The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-01
Colorado Senator viii be Held
Up by Hanna.
SLATED FOR CHAIRMAN
TRAITOR TO SILVER IS TO PRE-
SIDE AT CONVENTION.
Position VIII be Only Temporary,
However-This is Part of Scheme
to Capture Legislatures in Noun
tain States and Keep Control Of
the Senate.



Washington. May -27.-Unless there
is a swift change in the plans of the
Republican managers, Senator Edward
o. Wolcott wiz be the temporary chair
man of the Philadelphia national con-
vention. He was originally slated for
permanent chairman, but the plans
have recently been altered and the
soon-to- be-disinherited senator from
the Centennial State win make the
opening speech at Philadelphia, and
occupy the chair for about half an hour
afterward. That is all temporary
chairmen are for. There is an impress
sion among some politicians that a
chairman may sound the keynote of
the campaign, but when this is done,
as sometimes has occurred, the perma-
nent chairman has much more often
done it.
Just what keynote Senator WoIcott
can sound, if he tries it, is beyond the
best political guessers here. He can
be used only as a fgurehead to show
the abject surrender of the Mckinley
party in the mountain states 10 the
single gold standard. He stands for
nothing else in national politics, and
after next March will not stand for
that, for the confessed traitor to state
is doomed to political obliteration by
the next Colorado legislature.
1t is a very unenviable position that
Wolcott consents to occupy for the
doubtful honor of presiding for a few
minutes at Philadelphia, dispOrting
himself as confessed. self-parad-
ing, self-satisfed traitor to the best
interests and the known sentiments
of the people whom he pretendS to rep
resent in the senate
It is also at first difficult to see what
the Republican leaders hope to gain
by the parading of WOlcOtt and the
display of his apostacy TO silver. As he
stands on the platform and apOtheO-
sizes Mckinley and the gold standard,
he will be living advertisement of the
fact that every mountain state failed
to support Mckinley in 1896, and that
of representation in the senate from
those states, solidly Republican before
the ST Louis convention, but five Re
publicans remain, and that all of these
are shining marks for slaughter.
Hanna Hopes to Extend Rule.
The fact is, however. that the Hanna
managers really have hopes of con-
trolling the next senate and of saving
it by the return of the gOIdbug syndi-
cate Oh W OlCObJ, w aFFeD, carter dn0
ShOup, and the election OF Republicans
to succeed to the Montana and Utah
! vacancies. This faith has come Il
Hanna and his associates as d result
/ Of the persistent assurances of the
/ Rocky mountain patronage brokers. al
of whom are running for reelection
and only one of Whom--W aTren-haS
any visible chance Of getting out from
! behind the lighthouse, and Warren'S
! chances are far from satisfactory.
/ The Republican managers, fearful OF
! the result Of the presidential election
are DESTROYS of holding on to the sen
ate at all hazards. Hence their effort
! to appeal to a group Of states that has
( but sixteen electoral vOtes-au be
/ iieved even by Hanna to be for RryaT
but which will next January choose
/ seven United States senators, anC
which, if all are opponents of the Re
/ publican party, viii mean a change OF
! twelve votes in the political complexion
/ of the senate. If the six New England
states by some political cataclysn
! should all go Democratic, they could
I do no more than this.
Patronage Brokers Have Dreams.
/ The effort to influence the mountain
west by exhibiting WOlc0tt is very
amusing, but there is no doubt that il
! is due to the Hanna hope of heIpinl
him in his senatorial asDirations-anC
: at the same time aiding the gold Pandi