Show senatorial contest tho senatorial campaign compa ign has already opened with vigor at the state capital utah is not lacking in good material from which to produce seua tora there are a half a dozen candidates in the field most of whom would do credit to the west and honor to alie new state there seems to have arisen a tacit understanding that one of senators is to be a mormon and the othar a gentile there is no particular reason why it should be so but there still lingers in a suppressed stale lome of the old and conditions in a few years n mans reli 1 gion we hope will not figure in politics as it does now r the mormon senator it is generally conceded will be hon frank J cannon both aides grant that he is the logical candidate far the hipsh honor that the republicans have in their ranks the only possible mormon who could defeat him would be hii father for whom the mormon people entertain universally a high regard hon george Q cannon was for many acara delegate to congress and was refused a beat while the old light was on many now think it but justice that he go back to congress when fight ia ended but hon george Q cannoa is not candidate he is out of politics and has been for some time when the propriety of his going to the senate aft suggested by the enquirer over a year ago it was learned then that he could not enter the political arena politics today in utah ag wherein else the country require active A man cannot hope fb b acome a senator without having served the dominant party president ident has been entirely out of poli tica excepting the kapsus lingaas at brigham city and he has studiously avoided taking aidea with either party there has been a persie teat effort made with ulterior purposes by Ool Trumbo and crowd to push president cannon forward as a candidate their efforts have not been regarded bat a few daya ago had it that president baimon was an avowed candidate the rumor ws promptly denied at the office of the farat presidency on the gentile side of the contest are arthur brown C 0 godwin and judge bennell and then there are two recent arrivals in utah col trumbo of california and col nor ria of washington D 0 the latter ays that 19 can spend ten dollars to col Trum boa one but neither will be in the race for utah ia not of the rotten borough kind arthar brown and judge bennett have been most zealous workers from the beginning of the division movement and have a strong following judge goodwin is favored by many because of his national reputation aa a silver advocate they believe his election would help the cause of the white metal it is too early in the day to predict with any certainty which odthe above named gentlemen will succeed |