Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-26
>, THE LYING CHURCH ORGANS.

sN--sS& What sturdy liars the Ne,rs and the
Herald are, to be sure. Since the days
of Ananias and his illustrious disciple
- q mPepper, it may well be doubted ii
- = the earth has produced anywhere any
s3o such masters of the fine art OF prevarica-
. ton as the scribes who labor upon these
Church organs. With the same ease
that lump of soft butter gldes down the
throat of hungry dog, these good Saints
4-l- roll forth swhopper upon whopper until,
vra in contemplating the immensity OF their
work, such insignificant apprentices to
the business as Eli Perkins stand dis
mayed and aghast The lie direct, as we
all know, is their strong hold but evil
dence is not wanting to show that they
are scarcely less adrot in their manipU-
-TT lation of the lie Indirect. zes ~ 49,
g On Monday evening last a dastardy
outrage was committed upon the person
OF United States District ATTORNEY Dick
Z son by young man named Hugh Can
non (son of George O. Cannon and the
circumstances attending the assault were
such as to firmly convince Mr. Dickson
~ s and his numerous friends that a conspir-
acy had been entered into by four or five
men to murder him. The day after the as
sault the two Church papers published
~ articles IN which the outrage was spoken
OF in condemnatory terms but at the
same time they sought to make the pub
lie believe that Mr.. Dickson had himself
invited the assault, i'm that he had grossly
and wantonly insuted Hugh Cannons
at4l mother, when that lady appeared as
i. witness before the Grand Jury bvi pro-
pounding and compelling her to answer
vulgar and indecent uuaStionS Lot uc
see, by quoting from their columns. what
these delectable sheets did saw The day
s.a after the assault was committed. the
Neacs and the Herald had the following:
aaas The facts are that boy of sixteen wears.
~ who does not weigh more than hundred
"a pG;ands S;a,a s. struck attorney Dickson blow
fs& u Hotel, his grievance being that Dickson had
Piled the boys mother enforced wit
ness, with questions about her expected ma
.k ternlty and Its cause. which he resented |
O." ~ with all the fervor and rashness of youtb |
L was natural that his blood should boil at |
the indignity. We believe his feelings in |
that respect shared by every decent
man and woman in the cominunity.-Ne,os |
The reasons given for the assault are facts |
@fiii& that are we'll known to the public. Hugh
wife, Martha T., was Piled with insulting Ii.ills
and indecent questions by Mr.. Dickson /
.lAUs when she was before the Grand Jury as
i to to be a result Of Mr., Dokson's conduct on
li5 l5. that occasion, which @os considered as a
gross insult to the lady.-Ne,cs.
.se'a't .l There is for Doubt however bot
that the Prosecuting Attorneys assailant
was Hugh Cannon, son of the Mrs Can
A non non who who was recently before the grand jury,
and that the cause of the attack on Mr.
DICKSON was due to the questions recently
put to his (Hugh's1 mother in the grand
before the Court-Herdld. +
The day following that on which pub
Gaafion of |
made these items appeared in the Ners.
This attempt to make a mammoth ont of
s1vFi. mite is viewed blythe public with mingled
teenngs OF r1dicule and disgust. II
beardlessl boy is furious d over what
he considers an insult to the mother
VINO bore HIM, and determines to "get event. s
de strikes the man against whom he holds
fItt line grudge, twice in the face with his
clenched fist That is the whole of the |
assault.-Neics. vfrrr-F Il
.-------y, He Hugh Cannon emphatically declares
tnat he alone Is responsible for his action insi
the matter: that nothing more was intended !
than an assault with his fists no weapm of Ia
- amy kind being used or. thought of that he
knew OF, and gives as the cause of his anger '
~ toward Mr.. Dickson the latter's treatment 9
of his mother when called a Witness l
ss.s,- sys Last evening the .Ne,cs wound:up /
- - ts,ree-quarters OF Aa'couInn of rot with !
the following: II
Meanwhile the anti ''Mormons'' are howl j
ing themselves hoarse because they cannot c
-i!Fy vent their spleen by thrusting into iail f
l6-year old boy of unblemished reputation C
lt4'g because e foolishly endeasored to resent
what he considered an insult to his mother
These statements, directly and by i'm b
. 81, plicaton, represent that the assault on G
Mr.. Dickson was simply the work of ga y
l6year old boy, furious over what he
s1lg considers an insult to the mother who =
bore him., and who took this means of d
getting even." Now, what are the facts. g
fA't4 Simply these as we pather tban, from, =