The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-22

TO stand for. the senatorshp. but that
LOT LOT ms part he had no desire to do so:
replied that II felt II was right for
him to take the office and he desired
IT, ! would walk barefoot across the
MIN of the pledges which he and / had
made repeatedly-on our own behalf. in
me name OF his associates in leadership
to subdue thereafter the causes of fhe
controversy that had divided Mormon and
Gentile In Utah. He replied with an en-
t trnauc assurance CT his purpose to keep
| those pledges. and dismissed the subject
with hnality that left no doubt in my
Cannon's Second Nomination.
Some months later. In the office OF the
presidency lat a business meeting with
snral, nIml Colonel Clayton and Joseph F.
smien3. ! excused myself from attending
any further sittings of the COMMITTEES for
that day. because I had to go to Provo
70 receive my second Republican nomi-
nation ror territorial delegate In congress
thought Judge Zane-or some one else
would be nominated. wished YOU 10
pe Tree to help with these business mat
| reminded him that 1 had told him
some weeks before that I expected to he
nominated nom for congress- this year-and
thet 1 was practically certain. II elected
OF going to the senate when we were
granted statehood II talked with you
then as my father" I said. "But m
sure you'N remember that have not
or any OF your colleagues as leaders OF
| the church. on the subject of pnrtisan =
politics since the Peoples party was dis
He accepted this mild declaration .,
political independence without protest
and went TO Provo happily, a free man
The Republicans nominated me by ac-
Church withdraws Prom Politics.
The campaign gave every proo, q,
such political emancipation The peopie
| divided on national party lines MS corn !.
pletely as any American community in
my experience. - Mr Rau
was defeated: and was elected deieTate
! ~ Eo1sFsss from the territory-with the
united states senatorship practically as
The constitutional convention held IN
Inc s,s spring pr OF 1893 at Salt Lake City for
the new Utah. and In the fall of the Yea
a general election was held to adopt this
constitution and to elect officers who
should enter upon their duties as soon as
Utah became state. The election was
marked by most significant and impor
| tant incident.
Roberts. one OF the first seven "presi-
dents OF the seventy" and for the
ately, at a priesthood meeting of the HE
rarchy. Joseph F. Smith denounced the
ea1didaeies can tls. g,oS oa Roberts and Thatcher
were subsequently stated in the 'polit-
cal manifesto of April, 1898. in which
the frst presidency announced. as a rule
Of the church. that no official of the
| church should accept a political nonnlna-
| tion until he had obtained the pernis-
sion OF the church authorities and had
learned from them whether he could
ready entered into with the church, take
upon himself the added duties and iabors
and responsibilities of the new position, -
Jealousy Of Smiths.
This action. I knew. was the result OF
the. old jealousy OF Thatcher which the
also In line with the church's pledge to
keep its leaders out OF politics BY It
the hierarchy bound themselves and set
neopSin the People free The leaders thereafter
| could not enter politics without the CON
sent OF their quorums, and therefore. by
any American doctrine, they could not
enter politics at all. Thatcher and Rob
erts revolted against the inhibition as
an infringement OF their rights of citi-
zens, and 1t was so construed by the
knew that a Mormon apostle had nc
rights as citizen that were not second
TO his church allegiance. and the political
manifesto simply made public the fact
OF such subservience. authoritatively.
We Republicans welcomed It, with our
eyes on the future freedom OF politics In
Utah; Thatcher and Roberts refused to
accept the dictation OF their Quorums.
and what was practically an "edict of
apostasy went out against them. They
dates (Heber NJ; Wells as governor. and
Clarence E. Allen as member OF con-
grassl were elected. Thatcher, subse-
quently refusing to accept the political
manifesto, was deposed from his apos-
,olic authority and deprived Of all priest
hood in the church. Roberts recanted
and was reconclled with the hierarchy.
The First Senatorship.
The Republicans elected forty-three
out of sixtythree members of the legis-
lature. and every one of these had been
pledged to support me for the United
States senate, either by his convention or
by letter to me or by a promise con-
Veyed to me by friends: and none Of
these pledges had l solicited.
now became general-although he was a
manifesto bound him. although it was
doubtful whether the senate would allow
him To be seated. Two influences were
urging his election; One was the desire
OF the. Smith faction to have the arst
counselor break the Ice at Washington
for Apostle John Henry Smith. who was
ambitious to be senator and was dis
qualified by the fact that he was church
leader and n polygamist. The other was
the desire OF some eastern capitalists to
have my fathers vote in the senate to
aid them in the promotion Of railroad
from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles.
As n result Of our Republican success
in the two political campaigns that had
cnna1 / / ted hn