Show 1 CANNONS CONFESSION A full account of the remarkable and I sensational scene at the Mormon Taber I lurle yesterday appears in the DEMO I vrs local columns That the confession of Bishop John Q Cannon was inspired by his knowledge that charges against him would < 1 be preferred and proven there is i not the shadow of doubt lie simply preferred turning States evidence upon himself to submitting to a trial in which tljp name or names of other parties would he discreditably involved with his own In J this he at least evinced the instincts I of a gentleman and in a worldly sense a man of honor Being a son of Apostle George Q Cannon the real head of the Mormon Church and himself a Bishop and in the line of political advancement it is i by no means probable that this our would have been enforced upon him but for the fact that his delinquencies delin-quencies were more than suspected in other than Saintly circles rendering itt i theiefoie it-t absolutely necessary to notice and take action upon what constitutes a Mormon offense when committed without tho Endowment House preliminaries which sanctify such adulterous acts I It is quite certain that the denouement was hastened by the editorial in Saturdays Satur-days DEMOCRAT metioning Cannon as the probable church candidate for Delegate Dele-gate to Congress That such was the programme a short time ago there is no question and that it would have been carried out but for the notoriety of the facts embodied in yesterdays confession is i equally certain The moral of this affair is easily drawn Young Cannon has been raised in the belief that a manes man-es no exclusive marital allegiance to the I woman whom the laws of God and civilized civi-lized I man declare to be his only lega wife That he should have regarded as hut at worst a venial sin such indulgences as he was taught to re gatd as holy when prefaced by the mummeries and facial ceremonies of the Endowment House In by no means strange and that he should have givei loose rein to such passions as his creed instructed him could be so easily unbridled unbri-dled and sanctified by ecclesiastical authority au-thority was directly in the line of piobable events He 1 is no better or vorsi o in that expect than those who sat in judgment upon him Ho was simply H cutoff I from an institution against which noninter Ioiitflo has since its foundation been declaied by all Christian denominations and by all moral societies and associations associa-tions I religious and secular Of course this repair will necessitate the changing of the Moimon piograinme in regard to Delegate to Congress Whether Apostle Cannon will continue Elder Caine in that position or select some other of his own kinsmen the DIMOCKT has no present information upon which to base an opinion |