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Show SENATOR GANNON'S SPEEOH. The speech of Senator Frank J. Cannon, Can-non, in opening tho American State convention con-vention on Monday evening, was brilliant, bril-liant, incisive, and a splendid oxpres-! oxpres-! siou of Americanism. His excoriation j of the lawless band of twenty-six who, in the name of God, assumo to rule in civil affairs, in business by their tithe-sustained tithe-sustained monopolies, and in a lawless social system, was extreme severe and far-reaching; but it was richly deserved, de-served, and a fit reply to the continuous and usurping law-defiance of the hicrarchs referred to. No man anywhero more fully understands under-stands the insidious claims, pretensions, and secret manipulations of the Mormon Mor-mon priesthood than docs Senator Cannon. Can-non. No man is in a better position lo explain precisely the underlying motives, the governing ideas at the bottom of all that is dono by this hierarchy. No one better understands its arrogant assumptions, its tyrannical abuse of power, its avarice, its insatiate greed, its lecheries, its vile impostures, aud its unyielding determination to maintain itself as tho supreme ruler of its sect in all matters affecting the interests in-terests of tuaukiud, in whatever form those interests arise. The usurping Intrusions of the church into tho political affairs of this State aud various communities are understood b3r Sonator Cannon with a clearness, a distinctness of comprehonsion that very few persons in the communit3 can approach; ap-proach; few realize it all as ho can aud does. Growing up under tho system, as he has done, knowing it thoroughly thor-oughly and intimately from tho inside in-side and from the outside, ho is competent to deal understand ingly. as ho docs courageonsl', with cveiy illegal il-legal and usurping feature of the dominance of that hierarchical power. And he spoke with a directness and force to the American State convention which was rewarded by whirlwinds of onthusiasin and applause, showing such approval by tho tremendous assemblage there and then in his hearing as must have been immense cheering to his heart. It was a splendid convention, splendidly splen-didly opened, splendidly conducted. That Senator Cannon understood to tho full tho importance of that convention, its probable far-reaching effects, and the spirit which animated tho'so in attendance, attend-ance, was plain in his distinct recognition recogni-tion of all of these points. It was a glorious speech, splendidly delivered, and most enthusiastically received. |