money sent to Rogers. This
was blunder of Dicks, as it was not
to be known that the money was Sc
cured. and this naturally caused hard
feelings. But / was to be the judge of
! how that money was to be used; ! dis
| tributed the greater part of it myself,
! and when any man says that that
money was not properly accounted for
he says what is not so. When Senator
| Proctor was here told him if he wish
| ed vouchers TO show how the money
was distributed he should have them;
but he said no, that if the money was
] used TO my satisfaction that was all
| that was necessary.
ED Loose would never have gone to
| Philadelphia as a delegate continued
| Senator Brown, eff he had not prom
ised TO work with me in this matter of
a committeeman. He went to the Re
publican leaders in Utah county and
! told them that he wished to get back
/ into the party; that he would spend his
/ money for the party this year. and
! that he would like TO go as a delegate.
He then said that he was with Brown
! and that he would work for his man
| for national committeeman. He came
| to me and l told him that / was for
Mccormick. He said all right: he was
for Mccormick. and that he was against
Salisbury anyhow. He went home and
told his friends that, and on the
strength of this understanding he was
chosen a delegate.
Made a Mistake.
The mistake that we made was in
not settling this matter in the state
convention. Mr.. Salisbury would not
have received 10 per cent of the vote
in that convention.
Il suppose that no one will ever know
just how the thing was done at Phiia-
delphia except those who were on the
inside. l understand that Judge Bartch
got telegram from Kerens, the mem
Der of the national executive commit
tee from St. Louis, telling him that
Salisbury was chosen
'In discussing politics in general, Sen
atOr Brown expressed confidence in an
overwhelming Republican victory.
I believe" he said, that We will
carry every northern state l look for
a greater landslide this year than we
had in 1872 when poor old Greeley was
done to death. Then / believe that
history will repeat itself After the
election of 1872 the Republicans played
the fool and in spite of their tremen-
dOuS majority the Democrats elected
Samuel J. Tilden in 1876 The same
thing is liable TO happen again.
Hill to the Front.
In two years more the Democrats
will be tired of Bryan. and Populism
and get back on their old fighting
ground. When that time comes look
out for David Bennett HILL He is back
in line this year and is trying to dras
the gold Democrats back with him, but
Hill would not permit his name to go
upon the ticket; he was too smart for
that he kpexv that the rfcLyer Wa