The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-28
Row FALsE NEWS GOES ABROAD.

L. w. B. continues to supply the
Chicago paper for which he is a staff
| correspondent with partisan pabulum
for Republican consumption 1t is not
to be expected that a fresh visitor will
catch on to the situation in Utah so
tenaciously as to grasp in a short time
all the details correctly. But it is to
be desired that even if he is a strong
partisan he will endeavor to be some
thing like fair and that if he wishes a
reputation for truth he will try to be
accurate.
The efforts of L. W. B.. however, are
directed more towards putting the
three Democratic members of the Utah
Commission in a false. light than to
inform the world fairly about Utah. A
sample of his two columns of stuff
headed, Democrats Trying to Steal
the Mormon Territory will show how
much reliance can be placed upon his
echoes of Tribune fabrications. He
says:
But politics is stronger than morals,
it seems, for the Utah Commissioners
appointed by Grover Cleveland have
relieved the canvassing board, of its
own creation. of the duty of canvassing
the returns from the election of dele
gates to the constitutional convention,
have discredited the Democrats who
alone registered the voters, and the
Democrats who We're in the majority
as judges at every precinct in the Ter
ritory, by declaring that they must go
behind the returns, and open the ballot
boxes to discover the honest election"
This is preceded by a Dot Of misin-
formation about the previous members
of the Utah Commission, who are rep
resented as entirely bipartisan, when
the record of the Republicans on that
board, for many years, was one of the
most intense and bitter partisanship,
which colored all their transactions and
was a continued subject of public an
imadversion.
But L. W. B. is either ignorant of the
provisions Of the Edmunds Act as we'll
as Of the history Of the Utah Commits
sion, or Is wilfully endeavoring to mis-
represent both. The canvassing hoard
appointed by the Utah Commission
were not relieved by that body of any
duty, but section of the Edmunds law.
supplemented by the Enabling Act, ex-
pressly provides that the Utah Com
mission shall discharge the duty which
the Commission were performing when
stopped by Republican action through
the courts. OF this L. w. B. might
have informed himself, but he pre-
ferred to swallow the Tribune blunder
on that matter as he has the Tribune
false charges against the moral char
cter of the Commissioners.
The same error lies in the remarks
about the registration officers. The
Commission has not "discredited'' their
work nor the work of any of the judges.
All the discrediting has come from the
partisan and unreliable sheet from
which the gullible L. w. B. has col
lated his tumble Of garhled facts and
vile insinuations.
We do not propose to wade through
the two columns of distortions that an
pear in the Chicago paper Of which L,
W. B. is staff correspondent. But if
other communications in its columns
are no more reliable than his, the paper
is of very little value for news or for a
guide to an understanding of public
affairs.
People who think Utoh is likely to be
injured financially by the dispute over
the recount, should consider how much
more injury is likely to arise from the
highly colored charges and exagger-
ated contributions to the press which
like the lucubrations of i. w. B.. are
worked over from the pages of a local
paper which has been a continuous de-
famer of Utah and persistent mann.
facturer of libels against her noo,,Io