The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-26
Especial Correspondence


Moroni, March PA most peculiar
scheme of the Republican state central
committee to deceive people of Sanpete
county has just come to light at Sterling
Wholesale and ridiculous promises of
offices have been made under direction, it
is understood, of the state committee, and
possibly of Hon. Bill Glasmann of Og-
den
"Bub" Lowry of Sterling, who some
times earns his living as a farmer. but
whose other visible means of existence
ere unknown, unless they are derived
from the Republican campaign fund has
! been circulating petition or declara-
1On OF intention of membership in the
Republican state league Of clubs. He Sc
| cured fifteen or twenty Sterling signers
out OF total vote of 125. But his prom
Uses and threats are the peculiar feature.
lie has explained TO Democrats and Re
puoucanS alike that when Mr.. Mckinley
| Is reelected there will be 500 places for
distribution among the faithful in Utah.
Such places as misunderstanding particu-
larly. and numerous other federal posi-
ions. He has told them that unless they
VIII sign MS roll they need not apply for
JOBS under the next administration which
ne declares will be that of Mr. Hanna
again, and he has promised that two or
three places will go to the faithful of
| STERLING If they will sign. He declares,
! on What's authority it is unknown, that no
one who fails to become a member of the
league can under any possible circum-
stances nave a federal Job. Whether Mr.
Lowry. or 'Bub,' as he is more familiar
| ~ known, has communicated directly with
president Mckinley or Chairman Hanna
or merely with the Hon. Bill of ogden.
has not vet been learned. The Hon Bill
Is president of the league, and ii does not
seem likely that anything would be done
without his knowledge. Still the Hon. Bill
may not be so anxious to have Mr.. Ham
mond elected that he would make an
even greater clown of himself.
After the Mormon meeting last Sunday
ne had his little blue paper cot seeking
signatures to it. Bishop n. c. Christen-
| sen walked out from his religious services
ana OStentauouSly signed the document
before his congregation. This display
Drought two or three more signatures.
Cub" Goes Further.
But 'Bub' has gone further. He has
! attempted strong coercion among the
ssheepshearers who live in and about
| Sterling. He told these young fellows
! point blank last week that unless they
signed his roll and voted for Mr Ham
mond they would not be employed at the
| big Shearing corral near the town 1t is
a matter of public knowledge that he has
! made these threats, and in them he seems
| 10 nave some foundation more substantial
than In his promises of jobs. Democrats
| OF Sterling, responsible farmers said that
| the flock owners are backing up Lowry
I IN this, and that many of them have been
! heard to make the same threats The
J work has, however, been done so openly
ana stupidity that it is likely to prove
more OF a boomerang that a vote-getter
Inere Is also another petition out, but
no such wonderful promises have been
made {. J. Fisher of Ephraim has one
of the documents which he carries about
in his inside pocket. He does not flash
1t very often. 1t has been suggested that
ne has not such close connection with
Sterling.
Another peculiar feature of the San
pete campaign is the rather remarkable
( action of the county commissioners in
refusing to appoint a Democratic Judge
OF election for the Steering precinct
! Sterling being Democratic, is entitled by
law to two Democrats and one Republican
! Judge James Edwards, one of the DEM
ocratlc judges has been taken sick
| MarlnuS Beauregard notified the county
/ commissioners and asked them to name
! a democrat In place of Edwards. They
! have fatty refused to do so, but have, in
stead. named a Republican. Protest has
| done no good.
Attorney James w. Cherry of Manti.
CHAIRMAN of the precinct, and member of
! the county executive committee may ap-
/ ply 10 Judge Johnson Of the district court
Tor writ of mandate to compel the ap-
| pOlntment of Democrat.
Hammond Changes Tactics.
! Mr.. Hammond is changing his tactics
| down IN Sanpete county. Before several
! audiences he has tried to leave the i'm
| preston that he favors binetallism. and
! TINS Notwithstanding the Republican plat
form endorsement of the splendid ad-
mlnlstration of President Mckinley" 1t
/ Is the hrst time he has tried to leave this
! impression since his speech at SmithfieId
| IN cache county At Ephraim on Tues
| day and at Fountain Green Wednesday
] ne said that he favored the currency bill
] just signed by President Mckinley. Then
/ ne went on in an endeavor to show that
/ the new law was not only consistent with
/ put favored, bimetalliSm. He does not
come out very boldly and state his most
uOh. put ne eVFnces a great desire to
] repudlate the state platform.
All the Democratic precinct committee
! men ana county committeeman of San
pete are enthusiastic since Judge King
] mas come among them. They had feared
/ that the county would be lost: now thew
/ are confident that it will go Democratic
Inc one tnlng they feared was the vote
/ OF the WOOL ShearerS, and their influence
! on the farmers. But Judge King has
pointed out with iteration and Federation
/ that wool went down in price all over the
world at the time its price fell in the
| United States.
| Did Grover Cleveland cause the prica
/ OF wool to fall in England, Europe and
| Australia as well as in the United
| States?' he asked. Did his power extend
! all over the world?"
Then he has sho-Tn that barbed wire
/ Dlndlng Irvine, agricultural implements
/ and many other things that farmers buv
/ nave now gone up, as well as wool which
one out OF twenty of them has to sell He
/ explains that wheat, which nearly every
one Of them raises, is down in Drice
! If President Mckinley can and did
/ raise the price of WOOL why does he NOT
raise the price Of Wheat?' he asks them
/ DO you think his discrimination is fair tn
| you?" And that makes them think again
/ price.