Show How Joe Sweetheart Joined the Mormons Dispatch to Chicago later M r Ocean r J Robert Harrison of oC L L b Ind who brought the electoral vote v te teof of Indiana to Washington tin the t e private gallery of th the house Cen Con grean Landis Lunati the other Gal day Con Congressman gressman gres rn n Cannon of Illinois wag w T peak eak mg Ingon on the naval aval bill and Captain Hat Har Harrison rison watched him with much terest er t tHe He is the same Joe Cannon that he was years yar ago the captain remarked remar ed He speaks and acts acta Juet ju t as aa ashe ashe he did dM when we were of or the tame same mock at the old Quaker Quake academy acad my at Annapolis Ind md wy way back bliek in n the he BOs iOs He Ha goes at t his adversary in the same way ay as though he were r going to fight He shakes hta hie hi head in inthe Inthe j the same way and he uses UileS tho t same Ine kind of homely but e tej J Uncle Joe Toe has not changed ae as much auck In these years as most Men inen do 4 doI 4 I have not seen him in many years but butI I would have recognized him hint by his gestures and mannerisms had no one told me it was Joseph G Cannel Canno Joe Toe was a poor boy in the academy when I knew him He had to leave be he because because cause he lie ran ln out of money One OD day on the ball field he took me aside and said d he would have to give up me Ms 6 1 hope of an education He had used up art alt arthis athis althis his money and would have ve to quit school and and go to work He t felt fL blue bh about it and there were teRn tears in his h heyes eyes as he was ia confronted with th necessity of giving up his ambition O xo educate himself elf But he did n i iper per or complain He left the academy and went to work in a 8 small store gore one in inthe the academy then expected to see Joe Toe Cannon the leader of the ie e ma majority m majority in congress congress and expenditures of oJ the th Stages gov government government government But there he is i i and he Is IB the Ame m me Joe Toe Cannon who quit school nd went to work when his money gave out near nearly nearly nearly ly half a century ago agoA agoA agoA A A Romance Rom nce of School Days Drs D lS Uncle Joe Toe Cannon had bad his first j jo 1 mance back in the days da s which he lie spent at Annapolis A good many men who 1 see only the fighting side of Uncle Joe would hesitate to believe that he was ever sentimental but out it is true Iti 1 also ateo quite true that th t he speaks t if f home and family questions with as much ten tenderness tenderness tenderness and sentiment as any man in public life Ufe It was just after he quit the academy and went to work In a n store m OR a small sma salary that Joe Toe fell in love loveLI Like LI e many other boys bo she he did not realize the th condition of his heart until It lt was too late He went to the country dances and danced on the puncheon floors to the music of an old fiddle tiddle and he w went nt sleigh riding and to spelling bees with witha a pretty girl but he had no thought of or orlove love or matrimony until one IDe night bt the girl told him she was to be sealed to a Mormon The Mormons were as mu adver advertised advertised tiled them as have been since and this girls mother a widow had to go to Utah The one idea this tills con eon conveyed conveyed to the girl was that she would be compelled to become a plural plurel wife Ue and she told her fear and grief to the poor pool clerk who had been her escort cort e Joe Toe wanted to be gallant and rescue the girl from her impending fate but he had been compelled to give up hU his ambi an ambition bl tion Uon for an education and his 1 s spro prospects pro pec would not justify him in as 15 assuming suming tl the e obligations of y He resolved Ived to do it rather than an anthe see seethe seethe the girl rl sealed to a Mormon polygamist But before he could put hta 11 is plans in execution the family departed deported for the west and his sweetheart was wall lost to him forever for she had gone to the Mormons Then the world became hopeless for a day or two and Joe Toe saDie ame ameto to the tue conclusion that he ho had lost JO t the apple of hw i eye and would never again love a woman His sentiment was probably more due to the fact that dt at the girl was being carried off oft to Utah I against her will to t be e married to a Mormon lormon than to any deep affection But whatever the cause he bied that girl longer than most boys remember their first fir t sweetheart Recalled by a Name Thirty years ye later George Q Cannon rh Mormon delegate in congress con from fromI tt tea territory ter of If Utah walked over to the desk deek of Joseph G Cannon of lilt lUt note in the th house houR of representatives asked him to examine a petition from from the tobe women of Utah The Mor Nor Mormon Mormon Normen mon men was fighting for his seat and ne tie had this petition from the women werneR of Utah testifying to their happiness s and tIe the t e recognition of their rights in Utah Mr Cannon of at Illinois glanced over the petition in a casual way until his eye caught a name he had bad never heard slime since he lost lo thiB his sweetheart swe theart to the Mor Nor Mormons Normous mons ps m It was a given name the family family ly name was not familiar He became interested In the petition and walked over ovet ov to the 1 Mormon lormon desk with his fin finger finger ger gel on this name I Do o you know that lady he lie eked asked The Mormon Cannon looked at the name DOVO and replied Very well indeed Inde d She is the wife of ot one of our disciples ciple dl and a remark remarkable remarkable able Ie woman She is a physician and a aleader lOader leader in Mormon circles Do you ou know her What That was her name before she was married and what hat number is sie first third od seventh or fourteenth Uncle Joe T 3 os e asked ked She Se is number n three I believe the Mormon and he proceed proceeded ed to answer the other questions Uncle Joe told 1 the Mormon the story tory of his hiB acquaintance with the lady and andas ask as a to be remembered to her hero o Five Fhe years later when both these thes mn were leere were out of congress and the Not Mar Mormons mono moM were protesting against the th per persecution persecution they experienced under the law Ian Joseph G Cannon made madea a tour of Mexico with his daughter re is returned turned by b way of the Pacific coast and stopped off to see the Mormon city of Zion on their way home bome George rge Q Cannon then a member of the presidency of the church showe l the visitors every attention while in his city end and gave Uncle Joe Toe his first op up opportunity opportunity to ito study the Mormon church and the social conditions which it cre era created created He was not so much shocked as 88 ashe ashe he had expected to hi be he but he wanted to learn the truth and he ti t called can upon the lady who years before Defore had told him hint in Indiana that she was to be sold to the Mormons He found a handsome matron m tron of commanding carriage car age and fine education and culture She was such a woman woman as might con conduct conduct duct a salon In Washington or any other eastern city She greeted her visitor cordially and laughed over lver the Incident of years be before before before fore She Silo defended the Mormon church I and plural marriages as Mr Cannon lied had never heard even George Q Con Can canI nOn lIon the ablest advocate of the church defend these institutions Her talk al almost almost almost most convinced him hint that there were two sides to this question Before he left Salt SaIt Lake Mr Cannon was entertained at dinner by his friend I George Q Cannon There was only a aman man amell party at dinner and afterward I there theta was a reception There were nearly people present There were I men of business ness affairs professional Ional men and their wives young gentlemen and ladies college graduates and college students and al at altogether I together as brilliant a company as could be found in any any other city Mr Cannon did not understand why he had bed been bee accorded this reception until the th Mormon leader introduced him to his family his eons Ons and daughters their wives and husbands their children and grandchildren It was as a Mormon family family ly Iy With this picture and the defense of Mormonism Mor made by the woman who wiio hd had been n sealed to a Mormon in his memory ni mory Uncle Joe had something of a struggle with himself before he ite voted to unseat Brigham Roberts the for Mer Merman Morman forman man member of congress a year ago Buthe But he did vote that way because the and not nota I Ia system represented a 8 hierarchy a republic f and he tie voted to unseat the representative of the Ute hierarchy I |