Salt Lake Herald | 1897-01-06 | Page 1 | Wanamaker Beaten

I WANAMAKER BEATEN Senator Penrose the Unanimous Choice of the Caucus Harrisburg Pa Jan 5The great fhht for Senator Camerons seat is over I Senator Boise Penrose of Philadelphia has won The joint Republican caucus was held In the hall of the representatives I representa-tives and a great crowd filled the galleries and l the space in the rear of the desks The merits of Mr Penrose and exPostmasterGeneral Wanamaker were I presented in glowing periods by their I nominators and seconders and then the vote was taken The vote resulted For Penrose 133 for Wanamaker 75 for Cameron 1 for exCongressman John B Robinson 1 and for Judge Rice of the superior court 1 When the chairman announced that Penrose had received the highest number of votes and was the caucus nominee I Senator Kauffmann the Wanamaker leader arose to make the nomination I unanimous which was done Tho Democratic caucus was held and I exGovernor Chauncey F Black was chosen as the Democratic candidate for senator i