Show GEORGE 0 CANNON DcAU 1 I I r G oige Q Cannon First Counselor i to 1 I the President of the Mormon church and jlCXt In line of direct succession suc-cession to that presidency Is dead Ills final Illness was prolonged yet the vigor of his constitution kept him alivft l f for daYs after all hope for recovery re-covery was abandoned For twentyJive years Mr Cannon has S been tho practical man of the church He was abroad more and In better touch with the leading men of the country of both parties than any other church man and was able better than any other to comprehend the real sentiment of the country and to es timate how much yielding would have to be made to that sentiment in order to avoid disastrous consequences In every crisis his counsel and guidance were sought and what could 1 be done to preserve obnoxious features of the system he was able to point out It has often been understood that he counseled greater yieldlngs than were made and that whenever his advice was disregarded In this the consequences conse-quences were bad for the Mormon people peo-ple In this his voice will even yetI yet-I be missed for no one of his wide and varied practical experience is lc tanel there Is yet much to do in the way of progress and shaking off old shells for I the new dress He was as we hear one II I I of the not numerous class of polygamists polyga-mists who on the appearance of the I manifesto accepted It In good faith and has ever since lived strictly on the lines therein laid down He was a successful business man in his later years he had large property interests and was a leader numerous j f business enterprises among these and the ancientday Mormon would have I been horrified to foresee it mining being be-ing prominent Locally In an Industrial and business way Mr Cannon was an Indefatigable worker He was untiring for the advancement r ad-vancement of Utah though wanting that advance to be along church lines He liked Gentile capital l but generally gener-ally speaking was hostile to Gentiles He was a stalwart in the church and will be much mourned there and those not of the church will also have reason rea-son to sorrow at his death for he was more accessible to practical considerations considera-tions and more able to give weight to arguments outside of the church positions posi-tions then almost any other man of high standing among the brethren His death will leave a serious void which no one can fill |