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Show Ths full text of the New York Times' article on George Q. Cannon is tne most fearful arraignment of an in dividual we have ever read. It must be answered and cleared up fully or Mr. Cannon will be greatly injured, we fear. It is prepared with infinite care and evidently by one who is exceedingly ex-ceedingly well posted in Utah politics, Utah business enterprises, and with the Utah people. The accusations are clean cut, explicit and frankly put. If they are untrue, it would seem to us that they ought to be easily answered. A general denial and denunciation won't do. They must be answered categorically, cat-egorically, explicitly and in detail. For Mr. Cannon's own sake, for the sake of the honest masses of the Mormon i church, and for the sake of the good name of Utah we hope that he will nut defer this answer very long. The Salt Lake dailies on Monday published in full the New York Times' article flaying Hon. George Q. Cannon. It is a terse closely reasoned and well-written well-written paper, and while it is extreme and doubtless very urfair in many respects, re-spects, yet it is just such a paper as would have boen written about any other man who had exerted an undue or illegitimate influence in politics. - It illustrates beautifully our theory that prominent churchmen church-men or high church officers of any denomination, should sedulously avoid politics, if not for their own sake, for the sake of the church. It i3 so easy for a prominent churchman to make a mistake, as other men do, and the consequences attach to the denomination.- Better forswear politics. The Tribune scores Mr. Lodge and other republican senators for not haying hay-ing offered something to relieve the country, in this stress. But-the Tribune Tri-bune should reflect that these republicans repub-licans in the senate are not just now engaged in the business of serving the country. They are after the political Bcalp lock of one Groyer Cleveland, and they are going to lift it sure as guns. The Tribune had better be helping out a certain leading republican of Salt Lake who seems just now to need help sadly. Tom Reed is no longer considered a republican statesman. lie is only regarded re-garded as a creature of the gold bugs, a sort of "me too" attachment to Mr. Cleveland's gold bug sentiments. All the hopes hung heretofore upon Reed are withered and dead. Eastern as well as western republican hearts have grown sick indeed. Reed is gone. He's done fcr. Sherman and the devil :mile delightedly over the situation. One thing in connection with this Cannon matter is a little remarkable, and that is, neither of the Salt Lake dailies, save the News, his own paper, has had a word of defense or explanation. explana-tion. It is a big thing and they do wrong, cruel wrong, to Mr. Cannon in ignoring it. Congressman Wilson of West Virginia Vir-ginia is to be tendered the presidency of the Texas university as soon as the bill passes the Texas legislature creating creat-ing the office. August Belmont's importance has increased some, since he was the awarding award-ing judge at a dog show in New York a year or so since. |