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Show JVupttafo of American and Democratic I "Parties. H A statement was made yesterday, on what H appeared to be unquestionable authority, Which B shows what will prove to the public a startling al- H liance between the Democratic party and the H newly-formed American party. If the statement is HI true, and there seems no occasion to doubt it, the HI leaders of the American and Democratic parties, HI both in this state and in the east, have a perfect H understanding on a fusion basis. The plan in- HI volves a union of the two parties for the defeat of HI Republican state and county nominees, including HI the presidential electors. HI The gentleman giving the information will not HI v permit the use of his name, but he states posl- H tively that Senator Cannon is working for the H American party at the request of and under the H direction of the National Democratic committee, H and that O. W. Powers, Democratic candidate, and H Democratic State Chairman Simon Bamberger are Hlj parties to the deal. IH While the statement is one difficult of veri- H flcatlon, the information comes in so direct a way H that there is little likelihood of an oxplioit denial E from Senator Cannon. H Everything that has developed in the campaign HB during the past few weeks is strongly confirmatory H of such an alliance and of Mr. Cannon's being spe- H clally delegated by the National Democratic com- H mittee to join with the American party in Utah. H It was believed that the accession to the new Hb party of Mr. Cannon would result in the conver- HB sion of many Gentiles to the new party, and of Hfl these it was known that an overwhelming ma- HI jority would be Republicans. HI Nothing could furnish stronger evidence of the B true aim of his new allegiance to the American Km party than Mr. Cannon's recent speech at the the- Hi atre, in which his oratory was directed almost H solely against the Republican president and the B Republican party. Nothing that Mr. Cannon could jH have said from a Democratic rostrum could have H been aimed more effectively at the Republican or- m ganization. This fact seems to be thoroughly ap- m predated by the local Democratic organ, which l did not have a word of censure for Mr. Cannon B when he deserted the party in the midst of a cam- H paign. It was apparently a party to the compact H and realized that the most effective woik Mr. Can- H non could do for the Democracy was in the role of H recruiting agent for the new party. In this con- H nection it was a strange coincidence that Senator IH Cannon's theatre speech was exploited in the or- H gan under a large flash head, while the report of HH the Democratic meeting, addressed by Senator H Patterson on the evening of the same day, was H accorded but a single column headline. The Her- H aid knew that Senator Cannon, speaking for an HB alien party, furnished better Democratic munition Hfl than did Senator Patterson, an able campaigner H for the Democracy. HB Mr. Cannon's course is also a source of con- HH siderablo gratification to Mr. 0. W. Powers, who H is accredited with having, from the beginning, H taken a fatherly Interest In the American party. H While Ogden Hilos is the nominee of the party for HH congress, it is conceded that a majority of the H Americans desire Mr. Powers' election, and a mea- H ger vote for Mr. Hiles will necessarily result It HH is known that for some time the Democrats have HK almost given up hope of electing Moyle, and are HH concentrating all their efforts In an effort to land HH Mr. Powers. Mr. Powers Is, of course, an able and H adroit assistant, and during, his campaign has H everywhere given Mormons the impression that HH the best way for them to avoid the storm which HHB the cry of church influence would raise, would be H by making Mr. Powers, one of the former leaders HRP&. of the Liberals, their choice for the House of Representatives. Rep-resentatives. The deal appears to be working very satisfactorily satisfac-torily for both parties to the compaot, and may account for the increased confidence in Democratic Demo-cratic success shown by National Committeeman D. H. Peory and Chairman Bamberger. The whole affair shows that the present political politic-al contest is not throe-cornered and that, under the terms of the agreement between Democrats and Americans, a vote for the American party is equivalent to a vote for the Democratic nominees. The Republicans in the new movement are to be duped Into yoting the American ticket, and when the time arrives, if the understanding has not already al-ready gone out, the Democrats in the American party, of whom there are few, will bo urged, and very little urging will be required, to carry out the program by voting the straight Democratic ticket. No further evidence of the Tribune's being committed to the scheme is required than' its recent re-cent attack on Judge Miner, a Republican presidential presi-dential elector and its commendation of a speech by Senator Cannon in which President Roosevelt was denounced. |