Show SEKTATOE CANNONS POSITION Misrepresentations Concerning His Washakie Club Remarks Several members of the Washakie club and others who heard the address of Senator Cannon in the court house Wednesday night say that an entirely wrong impression is given by the Standards Stand-ards account of the lecture especially by the headlines which made the claim that the senator is a Washakie and that lie indorsed the test question signed sign-ed by all aspirants for membership in lie Washakie club To see what a Hop it would really tie were the senator to subscribe to such a set of questions they are here printed print-ed dAPPLICATION APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP I hereby make application for mom ership in the Washakie club and answer an-swer all the following questions in the affirmative 1 Are you a Democrat 2 DO you endorse the Democratic platform adopted at Chicago in 1896 3 If the Democratic party should in a future national convention repudiate repu-diate that platform would you leave he Democracy 4 Do you believe the money Question to be the paramount issue 5 Are you opposed to the retirement of the greenback currency 6 Are you in favor of an income tax 7 Will you vote the straight Democratic Dem-ocratic ticket national state county and municipal as long as you are a member of the Washakie club in case you are elected to membership so long as the Democracy nominates honorable men who believe in and will support he principles laid down in the Chicago platform of 1S9G 8 Having any enmity now towards any Washakie do you put all sucli enmity en-mity or bad feelings entirely and abso utely aside before you are admitted to membership CANNONS POSITION The claim is made by a number of Mr Cannons friends that he did not subscribe to the questions personally but believed in the formation of such societies on general principles The point he wished to emphasize was the advisability of having men declare themselves for or against great public questions After the reading of the test auestions Mr Cannon was introduced intro-duced and began his address It was but natural that he should comment on those questions Mr Cannon said that international bimetallism by the Republican party was as impossible as a trip to the moon in an airship It was certainly time then for an organization in Utah for silver so that its friends and its enemies ene-mies might be known New York was advised to organize a Washakie club Mr Cannon advanced a number of the usual arguments in favor of bimetallism bimetal-lism and commented with sarcasm on the work or lack of work of the Wol oott commission Democrats in Utah he said are now trembling for the cause of silver saying forces are at work to havo the next national platform plat-form repudiate the last one Mr Cannon also expressed his sense of the fitness in the name Washakie as the senator had known the old chieftain chief-tain tainOf Of course the Washakie club could have no objection to Senator Cannon becoming a Democrat by endorsing their principles and would in fact hail such an acquisition with satisfaction but as a matter of fact they say he did not become a Democrat and it is unfair un-fair to so misrepresent him They regret re-gret that Mr Cannon should be so represented rep-resented as to his utterances on an occasion oc-casion when he was their guest Since he wishes to be known as a silver Republican Re-publican they say his wish should be respected Therefore it is left for Senator Sen-ator Cannon to explain bow a man can be a silver man and a Republican when Republicans can no more accomplish bimetallism than they can take a trip to the moon County Commissioners Meet The county commissioners met yesterday yes-terday in adjourned session They refused re-fused to confirm the appointment of John Joseph as deputy constable of the Second ward James Wangsgaard was granted a liquor license in Huntsville for the month of December The claim of J S CJ Langsdorf for extra services rendered in the treasurers treas-urers office was reduced from 8330 to j35 and allowed An appropriation of 26 to pay for the care of an indigent boy at West Weber during a recent illness was made The application of Treasurer Chambers Cham-bers for an assistant to help close up his books was granted Assessor Gwilliam named Nathaniel Montgomery as his assistant and deputy dep-uty assessor which was confirmed A number of tax matters were attended at-tended to in a routine way and the board adjourned until Dec 6 Second District Court The case of Arthur A Steed vs George Harvey was on all day yesterday yester-day before Judge Rolapp and was not concluded when court adjourned The suit involves about 510000 The plaintiff plain-tiff sued for 395ff alleged to be due on account of some live stock sold to the defendant Harvey confessed owing the amount claimed but set up a cross complaint demanding 6000 damages for alleged breach of contract by reason rea-son of the plaintiff failing to deliver a number of sheep sold to the defendant in May 1897 An appeal was filed by the defendant in the case of the state vs James Montgomery Mont-gomery who some time ago was convicted con-victed of assault in Justice Ternes court Sugar Factory All of the subscribers to stock in the sugar factory are called to meet at the county court house Monday afternoon after-noon at 3 oclock for the purpose of signing the articles of incorporation effecting ef-fecting a temporary organization and of paying the first installment of 10 percent per-cent of the amount which they have subscribed Local Briefs The ladies of the First Presbyterian church will give a church sale on Friday Fri-day Dec 10 continuing over until Saturday Sat-urday Among the Cgdenites who visited Salt Lake yesterday were L R Rogers B F Thomas Charles Meighan R T Harris and Jesse J Driver j An election contest is to be filed in the interest of Driver say the Republicans Repub-licans but they do not say when The Democrats do not seem to be worrying over the nrogpsed suit Listen for the Chimes of Normandy Nor-mandy which will be heard here Monday Mon-day evening next The success of the company in Salt Lake this season was greater than ever before It is reported that a number of warrants war-rants are outfor men prominent in society so-ciety business and ecclesiastical affairs who attended the alleged prize fight in Ogden onyWednesday night Yesterday afternoon an overcoat was stolen from a dummy in front of the store of the American Clothing company com-pany A mackintosh was taken from a dummy in front of the store of B G McGinley The police arrested three men one of whom had the stolen mackintosh mack-intosh in his possession An apparently genuine specimen of the genus tramp appeared on Twenty fourth street last night and was about to be run in by the officers when investigation in-vestigation revealed that the man was Will Cheney rigged out for a masquerade masquer-ade ball at the Union opera house His makeup was a prize winner |