The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-07
A TRUE STATEMENT
By the World of the History OF
the Cleveland Interview.
REPORTER CRAWFoRD's VERSION.
Sort Of Tanglewood Tales Affair-ColoneI
Cockrell's Plain Talk to the Good
SHEPPARD SUMS Silence.

NEW YORK. May 6.-Under the heading "a
truthful Statement the World Sunday begins
long statement by saying; 1.-THE lying of the
soured mallgnants and the false conceptions Of
the cnVious and calumniating agents of the
press, make it necessary that the. World should
PRINT truthful statement concerning the recent
publication involving ex-President Cleveland y
inc World then says that n reporter was sent
10 interview Mr.. Cleveland in reference to a
statement in the SIN touching the ex-Pres-
oent S alleged obesity. The reporter returned
"ith scrap OF paper on which Cleveland had
written about hundred words, in which the
loIloWlng occurs: 'Of course the entire thing
Is q he Judge that the venerable editor of the
ous supposeS that he has at last hit upon q sub
lecI Wnlcn can be used to annoy me- In this h,
- mistaken. He must be his own Judge of social
uecencleS and proprieties l am not sure that
ne should at his time of life and IN his an
parently peculiar mental condition be molested
IN MS amusement
Inc reporter further averred that Mr.. Cleve-
land had talked freely CONCERNING The editor az
tne oHt, That he denounced him with marked
vehemence. and had given him (the reporterJ to
unuerStand that what he had said was intended
Tor publication. The UolgdS editorial contin-
ueS:
While the language attributed to Mr.. CIeve-
iahu was coarse and Incorporate it was be-
neVed IN the World office that Mr. Cleveland
lhcensed by long continued misrepresent ations
ana ABUSE, had finally made up his mind to
express himself touching his prosecutor in
teILls when II emphatic were not altogether I'M
Warranted. Inc policy of thus retaliatng upon
tAe Venomous blaclguard was not considered
A reporter who had served the World faith
ruiIy several years, and the accuracy of whose
work work had never been called in question
prepared the report of the interview. and mon
MS repeated declaration that Mr. Cleveland
consented to the interview the matter. includ-
irs Iaat portion penned by Mr. Cleveland, was
inserted IN the World. II there had been the
Sil9hteSt question as to Mr.. Cleveland's wish to
nav nave the American people Know something of
ms OPINION OF the editor of the Sun, the matter
"oulu not nave been printed.
ON the afternoon OF the day of notification
Coroner Daniel Lamont called al the IIOr55 of
nee Win typewriter copy from Mr. Cleye-
t naI1 IN winch tnat gentleman denied specif-
t Ially naVlng used the language attributed to
nun concerning Mr.. Dana beyond that which he
mao prepared with his own hand as given above |
rms Z sl natarally created some surprise"
Lamont was told tie matter would be looked |
INTO ana The 1nVeSug cor returned to the Office
win a st1ll more elaborate reputation of the |
interview from Mr. Cleveland Then Colonel |
Sooaloll caileO on cleveland and the latter.geu-
tIenlan SAID he could only account for the mis-
Ieplesehtauon saddled upon hIln upon the the |
oIS sHat the reporter had uttered many of the |
SeIIlInents himself and finding his utterances
lacftly accepted had attributed them to the per
son interviewed and not to the Interviewer
rms style OF interview being not altogether
unknown In some sections of the country the
hQIto accepted Mr. Cleyeland's explanation
IN consequence OF the editorial apology pre- !
paIeu ana published, the reporter who wrote
lhe interview rendered his resignation next
.i nay whlch was accepted The lpOrld concludes:
IhCse are the exact facts and all stories CON
corning pohtlcal influences, personal importuni-
UIe S ana InotlVeS etc. are pure fabrications"
ine -hd't ana Express this afternoon ac-
knoWleges the receipt of letter from Colonel
Cockrell managing editor of the World The
letter, which is published is in reference to an
article printed the 18th ult, and Cockrell ex-
planned his delay in noticing ii bv SAVING he
no oil
gent paragraphs occur:
Il call your attention especially to the state !
ment that Colonel Cockrell could not stand the
combined pleadlngS of the ex-President Daniel
Lamont and William G. Whitney and their bar |
rel. AS there can be but one meaning to this |
desire TO say that any person whomsoever who |
asserts have been influenced in nv editorial |
work, now extending over twenty-five wears nv |
money or other improper considerations. is n |
mar. The story printed in the 4HdiL and Express |
contains half u dozen other lies hit sinnIv |
desire to call your attention to this one in na ~
tlcular, which l consider a reflection ON nv |
honesty and integrity, and do not propose that |
any man snail assafl my character unchal |
lenged. L leave it entirely to you to suggest |
the mode and manner of righting this very seri |
Gus injustice"
GOOD EDITOR SHEPARD Apologies THUS:
80 far as we know there is no Just reason for
upon Colonel Cockrell s'honesty' and /
integrity and the article alluded to, rightly |
barrel holds Il good deal. 1t is used by turns
Tor various purposes: it contains stimuli
many different things. The
political barrel is rotuud with all the
which may be supposed to infin1
el c. the judgment and action of individuals in
ooltics. The particular barrel alluded to con-
-alned all the hopes ambitions, wishes opinions
influence, characters, salaries, and combined
oleadings of President Cleveland. Daniel Ia
mont, William 6, Whitney. and when rolled IN
70 the door OF the 'portd sanctum the editor
people are subject to the influence of their
elbows, and this is the cause of it. There is
lothing of dishonesty or Embellishments. or
suppose to the contrary"