Show 1011 FOR CONGRESS no urging required to induce P party arty less one to make the race intermountain republican the latest political gossip is a boom for frank J cannon of the american party for jt was started yesterday and gained so much headway that it was taken seriously by politicians of all three parties cannon has a following in his own party if ho he really belongs to any one political organ iz atlon and many of his friends are telling him that his only chance to get back to washington Is to get into this congressional race they point to any nominee the democrats can put up a cinch for tho the eating pencil pusher and to the republican nominee whoever he may be as easy meat cannon wants to go bade back to washington the worst way so his friends urge that lie he ride on an american ticket ho has been there before and the lust for a seat in the halls of congress Is is an great now as it ever was lie he could not be united states senator again from utah it if the american party owned the legislature for ten years to come ho knows that his 1113 stock has diminished instead of advanced in value and the great mass of voters over the know it as well as a he does it if the american party ever has a chance to send a senator to washington which Is hardly likely it will not be cannon it may b bo the irascible kearns and it may be some one else but it wont be frankie that thing has been threshed over and finally decided in the minds of the leaders of the reform movement A prominent member of the american ic an state committee said yesterday that tho the nomination ot of frank J cannon for congress on tile the american ticket was not only a possibility but was practically certain in the minds of an imposing few at least he said there Is some substance to the story that tile the political discord will bob up again and ask for political preferment W mont ferry one of tile the cleanest young men in the whole american pai baity ty outfit has been mentioned for congress but the ringleaders ring leaders of tho renegade movement have looked ask r 1 ance at his candidacy for the reason that ho he is not a mixer and would not mingle well with the element to which the american party partis catering in salt lake city the element to which they look for a great leal deal of support in the coming campaign the reform leadem leader gr h havo ave found perry very helpful the city council and will took look for a heavy donation from him this fall y yet ot they do not trust him because ho has a habit of expressing his lions vions ou on matters mat teris that tread dangerously close to dishonesty this was shown by tho the fact that ferry as chairman of tho the finance committee of the city council spoke right out in against the city treasurer paying interest on oil an overdraft in the general fund I 1 he le poin pointed to the fact that since the bank was not paying the city interest on any of its funds the city should pay no interest on overda overdrafts abts it may bo that because the funds wore were deposited in the kearns knox bank and not tho the institution of which he is a director ferry made the kick at any rate ho bc made it and tho proposed payment of interest on the overdraft was stopped |