The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-30
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It has been the custom with the Salt
Lake Tribune. when unable to carry
on a controversy with a contemporary,
to dodge the question under dispute
and endeavor to divert its opponent
and the public from the entire issue,
by making personal attacks on the
editor or person supposed to be the
author of the argument. This serves
a double purpose. 1t enables the Tri-
bune to slip from the position which it
is unable to maintain, and at the same
time vent its spite and void its venom
upon its alleged adversary. This
course has been pursued continuously
for several days.
The Tribune undertook to defend the
disreputable conduct of the four Re
publican runaways from the Legisla-
tive Council, claiming that they did
exactly right, acted out of pure patriot
ism and only discharged a. public duty
when they were fleeing from their
posts, hiding from the sergeant-at-
arms, and refusing to attend to the
duties which they were elected to per-
form. The Herald disputed this and
offered arguments to the contrary.
Thereupon the Tribune commenced to
abuse the editor of this paper, and to
use its own phraseology dragged him
out" to ego at him" as the only way
Ito get at him"
We have already pointed out the in
conference.-the fact that supposing all
that has been alleged against the in
dividual aimed at was true-which it
is not-that would not change the
situation in the least, nor prove that
the four flying legislators did their
duty. But the Tribune persists in that
style of logic which is peculiarly its
own. That is to say:
"a certain gentleman" about a year
ago was reported to have kidnapped
or conspired to abduct, or cajoled
or bribed a Wyoming State Senator
to be removed, outside of the
state; therefore the Republicans
who fed from the Utah Legisla-
tive Council during a debate did
exactly right. The same gentleman is
said to have colonized this city with
yahoos about four years ago. There
fore the fleeing Republican legislators
last week were prompted by pure
patriotism.
And that the force Of this reasoning
may enter into the comprehension Of
its readers, the Tribune hammers it in
every day and is still hard at it. So
far, however, it has not succeeded
very well, but has only drawn public
attention more and more to the turpi-
tude of the men who treated the Coun-
ell with contempt, and to the muddy
logic and ruffianly biackguardism of
the Tribune itself
We might now let this matter dron
entirely, seeing that not a solitary fact
or argument The Herald has published
in relation to it has been disprove5
But as the Tribune produces what #
calls 'the record in relation to the
gentlemen alleged to have been the
chief conspirator in the abduction Of
a public official, it may be as well to
investigate the record a little and
state the facts. SO that our logical and
eminently truthful and gentlemanlv
contemporary may not be able to saw
that its personal attacks were true. and
to reproduce them as undenied, when
ever it loses its case and its temper
manners it seems to have none to lose
and substitute them for argument.
Now as to 1.-The record" What is II?
Simply a reproduction of parts of