Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-02 | Page 4 | Local News

Ex-Senator Frank J. Cannon's talk at St. Louis is significant. He won't bolt the Democratic National convention, conven-tion, no matter what is put In the platform nor who Is nominated. His reference to his former walking out of a convention In that very town, In connection con-nection with his determination to "let the other fellows walk out this time," can mean nothing else than that he thinks now that ho did not do well when he walked out before, and that he now regrets having done so. He Is by no means alone In this: others who did so also repented, but they took the first opportunity to repair their error, and get back where they belonged. Their act In doing so was appropriate and logical, while Mr. Cannon's is neither. nei-ther. If the lesson he got at that time teaches him that ho made a mistake, he should not stay where that mistake placed him; If It did not teach him that, there is no lesson In it which should prevent him from bolting now. The dissenting opinion of Justice Steele of the Supreme Court of Colorado, Colo-rado, denying that the Governor of Colorado bas the right to declare martial mar-tial law and suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and that the power to do this Is vested exclusively in the Legislature, Is an extremely long document ten thousand wordG. And It amounts to nothing: tho opinion of the court Is that the Governor has thin powor. JuBtlco Steclo, by hlo allusions to tho flight of tho American colonists from tyranny, shows that ho has utterly failed to grasp the situation In his State; he Is evidently of tho old style of jurists, who had an eye chiefly to the horrors of a rulo without parliament, and to the oncroachmento of the Pope. That style of mind had ItK uses when the people were emerging from oppression; but to have such nightmares now, whon tho people are in full possession and their officials aro truly their servants, and when the dime museum men would bo the first to scent a tyrant, lo freaky: the first thing Steolo know3, those man may be after him. v