The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-22

to be filled out; they insisted on the
registration list, the poll list and the
tally sheets.
Now the facts are that the present
Commission supplied the judges of cleo
ton with triplicate blank forms just
as the former Commission did. Also
that the former Commission required
THE registration books, the poll lists
and the tally sheets forwarded to them,
and in this respect also the present
Commission has followed the rule. On
inquiry at their office the following
statement was furnished officially:
Ever since the creation of the Utah
Commission in 1882, the method Of con-
Quoting the election for members of
the legislature, has been Ito have the
registry books, poll lists and the tally
sheets forwarded direct from the vari-
GUS precincts to the Utah Commission.
which canyassed the same and issued
1.-THE certificates to those elected
AS to the trlplicate blanks. we have
copies of those furnished by the former
Commission, and the present Commits
sion has supplied us with copies of
theirs, showing that they have followed
the rule of their predecessors.
That is to say, the Tribune has stat
| ed the exact opposite of the truth in
both respects. If we were to use its own
Language we should say that it has
''shamelessly lied But we will not do
that; the Tribune, one more, has blund-
cred. 1t blunders every day. 1t accuses
people on the slightest provocation,
and often without provocation, of being
'neasureless liars when no lie is out
but that made by the Tribune itself,
carelessness and rude and ruf1anly
ignorance.
We have demonstrated its errors in
these particulars, and all that it can
find to say in justification of the mess
it has made is: ''Our neighbor sings"
In another editorial paragraph the
Tribune says:
1--WE have made no attempt to either
viEify, misrepresent or libel the Demo-
cratic Commissioners.
| To go no further, what are the state
menits in the para raphs we have clip
ped from the Tribune, but lfbels on the
| Democratic Commissioners and both
Misrepresentation and villifcation? But
nearly every issue of the Tribune for
weeks has contained similar attacks
upon those gentlemen, and particular
Ily upon Chairman Latcher. who has
been lampooned, insulted, abused and
held up to public reprobation, editorial
~, locally, by cartoon and in every
way that a virulent and malicious
journal could invent.
The purpose has been to impress the
public mind that those gentlemen were
either perpetrating frauds in person,
or were aiding and abetting in that sort
of work. And after assailing Chairman
Letcher in the ways we have men
toned. the Tribune, hedging a little in
words but proceeding on the same line
in spirit, said:
1--WE have made no charge against
Commissioner Letcher, except to eX-
press the belief that he would have
been willing to take advantage of the
crime that had been committed. That
he is in the same fix that Lady Mac
beth said Macbeth was, etc.
14letL 10 " Sty, dlI CIlG IIIDuLLS ABUSE
by picture and print of Mr. Letcher
didn't mean anything. and that while
THAT paper does not accuse him of
stealing, it does mean that he is a re-
ceiveT of that which is stolen. If he is
in the same fix that Macbeth was,
as described by Lady Macbeth, he
PLANNED the crime. let soma one else
do the work, and then took advantage
of it. And yet the Tribune does not
Ivilify, misrepresent or libel either Mr..
Letcher or his fellow Commissioners
From the beginning of the organiza-
ltion Of the present Commission as soon
las the Tribune people learned they
could not manipulate that board as
the old one, they became spiteful, ma
llignant, abusive, libellous. And they
lhave kept it up to the present time.
Their latest statements are so palpa-
IDLY false that they are astounding in
their brazen impudence in face of the
Overwhelming proofs. Yes, "The Her
aid sings a truthful strain, and if the
Tribune does not follow with a doleful
ditty in q, minor key before it Is done
with the matter, we will be, like that
paper is now, egregiously mistaken.