The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-01
A SELF CONVICTED ORGAN.

Our esteemed morning contemporary
has at last done real service to the COM
munity. 1t has printed in full what it
claims to be the text of MIR. "Kentuckyn
SMITHS argument in behalf of the Home
Rule bill before the Senate committee on
territories and in doing so has convicted
itself of slanderipg the gentleman named
by assailing him on manufactured charges;
it has convicted its Washington CORE
spondent Of classifying in his reports, and
1t has proven that the Liberal delegates to
Washington, who have been attacking Mr..
SMITH through the medium of inter
views, have been more reckless with
their tongues than they accused the
Ogden attorney of being. Just why our
contemporary should publish that address,
after all it has said concerning it, is one of
| the ineomprehensible things, for the argu-
ment furnishes a complete refutation of all
/ that it and its apologizing Washington
representative have charged against Mr.
| SMITH. The speech is found to be in per
feet line with the very FULL synopsis
printed in THE HERALD. 1t isn't the
wholesale assault" upon local federal
officials that our neighbor said it was; it
isn't an attack upon the private characters
of the officials; it isn't Wild and creek
less" 1t is vigorous but dispassionate
arraignment of the infamous system of
government prevailing IN this territory
| by which the people are deprived
OF their rights as citizens. 1t is plain
statement of facts so far as our people are
familiar with them, and they are familiar
with them except as to the amount Of fees
collected by certain officials, and as to these
it is observed that Mr.. SMITH makes no posi-
tive statement, merely taking the official
reports as basis from which to compute
the sums collected But the amount
doesn't matter; a few dollars, or a few
hundred dollars more or less, will not
affect the point sought to be made and
which evidently was made to the entire
satisfaction Of the members of the Senate
committee.
In this connection great stress has been
laid upon certain charges said to have been
made sgaint the judge Of the northern part
Of the First judicial district, and his honor
evidently acting upon the false and mis-
leading reports in the Tribune, was in
duced to wire long dispatch to Washing
ton ''refuting' these charges. We imag-
inc that when Judge MINER read the tex
of Mr. SMITHS address he was sorry h,
sent that telegram, for he must have seer
how uncalled for it was and how little ap.
plication it had to anything MIR. SMITI
said regarding him. The Ogden Judge ha!
been forced by his pretended friends ant
his own precipitancy, to occupy the posi-
ton Of defending before he wa
assailed and of squealing before h,
was hurt We are sorry that Judg,
MINER placed confidence in The work OF I
correspondent whose reports bore in ever,
paragraph the evidence of intense partisan
ship ana determination to mislead
We cannot think that any responsible
person connected with our esteemed con
temporary read Mr.. SMITHS address befor
it was printed, for If he had done so, woult
he have permitted the publication of tn
speech and thus given the lie TO what tn
paper has been saying about it for the pas
two weeks? Would he not have suggester
that the only point to be made was to kee
on banging away" at "Kentucky' SMITI
about something the latter was alleged t
have said without letting the public know
what Mr.. SMITH really did say.
The thing for our neighbor TO do now,
to confess that it has been imposed upo
by its Washington correspondent, an
apologize to MIR. 'Kentucky'' SMITH for tn
vile abuse hurled at him.