Show frask J tee speech of senator cachon wednesday night waa a surprise to many of his friends his endorsement ot the washakie Was bakie club was however a greater three test question of the washakie Was bakie club are substantially as follows first are you democrat Second Do you endorse the chicago platform third will you leave the democratic party it it repudiates the chicago platform in speaking epe aking of the washakie Wash akle club the senator referred to those objecting to the club and then eaid that be conid subscribe to the tests and to the constitution and added who can ob etto these testa are you a democrat yes do you eldoree the chicago plat fonn certainly yes will you leave the democratic party it it repudiates the chicago platform I 1 say that a democrat who answers no to the last sctt question is not a good enough democrat to associate with alie washakie Was bakie club ilo you and myself the writer sat coe to the senator together with others who were much surprised as it was understood that the senator favored the silver republican party putting a straight ticket in the field for next yeara campaign the senator made a number of remarks that leit no doubt whatever as to his willingness to be classed aa a democrat in tact his whole plea was democrats and populists to unite him for a silver ticket losart lake city the general under tt anding is that senator cannon was playing politics and was only boft soap ing the democrats but the sanator was too wednesday night and the applause from the washakie club aia loo pronounced to be mi sunder JB it is probably just as well for the tena tor to embrace tho democracy forever isiace he refused to vote for the dingley bill the republicans have given him the tom eh straw chow which nay the wind blows the scarcity of republicans at the senatore eena tore democratic conclusively proves that the democrats abune were interested in the senatore eena tore future politics makes strange bedfellows bed fellows they eay what stranger could there be than senator cannon and hon richards stumping the state together next year for democracy or say the senator and joe rawlins or W II 11 king or judge powers what is most remarkable is that the senator seems to have the confidence of the aba senator boid that washakie clubs would be instituted all over the abate how could be know that unless be was on the in it looks as if the Wash akies are gong ao make the senator the of the democratic party there may bo bome Ikic kine by the democratic lead era following the leadership of senator cannon and the iee the senator prophesied that it the Wash akies would carry their sword un sheathed chea thed success would be theirs and thua the merry fight goes on i among the democrat while the poli cal orphnel ike THE STANDARD buet ilean back aad laugh |