Show pr THE POLITICAL ARENA 4 John T Caine is Gaining in Strength Every Day CO COMPARISONS FAVOR HIM HE WILL liE A GOVERNOR OF THE WHOLE TERRITORY airfc Enully S Riclmrds Elected Executive Chnirmnn or the Woman thc Committee mid 3Irs Hyde Secretary Ruvlln Will Open Monday in Park City Headcimirters bt Itcatly for Occuynncy RcyuWicnn I Hum Family in Weber County Soon after the adjournment of the constitutional convention party managers man-agers in many of the agricultural sec in tions of the territory particularly Cache county became somewhat alarmed over an Independent movement move-ment among the farmer which showed show-ed signs of spreading and disrupting both parties Investigation proved that there was a great deal of fear among the farmers that thrr would fram be discriminated against in the and constitution under the ing of laws in the conduct of the state government the inter They were anxious to have They 1 ests of the farmers protected extravagance in 1 were opposed to any public affairs fearing that taxes would tJ c be too heavy under statehood no matter y mat-ter how economically public affairs were administered They were also fearful that their irrigation rights would be interfered with Some were fearful that the sheep men would be given too many privileges In Sanpete county which has suffered most from the befouling of waters by sheep this fear was especially great It will be remembered that from Sanpete came the strongest demand for the bill preventing pre-venting befouling of waters by sheep It is learned now that this sentiment is largely turning in favor of the Democratic Dem-ocratic party The independent farmers farm-ers have waited until they have seen the two tickets before taking action and have now practically concluded that they will be safer in trusting the 1 Democratic party than the Republican party Nor is this conclusion without 1 reasonable foundation In fact it has the very best of foundations Under statehood many perplexing questions will confront the governor In considering the laws passed by the legislature he will have to pass upon conflicting interests where the decision will mean prosperity or ruin to many of those interested If the goernor is not olearheaded conservative well informed as to the various interests of the state as well as trained in the theory of government and in the logic of public affairs with broad ideas of human nature he will be likely to err as between different sections and do grave injustice to some and be unwarrantedly un-warrantedly favorable to others Caine Will Hold Salt Lake Under such circumstances these farmers far-mers have lately been making comparisons 4 compari-sons between the two candidates for governor with an idea of determining determin-ing which it will be best to support It may be asserted that inside Salt Lake I f4f county the two candidates are equally well known They each have many personal friends On the day of his I nomination it was believed that He 1 ber M Wells would carry more than his party strength and that he would sweep Salt Lake county while < when Caine was nominated Republicans said he would run behind his ticket here 1 Things have materially changed siLce then Heber M Wells has been regarded in a new light among his friends The old point of view would not answer all purposes Regarded asa as-a candidate for the most important office under the new conditions of statehood he has daily been losing strength and now all that the Republicans Repub-licans hope is that he will ba able to hold his party strength It is freely conceded that Caine will hold the Democratic strength in Salt Lake county and it is anticipated that he will cut into Wells if he continues to grow strong as he has been growing since the people began to realize that c he was far the most capable man of the two Lawrence will cut into Wells at least several hundred votes and will make him fall behind his ticket Known Only Theatrically It is when one gets outside of Salt Lake however that the disparity begins be-gins to make itself most strongly apparent ap-parent Out in the country Caine Is much better known Heber M Wells has been seen only in the larger cities and when he has been seen the impressions im-pressions of him left with the people are not connected with any idea of government The impressions are built around visions of him only as he has been seen on the stage a leading lead-ing man in an ameteur theatrical troupe In this line he has been as popular outside as he has been in Salt Lake but his popularity has been the same as that of any other actor who has caught the sympathy of the public through his interpretation of characters As hero In Young Mrs L Winthrop there is not an amateur actor in Utah who would care to contest con-test the claim for superiority or popularity It is only when he enters on the ground of government when he appears ap-pears in a new and difficult role when the search light is turned on him to I find wherein he possesses those qualifications I quali-fications out of which a good executive g I execu-tive is made that he begins to rose t hie popularity and to dwindle when J compared with other men No one I Ii cares to dispute his strength as an I actor No one cares to say he is not clean and honest No one cares to say that he is not respected No one cares to say that he lacks native ability Let these things be conceded Let it be conceded that he has many friends The point against him is that he does not possess the experience or the training that will fit him to be governor of Utah during the first five years of the states existence It is this Indictment proven as it is that I Will defeat him Tile Tribune by the way has been I endeavoring to send around an impression im-pression that Tdie Herald said more complimentary things the day after Wells nomination than it does now That is not true The Herald only admitted