The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-31
Ogden. July 81.
POLITICS AND WORSHIP
WEBER COUNTY PEOPLE THINK
THEY ARE GETTING MIXED.
Complain Over the Launching of
Cannon's Boom In the Tabernacle
Say the Y. N. NJ. I. A. Is Being
Manipulated.

Politics is beginning to be the all
engrossing subject in Weber county
and the indications of hot time this
fall in the old county are making their
appearance every day and every night
The passion for fusion which has seized
a moiety of the population is RESPONSE
BILE for a good manv unusual taanes-
Now, there is the lecture tonight IN the
tabernacle by Senator Cannon. No mat
ter what he speaks about, there are
many people who believe that his ad-
dressing the public from the tabernacle
rostrum is nothing more than a piece
Of politics. The presidency has, as
rule, been very chary about-Nhat kind
of subjects and what speakers appear
ed at the tabernacle. under the auspices
of the church organizations, and the
address tonight is a complete innova-
ton, since it is . secular address on
Sunday night. under the auspices of one
of the societies of the church
There is, moreover. good deal OF
grumbling over the way the address
was provided for. 1t is SAID that A. L.
Wright. president of the association IL
this stake, knew nothing of the pro-
posed lecture until little while before
it was announced in the quarterly con-
ference: that, in fact, he was ignorant
of il when the meeting at which 1t was
given out began. TIE subject was me-
disclosed at that time, nor could II be
disclosed until yesterday. when AR.
Cannon decided to speak The FIX
pansion of America"
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All these circumstances indicate that
the PURPOSE of the lecture is to exploit
q man and not a subject. Memorial
day is over. Senator mon spoke II
Salt Lake on that day, Dut it was eX-
planned here that as the senator ouId
not be on hand at the meeting in Og-
den that Sunday, he would be given
chance this Sunday President Shurt-
lift. a right-hand man IF the senator IN
this political fight. had just come from
Omaha in his company. and was no
doubt prepared to say whether the SEN
ator would accept such call or not
At an rate. the senator has accepted.
If the officers OF the Y NJ. NJ. I. a. did
rot know it then, they know OF it now
1t was promptly decided to adjourn
the other meetings for the next Sunday
and announcements were made from
the ward pulpits with here and there
bit of eulogy for the DISTINGUISHED
speaker. People VINO critic!Se fae &C
tons of those responsible for the lee
tlrre tonight. as a rule do SO entirely
independent Of their feelings towards
Senator Cannon and his candidacy for
reelection.
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There are many with whom divine
worship Sunday night has become
fixed rule. and they dislike to exchange
it for a hero worship, even Flr single
night. They argue that there are
plenty of week days when Senator
Cannon might speak of United States
history without interfering in the least
with the other meetings. Then, too,
there are those who think they see an
exhibition of false zeal. wnich. though
unconscious. perhaps. is making ce"S
tain officers use ecclesiastical influence
for private political ends.
An amusing thing about the affair is
the compIacency with which ii is re-
ceived by some of those Who in other
days, would have held Up their hands
in holy horror at such thing. and
who would have shouted. Church in
fuence" as loud as any Washable. had
such a case come to their notice.
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All of which goes to prove that the I
things that are. are not like the things /
that WERE