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Show Glassman On Frank J. Cannon Glassman s. Cannon at a republl cm rally held In Ogden last week where Senator Dolllver Spoke to an audience of 2,000 people William Gliisiimin was chosen chairman of the meeting. The following l- a part of wh.it ho had to sa ubuut Frank J, Cannon: (.'ounti Chairman Oscar IJ Madson caHed the vai,r, assemblage to order anrt Introduced Wllll.im (Jlassman as the piosldlng olHVrsr of the evening In taking charge of tho meeting Mr. Glassman made a brlf address, In which he lyvleued local politics Mr GIdbsmuii. rernaiKS were directed princlp.ill" to thu organization of the American party, which was perfected the night before In Ogdcn, at the head of vhlch organization frank J Cannon Can-non stands. The speaker was not mincing In his words icgairilmr the altitude of Mr. Cannon In the politics of the state, lie referred to the statements by Cannon Can-non at thu so-called A met lean convention conven-tion and uulllnchingl' criticised him for thu stand he Is taking against the Mormon church and the people of that faith, He reheated a little political history that shows conclusively tho part Frank Cannon has played. He stated lhat to day Mr Cannon Is the arch enemy of the church, but that there was a tlmo when he, Cannon, was Its staunchest friend and much courted the so-called "church Influence," In-fluence," that he now considers so abominable. In 1894, when Cannon was on the Republican ticket for congress, Mr. Glassman stated, he was very happy toclrculate"Nuggetsof Truth" which represented that the leaders of the church were republicans and that it was desired that Cannon should be elected to congress and also at that time a certain recommendation from the bishop of Frank's ecclesiastical ward In Ogden, who uow would dare lo go on the stump with a bishop's recommend. These things were all courted by Mr. Cannon then because he desired to be elected to the United States congress, but today he Is casting cast-ing bitter reflections upon the people of the church and the leaders thereof tor the expression of a single word that may be construed to be in favor of any particular candidate or party. He stated that Mr. Cannon now says there is a war on at this time as to whether the "hierarchy" shall dominate domi-nate the politics of the state of Utah and that It Is the mission of the so-called so-called American party to tight President Presi-dent Joseph F. Smith and the Mormon church that they may not place a religious re-ligious control over Utah in political matters. "And," said the speaker, "what is this war for. It. Is simply for the purpose of controlling the election elec-tion of United States senators in Utah and to make Prcsldeut Joseph F. Smith and the Mormon church get down on their knees to Tom Kcarns and the Salt Lake Tribune. Why, in the earlier ear-lier days, Immediately after Joseph F. Smith had been chosen president of the church, Frank Cannon eulogized him as among the greatest men of the world and thanked God that such a man had been chosen to lead the Mormon Mor-mon people and In support of this assertion, as-sertion, 1 wish to read a letter from Frank Cannon which was published In the Millennial Star in 189?, It reads as follows; SMli is God's work." ll'rom tuo Millennial Htar, January . ID03.1 "We are In receipt of a letter from a friend In tho eastern states of America, Amer-ica, which may be comforting and edifying to tho readers of the Star. We quote it in part as follows: " 'If only the dead and gone persecutors perse-cutors of the prophet and his sainted brother, Hyrum, could be back upon earth now for a little time how puny would seem all their purposes of hate, and how utterly Insufficient would seem all their murder, In which they Imbrued their hand?, or to which they gave their' accent. Joseph Fielding Smith, nephew of Joseph and son of Ilyrura, Is president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Joseph Fielding Smith's son, Hyrum Hy-rum Muck Smith, Is tin apostloof the Lord. And thu church over which the Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith now presides, lb established In such might of numbers, wealth and power, as to be an infinite mockery to tho deeds, thu threats, the hopes of the assassins, assas-sins, who thought that, in the massacre massa-cre of Joseph and nyrum and the I dr.lvlng of the saints across tho frozen Mississippi, they had destroyed the work and had annihilated the people. What would Lllburn W. Hoggs, once governor of Missouri, say It ho wcro back on earth at this hour and could know that Joseph Fielding Smith, son and nephew of the murdered prophets would preside over a people so mighty as are tho Latter-day Saints? What would Thomas Ford, once governor of Illinois, say If he could be here to witness the ordination of a son and grandson of the martyred Hyrum to presidency and apostleshtp in the i church, whose lenders Foul betrayed to cruel death? What would the Laws and the Fosters, the Higbees, and the other traitors of that awful time at Nauvoo, sav If they could, for one hour vlsinlie earth and see that the seed of Hi prophets Is thu fruitage of a ne mid mightier power, and that the church, grown to. stupendous proportion, has circled thu world with Its niess.ivo of divine salvation, gathering up the best, of all the earth in obedience to thu cul of righteousness? righteous-ness? How llttlo seem tho deeds of men compared with the events which God ordains and which are strongly exemplified in the life of the prophet, seer and revclator, Joseph Fielding Smith! This appointed man was little mo ro than a babe In arms when his noble father was slain at the sldu of the brother whom he loved and revered re-vered as no other creature of earthly mould, and when tho whole people, representative of the sacred cause, had been dedicate!! to extermination bj national, state and mobocratlc au-thoi au-thoi Ity . With the llttlo band of tho faithful, as a child, ho penetrated into that wilderness which 'the world believed be-lieved would be but a. sepulchre for the exiled Saints. Ills prophet-uncle and his prophet-father dead, his sainted saint-ed and widowed mother cherished In him the splendor of his heritage, and he grew to manhood, destined to take up by tho Word of God the mighty work which had been established for the salvation of "men. There is nothing noth-ing like this career In all tho history of more than 1,800 years. What a comfort it Is to the Saints, and what a comfort It must be to the prophet and patriarch beyond the vail, to see In tho calling of Joseph Fielding Smith to tho presidency of tho church a church enlarged In power and in numbers throughout all the world a rebuke to every persecutor of the work and to every traitor whosought, by the slaughter of men, to destroy the purpose of Almighty God!' " (By F. J. Cannon.) Frank Cannon hypocrite that lie was and Is now, pretended to be a good friend to Joseph F. Smith six years ago, why the bitterness now? He Is trying to pit brother against brother, friend against friend, business busi-ness men against each other, which will disturb the tranquility of Ogden that has prevailed so long. Why, in the fifteen years of peace that has prevailed pre-vailed In Ogden, our city has grown more than In all the history or lire. I hope the American party movement in Ogden will not receive sufficient encouragement en-couragement to permit It to survive. Let us not quarrel over religious matters mat-ters nor become embroiled in a religious-political contention," Ex. |