Show senator cannons tears the tears senator cannon shed in the committee on platform when pleading for the party not to adopt the gold plank has been the subject for editorial comment in a number of our eastern exchanges the st louis louia post dispatch calls them wasted tears the men and the tha influences that controlled that committee i it says know now nothing g of sentiment in politics which is about true A money lender is about ahr most mosi heartless individual as a usual thing that the world produces next to him is ia probably a democratic politician it ician once upon a time a maligned and misunderstood people were being persecuted in utah that persecution was inaugurated under the edmunds tucker bill passed during a democratic administration when the Demoe politicians were appealed to for relief they heartlessly replied that the cormons mormons were the ily fly in their party ointment now the kansas cite times comments harshly on senator cannons tears and says there is just retribution in them lot let them run ran and burn bum deep furrows in his cheeky face says the times I 1 we recall the historic fact in our politics that his father george Q cannon the noted mormon mermon elder and leader when a delegate in congress from utah ria eai t side by side with the democrats in tee house of representatives shared their political opinions enjoyed their sympathy aud and cheer it was in the days when senator edmunds backed by the republican party was demanding prohibitory legislation against the mormon church and its rites in Utah when the federal judges in utah were almost persecuting th the 0 mormon leaders with prosecutions and the constabulary of the rolern ment was waa exercising espionage over the domestic affairs of every mormon household and raiding them as policemen would houses of ill repute utah owea the democratic party nothing on that score blindly the people here were persecuted anabe and betrayed in the house of their iri friends enda and those persecutions grew less vigorous and pardons were more numerous under the republican administration of president horrison Horri aon the democrats did not awake to a realization that the mormon influence arid and votes voted were worth anything until the republicans began operations in utah then suddenly the democrats began to profess friendship again in their next nest administration statehood was not prevented when pushed by republicans public ans but still the people of utah feel that democrats cannot be trusted |