[President Heber J. Grant Diary] Alonzo B. Irvine called and said that he represented the leading mining and business interests in the state, and that they were very anxious indeed to have Brother J. Reuben Clark Jr. accept the nomination of Senator from Utah for the Republican party. I told him I thought that if Brother Clark were to resign as one of the Presidency they would not care to have him nominated, and certain it would be counted as Church influence if one of the Presidency were to be running for the senate. I told him of a number of instances in the life of his father-in-law, the late George Q. Cannon, that interested him deeply. Referred to the failure of the Utah Loan & Trust Co. at Ogden, of which his brother-in-law, Abraham Cannon, was the president, of the necessity of raising large sums of money to pay the depositors in the institution. Told him Brother George Q. Cannon donated $10,000. to help pay Abram's donation (?) of $45,000. Told him of the $10,000. Jesse Knight gave, $5000.00 Reed Smot (sic), and $5000.00 by A.W. McCune, of my working for A.W. McCune to go to the senate because of this donation.
[Source: Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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