The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-10-22
Democrats Deal with
American arty.
TRUTH, =" Salt Lake.

Some days ago Truth published the
fact, and it is fact, that ex-senator
Cannon deserted the democratic par
ty and joined the new American"
aggregation of soreheads in accord
ance with an arrangement made be-
tween Senator Cannon and the"A Amer
lean" party leaders as parties of the
first part and the democratic national
committee as party Of the second part.
The publication of that fact greatly
annoyed The Tribune, the X. X. organ,
the Herald, assistant X. X. organ and
Quasi-democratic organ, Mr. Cannon
and few of the leading democrats.
They lashed themselves into fury and
the foam was scattered far and wide.
The two organs and the senator came
out with dcnlals and abuse of State
Chairman Spry of the republican COM
mittee. Statements purporting to be
made by Mr.. Bamberger, democratic
state chairman, and Mr.. Peery, demo-
cratic national committeeman, were
also published, but the statements of
those gentleman as published denied
nothing except that they were parties
to the deal That such a deal was
made Truth is in position to state
positively, and does so right now.
The deal was not made direct with
the national democratic committee.
1t was made by Senator German and
William Sheehan on behalf Of the ma
tional democratic committee. There
is the technically upon which the
organs base their denials. Truth did
not get its original information on
this matter from Chairman Spry.
Neither did Mr.. Spry furnish us with
the fact that the deal was made
through German and Sheehan when
Senator German was in the east re-
Gently. The wrath of the organs
hurled against Mr. Spry and their at
tempts to father the statement on
him were entirely misdirected The
Tribune may go into spaSmS in max
ing denials, the Herald may rant and
rave, and Mr.. Cannon may belch
forth denials until he is black in the
face. We know whereof we speak
and we know that the nefarious deal
was made as we have stated
The inducement for the democratic
national committee to make such a
deal is evident. The only hope of the
democrats TO defeat President Roose-
welt in this state is in the" American"
party. Their plain course, like that
OF the local democracy, is to aid and
abet the new party, in the hope that
1t will draw republican votes away
from the regular republican ticket.
kearns and the leaders of the new
party in this respect are in sympathy
with the democrats. Senator Cannon
for months has been a defender of
kearnS, the originator and the head
and front Of the American" party.
All his efforts were in that direction
even when he was still within the
democratic ranks. 1t was decided
that Mr.. Cannon could be of more SER
vice to the Americans and more eff
fectually aid Mr.. Kearns in getting
his revenge on the republicans by join
ing the "American' party than by re-
naming even nominally democrat.
Mr.. Cannon, for some cOnSiderat ions,
was induced to play the part of GER
tain man in holy writ who lived in the
time of Christ and who came to bad
end. After Mr.. Cannon had conSum-
mated the deal with the democratic
national committee, he tclegraphed
the American party leaders here
that he was with them and about the
same time or little after he tcle-
graphed the democrats Of Utah to yet
together and stay together. The X.
h. party here had two objects in get
ting Cannon to join them in a drama
tic and spectacular way, first, to de-
feat the republican ticket, and second
to increase anti-Mormon sentiment in
the east and strengthen the opposi-
tion TO Senator Smoot keeping his
seat in the United States senate: Can
non, it was thought, would be a great
card. He is Mormon of most dis
tinguished family and parentage, an
effective and dramatic speaker who
could be used effectively in the cam
paign. Both the X. X. leaders and
the democratic committee, however,
were gold bricked. The acquisition
Of Mr., Cannon has done the "Ameri-
can party no good His talk in the
uheater on the occasion of the Amer
lean" party's convention gave the par
ty decided setback and disguised
decent and real republicans with the
movement, the main object Of which,
the defeat Of Roosevelt and Fairbanks,
Mr.. Cannon made very evident. This
speech was the natural and planned