The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-01-24
PROVO CITY.
THE TRIBUNE AND COMMISSION.

IhlDONE aNO
We are told that since We have found
out that we cannot manipulate the
present board of commissioners we
have been spiteful, malignant, abusive
and libslous from the beginning up to
the present time. That is one of the
gratuitous talsehoods of the Herald,
which it always repeats when 1t can
find nothing else to do. Neither this
paper nor any one connected with it
has tried to manipulate the board of
commissioners. lit has never asked |
ANYTHING of the commission except In
the name of the people OF this terri |
tory. nothing except what was public
demand. 1t has never sought to iDf1u- |
ence the acts of the commission to
make it sWerve in the least from its
duties. 1t has never had any trouble
with the commission except when that
body ceased to be s1ch body as 1t
was designed to be. 1t has asked no
more from it than it would from
court of Justice. 1t has sought no
more control over it tnan it has sought
over the courts. 1t used its prerogatiye
when majority of that body con-
verted it into something for which it
was never designed, to criticise it.That
is not only its right, but its duty. 1t
asks no faVors of che commission, and
never has. Ii has simply demanded
that it should fulfill its duties and to
carry out the law fairly, honestly,
wisely and in the same spirit of JUS
tice that ought to possess the brain
and heart of judge on the bench.
And the dirty filings that we wish to
in any way control 1t are simply
worthy of the brazen sheet that puts
them out periodically. When we de-
clared that frauds had been commit
ted it Twas only because We could not
manipulate the commission" 1t has
always been 80. We ask nothing from
the commission except square deal
on the lines for which it was organ
lied. 1t is not an unreasonable re-
quest, and we are backed in that re-
quest by the best sentiment of all the
decent people of Utah territory,
The above characteristic paragraph
is presented to DISPATCH readers as
specimen brick In the warfare made
by the Tribune upon the Utah COM
mission, solely and only because that
DOOf &c a 0Ol1OS1dDAO OOol
in the honest discharge of its duties
under the law. "Since we have found
out that we cannot manipulate" etc.
The Tribune must have found that out
before the late election, or as soon as
the president made the appointments,
because since that hour this body of
innocent men have been the target of
more filth, more insult and more coarse
abuse from the paper named than any
body of men in public position eyer re-
ceived before from any and all sources
combined.
Neither this paper nor any one con
nected with it + as ever tried to manip-
ulate," etc. No, not tried to manipu-
late but to bull dozs. When it found
that the bull-doze method wouldn't
work, then the Tribune became tame
enough; but it has never been decent
in any connection it has had with the
commission either as a chronicler Of
the acts of the commissioners, as pro-
tector of the peoples interests, or as a
self-constituted mentor or guide for
that body of more than ordinarily
patient gentlemen. VINO constituted
it the advocate of the people to ask
anything of the commission in their
name? This egotistical claim is posi-
tlyely sickening in the density of its
ignorance and impudence? The good
Tribune has never sought to influence
the acts of the commission. 1t deserves
small credit for its forbearance In this
regard. As though its brutality could
influence anybody or any individual
to swerve them from the line OF duty.
s'Such a body as it was designed to
be-" The Tribune is the sole Judge of
what the commission was designe to
be. Here's dense modesty for you and
of kind which doesn't grow upon
every bush by the wayslde either. Has
the Tribune ever asked and obtained
anything from court of justice? 1t has
recs!Yed something from a court of
Justice recently which it did not ask
and which it strove and is still striving
to avoid. "The Tribune has sought no
more control over the commission than
it has over the COURTS" What blessed
sslf-abnegation is thisl What lofty
and unselfish devotion to the public
good is thisl What prerogative has
the Tribune in regard TO the conven-
ton? 1t may report faithfully the do
ings and acts of the convention, but
it may not assume to mold, as il has
attempted to do in thousand bare
faced instances, the policy or opinions
OF the members at asks no favors of
the commission, it demands that it does
its duty"
The Tribune knows as well as every
intelligent man who has read it since
the sittlngs of the commission com
menced, that it has endeavored to
brow-beat, coerce and bull -doze in a
most shameful manner, individual
members, as well as the democratic ma
jority, in thousand ways. The brain
and heart of Judge on the bench" If
the decision happend to jump, with
the crotchets of the Tribune, would be
all wrong, and the abuse of the said
judge would have been as coarse and
as brutal as has been the abuse of the
commission, and probably would have
differed from it in no whit or to any
degree whatever. Indeed no body of
men in the public business of the coun.
try has ever been SO be.badgered, so
stormed at,so insulted, SO be-meaned as