| Show MCUNf I IS THE LEAD WITH H 3 VOTES OVER 1G I Continued from page 1 keeping nothing back You may think too that I am oversensitive in what I I consider to be my duty but Conscience Is harder than our enemies tConscence Knows more accuses with more nicety I shall therefore this day cast my vote for that bright stalwart Democrat and patriotic generoushearted citizen and patriotc generousheared ctzen loyal frieno Hon A W McCunc In a tone that was fitted for a dash of irony Ir Homes response was who is the choice I vote for the man of the Salt Lake Tribune Hon A W McCune JACKSON WAXES ELOQUENT Then Representative Jackson in his turn took the floor to say Mr President Up to this time I have vctel for the candidate of my choice without with-out indulging in any statements concerning concern-ing mduIgng now under the privilege wnlch has been accorded members I propose pro-pose to make a few remarks We have for our consideration several gentlemen of eminent ability and distinguished aptitude apti-tude men famous tor their oratory and to dis reasoning powers men competent cuss the grave questions which are t be solved by legislation men of financial standing legslaton distinction in the several walks of life and all who are being supported by the majority par Jon I J-on this hoer are Democrats whose fidelity to their party cannot be questioned I have steadfastly vote for the candidate candi-date of my choice and purpose to con Unue voting for him Uf his manifold tnue votng Qualities 11 President I am but poorly equipped to speak Unfortunately for my < self l am not endowed wit that poetry which fall so hap of speech and gesture wWch l speh pily to the lot of many But I firmly believe be-lieve that If we shall elect him to n seat In the highest lawmaking body of the nation this legislature will bo performing n duty to which Its members can point with honest pride in the years which are I to come Nature d tr and circumstances circum-stances have combined to tit him for the I place l He is known and favorably I from one side of this great nation to the other I elected he will not be a stranger in Washington by any means for no man in Utah has a larger personal acquaintance with the great and influential men of the government than he He Is a leader of men He is an ort r second to no man occupying a seat in the senate of the United States And while It ha been said that sending another orator to congress con-gress is like carrying coals to Newcastle I do not regard the same as sound It isle a like a man refusing to take another dollar dol-lar for a days labor because he has two already The gifts and attainments of my candidate are many He Is educated not only in the lore taught by books but Is a finished scholar in the lessons which are h in all learned by contact with humanltv al its varied phases The recognized equal of the great and powerful he Is also the friend of the humbler classes and knows to rerfection the lives and the needs of the jxjor and lowly My candidate is an active Democrat its has and in no struggle for is supremacy he ever wavered Not lurking in the rear with those who like the warhorse of Job Smelleth the battle from afar but In the front rank where the smoke rolled thickest round the banners ho ha ever been found bearing aloft tho sliver standard stand-ard of the Democratic party Whero Bather the valiant who never sheathe their swcrds until the struggle ha ended I has ever waved the white plumes of this gallant Democratic Henry of Navarre slant I they say my candidate is not Utah I born I answer that he has lived among us for years and here he has buried his dead And what closer ties binds a man I to the poll of a state than the graves of those he loved I they say he is not a man of wealth I answer that Daniel wealth Webster was not a man of wealth that Henry Clay was without means that Charles Sumner died poor I they shall say he is not a member of the dominant church then I assert that the time when membership in any religious organization was made a test for political preferment has ended In Utah thank God Mr President I again vote for that peerless gentleman that earnest Democrat I Demo-crat that true friend that el leader oP men Hon Orlando W Powers Mr Jacksons eloquent effort was generously applauded Without a word of explanation Representative Rep-resentative Wheeler who had previously previ-ously voted for W H King announced his preference for McCune Up to date said Speaker Roylance I have cast several complimentary votes but as I is not my nature to be going here and there I today come into a column to stay I cast my vote for Hon A W McCune The only other change on the next two ballots the twentyfourth and twentyfifth was in Senator Peer going go-ing over to Powers with whose side he remained leaving Nebeker Without any support At 1250 the joint assembly voted to I dissolve till 3CO p m A SERENADE AND RECEPTION I Prior to the recess the following communication com-munication from the governor a I read Salt Lake City Jan 2 1S09 I To Gentlemen the Legislature of Utah Ladles and Major Thompson commandant at Fort Douglas Is desirous of tendering you the I compliment of a serenade by the Twenty fourth infantry band and has asked me to transmit to you the knowledge of his wishes and also to arrange the time I tme thereof I you will permit the suggestion sugges-tion I shall esteem it an honor if you I would repair to the executive chamber in this builnln tomorrow Saturday afternoon after-noon at 2 oclock to meet the officers of I the gallant Twentyfourth and listen to the inspiring strains of music from its I famous regimental band Very respectfully respect-fully HEBER M WELLS Governor I Senator W G Nebeker moved that the invitation be accepted with thanks I I Representative Hansen expressed the belief that i would be wise to endeavor to elect the senator before this day Saturday passed out existence and too much time devoted to a social function func-tion with the military and the gover be of perplexity nor might cause some perlexiy in the minds of those legislators who wished ended to have the senatorial voting The motion to accept the governors I invitation was carried without dissent MORE CHANGES AT THE END The joint assembly reconvened at 330 p m with President Nebeker in the chair and baloting was proceeded with for the twentysixth time tme The changed result on the twenty sixth was in Wheeler and Fullmer deserting de-serting the McCune followers the first named going back to King and Fullmer over to Powers This gave King 15 McCune 16 and Powers 9 The next two ballots were unchanged At the end of the twentyeighth Betts I moved for a dissolution of the joint session but the motion failed to carry the ayes numbering 28 and the jv es 34 McCune gained Fullmer from Dings support on the twentyninth ballot and kept him to the end On the thirtieth when the Republicans I Republic-ans commenced voting for Reed Smoot after having given Hammond their solid 15 Law of Cache broke away and supported George Sutherland Richards joined Law on the next ballot The result of the thirtyfirst ballot was a given in the beginning of this article At the end of the thirtyfirst Mansfield I Mans-field moved for a dissolution of the jont assembly The motion prevailed by a vote of 40 to 22 Ayes Senators Alder 1 nnion Evans Kiesel W G Xebeker Aquila Nebeker Peery Rideout Shurtliff Smoot Tanner Whitney Wright Representatives Rep-resentatives Bennion Betts Bramwell Callister Cook Fisher Forman Full men Greenwood N J Harris Holm gren Ivers Jackson Johnson Laplsh Larson Mansfield McQuarrie Miller Parry Redd Roylance Robertson Smith Stewart Taylor Wheeljr JO NoesSenators Cannon Chambers Howell Thomas Representatives By water Christiansen Clyde Crosby Cummings Farr Hansen C Z Harris Home Law Lloyd Murdock ONeil Richards Robinson Shepard Sorenson Welch 22 |
