Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-24
WHY Nat IL DECENT?

Our unesteem q Literal" morn
ingcon EN- . rary ha sbehaved a little
bitter. il some respects, since its a. =
pearance in a new dress. But &C.
casionally it exhibits its old disposi-
tion to buster aud scold, and with
low-lived language bear false wit
ness against its ueighb0rs. We have
RETAINED from noticing its bullying
blackguardism OF the DEsERET
NEWS for come time, but viii now
sacrifice q small portion Of space to
an allusion toOne Gifts Sunday para
graphs. Referring to this paper,
after one Of It's Characteristic filings
It says:
''Some four tines during the past
few days it has fatty asserted that the
election bin, vetoed by Governor
THOMAS. was favored by the Utah
Commission. This is entirely false.
The Nesrs can produce no testimony
to conoborgte its statement"
Then follows a scurrilous allusion
10 one mem er OF the Utah Com
mission, whom it Is customary for
the Fri5une bully to assail, trken The
gentleman is absent.
Now, We defy any one to produce
rom the columns OF the DEsERET
NEWS a single statement that '.the
election bill was favored by the
Utah Commission" We have said
nothing Of the kind. It has been
common for years with theintanious
sheet which we now deign to notice.
10 MAKE pretended quotations from
the DEsERET NEWS and, in doing
80, either manufacture sentence,
that never appeared in our columns
or So garble ard pervert and mis-
quote rs u reverse their meaning.
In ether case the wrong is usu
ally not simple error, but wilful ant
deliberate lying.
Ia his cast there is a slight thread
o. which tie Tri5une falsehood has
been woven. We have twice al
luded to the views Of the Utah Com
mission on one particular point.
But in neither instance did these
relate 10 "the election bin.y BY
this phrase We mean the bill de-
signed TO meet the requirements Il
the acts Of Congress for the REGULATE
ing OF elections in Utah ard filling
the various Offices which are elective
10y popular vo.e. Examination q
our remarks concerning that mea-
sure, which is known as "the cleo
ton bill, " will show that We mad,
no reference whatever 20 the views
OF the Utah Commission.
Their were two other bills tina
the Governor vetoed, on which We
made some remarks. One was III,
bill in regard to the classification 0
ellis. Ia speaking OF the delay oc.
cssioned 10y the Governors non
acton upon the bill. we said:
Members Of tho Council then wGi;e5
on tne Governor. and after a very
lengthy conversation learned verbal,
hi~ alleged oh ec.ions 10 the bill. They
were chiefly in relation TO the neA
registration provisions. He took the
ground that under the Edmunds act
the Legislature could not change the
Law in these respects. When informed
thas the Chief Justice, Ie Commission
and learned counsel on the Liberal
side, took the opposite view, he had 10
waive ihat point in argument. But as
he still objected to the changes, every
section in relation to them was stricken
out"
This certainly IS not n Statement;
that the Utah Commission favored
the bill" Their opinion on a single
poiat WAS mentioned, that is all.
Our other reference 10 that body
was in regard to the bill making
some amendments to the present
registration statute, and was as fol-
lows:
"Tha power Of the Legislature to
amend the election laws, on which the
Governor casts a doubt, saying moth
ing positive however is 70. disputed
even by the L iah Commission"
In no case did We assert that the
Utah Commission or any member
OF it favored any bill resented to
the Governor. In both the in
stances when we mentioned theii
views, the reference was confined
to n single legal loint-the same it
both cases-namely, the power Of
the Legislature TO am, D / the law,
concerning re yisIat.oa and cleo
tons in this Territory.
We SHOULD thinS some one with 1
inf Ieuce on the Thu c would havs
sense and manhood enough to STOP
the lying and blacSguar.lism which
50 often make it \ disgrace to jour.
nalism and render it unfit to argu,
with. We neither expect nor de
sire its favor, but we think we have
the right 70 demand that its hate Of
the DEsEREr News should be re-
strained at the limit Of lying as to
what appears in our columns.