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Show EDITOR CANNON. And now comes the belated announcement through the Herald that Frank J. Cannon has been installed as editor-in-chief of the Tribune. On the xsame morning the paper which is to be the beneiiciary of Mr. Cannon's services did not consider con-sider the subject of sufficient importance to give it the passing notice of a stray paragraph. It was quite a wonderful scoop for the Democratic Demo-cratic organ, particularly as It was only two months ago that this paper announced that Mr. Cannon was writing the Tribune editorials. Mr. Cannon's present relations with the Tribune began be-gan concurrently with his resignation as editor of the Ogden State Journal, about the time he established es-tablished a now record for political trapeze performing per-forming by joining the American party. It will be remembered that one of Mr. Cannon's Can-non's initial outbursts, after becoming an American Ameri-can party leider, was to bitterly assail President Roosevelt in a theatre speech, and that on the following morning a Tribune editorial, probably written by the orator himself, commended the attack at-tack as "great and patriotic service." The selection of Mr. Cannon as editor of the bolting organ would seem to commit the paper to a policy of non-partisanship on national politics or to Democratic tendencies, as the new editor admits that he is firmly anchored to the Democracy Democ-racy and It can hardly be expected that ho will risk the feverish strain of another political baptism bap-tism into a new talth for a few years at least. Mr. Cannon's sudden descent into the ranks of the American party was the source of robust surprise among his Democratic compatriots at the time. But surely no jaded critic will now have the temerity to suggest that Mr. Cannon's precipitate pre-cipitate change of political allegiance had any thing to do with the glittering offer of the TrI- B bune editorship. B |