| Show G i IJ GAN ONS CHANCE Probability of His Election DaIly Grows Stronger HAS S01E DEMOCRATS CKURCE PRESIDENT NOT LI E TO REULICA VOTES + Mces Mesa 1me Steady Wit rm Yesterday While rinority Democrats Flop About Voting For Various Candidtetr Raw las Snowbound I Wyoming t Tue possibility of thc electIon of GeOrge Q Cannol to the United States cnatorshlp grows stronger day by day Earl last week President Cannons candidacy was but a remote possibility but now It is conceded it has passed through the realls or prbabit and Is an actual living fat which President Presi-dent Cannons friends no longer deny And eadlnb Democrat are becoming alarmed at the formidable manner In which President Canols candidacy has developed I is practically assured that Geore Q 11 be able to poll the entire Republican Re-publican vote when the time come to bc his nae presented and that there are several Democrats who will vote for him 15 also a certainty The atttude of the fusionlsts Is not so well known but several ae certain to ac the son to go to the father incase in-case there Is any change of an elec ton Among these would le Senator I Shurtf Bishop Bramwel and N J Harris at least and they might be able to take some others with them I was state yesterday that George Q annons name would be presented to the legislature 01 Thursday at the alsmblng of the joint session and his supporters confidently believe that votes wl flock to his standard Imme dlatclj giving him possibly seventeen 01 eighteen votes On the first ballot Then will come struggle for supresn I icy between President Cannon and A I I v lcCunc tor It Is certain that 10 other Democratic candidate wilL stand stand e5en a ghost of a chance to win out I when George Qs name appears on the voting lst lCmms SUPPORT SOLID Mr McCune re0overed practically his I entire strength yesterday In the nine ballots teen during the day hIs support sup-port stayed br him with a pertinacity I that augur well for his ultimate sue C but the minority wing of the Democratic part evinced little tendency ten-dency to come over Into his camp There asCO much dancing back and j forth br the minority members but it I was indicative of little save to show their own hopelessness and despair of arriving I at anything in the courSe they are now pursuing I Senator Roblsons speech in which I he stated that an attempt had ben mae to make him act a a stool pigeon Ito I-to entrap and betray A W McCune I caused a sensation of no small dimen I slons The speech was the subject of much speculation and discussion everywhere every-where during the afternoon and even I leg Senator Robison refuse to make any statement concerning the mate I except that what he had saId was ab I solutely true and that the plot involved In-volved men for whom he had hitherto j had the greatest respect I was this which had sent him Into Mr McCunes I camp and kept him there Incidentally i might be note Senator Robisn I came to Salt Lake a King man I Lester Taylors change from Frank onT fgeo J Cannon to George Sutherland caused i some surprise I is understood that I Mr Taylors move was made to express U i emphatio disapproval of Repro i f t rf Law and his methods Ltle change Is anticipated in the I Voting today as iC is now practically i R assured that the election 1 will come ott Thursday If at nil T11e spectra of I Genre Q Cannons candidacy looms I large and black upon the horizon and everyone Is waitIng anxiously to lear the outcome when at length his name I is presented I I |
