The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-08
WAS UTAH BUNCOED?
Alleged That Salisbury Was
Never Elected.
CHARGES OF TRICKERY.
HOW REPUBLICANS OF STATE
WERE TURNED DOWN.

A respectable number of Utah Re
publicans have become convinced that
the party in this state has been bur-
coed by Mark Hanna. Some of them
also believe that Hanna himself was
the victim of a confidence game played
by Colonel Lannan and his three aides
at Philadelphia.
When the announcement was made
that the national executive committee
had administered the Salisbury crimp
to the Utah party by electing Colonel
Lannans mel as national committee
man from this state. the distress of
local Republicans was mixed with
much astonishment II was regarded
as inexplicabie that the national COM
mittee should promote discord and de-
moralization in Utah by recognizing
the representative Of very small and
unpopular faction, in the face Of the
vigorous protest from nine of the
twelve delegates and alternates that
represented the party at Philadelphia
But the announcement was accepted
as authoritative and final, and beyond
low growls of disapproval the opposi-
tion was carried no farther.
Salisbury Not Elected.
But subsequent developments aroused
suspicion and investigation led to con-
viction that Salisbury has never been
regularly selected by the national ey-
ecutive committee as committeeman
from Utah, but that the party has been
made the victim of trickery and fraud.
The investigation referred to has been
made by several prominent Republi-
cans, one of whom was at Philadel-
phia- This inquiry disclosed these
facts:
Salisbury was never elected national
committeeman from Utah by the ma.
tional executive committee.
Nc meeting of the executive commit
tee was held on Friday, July p. the
day upon which Salisbury's boosters
announced his selection.
The national executive committee
has not yet been appointed, and there
was no committee to meet.
At o'clock p. m. on that day Mark
Hanna assured a Utah delegate that
the Utah contest would not be taken up
until some time later.
A Lannan Discovery.
It has developed that. so far as can
be learned, the only newspaper man
in the United States that discovered
that there had been a meeting of the
national executive committee and that
Salisbury had been elected. fyas the
wldely-known editor of the local Han
ma organ, who was on the spot. and
that his telegram announcing the fact
was the only basis for the statement
that such action had been taken. Phil
adelphia papers, in their accounts of
the proceedings of that day, contained
no reference to the executive commit
tee, except 10 state, upon the authority
Of Mark Hanna, that the committee
had not been appointed. 1t is true that
Hanna announced the names of three
or four men who would be members of
the committee when appointed, among
them being Shoup of Idaho and Man
ley of Maine. But these three or four
men do not constitute the executive
committee, and have no more authority
to decide important party matters than
is possessed by the delegates who op
posed Salisbury.
No One Attended.
No Utah delegate who has yet re-
turned attended the alleged meeting.
They all state that they Understood
such a meeting was held, this under
standing being based upon Colonel
Lannan's announcement. Some of them
seem to think that it was meeting of
the full national committee, instead of
the executive committee, but the new
national committee has not met. and
the OILY uiEELlHS nGlQ DN TIC Olu COil-
nittee was for the purpose of closing
up matters connected with the last
campaign. The old committee would
certainly have no authority to I'LL va
cancies on the new committee It is
quite certain that not one of the del
egates who opposed Salisbury's ap-
pointment was invited to be present
at any meeting, and that no eonsidera-
ton has been given to their protest.
Selected By Trick
AS stated above. these facts have
been brought out by an investigation
on the part of local Republicans, who
are 7ow convinced that Salisbury was
selected by trickery and fraud, and
that he has never been regularly cho-
sen to represent Utah on the national
committee Their conviction is that
Mark Hanna, Senator Shoup and Joe
Manley usurped the authority of the
committee and decided to turn down
the Utan Republicans in the interest
of Colonel Lannan's man. Shoup. as
is well known, is Lannan's willing tool
in everything. and Marley was a close
friend of the late James G. Blaine, who
was Salisbury's uncle by marriage.
1t is believed here that the story
about the $4,000 checks from Wells
Kearns and Loose may have had some
thing TO do with the capture of Han
ma by. the schemers. It is thought that
the possibility of such contributions in
the event that their man was selected
was dangled before Hanna's nose as a
bait, and that Marcus snapped 1t up
OF course, no such contributions will be
made, end if it is true that such in
ducements were held out, the national
chairman was victimized.
While the anti-Salisbury Republi-
cans know that they were turned down
through skullduggery and fraud. and
that their petition in behalf Of Reed
Smoot was cOntemptuously tossed into
Mark Hanna's waste basket. it is not
likely that they will take any further
steps in defense of their rights. as they
realize the utter futility of opposing
the Hanna rule