The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-01


with their friends.
AZ the first symptoms of Mr..
Cannon's sympathy for the repuDli-
can party, the people believed that it
was prompted by his love for his son,
and anxiety for his election, and many
there were who hoped, for the sake of
peace within the church, that Mr..
Cannon would never appear again in
Utah politics, There were thousands
who hoped that Mr.. Cannon would re-
gard the position of first counseleor to
President Woodruff, and the prospect
of becoming the president of the Nor
mon church, as being all of honor that
a purely deyout man could reasonably
desire.
When President George @. Cannon
endorsed PRESIDENT ] os. F Smith S dis
ciplining" of Apostle Moses Thatch-
er and president of the seventies b. H.
Roberts, there were some that be-
lieved they could discern the motive,
because there must have been some
other reason than that of d desire to
enforce a rule foT which, until the last
three years, there had not been the
slightest use, because OF the condi-
tions that existed priof to the di-
vision movement.
The ''disciplining, incident recalled
the fact, that during the last fifteen to
twenty years, the face of Moses
Thatcher has been a stranger to the
people OF central and southern Utah,
and they asked themselves the ques-
ton if the motive that had caused his
"discipllning" by President Cannon
was not in someway involved in the fact
that Apostle Thatcher was hardly
known south of the Utah ecclesiastical
Mason & Dixon line, and the people
wondered if jealousy of the peerless
Cache county apostle were not the in
spirational cause?
II closely watched, the motive for al
most any act can be discovered by
means of circumstantlal evidence. An
other link in the chain of evidence as
to the underlying motive that has
prompted Mr.. Cannon to make his
presence felt in the following para
graph from the Evening Telegram:
Democracy ie in serious ado oyer
the mention of George Q. Cannon for
senator, Is there wortnier man for
that honor in the territory?
We will waive an answer
to the Telegram's interrogatory
as to Mr.. Cannon's superior wor5hiness
and say, that in the apparent willing
ness of that gentleman to have his
name mentioned by republican stump
ers and papers, furnishes an. apparent
reason why Moses Thatcher is q
stranger to the people of Southern
Utah. In that apparent willingness
ON the part of Mr.. Cannon to De con-
sidered candidate for United States
senator, is found the motive for dis.
ciplining." Apostle Thatcher. If the
republican party, be successful in this
election, it VIII be matter of mere
formality -, - part of President
Geo. Q. CannonjtO secure the con-
aent' of his fnly official superior,
President Wilfqkd Woodruff.
The opinion az to Mr.. Cannon's mo-
tive is fu1ther re Einforced by the fol-
lowing paragraph also from She Tele-
grant
Colonel Trumbo will lose no
friends by insisting upon George O.
Cannon being one Of the first senators
to represent US at Washington,
There is also found in the above the
motive for Colonel Trumbo's placing
that congratulatory telegram, regard
ing his efforts for statehood, flom
President Cannon and others, on the
front of Isaac's little brochure.
The moral to be drawn from all of the
foregoing is that Mr.. Cannon is can
didate, and In that fact is found the
solution of large number of Incl
dents that have heretofore been mex
plicabie.
The sum and substance of the fore
going is, that if the honorable Moses
Thatcher had not been nominated for
senator, there would not have been
present in this Campaign the disturb.
ing factor ecclesiastical interference.