Show THEY ARt All A fOR F MGUNt PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN1 OGDEN STRONGLY CONDEMNS LAW Those Who When the Charges Were First Made Suspended Judgment Now Decide McCune I Innocent Special to The Herald Ogden Feb 2Wlth the perusal of the morning papers today the Ogden public got all the evidence in support of the bribery charges preferred by Representative Rep-resentative Law In regard to the senatorial sena-torial contest There has been a strong reaction in the sentiment in favor of the defendant until today men who have all along been for other candidates candi-dates are now outspoken in saying Mr McCune should be elected They make these statements on the showing or lack of showing made by the prosecution prosecu-tion in the attempt to prove the case and there are not wanting many who argue that the case should have been arge cae submitted without any testimony whatever what-ever being put in by the defense There is not a court in the land which would not have granted a non suit said one well known attorney i who argued that the case should have been submitted without the Introduc He reminded tion of evidence e was that this was not a court case and he finally admitted the wisdom of Mc Cunes attorneys in putting in evidence to meet the innuendo of the ODDOS tion tionTo To understand how complete a change has come over a large part of the public pub-lic it must be borne in mind that each of the three parties in the last campaign cam-paign in Weber had a candidate fo the senate and the candidate of the fusionists and of Democrats at least were from this county Now fusionists fusion-ists Democrats and Reoubllcans alike may be heard arguing that Mr McCune is the candidate who ought to succeed The tendency at first was to suspend judgment but judgment is no longer suspended Republicans and some fusionists fu-sionists hope for a deadlock each saying say-ing they have everything to gain and nothing to lose I is said to be the plan of the Cannon I Can-non supporters in the event of a deadlock dead-lock for the e Xte tc go before the I I people and to devote the intervening two years to explaining his position and working up sentiment in his favor I The bill allowing the people to express their personal choice at the polls Is expected I ex-pected t become l law and to inure I In the interest of Mr Cannon a an I independent candidate I Of the hundreds who have discussed I the bribery charges since they were first sprung your correspondent has heard only one person speak in defense I I of Mr Law and that was in defense of I his general reputation and not of his I methods From the very first the plot to entrap a senatorial candidate has met with general disapproval Cannons Can-nons friends stoutly disclaim any responsibility re-sponsibility for him In the affair but others recall the words of S S Smith oter recal I quoted In The Herald of some weeks that scheme to ago to the effect a was be sprang which would defeat McCune I I and elect Cannon and that Smith and others were for springing the scheme I at once but that Fred Leonard and others advised delay In brief public sentiment appears to have gown steadily In favor of majority major-ity rule in the Democratic party and the bribery charges appear to have j caused a strong reaction In favor of I McCune They Condemn Law II Special Correspondence Coalville Feb 2The senatorial Coalvie bribery case Is the allabsorbing topic on the streets and over the town here 1 on and many expressions made by Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats alike are heard condemning the action of Representative Representa-tive Law as a wellconceived and concerted con-certed conspiracy many saying that Law has evidently lent himself as a I tool to longheaded conspirators S I |