The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-12-29
THE ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY
EDITION OF THE BROAD AK
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l1rga bundle of copies of The Broad
Ak under our arm and wend our way
to the State Capital and place a copy
of the paper on the desk of each and
every member. so that they could read
about some of the ungeltlemanly acts
or conduct of Senator Cannon before
they began balloting for him, this
mode of warfare caused him to be
come mighty warm i'm the collar, but
as we had the goods on him We stool
our ground and continued the bitter
fight on him. and on February 9th, H.
held a great mass meeting in the Sal;
Lake Theater, and in the presence OF
three thousand people, he admitted
that he had violated his marriage
vows i'm the past and had done many
other things that was unbecoming Il
United States Senator, that all he
asked was for the people. to give him
another trial and he would make
good"
The daily newspapers in Salt LAX
flashed Senator Cannon's weak admis
siOns to all parts of Utah, and the
weekly newspapers assisted to fan
the flame into a white heat: many of
the leading citizens in the various
counties instructed their representa-
tives to withdraw their support from
Senator Cannon, for after they had
read so many bad things about him
in all the newspapers they were not
in favor of returning him to thu
United States Senate, and from the
9th of February his followers and
supporters began to break away from
HIM and his vote continued to dwindle
down and down, for be it remembered
at one time be ran up to 80 votes and
only needed two more votes to be
elected.
But to make long story short. at
- O'Clock on the night of March 9th
1899. after taking one hundred and
siXty-seven ballots. and after one of /
the longest and bitterest. most excit- I!
ing, and most momentOus senatorial /
contests in the history of the West or
in any other part of the country; in |
the midsts of the most disgraceful /
scenes the legislature of Utah
adjourned without electing anyone to
succeed Frank ]. Cannon in the Unit
cd States Senate.
Therefore We have been given the
credit by the leading newspapers
throughout Utah, for starting the long
and bitter fight which was made on
Senator Cannon, which finally term
mated by hurting him heaGlong in:o
his political grave.
The latter part If lsa-. Hebaf VI.
Wells, Governor of Utah appointed the
following Colored men, W. W. Taylor.
r. B. Johnson. p. H. Robinson. p. c.
Howell, p. W. Nelson, Rev. VI.
jones and P. W. Jackson, as commits
sioners to the Tennessee Exposition.
which was held at Nashville in that
state in 1897.
1t was the duty of the Colored Com
missiOners to make an effort to collie.
needle or art work or anything else
of value among the Colored people of
Utah and send it to Nashville wh2r
it would be exhibited in the Negro
building. After those commissioners.
had failed TO raise their little finger
towards discharging the honor and
trust imposed upon them by Governor
Wells. we collected a fine mineral
collection consisting, of IFS piects.
from 6S or the leading mines of Utah
and Montana, and 1t was shipped to
Hill who had charge Of the
Negro building and at the close of the
exposition the collection which was
valued at $500, and a type written
catalogue describing each specimen
was presented by the editor and Mrs.
Taylor to the Fisk University, Nash
Vile, Tenn.
1t is we'll known that, in three of
the greatest political contests ever
waged in this country. The Broad AK.
valiantly fought on the side of the
as against the interests of the
blood-sucking trusts. the gigantic
the grasping money pow
er, and the plutocratic classes. That
is one reason why it is popular with
the common people regardless of their
for it his always cham
pioned their cause, and in this respect
It has rendered a great service to
Its recent terrific onslaught on
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman In which
all the leading daily newspapers
the United States, joined
In the fight on him, can never be
efaced from the pages Of the history
nj thiS mighty pafionf