Show church organs position the deseret news continues to publish leading editorials in favor of mr bryan and to a great many people the position of the church organ in which they had such implicit faith in the past is now puzzling they do not comprehend c Om why the first presidency do not call down their argan when it begins to take sides in a great political contest A few facts in this connection ought to be made more prominent we have been asked what was meant when the enquirer stated that the des deseret eret news is a leased paper we mean this A few years ago there was a man called by the church authorities to edit the deseret news and the church paid him the business of running the church paper was wag then entirely in the hands of the first presidency and of course they were entirely responsible for the policy of the paper but for reasons best beat known to tho the authorities the deseret Desere fc news was leased to george Q cannon so sons na and john Q cannon a Democrat was made editor the deseret news was still recognized as the church organ and it has since been quite bly ably r and fairly conducted by the cannon family fa in it has not assumed a political attitude altitude until this campaign when frank J cannon C annon bolted the st SL lsuis louis convention the deseret news newa felt called upon to endorse se that bolt and since then it has been quite surprisingly in the political swim of course politics are not so d ical I 1 as church doctrines and the deseret news lias has naturally made mistakes mi i s its position on the money of the constitution was wrong and its assumption at first fir qt that republicans were r ere for a gold standard and against bimetallism bime tallish was not warranted by later developments eyen mr bryan denied that republicans wanted a gold standard then the deseret news had to correct the financial news forgery which it published all of these little mistakes iez some misinformed people charge up to the first presidency believing they are back ef the political position of the church organ the first presidency have repeatedly stated that the church is not in politics and if their words are true as we ve know they are then they cannot be back of any political utterances appearing in the deseret news political editorials roust must simply be regarded as the views views i of the editor who is a democrat they cannot and should not be charged up to the first presidency |