The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-18
AT IT'S CoNGENIAL WORK.

With it's accustomed disregard of
truth and common decency, the Salt
Lake Tribune is misquoting The Her
aid in order to deceive its readers and
place this paper in false position. 1t
is not the first time by hundreds of
instances, when the Tribune has stated
as the language and position of its
journalistic opponents the exact OPP
posite of their words and standpoint.
On Tuesday morning The Herald said /:
The plea that it is the wish of GER
tain venerated gentlemen that people
shall vote this way, that or the other,
is both false and cowardly. False, be-
cause it has been most emphatically
denied cowardly, because it is substi-
tuted for appeals to reason and judg-
ment and is used to unduly sway the
minds ef the uninformed.
This the Tribune perverts to mean
that those venerated gentlemen ''are
doing this treacherously and in viola
ton of their express pledge not to in
terfere in politics." and says further:
We submit that if there is any evil
dence that certain venerated gentle
men" are pledge-breake and have
been doing what they have repeatedly
and publicly agreed they would not
do, the least that their accuser could
do would be to make--his accusation
plain and specific, and to point out
just what it is that is the subject of
his complaint, and give the accused an
opportunity for explanation.
The Herald's charge was and is that
there are persons who have, in covert
maner, represented that it is the wish
of those respected leaders that the peo-
pie shall vote in a certain direction,
and The Herald denounced all such
persons as both false and cowardly in
doing so. The Herald has never init
mated that this kind of political war
fare was endorsed by the gentlemen
whose names and positions have been
thus improperly used. And the Tribune
understands that very well, but seeks
to accomplish by lying that which it
cannot effect with the truth.
The uniformed, whom it is sought
to influence by the miserable decep-
ton which we denounce, are not, as
the Tribune falsely states, 1.-The DEM
ocratic portion" of the people. They are
decided in their position. They will not
be turned aside by any such under
hand means, if they are true Demo-
Gratis. ''Thc simple-minded and unre-
flecting" we speak of are individuals
who have not studied the principles on
which political parties are founded.
and who are, therefore, open to the
impressions which are thus made or
attempted to be made upon them.
And it is the unauthorized use of
the names, authority and position Of
the gentlemen alluded to against
which The Herald protests. In doing
so we are more the friends of those
gentlemen than are they who either
encourage the misuse of their names,
or attempt to cover up or apologize
for the petty tricks resorted to for the
purpose of obtaining Republican votes.
You never hear of Democrat re
sorting to such despicahle means But,
in the southern counties particularly,
the instances reported of Republicans
doing this are too numerous and
specific to be imaginary or to be dis
posed of by ridicule. In any case the
wilful Misrepresentation of The Her
AIDS language by the Tribune is the
meanest and most contemplate form
of cowardly lying that the vilest Great
ure breathing could be guilty OF.