Show HOW THEY DO TALK tim THE papers are discussing disco Baing the probabilities of the of the seat of the delegate from utah and many of them have very erroneous views because they know little of the matter except what they have heard from false rumors and telegraphic perversions the spring neld held republican for instance admits that cannon got the most votes but wants to know whether congress ought to recognize the votes cast for him alleging that he is gnot snot not eligible to the office because not a citizen of the united states and says further it it were a matter of accident or mere technicality the popular judgment might be entitled to w respect but cannons Can Canu nona constituency chose him in the face of the notorious fact of his not being a citizen and in defiant expectation that congress Con oress aress would condone this offense onee once 0 more i ore as it has always condoned his living in iii open polygamy what the republican calls a notorious fact is simply a notorious bit of fiction mr cannons citizenship sh ap has ling been as clearly established aa a unimpeachable evidence can substantiate stant late anything the present attack upon him is a repetition of a former farmer attempt which signally failed as this is going to do when mr baskin a shrewd and able law mr cannons se sea bea atthe tj the same technical objections as those now advanced were raised argued before a committee of the house and shown to be untenable mr cannon vannon then retained his seat peat which he could not have done if it he had bad noe not iuan iwan a citizen but supposing for arguments sake that this were not so and that mr cannons naturalization was not done slone in due form of law it is not and has not been a notorious fact and his constituency did not and do not believe it they are satisfied of the contrary no one asserts it but a few vila vile conspirators with their alders aldens and abettors abet tors and those persons and papers whom they have deceived by their falsehoods the people of utah chose mr cannon as their delegate delegates under the full conviction that he was eligible in all respects and with no expectation either clen cien clef defiant nant lant or otherwise that congress would condone anything for there was no offense to condone it has never been proven that mr cannon has broken any law living in polygamy Is not a violation of national or local law there is no law jaw which can touch the delegate byway by nay vay of punishment he is free from its claims he has complied with its provisions concerning citizenship to th the full extent of his hia power holds a valid certificate duly recorded and has a raight straight et clear case that cannot be fairly impeached no one knows this better than the authors of the in infamous is conspiracy against him and against the of utah they are fully lully aware of his citizenship they well understand that justly and lawfully lie he is as fully entitled to all nil aalthe the rigans of a citizen of bf the united states as any man can be who has acquired those rights by naturalization but they are reckoning on the popular animo animosity ity against the cormons mormons Mor mong mons to ald aid them in their nefarious work they think that members of Con etess eress influenced by the clamor which hns has heen been raised over mormon polygamy as to become confused over the resident of this cases casek case ease and be led to decide a ainest against to satisfy the unreflecting clag populace but they tiley will in our opinions opinion find themselves oui out gout in their reckoning the anes tion con of mr cannons citizenship will bo be dewed apart from te til e lafor mormon mon question with which it is not at all connected the right of that gentl gentleman emad to hold his seat sent turns on two simple points on od e is who had the greatest number of votes at the tite utah elod election the says grof couise course there is no question but cannon got the mos votes y very good that cannot be disputed ane other la Is does he possess the qualifications necessary it has been decided before that be he had and be he has lost none of them since that decision if he waa a citizen when mr baskin contested his beat scat he certainly is one now indeed the proofs a of his citizenship have been more clearly established than ever before the impudent lying done by lawyers and circulated by press dispatches deceive the and mis lead journalists into talking much nonsense but it will have little weight with those who have the final right of decision and none at all with the competent minds who will have to investigate the subject critically if it ever comes to a test before the committee those papers which are letting loose on this question had better post themselves a little from other sources than the bate base conspirators who have plotted to rob a territory of representation in congress |