The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-02
TWENTY-SIX YEAR.

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deserved moments notice, and that
was the charge against Apostle Ly-
man. That gentleman at once came
forward and not only disproved the
charge but fully established that, I'M
der the circumstances, it was impossi-
bile that he could have made it.
But it is clear that at large church
| meeting in the north, President George
@. Cannon descended to political and
! historical references, which were a
direct violation of the good faith which
we have all tacitly, at least, agreed to
keep. Moreover, it was not only de-
scent to politics. but what he said was
not true. The Liberals won the cleo
ton referred to fairly, and there is not
a spot on the escutcheon of Judge
Powers from that campaign. The Lib
erals in an election in August,
which no one charged with fraud or
unfairness, carried the city by more
than 700 majority. In the city we're
hundreds of men who could not regis
! ter before August, but who could and
did before February. In the winter,
too, many residents of the city who
were absent on business in the sum-
mer, had returned. The Liberals car
ried the city by something over 1.400
majority. and when the election was
over Judge Powers produced his books
showing every cent he had received
and how it was disbursed. The feo-
pies party managers never did. If
necessary. it would be easy to recall
the leading incidents of that campaign
and show that it was such a campaign
as no friend of Utah would like to see
! repeated, and where the chief trouble
was, but it is not. President Cannon
knows the. history and therefore there
could be NJ excuse for what he said.
! even had he been making a political
speech. In a religious gathering his
words are the most discouraging that,
! 70 our knowledge, have been spoken in
/ Utah for two years past. And the sup
Elementary words by Mr.. Seymour B.
! Young are just as reprehensible. Con-
tinued and repeated few times and
the territory would be in a blaze, and
! all the old apprehensions, if not the
old battle-fires and animosities of
the past would be kindled anew. Even
| If Mr. Cannon felt outraged by what
had been done d1ring the past three
! weeks in the name of Democracy, and
nursed belief that it had been chief
! ~ due to Judge Powers, still there was
no justification for his words, especial
~ in such place, for they We're calcu-
lated to infiame his hearers, who were,
necessarily, ignorant of the real facts,
and to reawaken animosities here
which we all had hoped had been put
to sleep forever.
AS to the lapse Of memory night be-
| fore last and yesterday, we have moth
ing to say. The human mind is like
! electricity. 1t cannot be seen or ana
| lyzed, but its work is most potent
linen again, the machinery called the
body, for which the mind is the motive
| power in life, is most complicated, and
! II Is possible that the mind. like the
BODY, has its speiis. of somnambulism.
But the few words spoken at Brigham
CITY We're a direct encroachment of the
church upon the state, the ecclesiasti-
cal upon the civil power-that is. the
second highest officer of the church
stopped to unfairly criticise an individ-
! ual IN way directly calculated to in
1ure a political party, and that. under
! free institutions, is intolerabl
MI Cannon last evening sent The
Herald the following:
A Card.
AS to a statement attributed to me al
a meeting in Brigham City on Mondav
last, to the effect that "a certain man
had been paid $4,000 for stealing the
election of Salt Lake city, and he was
now at the head of another political
organization" and my later denial of
having either made or intended any
attack upon anybody on the occasion
referred to, desire to say:
l nave absolutely no knowledge of
having made the statement quoted
ABOVE or anything like it. so that there
coulo nave been no Wilful intention on
my part to prejudice or injure the Ger
tain man" referred to. or the cause
with which he is at present identified
In what / have since said concerning
the remark, / was Intentionally as DOS.
tive and unequivocal as | knew how
TO be; because ] felt perfectly confident
that ii could not have been made with.
out leaving some impression on my
mind, which latter, as stated. was rot
the case. But on conversing subse-
quently with some of those to whom
referred in my interview for it's corrob-
Grafton, L was Informed to nv astonish.
ment that some such remarks had ac-
tually been made. OF course I imme-
dlately took pains to have the whole
truth of the incident communicated to
those most affected by it, and now fee
1t only proper that this public occasion
should be taken to lay It before the
community. repeat that there was moi
a scintflla of malice or malicious intent
IN my mind, and no desire to be offens-
i've to anybody; and I can therefore
I
express regret that the incidents should
have occurred. Anything that could be
construed into an attempt to rivive
past bitterness, or throw additional un.
! pleasantness into the present excite.
ment, or initiate against future har.
mony and welfare. L should and do, re.
gard as extremely deplorable; and
should regret exceedingly if anything
that / have said could be used as hav.
ing a tendency in that unfortunate di.
rection. Whatever influence. I have
with the people of Utah l desire to be
used to bring about an improved condi.
ton of feeling between the different
classes of the community; and that SC
far as politics and office-holding are
concerned, the words Mormon and
''non-Mormon' should be stricken OH,
of our vocabulary.
In keeping with the spirit of these ex
preSsions, l would further say that il
the gentleman who has taken this mai.
ter as. personal to himself is still dis.
posed to regard it as wilful and often.
sive, wish to withdraw the remarks
and trust this statement will be salts.
factory to him as an apology.
! GEORGE Q. CANNON.
NATIONAL SILVER CONVENTION.
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