Show m ARS mm the campaign cries have already commenced on the nominee of the republican party As wag to have been expected the dirty work is being done by the salt lake herald the leading organ of utah democracy II 11 is much worse than the silt lake tribune in disreputable insinuations thare is an air of respectability ability in the accusations of the tribune aa though the editor ia at least sincere in what he says but the democratic Damo cratic organ carries with its conviction that some one is trying to see how mean ho can be in sundays issue is an article wherein the logic is built wholly on false premises and low down assumptions it tells us for example that republicans generally concede in their own minda that the made a great blander as though it knew what republicans or any one else concede in their own minds bat that is the heralds style and it on to tell 03 what the delegates to the convention assumed in their own minds hero are its words the supporters of mr cannon aa eliat inasmuch as he is n mormon his ta would flock to his support it was also assumed that his name would be a forceful one in ha community comm unit ilie implication baini thit the of lia father woula bo exercised in hia behalf there was no one assumed what the herald suye nor was there any evidence of such mr was D imitated on his merits ad a man and because of the reat service be had rendered his pany the majority of hose who him were Mornion saud they opposed him because hoy wore afraid of tho such accusations EB those made alba herald would have on tho outside i e that he is a mormon and aba son ol 01 a mormon leader had mr not belonged to the church he would have ben nominated by at least bis opposition would have been very small the trouble with the herald is that it wants some excuse for the defeat which will surely overtake the party this fall hence it seeks to bring the church anty the listen to this babble it was a blander also to assume that tho influence of the authorities would be exercised in behalf of the nominee because we have the positive assertion of those authorities that they have neither the right nor the desire to direct their religious relia ious followers in political matters the confidence in authorities ia such that it would be to make anybody behave chev did not mean what they said when they declared there was no union of church and state and the church was nonpartisan non partisan in politics we believe those who counted on church support in the event of mr cannons nomination aie doomed to disappointment that enough to make a saint sweard nobody hag ever counted i on church influence to help elect mr we do not need it there are enough men in utah today who believe in home industries and good wages to elect a delegate to congress and mr will be the man elected the herald might as well begin saying now that the church is to blame for his election as to build with that in view after the election |