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Show POWERS CELEBR ATES He Hides His True Feelings Behind a 3Iask of Joy. HE HURRAHS FOR FRANKCANNON And Ha a Notion to Knter the Race Against Him Himself What He Would Do If He Had the Time and Money A Characteristic Theatrical The-atrical Exhibition Before an Audience Audi-ence or His Henchmen. "Rah for Cannon:' shouted Judge Pow; ers, the Liberal boss, this morning when Chairman Sells announced that Frank J. Cannon had received 211 votes. '"Rah for Cannon!" he again shouted when the Weber favorite was declared the nominee nomi-nee of the convention. "He's our man, boys," he shouted in his clarion tones, "and I want it thoroughly understood that I have 'Tooted' for him ail the time. 'Rah for Cannon!" he again shouted, and with a parting shout to his henchmen: 'Come on, boys, let's celebrate!" he passed out of the theater into the street. HU progress pro-gress to the nearest refreshment joint was impeded at Utmost every 6tep by some enthusiast en-thusiast rushing up and shaking him by the hand. To all his oily salutations was: 'Rah for Cannon! Come on." The boss u nothing if not dramatic, and as an actfr in a political way he has no equal ou cr off the stage. When defeat stares him in the face is the time he is gayest, gay-est, for it would never do to tear the mask away and allow bis henchmen to know his true feelings. During a lull in his performance a Times reporter asked him what he meant by 'railing 'rail-ing for'Caiinon so lustily. "What do I mean? I don't mean- anything, any-thing, but the nomination of Cannon means 2000 additional votes for the Liberal party!" The reporter smiled at the boss' characteristic character-istic manner of expressing himself, and asked: "How do you figure that oiit " "I don't have to figure very hard to see 10,000 Liberal votes deposited in tbe ballot boxes next November. "Rah for Cannon" again I say." ""Well, let Cannon rest awhile. I want to know where your 10,000 votes are coming from ?" ''Coming from? Everywhere! That statehood state-hood clause iu the platform will briug some. 8ait Lake county can be depended upon for a greater majority than ever. Summit will be true as of yore, and even in Cannon's own county ws have more than a fighting chance." "A fighting chance in Weber?" repeated the reporter. "Yes, we will have more than a fighting chance. We propose to go down there in a few weeks . in a special train a thousand strong and assail the enemy in his own stronghold. We wpl take our wives, our babea and our sweethearts. . Tbe Tus-earoras Tus-earoras w'll go in a body brass ands will be as piitLUfuJ as 6t.p in tbe wigwam, and every man' will be" loaded down with flre-Hurks. flre-Hurks. It will be the greatest Liberal meeting meet-ing ;ver held outside of Salt Lake. Won't itcys?:' He appealed to hia henchmen, but ite boys- were not very enthusiastic. -T5y'ji..BbTed the Cannon with which lhe WebSites are armed- -- - ,. "A you are so conadent of victory, who will your party enter for the congressional race?" was the next question. An oh-be-joyful . smile chased itself through the interstices of his whiskers, as the boss replied: "Well, he. has not been selected yet. But, don't you know (here he became very affable), affa-ble), if I couid aford it mind you, afford jt and could spare the time the time I wouli enter the race for the nomination myself. my-self. If I won I would make a canvass that would reach every nook and crauuy in the territory. I would take a good liveiy, young Republican Liberal like Charley Stanton, for instance with me, embark on board a buckboard, send an advance agent just like a theatrical agent, you Know ahead of me, bill the towns, and speak to the ruraliets morning, noon and night, and inform them just wDat the cost of statehood would be to them. That would fetch 'em. Facts and figures tell in a campaign cam-paign just the same as everywhere else." " what vote would you expect?" asked the scribe when he could recover his breath. "Well, I might not get there but I could come within a thousand of it anyway and that would be very irralif-yinir to my pride." "So that ia your programme?" "No, no; do not mistake my meaning. What I mean is that I would like to do if I had the time and the money. It would take two weeks' time and $2jO0. I have neither to spare. But, oh! if I only had it!" "Would you be a can ," began the reporter, re-porter, but the boss interrupted him with: "I can say no more. I cannot take to the hustings, but I can and do 'rah for Canuon!" With a genial "Come on, boys; let's jubilate," jubi-late," the boss made his escape into a friendly friend-ly refreshment resort. |