Show MORE ABOUT THE SLANDER the attack made from tola thin city the new york amea on president george Q cannon is still the absorbing topic of discus plon it is ie denounced ini in terms by men ot of all esades of political or religious belief who have nothing but a feeling of utter contemn t and loathing for the individual or who formu fated the document but are too base and cowardly to attach their natu res or to arume the responsibility for their crime against an honorable man and a patriotic independent community like the veti venomous amous reptile which KB unoffending and ing victim the author seeks shelter from discovery in the slimy ooze which comports comforts com ports with his hia answard nature finding companionship with others othera of his own ilk woo who silently acquiesce or secret ly y gloat over the vile deed in the last laet issue of thin the NEWS we made a statement showing allowing how base less and inexcusable were the insina etione against president Preal dent cannon with regard to enterprises with which be well was connected and how bow he be was singled out oat from among his bis asso orstee the actions which in ethers were highly commendable being made to appear in him bm to be of an character the balene a of the tames writer in thle this regard might serve as an hillur illustration to cover lis his article in its entirety for every inference against the object of f his hia attack is 18 a gross falsehood but we will refer to a few more items in a general way that people may nee eee how utterly contemptible and us worthy la Is the source of the assault there Is reference to certain alleged proceedings in idaho idabo regarding ree reir arding the test teat oath law jaw As AB to the suggestion which ill ig rolled as a delicious del lelous morsel under the tongue of the times slanderer that members of the church were urged to withdraw in order to vote president george Q cannon is well known to have been emphatically and unalterably opposed to anything and every thing of that kind the insinuation to the contrary to Is not omy wholly with out foundation in fact but is absolutely antagonistic to president cannon 16 attitude and views view then comes the political phase of the subject for in the tae opening sentences ot of the article is ie the confession confes plon that its object is political notwithstanding the fact 11 t vat at its authors a ab sort that president cannon did not give any expression of his political views but carefully held aloof they could not nol even learn bow he v ted fed it to la stated that the revolution the result of the november election was as startling lne and as striking a as was the election of mayor strong in now new york city possibly so no to those who were defeated but the attributing of such nuch revolution to individual influence in utah any more than it was IN new york la Is inconsistent to an extreme degree who is charge J with the responsibility of that revolution 1 ID 19 new york who in colorados colorado attaha s close neigh neighbor boi who through out the country which wept swept by the wave did george Q cannon do it all As well and as AN truthfully may the whole be char charged gred to him as cao can be the result in utah where the people also were affects t by the general sentiment centime ut the ZW lime writers assertion fills falle because of the me very foolishness of his argument OZ ex capt as upon words to express a falsehood of bah voters it la Is sad aad the people were overwhelmingly demo cratic crat lc and on this based is the sc ac buslon that utah fassold was abold n to the an party yet the fact was known to all that at the election in this territory on the vote bof to legislators the division between its be publican and democratic party hinsl bave a majority of about for the republicans while the leivi slature woo was easily republican in buth branches the figures of an election in 1892 are quoted to prove the times amee articles artiel ts po but in those figures is in carefully the whole liberal vote of ol 01 the territory wh cb when divided on national party law dinep went chiefly to the Ro republican publican varly and cast ID balance or of power on that side and this ony by a plurality of less than 2000 in a 4 bear ear of republican tidal wave which the country has bus never knoo before then because president cannon ta his ecclesiastical position advised the people to dwell io in peace together to retrain refrain from abuse of each other of a 9 political or any character a abot di advised them not to read or take into their families publications of isn an offensive personal character because he denounced crimes by politicians against society end good order though his bis references were general and applied to all panties alike the times writer takes them to himself and parades these utterances as direct evidence of welfare wai fare against the party defeat at the polio he is trying to explain verily to say ay the that the slenderer out herode herod fj Is far short of depleting depicting the villainy ily of this thin traitor to the best beet ajio kindest of humanity this foe to the noblest sentiments of american citizenship again the utter utterances anees of the DESERET NEWS afe are used as an a basis of accusation because forsooth fur sooth this journal defended utah industries indu etries and utah people from the base libel of politicians who sought bought to destroy them ty by schemes and false alee hoods of te most despicable then tilts the times w writer riter displays a per pei bonal af fruitt because the author ol of those thone falsehoods ise boods was not permitted to use the columns of the NEWS aa ft a vehicle th rou g tk which he could extend d the neld held ot of nis his deceit yet tois this independent action newspaper in behalf of truth aud and 0 of a utah Is welfare is cli charged arged against deug cannon add paraded as a terrible crime for which he is to be bc visited with the severest punishment known to 90 public senti thus it is gots goes to the end of the chapter the denial of the chair chairman mai committee atel that republican COW of th the placer placards da nad had been prepared in advance staling that president woodruff fl baj bai voted the republican ticket or that thai to were tle traMS throughout the territory or anat alist the church contributed or aided the republican C campaign in any ally way is as as ae language can make it anti and president preside cannone cannon of every charge and in if complete ant and U unequivocal equivocal jeven if these had bad not been made every honorable citi xen would recognize in the times article a web or of f falsehoods alse boods of the darkest for the basest bu hue concocted pui pose the calumny way may receive till still further furher att attention englon at our hands hande in the meantime mean time we U understand oder stand that president cannon COD contemplates tempi stes the preparation 1 lf if a statement to 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