then as it admits nowthat Wells is clean and honest and said that he was too inexperienced in executive exe-cutive matters to make a good governor gov-ernor It says the same now Caine Is Better Known Now how well is John T Caine known in the outside counties That question hardly needs an answer There is scarcely a precinct in the territory in which he has not been during the past ten years There Is Fearrely one in which he has not many friends whom the has befriended befriend-ed in the past and given good evidence that he is awake to the interests of all the people Everywhere he is known as the representative of Utah in Congress 4or ten years where he gave good service to the people who sleeted him He was always faithful to their interests and showed intelligence intelli-gence and indomitable energyin fighting fight-ing their battle His posttion was Sfiecessanly negative but he made a I mood lIght against the positive meas i > > < i 1 ures which were against the people 1 whom he was representing I These things are recognized More than that there is not a man in the territory of Utah who has known him that would be afraid to trust to him to give justice in any matter that might arise The farmers feel that their interests will be safe in his hands They do not expect that he will favor them but they do expect that he will work so that the greatest good shall be done to the greatest number He Is broad He knows the interests of the territory Before him a man from Washington county would get the same hearing as a man from I Salt Lake Suppose under statehood some law I should come up as it undoubtedly will that would discriminate between the sheep and cattle men which would be the safer man to trust one whose experience has been confined to Salt Lake or one who knows the whole territory and the whole people The answer is being returned by the people of the incoming state They would choose the latter They want no experiments They want certainty cer-tainty The ladies executive committee often of-ten Mrs Mary Musser Mrs Katherine W Smith Dr Romania B Pratt Dr Mattie Hughes Cannon Mrs Elizabeth McCune Mrs John Reid Mrs Emily S Richards Dr Ellen K Ferguson Mrs Nellie Little and Mrs Eurithe K La Barthe held a meeting yesterday afternoon and effected an organization Mrs Emily S Richards was elected permanent chairman and Mrs Ella W Hyde permanent secretary It was resolved re-solved that the executive committee assume all responsibility of fitting furnishing fur-nishing and decorating their room in the Democratic headquarters and that from now until election a member of the committee or some one authorized by the committee shall be in atendance in this room from 10 a m until 5 p m every day Sundays excepted The executive committee will hold another an-other meeting Monday after the meeting meet-ing of 100 which is called for 3 p mOn m-On account of the prevIous engagement engage-ment of the Ogden Opera house on next Monday evening J IL Rawlins will open the campaign at Park City Other speakers will accompany him and they will be given a rousing reception re-ception In the mining camp A change will also be made in the schedule of Messrs Caine and Roberts so that they will be able to hold a meeting in Hy rum a Judicial Ticket Doomed Wilson I Snyder Barlow Ferguson and E D R Thompson have almost ceased to hope for victory All over town they have met with the utmost coolness All the support they have been able to glean has been from those Republicans who would support their party ticket no matter who might be put on it and some personal friends who would support them no fnatter how good were the men put up against them Thousands of Republicans have declared that they will < vote for the nominees of the Democratic party Allover All-over the district in Salt Lake city and county in Tooele and Summit the feeling feel-ing against them is high Bets have been offered without takers that Snyder Sny-der will not carry even his own county Men inposition to know say that not I more than half of the delegates from Summit who voted in the convention I for nomination will cast ballots for him on election day There is a strong feeling feel-ing against Silver King dictation and the ticket is recognized as a Silver King ticket put up by Kearns and Keith Perhaps the worst thing that can be used aganst the judicial ticket is the attitude of the Tribune That fnarvel ous paper with all its pretensions of high patriotism and independence is generally ready to swallow anything labeled Republican It swallowed the Denver straddle on silver It called the action of the Cleveland convention a great victory It stands ready to follow fol-low the Republican party into the gold camp It defended John < Henry Smith and the Republican majority in the coistitutional convention To cap the climax It has defended Geddes and Roberts the mileage and salary grabbers grab-bers the extravagant incompetent narrow county selectmen It has even gone so far as to call them patriotic honest and capable I But the Republican judicial ticket went just a little too far With all its predilections the Republican flute could not swallow that Truly the climax of weakness was then reached The Democratic judicial ticket will go in with a heavy majority Judge Powers is not worrying about that It looks as though the three candidates will make a clean sweep and have upward up-ward of 2000 votes to spare Never was public sentiment so much against a ticket as it is against that of the Republicans The only nope of the un fortunate nominee is that before elec tion time sentiment may so settle down that everybody will vote the Itraight ticket Vain hope S The Wheel tin Politics The Social Wheel club has sent out copies of the following circular letter Salt Lake City Utah Sept 12 1895 Dear SirTho following resolution was passed at our meeting held Sept 10 and It is earnestly requested that