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Show ' Uth Congressional Convention. .f ' ' . ?f h Senator Frank J. Cannon, Joseph L. jf k fcawlina, with Congressman William It. f JLing constitute tho lull representation it m Congress from the State of Utah, all 'v . Mormons by birth. These gentlemen ji- ' constitute a trio uncontaminatcd hy if fc prejudice and wIiobo love of freedom is lv r the foundation atone of their brond , - Americanism. In point of patiiotism, f - intelligence, nnd ability, the above. tt . J" ' mentioned gentlemen are on an (qual fiy ?- , -with the greatest men in public life ff i Senator Cannon it tho senior member tjm j " " , in point otsenricc and his Congressional i , ,t record is such that he may well Kiel. ' . proud, Ho has been found at all times 'oil thn side of the plain people, and baa L: 'u demonstrated by hia woids and acta jF .,,' that no American citizen has a higher L . ronsoption of our constitution, and none J1 are mora earnest and patriotic, in the ' advocacy and defense ot the principles - " . AjLI J'.d down therein. Senator Rawlins j ' ' , "wH nti Mr KnK havo not, 3a yet, como so (J - - prominently beforo tho country as & l Sonator Cannon, yet throuchout the S 4 ntiro Wesf these gentlemen are recog- " jfil' " M Suited: and honored 'in the highest sense, 5v" They were the leaders in the movement f to organize National Party lines in Utah t "' ' -which haa contributed so much to ' settlement of tho difucult'es heretofore ' existing in that State. Mr. Rawlins ; it waa tho delegate from Utah to the Fif; v ,"':T ' third Congress, and Judgo King has ! ' , ' tilled many important positions in his l State. Mr. Cleveland deahing to j recognize the changed conditions, np- jM ' "' pointed him to the oflico of Associate o Justico of the Supremo Court of the f . State, which beheld till a short time UAigK prior to his election to Congress. lfi&SftSfttPiaa'rhat fortncrjpric1tted? PPPnBQHhe religiouH belief of the Mormon &l' - flf ioiioai been eradicated. It is un-f"fl un-f"fl ' ' ' '' .fortunate that a leligioua creed should "haye beon burdened with a form of ' ' error which was the underlying cause of i so ruch of their suffering and peree- jf cution. As we come to know and ,, .t, " understand this iLmnilcablo peoplo we '" "" "'find thorn truly Christiana, able and I V '' , . willing to rise above the blind belief of i v xianmado'creeds and broad enough to A . y to this great nation, we are in deed 'and in truth, brethien. Tho path of e the Mormon people haa beon strewn -with tho blood of its thouHando, and yet through this valley of the shadow of ' , leath, there haa emerged a people, - , .-whoso sobriety, intelligence and energy will fit them so asetst in tho achieve- ' -monta of the grand possibilities to y.et I lo obtained under the banner ot Ameri. J r can liberty. Of their greatest leader, . righam Young, it muet be said he was ' truly great. lie was a natural leader, earnest, onthuhwtic, progressive and f ' ever a friond of tho people. Ho aided k ' xa laying out their towns, constructing f v their building, developing tho lesources W of tho tiountry, establishing manu- t, Isctures and other institutions, and was f foremost in Jli'ancial as well aa roligioua I eoncerus. i. t Tho Mormon people,a3 they are called, 1 . Jtavo grown in number and in intluoncc. E Thoy extend from Canada on tho north, U ' to Mexico on the south. A great 'many W inhabit the St itus of Idaho, Colorado, f i ilVyoming, Nevada and also thcTeriitory j .I Arizona. In Utan they greatly out V uumbor all otherB. There arc, hov- !' tf- vor, inUtah from Uvoi)ty-livo to fifty ' ' thousand people who do not belong to. '; v . 4he Mormon Chuich. Washington I 1 News Letter. , A T" |