The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-25

In an abortive attempt to aliege
something of startling nature regard
ing the recent election returns from
the Third precinct, the journal buga-
boos, mare s-nests, roorbacl1s and edi-
torial superstition yesterday printed a
presumable denial of the facts stated
in Sundays issue of The Herald.
The desperate straits the political
scandai-monger is in are evidenced by
the quick manner in which it hops on
a typographical error in The Herald's
article, which. instead of reading NO
vember "a" was printed November T."
Any intelligent man reading the state
ment Of Mr.. H. A. Smith, under the err
Tor quoted, did not fail TO note the mis-
take But as a matter Of course no one
in the sanctum Of idiocy referred to
is presumed to notice such mistakes
ASaey never are noticed there; one state
70 ut is as good as another.
N~fhat most hackneyed phrase. "horn-
swaggled." is brought into play for the
5lSth time during this month of De-
cember A. d. 1894, in an attempt at
Teantation of The Herald's statements,
T-hioh said attempt is couched in
Words reading: TT is safe to say that
Neither he %. H. Hardy nor Mr..
Barnes made any such denial, as nell
Their could truthfully do so.''
Safe to say is a very safe ex-
preston. Certainly it is safe to SAY
So Neither Hardy nor Barnes will call
at the ofnce with q shotgun demanding
satisfaction. But The Herald's state
ments were true, just the same. Henry
Barnes did not say what he was
quoted as saying by the paper referred
10. and o. H. Hardy did say to a Herald
man, right i'll front of Teasdel's store,
on Main street, that he did not tell the
reporter who wrote the Tribune article
the words credited to him, but on the
contrary, informed him that at the
proper time he would tell what he
knew to the proper authorities, and
until then proposed to maintain a dis
Greet silence.
The affidavits printed in The Hera I'd
have been on file at the commission
office ever since. They were made and
were open to the Tribune man at the
time the reporter for this paper copied
them. That they were sworn to before
MIR. Smith cuts no figure. The Tribune
has a notary in its office who attests
Its proofs of publication and it is Just
as fair to charge them with fraud in
their business affairs as it is to in
innate that the two atlantis III this
election matter were guilty of a like
crime.
1t is a truth which will not admit
of denial that The Herald article was
truth and that it was an I'M
looked for bomb shell. 1.-THE CALLED
fade winces" is a maxim. By the vio-
lent contortions exhibited in the per-
son of the opposition organ-beg par
don, fute-one may sincerely infer that
1t is sore from head to heels.
New when it comes to alleging GER
. tain ste tements as facts, let's look at
something in the organ-beg pardon
again, f1ute-of yesterdays issue.
Here it is:
Joseph Pugsley, one OF the Demo
cratic judges at poll /, was found at
his residence, 263 West Fifth North
street. The affidavit was a surprise TO
him. He had been present throughout
this count, but had seen nothing. while
vigilantly watching the process of the
count, to justify him in believing that
Il was otherwise than honest, or that
a vote had been tempered with. He
denies that any wrong was perpetrated
and says the returns were as made by
the judges"
Mr.. Pugsley was seen yesterday by
a, Herald man. He says the interview
is Of the fake kind 'fakey." That
he never said what is attributed to
him nor anything of similar import.
That the statement is a rank false
hood.
Falsu in uno, falsus in omnibus, is
Latin motto. Who after reading the
above, will deny The Heralds state
nnent, which is here reiterated, that the
errors in the Third are simply clerical,
as q court investigation or any other
will show?