The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-03
FRANK CANNON TALKS.
Hopeful Of Success but Fearful of
Church Influence.

Former Senator Frank j. Cannon yester-
day afternoon made his first speeches Tor
the American ticket iu this campaign.
The senator's remarks could hardly be
called speeches, either. Rather were they
little talks 10 smdlf gatherings OF MEM
bcrs of the American party. The first
OF these was delivered at the annex TO
the Ninth ward meeting house. Senator
Cannon talked briefly Of his experiences
during his recent tour in the east, when
he delivered a number of talks against
polysamy aad IN favor OF the expulsion
of Senator SmoOt,
lie said that he brought 10 Utah a mes
sage of love from TIE good women IF the
east, and urged his hearers, most Of whom
were women, to fight hard FOR the sue
Cess OF the American ticket. Senator
Cannon expressed the belief that the
ticket would win though he added that
on the Saturday night before the election
the hierarChs viii get together, measure
the chances of the two Old parties and
try either 10 elect the Democratic ticket
with Republican votes or the Republican
ticket with Democratic votes.
The second talk by senator Cannon was
at the residence of j. NJ. Cohen, where IIe
double parlOrs were we'll filled with Wo-
men. Here he endeavOred 10 make II clear
that he was not making a fight Oh the
Mormon people as a people. or ON their
religion as a religion. There are tens OF
thousands of good people IN tan, he
said, who believe that all the liberty they
have on earth comes from Joseph F.
Smith"
Ne senator uCCldItu IltL the people
We're promised a liberty that was not
given them. We have not hid the free
dom that was promised he went on,
and the state and city lag on account of
VI He was sure that If the American
tHket could be elected next Tuesday an
era of great prosperity would follow. At
the Cohen rally Senator Cannon again
discussed thc SmOOI case. He told Of
meeting "a woman whose husband was in
congress and voted against the admission
Of b. I'll. Roberts. Although did not say
50 directly, he left the inference that the
husband is HoW in the senate.
This wife followed the testimony in the
SmOOt case" he said, while her husband
did not. She was able TO analyze il aa
Well as any lawyer, and she asked her
husband 10 vote against Smoot The hus-
band started 20 argue the question, saying
that SmOot was personally a clean, hon
orable man and not a polygamist, while
. RebOrts was a pOllygamist You surely
would not have me vote against SmoOt,
he said, merely because he is a Mormon
apostle And the wtfe's reply was: You
smashed one egg only when YOU voted
against Roberts. / want you To kill the
Old hen that lays the egg Senator can
non told tire story very effectively and
the sentiment Of figuratvely killing the
hen, the other name for il being the first
presidency and the quorum of apostles
Was heartily applaudcd.
Judge 4. J. Weber also spoke at the
Cohen meeting. The judge was uuiuttn-
tiOnally humorous when he said: "If the
American ticket is Successful iu this
campaign prayers of thaukfuiucss viii go
up 10 the great throne from every hamlet
from every village and from every CITY in
this whole country of ours, and the echo
OF the wave OF sentiment thew will raise
VIII DO swept back 10 Utah The Judge
also Opined that there wasn't ANYTHING
like the water shortage during the late
summer and the early fall that the DEM
ocrats claimed. He almost tried 10 per,
suade his hearers that the Democrats shut
off the water in order TO force people 10
vote the Democratic ticket