| Show JUST PLAYING POSSUM 1 J 11 I J McCuns Only Apparently Without Political Life STILL HOPES TO BE SENATOR Friends of the Count Predict that There is Disappointment in Store I for Frank Cannon Even Sliould tho Legislature be Democratic Democrats Demo-crats Still Unwilling to Bet on theRe L the-Re llt in Salt Lake County A Couple of Wagers on ryIc Wil I sons Hope far Howard v I i Friends of exSenator Frank J Cannon Can-non ought to tell him that he Is being used for n good thing In this campaign I Apparently Senator Cannon has not learned that despite A W McCune3 I announcement that ho Is I out of politics poli-tics Mr McCune is still troubled by a yearning to be Senator and the hls tone barrel Is l still a factor In the politics of tho State paUtcs Mr McCune announced short be i Mr1fcCune j fore his departure for the Eat that J j he was out of politics In milking this I j S nnnouncement McCune Imagined he j was making l shrewd political move Should the next Legislature be Democratic Demo-cratic he will bob up serenely and go after the Senalorship again Just as If nothing had happened I the Republicans Repub-licans have the control of the Legislature lcnns I I lature McCune will not bob uP and will maintain that he Is out of poll tics His reason for announcing his retirement from politics is obvious lie well knew that If he showed his head I as a possible aspirant for Senatorial honors befoie the Legislature Is elected the chances for the next Legislature being Republican would be materially increased jut by the Injection of the personality ol f Mr McCune Into the campaign J campa 181 Where Senator Cannon Is being toyed with is here lie is out now do Ing1 his utmost to elect the Democratic ticket In Utah He Is sparing no effort ef-fort toward making the next Legislature Legis-lature Democratic Senator Cannon Is not doing this for fun He is doing It because he Intends to come before the Legislature as a candidate for the S Senate There Is no doubt of this But the pathos of the situation lies In the fact that Senator Cannon apparently docs not know McCuno Is not dead but is sleeping Thus Cannon goes out and breaks his neck to win for the party whose cauiie he Is now espousing and McCuno comes In and gathers the plum should success follow tho efforts of the S Democrats Its hard yes but thats c what it will como to Senator CannOns Can-nons afllliation with the Democracy is recent and that will be used against him his opponents claiming that the rewards In the gift of the party should be presented to men who havo fought the partys fights for years past not to S men who until recently have been b against everything Democratic But the most potent weapon that will be used against Senator Cannon In the event the Legislature goes Democratic S will be the barrel There Is something about that which will appeal intho old time peculiar way to a Democratic Legislature McCuno bat disappeared during the 1 campaign but he IK goingto demand 5 the reward for being good if life voters of the State so far forget themselves as to place the choice of u Senator in the hands of the Utah Domociacy |
