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order had gone forth transferring the
oath regiment to Fort Douglas; that
he could not recall nor revo ke II"
and in spite of all the efforts put forth
by the Tribune and Senator Cannon,
on October Fl, 1896, the Path regiment
proudly marched through the streets
of Salt Lake City on its way 10 Fort
Douglas.
One year after this incident the Salt
Lake Tribune, in a long editorial, adj
mitted that it had made mistake in
fighting and opposing the 24th regi-
nent from locating 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
we'll disciplined soldiers; that they
were a great improvement over the
White soldiers. who were always fight
ing and shooting at each other on the
street cars, soaring the wits out OF the
fair White ladies'; that they had always
seemed to take much delight in drink
ing whisky and cursing or swearing
while they were walking up and down
the streets, and it wound up by saying
that the members of the Path regiment
did not resort to such habits and so
on.
Senator Frank ]. Cannon was so
stiff necked that he was unwilling 20
admit that he had made a mistake in
fighting against permitting the 24th
regiment to locate at Fort Douglas.
Shortly after the November election
in 1893 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 go ahead and crack
your whip for / like opposition and in
the end will win in spite of all the
friends OF the Path 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 Washing
ton, D. C., and at other places, and
when the legislature convened January
9, 1899, for the purpose of electing a
United States Senator we began to
dish up his past immoral record
through the columns of The Broad AK
for the edihcation of its members and
early every SasSAisy morning from the
9th of January TO the 9th of March |
before the members began their labors
we would put 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 a copy
of the paper on the desk of each and |
every member so that they could read |
about some of the ungentlemanly acts
or conduct of Senator Cannon before
they began balloting for him. This
mode of warfare caused him to be-
come 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 vio-
lated his marriage vows and had in the
past permitted himself to do many
other things that was unbecoming to
4 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-
'ions to all parts of Utah and the
weekly newspapers assisted to fan the
fame into white heat. Many of the
leading citizens in the various coun-
tries instructed their representatives to
withdraw their support from Senator
Cannon, for after they had read of so
many bad things about. him in all the
newspapers they were not in favor of
him TO the United States
Senate, and from February the 9th
his followers and supporters began to
freak away from him and his vote
Continued to dwindle down and down;
On the one hundred and zenith ballot
ne ran up to g votes and our heart
Utmost sprang out of Our mouth and
We came near falling down on the
ioor in a dead faint and for a moment
We felt that We had gone down to de-
eat in the great fight which we had
yaged against him for be It remem-
'ered he only needed at that time two
more votes, as 81 votes would have
.iven him a majority over all the
,ther senatorial candidates and he
would have been elected to the United
,tates Senate.
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