The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-04-10
PROVO CITY. APRIL 10, 1884
THE MUD MILLS GRIST.

In yesterdays Splatterblotch we find
the following choice bit of literature.
We propose to treat it as it deserves
and after that to dismiss the wretched
sheet from our columns. Truth, ridi-
cule, argument all seem utterly wasted
upon the vile and shameless blackguard
who edits it, or the other who man
ages il:
We never have attacked the "col-
onel's'' private record, and If reports
that reach us are true it is not the pur-
est. Our jokes at his expense have
dealt alone with his political record.
We have told what came TO us from bis
own friends, telling how he once was
republican, editing a republican pa
per at Santa Fe, and how later he be-
came a populist at Grand Junction and
there published populist paper.
These little political Jokes seem to
have set our colonel" wild, and he
has resorted to the blacklist Of per-
sonal lies and attacks Here at home,
where we are known, it does no harm,
and him an Injury. Away from home
it seems to work the same way. The
only daily paper published at the city
where the ''cOlonel" last hailed from,
refers to his vile charges, and then
comments on them as follows:
The Sentinel neither knows nor cares
whether the charges are true or false of TIE
DIsPATCHs contemporary. Ii only knows
that they are beneath the dignity of an hon
orable newspaper man to MAKE against any
one The Sentinel will never be found so low
on the grade as that.
The Splstterblotch does not attack
our private record for a very good
and sufficient reason, it is above and
beyond reproack or suspicion. and he
can't do it in truth. He can only at
tack by such all innuendo as we find
in the above. He knew when he wrote
the above sentence that our private
record is above his reach-this vile
thing who was brought back in dis
grace from a religious mission to
Turkey for conduct unworthy Hot
tentot, and only to continue the same
line of conduct here. This man who
was forced to marry his victim to es-
cape the consequence of his base be-
trayal of az inexperienced and un-
worldly maiden in the menial ranks of
life. A pretty man this to edit the pa
per which assumes to play the role OF
organ for the Mormon church here,
and which church promptly sat down
upon the impudent claim.
This creature after attacking US in
the bitterest way possible only day
or two after we came here a stranger,
and who knew nothing whatever
against US, calls his base attacks mere
"jokes." 1t is too thin. "Jokesl''
It's rich but Intellectual. We have Of
fered both of these cowardly wretches
mortal insult in order to test their
courage and resentfulness, but both
together LACK the manhood or the cour-
age to call on US for the only settle
ment possible, but continue to attack
at long range. We have branded his
charges against US of belonging to the
republican party, editing republican
paper, or being republican at all, or a
popullst, as base talsehoOds, but the
pittifully weak falsifer reiterates the
senseless charges upon all occasions.
"Here at home, where we are known i.
does no harm but Injuries him."
writes this wonderful fel oW. "Here at
home" he has no social recognition,
and is tolerated nowhere in
social life where people have
read his brother republican Var.
ian's fearful scarifcation, Varian
who prosecuted him for one of the
most dastardly crimes ever committed.
and these enlightened people, he would
have us believe, think as much of him
as ever, or as any Yirtuous man in the
BAIL
The people Of PROVO know the truth.
They know that we have never at
tackled him without he, himself. cast
the first stone. He has announced
time and again that The DISPATCH |
Was failing when he knew it was false. |
This was only to lnjure. So, too, a:e
lis falsehoods as to our having ever
1een anything else than a democrat.
)ne ought to treat all such ISLANDERS as
hey deserve, with silent contempt.
We have erred in not pursuing that
course rigidly, but we shall offend no
more in that way, after this. We can
,roye by the files of both papers that
lever once have we attacked without
lis first having made the attack. To
how the talsehood inherent in the
jplatterblotch, we may say there are
wu daily papers in Grand junction.
ne one edited by Judge Connolly,
right, brainy, decent gentleman, and
he other, mere thumb paper, edited
y man who was our foreman on the
tar and whom We discharged for leav. ]
lg his work for several days without
ur knowledge or consent, while edit
lg the free silver democratic paper.
he Star of Grand Junction.
1t will surprise no one who knows
9th men that they hunt in couples
hen they join in common attack J
pon gentleman who feels himself J
sr above either, or both, in all that J
oes to make either a gentleman or a /
,urnalist. S