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Show Condon, Mrs. Coulter and Nash, are non-Mormons. The others are members of the dominant church. Herald. Among the nominating speeches speech-es were the following by Cache county members: Representative T. H. Merrill of Cache County I have a choice, but this is not a question of personal per-sonal choice. The quest'on is, .vhich. of our citizens can best serve his state in the halls of congress? Which will bring the most credit upon this common-wealthy common-wealthy Each of the members of this 'egislatu-e has received a letter from the W. 0. T. U.,. an organization of over 300,000 women. It would be well to take such an expression into consideration. consid-eration. '.Ve want to send a man to the United States senate who will be seated; a man who can represent every class, denomination denomina-tion and party. Therefore I second the nomination of Reed Smoot. Representative W. V. Hall of Cache County If we wish to voice the sentiments of t.he people peo-ple who sent us here we will elect Reed Smoot. The people of Utah know he will represent them in fairness and justice, Republican Caucus Cau-cus Chooses Senator Reed Smoot 35 i George Sutherland 6 Heber M. Wells 2 George M. Cannon 2 Total ' 45 I Washington, D- C, Jan. 14. - Senator Dubois today punctured , the statement recently made in the press of the country general-ly general-ly that President Roosevelt had i a precedent for interfering in the Utah senatorial election in the action of President Cleveland, who was said to have requested Apostle Moses Thatcher to withdraw' with-draw' from the senatorial race in 1897. In response to telegraphic (inquiry as to the facts, Senator 'Dubois today received the following: fol-lowing: ' ; "As I have not the slightest ' recollection of the incident, the statement you ref ;r to must be entirely incorrect. "Grover Cleveland." Mr. ;ThtUr tekgraphedTas follows: 'President Cleveland made no request that I should not be a candidate for the sen-atorship sen-atorship because I was an apostle, apos-tle, or at all. He did not, to my knowledge, interfere in any manner man-ner whatever." This whs the resultof the first vote taken in the Republican caucus for senator from Utah, held last evening in the city and county building. Before the vote was announced, however, Senators Stephen H. Love and Willis Johnson, who had voted for George M. Cannon, and Senator Sen-ator C. P. Larsen, who had voted vot-ed for Sutherland, changed to Smoot, swelling the apostle's total to thirty-eight, with five for Sutherland, and two for iVelis. By the rule of the caucus, all present are bound to vote for the successful nominee when his' name comes before the legislature. legisla-ture. I There are seven absentees, . Senators- -George- - Lawrence and Hoyt Sherman of Salt Lake county, and Representatives J. J. Ste"wart and Charles Brink of Salt Lake county, William E. White of Piute county, Edwin C. Lee of Carbon county, and John C . Child of Weber county. Of these Child sent word that he would vote for Smoot. The others will not support the caucus choice when he comes before the legislature. Smoot was placed in nomination nomina-tion by Senator A.B. Lewis of Beaver count", who is not a1 member of the dominant church. E- P. Evans of Summit county named Gov. WeUs. Senator S. H. Love of Salt Lake couuty named George M. Cannon, his choice two years ago, and Senator Sena-tor E. M. Allison, Jr., nominated his law partner, Congressman Sutherland. There were a score or so of seconding speeches nearly all for Smoot. When the vote was taken the line-up was found to be as follows: For Smoot Senators Gardner, H. S. Larson, Lewis, Loose, Mc-' Mc-' Xay and Williams; Representatives Representa-tives Anderson, Austin, Barrett, Chipman, Colton, Condon, Coulter, Coul-ter, Done, Fishburn, Hall. Has-, lam, Hawley, J. E. Johnson, J. H. Johnson, Luther, McFarland, McRae. Merrill, Nash. Redd. Richards, Roberts, Smith, Spry, Stone. Tietjen, Watts, Wilson and Hull 35. For Sutherland Senators C. P. Larsen and Allison; Representatives Repre-sentatives Hamlin, Metcalf, Molyneux and Peterson 6. For Wells Representatives Cahoon and Evans 2. For Cannon Senators Love ana ooIjum d 2. Of the membe'S wfio votpd for Sn.Lti, Lewi.;, Loose. Bu.net t, I |