The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-15
eEoReD q. CANNON wrTHDRAws.

In another column Of The Herald
this morning will be found an open
letter from George G. Cannon on his
senatorial candidacy. The letter ap-
peared in last nights News and was
the sensation of the day in political
circles. Mr.. Cannon assigns as a rea-
son for withdrawing from the sena-
torial struggle the danger there is in
the prevailing uncertainty as to his
attitude. land that this uncertainty
may lead to divisions in the party
ranks" This, in the view of Mr.. Can
non, would be most unfortunate, as he
thinks the Republican party. having
won a victory, are entitled to the
legitimate fruits of 1.-THE selection
Of the senator's: and any division that
would prevent that result Mr.. Cannon
would regard as depIorable. Il can
not, therefore" he adds, Gin the re-
hottest degree contribute to division
by allowing my name to appear as a
candidate for United States senator"
Then follows the important part of
the communication: II have stated
this repeatedly to my friends. and I
now state it to the public that there
may be no longer any uncertainty upon
the question. desire in this public
manner to say TO all my friends, and
especially to those who have been so
kind as to express themselves in IA
vor of my being elected to the United
States senate, that I am not a can
didate for senator and could not &C
cept that office"
1t may well be imagined that Mr..
Cannon's Republican friends will
scarcely relish the set back his open
letter will give their ardor. Mr.. Can
non has been candidate for the SER
ate, and his friends with his full
knowledge and sanction have steadily
pushed him to the front as a candi-
date, but in the crisis he failed them.
Many will be the reasons assigned
for the action Of Mr.. Cannon. The Her
aid has but one to suggest-weakness.
If Republican unity was SO dear to Mr..
Cannon as he now makes it appear in
his open letter. he could have con-
tributed to it quite as we'll eight or ten
days ago as now; and there never was
a time-nor would it have arisen in the
future-when his candidacy would
so far have threatened the Re
publican party with disunion as
to rob it of the power to
elect the senators, and therefore to
assign that as reason for withdraw
ing from the field is rather a lame ex-
cuse to say the least of it.
That Mr.. Cannon thinks the political
office not inconsistent with his ecclesi-
astical position appears in this that he
assigns no such reason as the cause of
withdrawing from the senatorial con-
test; and for the further reason that
gentlemen authorized to speak for
him have declared it to be his opinion
that the position of senator was not
inconsistent with his church Office; and
that he has not yielded to the cry of
his candidacy being in any sense a
union of church and state appears both
from the fact of his own silence on the
subject in his open letter and the
strong editorial in the News on that
subject, which follows the letter of Mr..
Cannon in the News. and which we
quote below,
Democrats may congratulate them
selves upon the fact that the candi-
dacy Of Mr.. Cannon for the senate has
made clear that gentlemans politics.
Men who represented him and his po-
ltical views have stated in his behalf
that both from belief in the cardinal
doctrines of Republicanism and by
financial support to the Republican
party Mr.. Cannon has declared him
self a Republican.
Following is the News editorial re-
ferred to above: