The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-12

offspring and flooded with wealth of |
love which manifests itself in a desire !
to have them prosper This is natural. |
It is a worthy quality. His denial Of 1t |
is unworthy and is not sustained by |
the facts
Election.
No where in the article which. Mr. |
Cannon calls his reply was it stated |
that the result Of the last election was |
due to immediate interference. 1t was |
charged as gradual bringing about |
OF results spontaneously with political !
and financial aims that seem to have
been part and parcel Of each other |
MI. Cannon is the father of the doc
trine that the Mormon people should |
be nearly evenly divided He does not
deny it. He favored this doctrine on
the basis that the people, by means of
it, might make friends with either
party; as the New York Times has al
ready suggested, the singular with
drawal of Republican opposition to
Washington, and the local declaration
of Joseph F. Smith and other officials
that Republicans forced Democrats TO
the admission of Utah, can have little
significance. if not In connection with
political deal Does Mr.. Cannon pre-
IC1IQ " SOY Ildl lIS dIQ HOl give GER
tain assurances to General Clarkson
and Colonel Trumbo which induced
them to labor 50 hard for Utah'S adj
mission? No denial appears in Mr..
Cannon's reply to the statement that
he was ready enough to write letters
and print articles in defense of his son,
when 1T appeared that the charges of
Judge o. W. Powers might injure that
son politically, He has nothing to say
Of the interview in the Chicago paper,
which charged him with being be-
lever in bounties and protection;
nor does he speak of the course of
Gibbs, who declared he spoke by An
struction when he assumed to contra
diet the statement of Mr.. PenroSe and
in the same letter incidentally asserted
that Mr.. Cannon was a believer in
bountieS and protection-a fact which
Gibbs asserted put him outside the pala
| OF Democracy.
Mr.. Cannon declares that he thought
I too much Of the respect and esteem Of
his people. to publicly commit himself
to any political views, but as a coun-
selor to President Woodruff, what eff
| fort did he make to restrain that good
| man from stultifying his record by
voting the Republican ticket for Mr..
| Cannon's political son in the face Of
| his repeated declarations that he was
! a Democrat? Very jealous Of his own
| reputation, SO jealous that he does not
! divulge which way he voted, yet he
| was quite willing Mr.. Woodruff should
| destroy a confidence Mr. Cannon was
too anxious to retain. And I will VEN
! ture the assertion that ~ half dozen
! of Mr.. Cannon's friends even now can
agree on his political viaWg, though all
are keenly alive as to his political as
| pirations.
A Few Instances of Influence.
Tn f1,o WI ~ Iah ~
people had what they considered direct
instructions from President Joseph r.
Smith to vote the Republican ticket.
a short time before the election. lets
ters were received in various sections
from the Office of the first presidency,
instructing the bishops Immediately 10
send to that Office the name OF every
each bishops ward. It was done in
Sanpete county. Sanpete was conceded
to be close, conceded to be slightly
/ Democratic. Sanpete was carried by
Republicans.
Ask the Saints in northern Arizona
why they were led into the pine woods
and secretly taught political wisdom,
if it was not that Arizona might be
wheeled into the Republican column
And she was.
Does any one imagine that. as first
counselor TO the president of the
chprch, THIS political work could be in
augurated and executed without Mr..
Cannon'S cOgniZance and consent?
The circular letter sent ont by Presi-
dent Joseph T. Smith. stating what the
republican majority in Utah would be,
and asking tha Mormon people IN Idaho
if they would 40 dis we'll. were no. I'M
dertaken without consultation. The fact
that a Slip Of paper was passed over
MI Smiths nameTyet SO pasted that
the reader could raise the slip ard read
! the name under it's not without sig
nif1cance. Mr.. Smith, once recognized
, as manly and fearless. has Slowly but
surely degenerated into an errat!c, un-
reasoning, and devoted follower of Mr.
Cannon.
The gamblers on the streets of Salt
, Lake city bet on a Republican victory
in Utah, when everything, besides the
, past, pointed to Democratic success,
and when asked why they 50 placed
their money, declared that the church
was going to elect "Frankie''-that be-
ing the pet name of MT Cannon's po-
litical son.
|, P. Henry Lannon, manager OF the
Salt Lake Tribune. declared that the
Republicans would be successful and
that the church was resolved to it.
Gentlemen whom Mr.. P. Henry Ian
non will not dispute are responsible for
, this statement,
Certain Church Influence.
> Every intelligent man and woman in
Utah knows that the church is respon-
D Sible for the result in Utah The church
organ has been free enough to defend
the brother of the editor the father of
the editor. Mr.. Joseph F. Smith, and
= other Republicans, but 1t has printed
y no word Of condemnation for an as
SauN on Delegate RawHns for a manly
/ connection as attorney for the church
! by an INSCRIPTIONS Republican at,
torney. MIR. RaWlins was the opponent
of Mr.. Cannon's political son. The
{ church organ, which is supposed tc
! sentiments, and to protect the authori
; ties from such discussions as hav,
taken place in The New York Times
0 was ready enough to run to the relic
: of Mr.. Joseph F. Smith. and later t.
. defend, in column after column, TIT
: father of the editor: but when the Og
: den Standard. a Republican sheet. as
y saulted Apostle Moses Thatcher in in
Z famous terms. this church organ mani
u tested no unseemly haste to defenr
e one of the church's most note,
e apostles Mr.. Thatcher is a Democrat
Instances without number might b
! cited in vindication of the posftio,
taken, that Mr.. Cannon controls tn
church, directs its finances, propose
< to determine its political policies in tn
8 future, as he has in the past, an6
% while the people have been compeiIe
j to make surrender upon surrender
,. while their burdens have becom
" greater and greater. yet the Canno
e interests have still to reach a haltin
II place AS all the church publication
as Mr.. George @. Cannon directs til
nhuroh affairs as though II had HI,