The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-23
TOTAL DEPRAYITY.
Lying Articles on and Forged In
terviews with Cleveland by
THE NEW YORK SUN AND WORLD.
Great Profession is Made the Means Of GratI-
flying Personal Pique and Mongering Scan
dal-Sueh journalism Condemned.
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.

| Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatcb.1
New YORK, April 22.-Tuesday's Sun has this
to say, under the head of "A Few Additional Re-
marks:
Yesterday morning the New York Herald con-
tanned this reference to a recent episode: ION
Thursday 1t (the New York Wortd) printed what
| purported TO be an interview with Mr. Cleye-
land. 1t was really brutal and malicious at
tack on private citizen written oy a penny-a-
liner in the last stages of brain softening. The
publication of such an interview laid the whole
ONCE open to suspicion that it was also suffer-
ing from the same disease. Mr.. Cleveland. of
course, Numbered. Therefore the concern edi.
torlally confessed that only fourteen lines in an
article column long contained the truth while
the other thirteen fourteenths were false'
| If the Herald turns back to the supposed con-
fession of the New York World. it will perceive
on close inspection there is clause which NAV
serve to modify the opinion expressed in the
passage quoted above, and it renders the pre-
| Tended retract1On of no value to Mr. Cleveland.
| AMER a thorough investigation we are salts
ned that all Mr.. Cleveland said for publication
OF pereonal character was contained in the
| IrSU fourteen lines of the remarks attributed to
MN, ana ne dld not use the coarse and intem-
perate personal expressions attributed to aim
III subsequent portion of the interview
| 1nls' OF course, means nothing except that
Suen eplthets OF personal abuse as Mr. Cleve-
land permitted himself TO apply to Mr. Dana in
| the presence of the World reporter were orig
lnally intended by Mr.. Cleveland for the bene-
NJ OF the reporter and not for the public The
reporter printed what he heard Nr. Cleveland
really say, but not what Mr.. Cleveland under
stood he was saying for publication
| UP 10 the present time there has been no au-
tnorltatlve denial from Mr.. Cleveland of the
grossly false and indecent language attributed
| to him. He has neither repudiated the shame
less less, 1ase ana eoWardly charge that the sun
mas attacked Mi. Cleveland, nor attempted TO
prove 1t. 1t Is true some of Mr. CleyeIand's
political associates, wiser than himself have
been making friendly efforts in the newspaper
oInceS and elsewhere TO rescue him from the
predlcament in which the unexuected nubIica-
ton OF his words involved him But there is
one circumstance which indicates with sufficient
deSt1nctneSS whether these friendly and inoen-
lous efforts are inspired by interest in the cause
OF ABSTRACT truth or merely by sudden solicitude
| Tor the political prospects of the supposed can
uloate. me interview appeared on Thursday
morning last. Thursday afternoon and Friday
morning passed without any real or pretended
denial OF the truth or interview The attennt
10 dlscredlt the World reporter did not begin
until Friday afternoon. after the Sun had re-
Piled to Mr. Cleveland and after the extent OF
the damage he had inflicted upon himself he
came Iuly apparent TO every person of common
sense. After an Investigation of our own as to
the circumstances attending the interview we
are satisfied the report printed in the World
was inaccurate so far as it failed to exhibit the
language employed by Mr. Cleveland in the full
measure OF its violence, its most lnconcelvable
grossness and its unprintable profanity.
In discussing the subject it is proper to add
| that the occasion OF the interview and the ex-
citing cause of Mr.. Cleveland's loss of selfcon--
troi were the publication in the Sun on Wednes-
day morning, April 10, of dispatch from
Washington making certain statements about
the ex-PreSident's physical DEVELOPMENTS
Precisely the same dispatch from Washington
was printed on that same morning by Mr.
ClevelandS close personal friend ana political
| ally, Major Charles II. Jones, in the news col
umns of the St. Louis Republic the most con-
| slant and devoted of all the newspaper organs
| of Mr.. Cleveland.
| THE EVENING POSTS COMMENTS. =
The E0eBiRg Post says editoriaIIy: The World
acknowledged that it had been deceived by one
| OF its reporters in the matter of an interview
with eX-PreS1dent Cleveland wherein the
| latter was made to use some very bad language
concerning Mr.. Dana editor of the SIM The SIN
reprodueeS the forged interview under the cap
ton. What Mr.. Cleveland said" publishing
it as genuine.
The indeeency of the Sun in ignoring and sup
pressing the fact that the words imputed TO Mr.
Cleveland were pure invention and aclSnowl-
edged to be such by the paper in which they
appeared Is more brassey than anything we
have ever seen in any newspapers. 1t is some
thing we could not have conceived in a country
civilized enough to have newspapers.
WHAT THE TIMES SAYS.
The Times, under the heading 1.-TWO Base
Newspapers" has this to say: The New York
Sun recently invented and uttered an atrocious
"A
porter of the New York World thereupon visited
Mr.. Cleveland, and that paper printed an ar
tlcle nearly column in length purporting to be
a report OF what Mr.. Cleveland said to the re-
porter. The ex-PreSident in speaking of Mr..
Dana used violent and extremely abusive Ian
guage, such he is not accustomed to use
either in public or private The most intelli-
gent persons at once discredited the report of
the interview, but those who accepted it as
truthful must have regretted that, even under
strong provocation, Mr.. Cleveland should stop
to handy words with so INSCRIPTIONS and malig-
nant foe,
Mr.. Dana replied in the Sun with a leading
editorial article such as no man at once sane
and sensible would ever write or having writ
ten would regret and be ashamed of to the end
of his days.
Then the World editorially declared that all
Mr.. Cleveland intended for publication was con-
tanned in the first fourteen lines of the inter-
view, but the Sun reprints the bogus interview
saying that was what Cleveland said In the
annals OF a free press there may be found in
stances where primers ink has been put to
baser and more malevolent use, but they are
few. The Worlds offense raises the forgery al
most to the rank of virtue by comparison and
the behavior of the Sun makes assassination
seem respectable calling.