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Updated: July 10, 2025

Here and there a newspaper noted our effort and paid some small heed to our protest, but the overwhelming success of the Republican party and the dumb-driven acquiescence of the Democracy in Utah and the neighboring Church-ruled states, left the agitation with little of political interest for the country at large. And yet the struggle went on.

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

"But suppose," I argued, "that the Pope were to select one of his Italian cardinals to come to this country and be naturalized in some state of this Union that was under the sole rule of the Roman Catholic Church; and suppose that still holding his princedom in the Catholic Church and exercising the plenary authority conferred on him by the Pope suppose he were to appear before the Senate in his robes of office, with his credentials as a Senator from his Church-ruled state all of this being a matter of public knowledge do you think the Senate would seat him?

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft