The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-03
THE PRACTICE THAT WAS,

90 VIC nave inc lTulu HOW. IL hP'
pears that it is President Hugh j, Can
non of the Liberty Stake of Zion that
married the late and unfortunate Vilate
Peart in new polygamy.
In this case it seems that Mr.. Can
non followed his inclination to "llve
his religion AS that is known in
Mormondom-an went into what the
Deseret News calls 'former prac-
tice' in the Mormon church, On the
nineteenth of last month the church
organ said, GA thousand dollars, we be-
lieve. can still be claimed by anyone
who can prove case of polygamy with
the sanction of the church within re-
cent years
A little history might here be appro-
PIRATE Hugh j. Cannon is the son of
the late George @, Cannon, When he
was a boy he worked at his father S
printing establishment, the old Juvenile
Instructor office that was located on
South Temple street, between First and
Second West streets. He was good
boy; and The Tribune must pay TO him
the compliment Of having been SUCH
as well as having been a good man in
his maturer years until he committed a
breach of the law with respect to the
marriage relation, and at the same time
broke the covenant that his splendid
father was initiative, and the good
Wilford Woodruff was instrumental, in
making with the United States of Amer
lea. The love of his youth was mag
nifcent girl-the daughter of his
father s chief friend and bodyuuard
Charlie' Wilcken. He has beautiful
sons and daughters as the sweet fruit
OF this pure union. IL is regrettable
that he has not seen fit to fulfill the
promise of boyhood and to remain the
man that he was cut out TO be- As n
friend he was always faithful and ns
an opponent he was generous, meas
uring his attitude toward men. But
it seems that he has forgotten his old
courage and his old generosity simply
because defenseless women offered TO
his ecclesiastical mind easier victims
than men.
Hugh is president of the Liberty
stake of Zion. an ecclesiastical sub.
division of the Mormon church that EN-.
braces ten bishops wards in this city.
He is, therefore, under the direct super
vision and control of Joseph +. Smith,
president of the Mormon church. 1t
is altogether nonsensical to think that
President Smith did not know of Presi.
dent Cannon's new polygamous rela-
uonshlp, contracted within the past five
years. And In order TO make ourselves
the more clear in this matter it NAV be
necessary to say what is a fact: that
there has been a Smith Cannon feud in
existence for many years Joseph +.
imagined that because he was nephew
to the founder of Mormonism he should
have had control of the church, George
O., however, was a man of such attain
ment that he naturally exercised a
larger portion of influence in the affairs
of the organization. His wiser counsel
was accepted where the ramshackle
advice of Joseph +. was smrned-
"Ni' ~ IOW DIV Ine WDDIG
Mormon people. This caused the pres
ent head of the church to hate the late
George @. Cannon Out of that hatred
has grown a Smith determination to
eternally suppress and humiliate the
Cannon family. He is doing it as fast
AS God Will permit him TO do SO: and
he VIII continue in this way until the
devil shall call halt. He married
the late Abraham II. Cannon in new
polygamy TO Lillian Hamlin; he forced
oohn M cannon into new polygamy
he compelled George NJ, Cannon TO take
iilegitlmate wives since 1890; he
dragged Bishop Angus J. Cannon into
the new polygamous slime; he sup.
gested to President Hugh j. Cannon
OF the Liberty stake Of Zion that his