we put forth our best efforts In accomplishing the nomination and election of men who are friendly to the Interests of cyclists and upon whom we can safely count for proper support in our council chamber Failure now on the part of wheelmen to show their strength in the primaries and at the polls means defeat for any enterprise which the wheelmen might in the future advocate Resolved That it be the sense of this meeting that the members of the Social Wheel club take an active part in local politics this fall that all members use their utmost efforts to encourage the nomination and election of proper men for the city council and for a suitable I man for the office of Mayor who will protect the interets of wheelmen that so far as we can consistently do so we will vote first regardless of political affiliations for those candidates for office who pledge themselves for the interests of wheelmen and who will remedy the sprinkling nuisance and urge improvement Improve-ment of streets also we request all other wheelmen and friends of wheelmen wheel-men to join in this movement Yours very truly A W CAINE W S EVANS President Secretary Democratic Headquarters Open Democratic headquarters will be informally in-formally opened today for business purposes All the partitions were completed com-pleted yesterday and only the finishing work remains to be done A urge force of carpenters was busily employed em-ployed all day and the cheerful sound of the hammer and saw made the transaction of business rather difficult I When they finished in the evening however the committee rooms were ready for occupancy The electricians put in five large arc lights and prepared pre-pared to put in such incandescent lights as will be needed by the workers work-ers in the committee rooms Major Dave Levy was at work with the bunting bunt-ing and decorations John Montgomery I Montgom-ery who has the cigar and tobacco privileges had moved his show cases I and pictures into the northwest corner of the large rotunda Today the various committees will take possession of their quarters The ladies who will have the front room in the southeast corner will immediately make their quarters the most tasteful I in the whole place They will carpet the floor and hang pictures on the I i walls When they have finished Ihe I I room will probably be such a cozy little lit-tle nest as will make politics a great pleasure Judge Powers Secretary Pyper I L I Welsh and Jo Cohen with the committees com-mittees stenographer will take possession pos-session of the state committee rooms and Chairman Dunbar and Secretary Jennings of the county committee will move into theirs Preparations for the formal reception to be given on Octo I ber 2 just before conference will also be carried on Many Democrats and Republicans constantly call in to note the progress a r and the latter feel particularly envious 1 I and downcast i Republican Harmony i I There is a Republican happy family I I in Weber county A fight to the bitter end is evidently on between Buffalo I I Bill Glasmann and Frankie Cannon the I Republican Apollo Belvedere GIns 1 manns Idea is to prevent Frankie from i showing that beautiful hair in the i United States Senate and Frankies i friends are actuated by a very patriotic patri-otic determination to kill off Glasmann 1 as a political factor in Weber county It reminds one of the famous battle between I tween the legendary Kilkenny cats It is very interesting to the onlooker In Tuesday evenings Press organ of the antlGlasmann Republican ring over two columns of space is devoted to Buffalo Bill who had provoked it by an attack on the Frank Cannon ring A sample of the Press love taps under the head of Broke Out and Slopped Over Again reads as follows fol-lows OTVSThe The Standard last evening true to its ibase instincts made a lying and unwarranted attack upon a class of men who in all that goes to make up true manliness in all that constitutes honor and honesty and political decency de-cency are as far removed above the groveling and timeserving lickspittle who attacked them as heaven is above the earth The animus of the article is plain its purpose is well understood being nothing more nor less than to arouse the passions of men who once political enemies are now friends and in good faith working together as partisans par-tisans for the public good We believe of course that the scheme will faU of Its purpose because the sensible men of Ogden have long since learned to discount any statement emenating from the unreliable source alluded to We believe furthermore that when the Standard says it has heard exLiber als men now In high positions whispering around the following words This is our last chance it will be all church under statehood Let us take this election we will never have another chance that it lies and to show what little confidence we have in the statement we say further fur-ther that we would not believe the statement were it backed up by an affidavit Those who have read the Standard for some time past and noted its evident evi-dent desire to rake over the embers of the past and revive the old animosities animosi-ties which all good men have buried out of sight will not be surprised at the latest ebullition of the tangled brained mischiefmaker who by the suffrance of better men is permitted to defile pure white paper with his insane vaporfngs So much for that part of the Standards lying screed It it with the concluding paragraph that we have now to d alAn al-An Independent paragraph in the Press says To the Salt Lake Argus The nomination nom-ination of the fellow Bill Glasmann whom you have named as a candidate for ihe state senate is not even a remote re-mote possibility Dont forgat this when the nominations are made That fellow will not be in it a little bit although al-though his name will probably be mentioned in the convention to beheld be-held Last