The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-27

SOME notoriety TO the sheets that have
adopted theses tactics.
Now comes the Salt Lake Tribune,
and seeing what a spectacle the run
away Republicans OF the Legislative
Council have made of themselves, and
the impossibility of making out fair
defence of their conduct, adopts the
| dirty ways of the country sheets afore-
said, and instead of replying to the
structures which were justly passed
upon those recalcitrants. personally at
lacks the editor of The Herald.
This is not only blackguard Journal
ism, but is especially vile and despic-
able, because the statements and in
situations contained in the assault are
utterly false. Moreover we have reason
to believe that the Tribune understood
the untruth of its allegations, because
lit has published authentic reports
which gave the lie to the sensational
runlors which it had previously printed,
and on which it now bases its ground
less libels. The story is false in it's
conception and untrue in detail.
If the Tribune will go back to it's files
it will find that it had the editor of this
paper in Washington and in Wyoming
about the same time. taking the state
nents of its correspondents, and also
under arrest in Cheyenne when he was
attending to his own business in this
city, and was accosted on the streets
here by persons who, being foolish
enough to place any reliance on the
rumors to which it gave publicity, were
astonished to see him when they had
but just read the Tribune story. There
was just one little fiIament of fact in
the whole fabric of fiction manufac-
tured by the Tribune, and even that is
so mixed up with fa1sehood as to be
kept out of sight.
The columns of the Tribune contain
a sufficient REPUTATION of the yarn sent
to it by a correspondent, but we have
no disposition to take up space by re-
producing the particulars. For, even
if the attack made on the editor of
The Herald were true, it would not
justify the course pursued by the run
away Republicans of the Council, nor
the contradictory, partisan and puerile
position taken by the presiding officer.
If the Tribune could prove this editor
to be as evil as itself, that would not
remove the stigma that rests upon the
persons who placed themselves in con-
tempt of the Council and of the people
of the Territory of Utah.
But even their course is less con-
tenptible than that of the Tribune, in
making a scurrilous and false personal
attack on the editor of The Herald, in
lieu of a reply to the utterances of
the paper. It is evidence that the
Tribune cannot fairly defend the Re-
publicans whose conduct it has helped
to expose. and SO, to divert attention
from the main question, picks UP it's
old squirt gun and tries to bedaub the
supposed writer of something it cannot
refute. 1t is the resort of the most
cowardly and vicious newspaper black
guardis1n.
We trust our readers will pardon this
departure from the usual course of The
Herald, which it does not intend to
pursue, of noticing personalities thrust
forward by it's opponents in place of
replies to the utterances of the paper.
The editor will not shrink from per-
sonal responsibility in any shape or
form, but does not believe that this
paper is or should be published to car
ry on a, personal warfare. Public Of
ficers are open to public criticism, and
SO is a. public journal The Herald is
not the organ, exponent or represen-
tative of any individual, and common
journalistic courtesy requires its recog-
milton, if at all, in its public capacity.