The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-12
PUT TO THE PROOF.
Mr.. Humans Challenge to
His Low Defamers.
THE HEAD OF HIS OFFENDING.
The Downtown Liars Asked to Pro.
duce Proof of Their Reckless
Assertions in Regard Him
To the Editor OF THE HERALD:


There are times in the life and history
of every man, when forbearance ceases
to be virtue, when patience becomes
absolutely exhausted and when the
duty which man owes to society. i
not to himself, demands of him some
thing more than passive silence
In Sundays issue of the Salt Lake
Tribune. as the public are aware, my
reputation as an honorable man was
viciously assaile d, and was held up to
the gaze of my fellow citizens as sneak
and traitor. 1t was alleged that had
been posing as a Liberal; that had
declared myself as being in harmony
with the Liberal party while remaining
inside the Peoples Party; that L had
said things to my own party and whis
pered to Gentiles that did not mean il i.
that | had TO sayit TO retain inhuen Z
with the Peoples Party: that | had b.
| this course of double dealing kept in
with both sides: that | had said that
there is no lawyer bat sustained the
! Governors position in his right TO nomi-
nate Territorial officers and at the sam :
time had teen one of the most frothy
RI n 'ers on the other side; that i. after
expressing myself freely, had visited the
Tribune office at midnight asking that
my views be not published as given, as
1t would destroy my prestige with the
brethren, and finally that | had built
myself UP by this course of double deal
ing
Il hok ~ I,
vicious and unwarranted attack upon
my repu .ation. 1t was the first time it
had ever been assailed in public man
ner by friend or foe, and it seemed to me
that nothing whatever could afford re-
lief bat reparatlon of the injury
done. l called personally upon the
writer of the article, believing
that he alone could do me justice.
pointed out the glazing faults and mis-
represep tations in the article REFER ed
to. and demanded the evidence upon
which he based his lnsinuations. He
gave me none; he had none to give. He
even admitted that one statement at
least was untrue, and without shadow
of foundation in fact; fdl,us IN uno,
tdisus in cntlibus. He wrote the article
that appeared in the Tribune Tuesday
morning. Glad to receive evenrpartIal
justice at the hands of the paper that
inflicted the wrong, | accepted the
reparation Tor the injury to my charac
ter, if any had sustained. My true
friends advised me to take this course,
and it certainly was in accord with my
own feelings, not that l was afraid OF
any faetsthat could be brought to light
against my character, but because |
abhor newspaper notoriety in any form,
especially when my good name is the
subject of contention.
Yesterday friendly newspaper, the
Deseret Netcs, without my solicitation,
saw fit to criticise the amen re honor
able. This, it seems, produced the oc-
cason for another stab at my reputa-
ton. TIE partial reparation has been
withdrawn, and the intimation given |
that even that little morsel of justice |
was grudgingly given from feeling of
sympathy.
Upon this question do not desire the
sympathy OF any MN, but demand |
justice. My reputation is all 1 have |
worth living for, and say 1t firmly |
but dispasslonately, it shall not be
filched from me without a desperate
struggle the public has this much InteE
est in the question: That if l am an |
critic, as the Tribune represents me to
be, then l am unworthy the con-
tidence. support or esteem of any man;
Hence place my record both public
and private, into this question and de-
mand to know when and where have
"posed asa LIBERAL" when and where l
have uttered a sentiment among my
party and whispered, either literally or
to the Liberal party,
Hush, l don't mean this, but if did
not say it 1 would lose my influence"
l am with you, but l can work best
from the inside;" when and where l
have uttered sentiment relative to the
right to nominate Terri
torial officers to any one man or party
that [ have not made with equal en-
phasis to another? These are the ques-
tions it seems upon which my reputa-
ton as an honorable man depends. |
have spoken my sentiments freely and
deliberately on every occasion when
deemed = proper and expedIent to do
so, both inside and outside the ranks OF
my party
The fact is, this mendacious ebull
ton of the Salt Lake Tribune was pub
llshed 10 the world because OF my
speech in opposition to the payment OF
jurors, because maintained that if the
people Of Utah could not have fair
Jury system and one that was not a
upon justice. 1 as one Of their
representatives, was not willing to voteq
the peoples money for their compensa-
ton. When and where, from the be-
ginning of the session down to the pre-
sent time, have l been inconsistent
with myself upon that question:
may have erred in judgement, but that
does not effect my honor We are dis
,ussing the question of double dealing,
and hypocrisy. Upon
This question of double-dealing and
hypocrisy there is in the first article OF !
The Tribune complete answer to all
The vile destinations. The writer OF the
article says. in speaking of my speech
upon the payment of jurors, that 1t
might He considered as throwing of tile
mask; that is to say. | had been posing
IS a liberal, but on this occasion threw
On the mask and came out radical ana
strong for my own party that hitherto
had Kept in with both parties, and had
built my self up in that way. 1t would
certainly mistify the mind Of the most