Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-29
A PROVO SLANDERER.
DIR. Benedict scores n Dirty sheet
and Dubs its Editor a Liar.

a IhVEO sSA4atD
DR.. Benedics scores Dirty Sheet
and Dabs its Editor a Liar.
After Mr., Rawlins came DIR. J. M. Bene-
Dict This man is recent convert to the
anti Mormon ranks. II have lived in Utah.,
said he, ''for fifteen years, and have always
wished to see the day when could stand up
and adxooate straight Democratic ticket
and be able to vote it." And so this man has
been fifteen years wishing he could advocate
straight Democratic ticket and be able to
vote it! While ali this time he was advocat-
ING and voting another. We leave our read
ers to form their own ideas of what kind of
man this same DIR. j. M. Benedict is and
has been during those fifteen years. Has he
not during all those years had as great an
opportunity and as much liberty as he now
has taken to vote any kind of ticket
he had a mind to? 81 tell you,
says he, sit takes little nerve for
this community and express his honest SEN
! timents.' 1t does, Doctor, it does; and
probably had not the Mormon people cut
you off from their communion you wouldnot
| vet have had the nerve to express yourself
as you did on Saturday in ''the face of this
community" Evidently, the doctor did not
possess the nerve" to do it before. He
the day when he could nerve" himself
up to advocate a straight Democratic
ticket and vote it, ''In other words"
he went on to say, cit takes a certain
amount of manhood for him to stand
up and express his own inspiration" which
manhood, according to his own admissions,
the doctor did not possess during the fifteen
wears he has lived in Utah. Well, well; we
never expected to hear of DIR. Benedict
standing up before an audience of his fellow
citizens and acknowledging himself devoid
of the nerve or manhood to express his
honest sentimentsl'' Well may he say, as
he did in his closing remarks, Il don't want
any more dishwater business" We think
any man might feel the same way after such
a humiliating fifteen years experience.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT Through the kind
ness of friend l was shown the above
extract from the Provo Enquirer ~ of
two weeks since, in which my name ap-
pears with greater prominence than
that of the other speakers at the same
meeting. Mr.. Rawlins was speaking
when I arrived, and was pleased to lis
ten to Democratic sentiments uttered not
only BY an American citizen, but by a
native of Utah. I sat and listened with
satisfaction until he was through. l
would ask, can any fair-minded man or
womanTM Mormon, Jew or Gentile--find
fault with or take exception to Mr.. Raw
Inns remarks? Now, having come to q
conclusion on this point (if possible), we
will return to what [ wish to say in ref
erence to the article from the Enquirer.
This came from one who should be
little chary about what he
,. says, Because he is not blameless nor
;, withous a shadow of doubt. As an ed
itor OF q country paper he takes occasion
to express ''his opinions" 90 through his
| paper and laugh at and ridicule any one
who should not coincide with his peculiar
ideas of what is right. This man 90
would have every man who has ability
to get an honest living by his works and
reputation, accept his dictum as to religion
or politics, as to matters social or as to
matters financial, no matter what they
may be, nor how much one may be the
superior of the other. The latter must
succumb to the former, even at the pen
| atty of accommodation. These are the
{ sentiments expressed by class of which
, the Enquirer and its editor are but rea-
sonable exponent.
: The article in question says, "this man
is recent convert to the anti-Mormon
ranks" All have to say to this remark
is that he who wrote those words is liar
This is enough. He further says that
this DIR. Benedict has waited for fifteen
, years (since which time he has been 4
citizen of Utah) IN the hope of being able
to advocate and vote. \ straight Demo
crasic ticket Well, Mr. Editor, is this 6
crime, felony, misdemeanOr, or is il
. the right of every man. irrespective of the
pet ideas of the one who controls the
2 sheet published at Provo?
One in this Territory said in a public
:. meeting not long ago: ''If there is one
thing more than another / yearn for, it is
that man can speak his mind freely and
: not be subject to the scorn and abuse o.
, any one who should differ with him in
, opinion" and this man / know to be
honest and that he means just what he
says.
Magnanimously, he leaves his readers
, to infer what kind of man this is who
would wait fifteen years for an Oppor-
tunity and then accept it. | myself am
willing to leave it there and let an in
telligent public decide. That | have and
did advocate the Peoples ticket is true,
/, and the reason was, and the sole one, too,
that had no Democratic ticket to advo-
cate or vote, and of the two evils | chose
the least. This thing in human shape,
!, then, to strengthen his position, makes
use of my accommodation to aid him in
: an unwarranted and unjust assault
against one who has had the temerity to
differ from him, and who has at all times
expressed his opinions fearlessly and with
no favor to ask from any one.
The article above referred to says | did
not possess the manhood during the fif-
teen years last passed which pretended
to show on that evening mentioned.
Here is another lie, and one which is well
known, for l have always advocated this
same principle of Democracy and the
fact that Utah should have a political
identity in the nation.
1t were unnecessary, Mr.. Editor, to give
too much prominence to such dirty
article, but barking cur will get a cuff
from any passer-by. The piece, the gist
of which must have been copied from the
DEMOCRAT, has the accent of an alien and
foreigner, and one who has falsely sworn
allegiance to this Government, and who,
at heart, has no sympathy with it..
Utah to-day is ruled by just such men,
and while they but possess the rights OF
citizenship, are as traitorous as their
ability allows them.
Pardon me for trespassing, but my De-
mocracy-of longer standing than Mr..
Graham knows of g. e., if he is at home)
would not permit me to let this pass I'M
noticed. towards mentally and physi-
cally are really beneath notice, and it is
only by their cowardice that they gain any
little cheap notoriety.
j. III. BENEDICT