Show politics A staff correspondent of the inter ocean has been writing up at great length the early history and church organization of the cormons mormons Mor mons and in an interview with the first presidency ha quotes president woodruff as saying joseph eaid in the beginning that were he the emperor of the world he would interfere with no mans re dicion or politics those ae a e mv said the old president 1 I would not put anything in the way of any other church organization that wanted to come to salt lake nor donld I 1 abridge any mans in religion reli eion or politics the cormons mormons are trying to work for the good of the human race and they will not oppose any other people who are doing the doing the same thing tha right to vote as he pleases to every man and we recognize that right the church will never try to abridge the political of it members president cannon also talked on political issues and this is what he is credited with saying the division of the mor mons on political lines mr cannon expressed the opinion that it would be permanent they wore more enthusiastic iu their politics now than other people for they had for years buried all political differences amons themselves aud thrown their influence with the democratic party because it was the opposition part yand the cormons mormons have regarded the Ee publican early as their but the cormons mormons have always held to the theory of protection and only bv putting this theory in practice could they have colonized the arid re eions we had to follow the cooperative idea end build up our own indus trica in our own communities we offered bounties to establish cuilis and and in that way have we ores cared in that theory we were more in harmony with the adv than aia tho party hut ten years ago the man who declared himself a republican woud have been called aiom the church we were driven into a relation with the democratic larty by force 0 circumstances but now thil th il the old issue of polygamy poly eamy bus been removed by oar own people our vonna men to whom tre future counts more than tho past full of hope and zal z al in working out the future and held ack by no violent prejudices cf the past are taming to the republican party s the best representative of choir theories of government the disastrous efat ct of the democratic legislation upon our in teresta in this territory added to this new movement this year if the dam acrata on the commission persist in what epema to be kneir de tion to control tha constitutional con by fair means or otherwise it will make the new state for many years to come our people are positive nn these the suspicion that the commission is to control tha convention in order to gerrymander the efte and also to put in a clause prohibiting the granting of to new would turn a great majority of the cormons mormons adint tho party responsible for auch action it is a mistake for the democrats to nut themselves in this position and under such mr cannon dalbed freely on these questions for an hour and I 1 ao 30 not pretend to buote what he eaid in hin own but merely tive the of pouce of the dai cubon that most impressed me as of interest to tha peonia bartner east |