evenings Standard pays no heed to the Press but goes after the Tribunes Ogden correspondent in this wayColonel Colonel Hayes has had another attack at-tack of colic He < must have slept badly Tuesday night The nightmare with visions of a horrible future appeared ap-peared before him He probably ras been visiting some of the Tuscarora braves and partaken of some dog soup which laid heavily on his Stomach Still the big medicine man will prescribe pre-scribe for him and his wrath will quietly disappear again As for the Standard dear old Tribune your wail is like music to our ears The fight is now on for the control of the Weber county legislative convention con-vention Bitterness has been engendered engen-dered which will make Republican defeat de-feat in Webber county a moral certainty cer-tainty Inexcusably Erroneous The ignorance of political affairs In Utah shown by newspapers in the east is always a fruitful subject for comment Occasionally sortie paper will advance the most ridiculous ideas with every appearance of absolute assurance as-surance As an instance of the extent ex-tent to which these absurd ideas will go we cite the following extract from the Nashville Banner The Democratic state convention In Utah adopted the unusual course of designating des-ignating two men as candidates for the United States Senate in addition nominating nomi-nating candidates for state positions The gentlemen suggested by the convention as senators arc J L Rawlins and Moses Thatcher and it is understood that if the Democrats secure a majority in the legislature leg-islature those candidates recommended by the convention will be elected The contest in Utah will doubtless be close with a good chance for the Democracy Democ-racy although the Republicans appear to have a greater conhdence than their opponents op-ponents If the ibrilliant writer who conceived that idea could only walk the streets of Salt Lake for a week and mark the despondent bearing of the Republican rank and file and the confident air of the Democrats he would make an amendment of his views at once S The George A Wliitalcer Club A meeting of the George A Whita her club a nonpartisan organization was held last evening in the rooms of the Board of Labor A large number of laboring men were in attendance and listened with attention to interestIng interest-Ing speeches delivered by George Blair George A Whitaker J L Frank Benjamin Ben-jamin Arborn and Stephen Tyne Major Dave Levy and his Jefferson drum corps were on hand and furnished fur-nished the music The membership of the club is increasing in-creasing very fast thirtyseven signing the roll last night The officers are E C Davis president presi-dent Stephen Tyne vice president Benjamin Arborn secretary Ff J Kis tler treasurer Campaign committee F Thomas M L Perry Philip Isaacs John Wood burn J U Eldrege J H Hanhauser Orson Allen Finance committeeF L Kistler T F Thomas Orson Allen Stephen Tyne and J U Eldrege S Political Notes Whoop Whoop Whoopeee The Tuscaroras meet tonight A meeting of the executive committee commit-tee of the Democratic state committee will be held on Friday evening Geo M Cannon is not in state headquarters head-quarters during banking hours at that time Mrs Lillie Pardee has charge The Democratic campaign committee of the Eighth ward will meet tonight at the residence of A W Gallacher 540 South Third East at S oclock sharp A W Gallacher president Annie Lynch secretary The First precinct campaign committee commit-tee is now on a war footing and will carry on an aggressive campaign In their doubtful precinct A meeting was held yesterday afternoon and S E I Allen was elected chairman and I J Sloan for secretary The Tuscarora society will hold avery a-very important meeting tonight for the purpose of getting into good working order and carrying ithe county for the whole ticket but for Fisher S Harris in particular A number of members will be admitted into the organization and a full attendance of warriors is desired The Republicans have been making a great deal of noise during the last week about a proposed meeting at Uncle Ben Whittemores near the Union Pacific depot On account of the rain the meeting was postponed last nIght and will be held on Satur day night If weather permits The schedule for Cannon Allen and j Wells in Weber county contemplates I three meetings a day On September 23 the three will speak in Hooper at 10 a m West Weber at 5 po m and Ogden at 730 p m and on September 24 in Huntsville at 10 a m North Ogden Og-den at 3 p m and Plain City at 730 p m The Washington county Democrats I have named the wellknown stockman James Andrus for the lower house I and the Republicans have named Samuel Sam-uel Stewart Of course the former has a leadpipe inch on the election E H Snow who made such a good record re-cord in the constitutional convention has Jeen endorsed for the Senate I The selection of Mrs Emily a 5 Richards Rich-ards as chairman of the womans advisory ad-visory committee was a very happy Ion I-on in several ways Mrs Richards is competent and energetic Her articles on the catechism of the Republican women by the way has effectually silenced si-lenced them Mrs Ella W Hyde will make a competent secretary With I such officers such an executive committee com-mittee and such an advisory committee commit-tee the Democratic women will achieve success here It is considered that Charles H Hart H H Rolapp Ogden Hues Andrew Howat E A Wilson and John Ward Christian Democratic candidates for district judges are absolutely certain of election L R Rhodes has an equal chance for his district and will probably proba-bly be elected The only man who has a hard uphill fight is E W McDaniel of Sevier and I would not be at all surprising to see him pull through The Republicans can feel sure of only one district The fault is all theirs I They have put up weak men all over I the territory |