The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1914-09-05

Tribune and Senator cannon, on OctODeI
81. 1896. the oath regiment proudly
marched through the streets of Salt
Lake City on its way to Fort Douglas.
One wear after this incident the Salt
Lake Tribune, in a long editorial, ad-
mitted that it had made a mistake in
fighting and opposing the locating of
the oath regiment at Fort Douglas;
that not one White lady had been in
suited on the streets nor on the street
cars; that each and everyone of its
members had conducted themselves like
true gentlemen and orderly and well
disciplined soldiers; that they were
great improvement over the White sol
diers, who were always fighting and
shooting at each other on the street ears,
soaring the wits out of the fair White
ladies; that they had always seemed to
take much delight in drinking whisky
and eursing or swearing while they were
walking up and down the streets, and
it wound up by saying that the members
of the oath regiment did not resort to
such habits and so on.
Senator Frank J. Cannon was so stiff
neeked that he was unwilling to admit
that he had made mistake in fighting
against permitting the oath regiment
to locate at Fort Douglas. shortly
after the November election in lS9S we
met him face to face in one of the
leading hotels in Salt Lake City and
during our short conversation, while
looking him square in the eyes, we very
softly informed him that we would do
everything in our power to prevent his
reelection to the United States senate.
He simply laughed at us and exclaimed
Ego ahead and crack your whip for |
like opposition and in the end l will
win in spite of all the friends of the
cath regiment. At this invitation on
his part to continue the fight on him
we started in rather slow at first but
as the pot began to boil the fight
became a little warmer and as we had
been keeping cases on his movements
at nights in Washington, D. c., and at
other places, and when the legislature
convened January 9, 1899, for the pur-
pose of eleeting a United States Sen
ator We began to dish up his past i'm
moral record through the columns of
The Broad Ak for the edifeation of its
members and early every Saturday
morning from the 9th of January to
the 9th of March before the members
began their labors we would put a large
bundle of the copies of The Broad Ak
on our back or under our arm and wend
our way to the state capital and place
copy of the paper on the desk of each
and every member 90 that they could
read about some of the ungentlemanly
acts or conduct Of Senator Cannon be-
fore they began balloting for him. This
mode of warfare caused him to become
mighty warm in the collar but as we
had the goods on him we stood our
ground and We neither looked to the
right nor to the left but straight ahead
and continued the bitter fight on him,
and on February 9th he held a great
meeting in the Salt Lake theater, and
in the presence of three thousand people
he admitted that "he had violated his
marriage VOWS and had in the past per-
mitted himself to do many other things
that was unbeeoming to United States
senator, that all he asked was for the
people to give him another chance or
trial and he would make good" /
The daily newspapers Of Salt Lake
flashed Senator Cannon's weak admis-
sions to all parts of Utah and the week
ly newspapers assisted to fan the fame
into a white heat. Many of the leading
citizens in the various counties instruct
ed their representatives 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 the United States Senate. and from
February the 9th his followers and
supporters began to break away from
him and his vote continued to dwindle
down and down on the one hundred
and tenth ballot he ran up to 20 votes
and our heart almost sprang out of our
mouth and we became as white in
the face as the pure white falling snow
and for a moment we felt that we had
gone down to defeat in the great fight
which we had waged against him for
be it remembered he only needed at
that time two more votes, as 81 votes
would have given him a majority over
all the other senatorial candidates and
he would have been elected to the
United States Senate.
But to make a long story short, at
IL p. m. O'Clock on the 9th Of March,
1899, after taking one hundred and
ballOts and altar ma of