The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-19
Idaho Senator Has Hand in
Patronage of This State.
IS APPOINTING POWER
WHATEVER HE SAYS GOES WITH
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY.
Necessity of Retiring to Private Life
Four Intermountain Senators Who
Have Betrayed the Cause of Sill
yer and Misrepresent Their Con-
stituents.
Especial Correspondence

! Especial Correspondence
Washington, >. c., March ll-One of
the most important matters to be determ-
| ined at this falls elections. judged from
the Washington point of observation, is
whether the little syndicate of goldbug
Republican senators which has arbitrarily
controlled Rocky mountain patronage
FOR the last four years, shall continue to
mlsrepresent the sentiment of those states
IN the United States senate. Senator VOL
colt. Senator Shoup, Senator Carter and
Senator Warren, the quadumvirate of
/ Hanna's particular political pets, are all
up for reelection. There is also at
issue in Utah one senatorial seat. and the
! possibility of one more in Montana. ac-
| cording TO how the Clark contest may be
| nnally decided. The vast Importance of
theSe elections on the silver question it
! self can hardly be stated. The statement
! is now often made in the eastern press
/ that by reason of the heavy majority the
/ republicans have in the senate, there is
nc possibility of any silver legislation dur
ing M, Bryan's term should he be elected
/ next November.
The Rocky mountain states. the very
| ClJd0eI OF silver strength, and the seat Of
| almost unanimous silver sentiment, have
/ II in their power TO retire four of the most
pronounced gold men Of the senate. In the
] present congress all four of these senators
| nave cast. OFF the last pretense of friend
| ship for silver and supported without re-
! serve the administration financial bill.
| designed to fasteu the gold standard
/ permanently on the people. Therefore in
| the matter of the senatorial elections in
| the mountain states there arises the dis
] t'net issue as to whether men who flag
/ rant1y betray the known and declared
sentiments OF their constituents on the
great money question, which will be the
prime issue Of the Bryan campaign, shall
be retained in office.
Leaders Are Watchful.
The national leaders of all the silver
parties are watching the shaping up of
| politics in the mountain states with deep
concern. There is not the slightest doubt
expressed by them that al The mountain
states viii go heavily for Bryan. But
! deep concern is shown IN the allanceS
10 be made in each of these states 1t Is
not enough that they should cast their
| electoral votes for Bryan; it is more i'm
! portant that they should wipe out their
Republican representation in the senate.
The heavy Republican majority which IS
deemed such a certain block to the hope
OF silver legislation viii be vastly dlmln-
! iShed by the retirement of these four men
and Democratic, silver Republican and
| Populist leaders are all uniting In the nope
that minority representation from all
! these states in the senate may be ended.
In dispensing with the services OF this
gold Quartette the mountain states Will
also be Kidding themselves OF one OF the
most complete patronage oligarchieS eX-
listing in the United States. WOlcott and
/ Carter have been absolute in matters of
/ patronage in their states. and under no
circumstances have any other Repubh-
| cans been given the slightest cOnsidera-
ton. Shoup's power has been, II possible,
even more despotic and extensive, for he
has not only controlled the offices In his
home state, but has been able TO erect
Utah into political dependency of Idaho.
It is only lately become known that
Senator Shoup has practically been the
Utah appointing power. and while he has
not in all cases recommended men direct
ly, he has been at all times powerful
enough to defeat the nomination of any
person his Utah friends did not desire for
any particular office.
Clark Rules Wyoming.
In Wyoming Senator Clark has joined
with Senator Warren in recommending
some persons for appointment but it has
been palpably a case OF me too, and
there is small doubt that Warren recon-
mendations would have gone through in
any case where Senator Clark had the
assurance to oppose his colleague recon-
mendatiOnS.
1t is well understood here that the Re
pubncans have no hope of carrying any
of these states on the general ticket, with
the possible exception Of Wyoming, but
every one of the four senators whose
terms expire are giving their colleagues
10 understand that owing to divisions
and discussions among the several state
parties they will return to the senate
with ease. 1t is also boldly claimed that
Utah will send Republican senator and
that if anything happens to Senator Clark
of Montana, the Mountain state VIII send
two Republicans.
The Democratic and silver leaders in
the senate are all deeply concerned in
the defeat of these senators and do not
think there is any possibility of the cleo
ton of any of them except by failure Of
silver men in the states TO act in har-
mOny. The recent letters of Senator
Henry NJ. Teller TO ex-senator Dubois
and the declaration of Frank J. Cannon
to Chairman Moyle of the Utah Demo-
cratic committee, announcing his support
of the Democratic picket in that state,
have been received here with much
pleasure. The only former silver Repub-
Hcan of any particular national promf-
hence who is known TO be openly aftili-
atlng with the gold Republicans is Lee
Mantle of Montana. He is said to be
slated as the Carter candidate for gov
ernor,
Ambitions OF Mantle.
1t is well known here that Mantle was
never in sympathy with the true silver
self as any part of the Teller. Dubois,
Cannon and Pettigrew party and never
voted with them except on a direct ques-
ton of free silver On every cOrOllary
question arising, and there were many
of them during the last two years Of
his term, he voted with the Republicans
and was particularly active in the effort !
10 pass the Dingley tariff bill and was so |
good supporter of the administration |
that Carter found ii convenient to ap-
point several Mantle Republicans to Of |
nee IN montana.
If Mantle is really nominated for gov
ernor, as the gold men here expect MIN |
to be, he will probably be claimed as a |
silver man, which is very amusing, in |
view of his record in the senate. He |
never sought TO disguise here his in |
terest in the straight Republican party |
or the fact that he should return to that |
party when the silver Republican organi- |
cation either disbanded or went to the |
Democracy.
While Senator Mantle is personally pop
uiar among his colleagues who are silver |
Republicans il is a fact that long before |
the close of his term he was regarded
by them as wholly out of political fellow |
ship and as being quite as reliable for |
Administration measures as Senator |
Clark.
Silver Men Active.
With the exception of ex-senator Man.
tie, every one of the silver Republican
leaders of the 1896 campaign is active
and energetically in favor of the closest
possible utilization between all the silver
forces, and many of them are in favor
or an absolute merging of all parties
to the 1896 and 1900 compacts under the
name OF the greatest of the parties. Yet |
Notwithstanding this unanimity of senti-
ment on the part of the men who led the
revolt four years ago. the four mountain
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