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Show 68 They are people who know and understand the general IIfee1ingll of the Church. While most editorials discuss issues takes position, the paper no makes certain that it does not anything of which the Church would Church position that has been News. it will which the Church on In recent years the get involved in partisan politics not carefully represented approve.28 not on the editorial page of the Deseret However, the paper used to reflect the Church position what the Church considers to be moral members has been studied.30 regarding politics The conclusions have that the influence has not been as great as some IIbackingll might expect. In the 1930's the Church attempt. defeated in was was a presidential election. an For Apostle re-election however, as voters.31 The witnessed in the 1960 During the campaign, Church president David O. McKay expressed his wish--unofficially--that Richard Nixon would be 28William B. Smart Editor and General Manager, Deseret News, telephone interview, 2 July 1976. 29An example is the Utah "liquor by the drinkll issue of 1968. See "Petition's a Step for Liquor by the Drink," Deseret News, 10 May 1968, p. 22-A. 30 Douglas S. Fox1ey, "Mormon Myth or Monopoly: A Contemporary the Perceived Influence of the Mormon Church on Utah Politics," (M.S. thesis, Utah State University, 1973). Foxley relies quite heavily on Frank H. Jonas' analyses of Utah elections. These appear in Western Political Quarterly. Study to Determine 31Ibid., for anti-New Deal and yet Franklin Roosevelt continued to win the support of the Utah LOS influence cannot be denied, its on generally indicated instance, in the 1932 senatorial election, Reed Smooth, the Church who had Church on issues.29 The effect of past Church statements D. print pp. 49-51. |
