The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-26
LET THE MYSTERY BE oLEARED UP


which daily pours out venom and gail.
They say they do not read the Tribune,
and that those who do always make al /
lowances for a large percentage of I
Misrepresentation; and, therefore, that |
we attach too much Importance to the |
sheet by noticing its attacks.
Different people, however, hold diff |
ferent views on the same subject. There |
are others who think The Herald is
not severe enough in its exposure of |
Tribune falsehood and folly. They want !
the thing handled without gloves"
and held UP to- the ignominy it merits !
We are inclined to think there is |!
some force in the remarks of the first |
named class OF our readers and will |
bear them in mind. At the same time,
| 1t must be remembered that one of
the tricks of that concern is to emit a
volume Of SANDER. and if it's asser-
tons are not denied to take silence
for assent to their truth. IT, becomes
necessary, then, sometimes to refute
its libellous statements, although they
are frequently so manifestly untrue
and absurd that they can be allowed
I to go without comment.
The Herald at present is accused of
having struggled for almost eighty
days to have counted in d Democratic
majority" That is as untrue as a SEN
tence could be made. The Herald has
done nothing whatever in that direc-
ton. It has merely contended for the
execution of the laws in relation to
elections and when fraud was charged,
refused to believe any had been COM
united until the evidence Of it should
be forthcoming
AS to what The Herald has said
about Commissioner Sherman's private
handling of the Sanpete returns, we
have simply stated the facts developed
in the evidence given in court. That,
too, was in response to the Tribune's
appeal to 1.-THE record 1t is useless
for that paper to reiterate the fact that
Sherman and his man did not have the
returns in their private possession until
those returns had been canvassed, be-
cause we have stated that whenever
we have alluded to the matter. Indeed
that is one of the pertinent points in
the statement The facts disclosed in
court are these:
The Utah Commission examined and
canvassed the Sanpete returns carefully
and thoroughly. They found discrepan-
cies there which caused them to go to
the ballot boxes. Commissioner Sher-
man was the first to move for the send
ing of those ballot boxes, ana Tatlock
seconded the motion. The Democratic
Commissioners conceded. When those
returns had been repeatedly examined
no difference in the ink used in the
crosses was discovered. Neither did
any one discern the difference In the
writing of the word 'voted." These
differences were pointed out in court by
counsel for the petitioners. No one was
shown to have had access to those re-
turns after the canvass but Sherman
and a man whom he engaged and they
had them for at least two whole days.
The Herald has simply pointed out
! these facts as appearing in "the rec
ord" The Tribune says we have done
so "n order to cast suspicion on a
man who it knows is absolutely limo
cent of any wrong" We do not know
; that the man is absolutely innocent;
f We have not said or 1ntimated that he
is guilty. We have brought forward
2 facts testified. to on the trial And the
= query arises, tInnocent of what?' Will
5 the Tribune explain? We have had
nothing TO say about his innocence or
2 guilt. But the Tribune has endeavored
: to fasten guilt upon the Democratic
1 members of the Utah Commission
and persons employed by them. It has
utterly failed in its attempts So have
r Tatlock ct. al, with whom the Tribune
: was in sympathy. Was that done, to
use its own language, Simply through
> it's natural partisan meanness or to
i divert attention from its own pets?'
n Further, that paper has stated:
1--WE know who the actual perpetra-
. tors of the fraud We're as we'll as we
= know there is a place called Tinbuctoc
n in Africa"
e If that is true. the informant ton which
g is thus claimed to be in possession OF
: the Tribune people ought to be given
!! to the public prosecutor or to the grand
r jury. The Herald can but repeat that
it is in ignorance of the facts as tc
the perpetratfon of fraud and the per.
son or persons who are guilty of it
But if the Tribune writer knows he
le ought to be required to tell. There is g
e little variation, as usual, in the state
II nents of that paper. One day it is "ont
II hand and one PEN that did the bust
ness, and next day there are perpetra,
IS tors, in the plural. Sometimes it an
, nounces that the work was done b.
l. somebody gaining access to the Com
IL mission building who cleft their track:
4 in the snow" at others it was some
d one employed there who had oppor
II tunities for doing the work.
/ We do not believe the Tribune!
:. claim to knowledge is true We con
:. slider that there is still a cloud O
- mystery around the Sanpete return.
which has been by no means cleared
- up, and we want to see the guilty ex
! posed and the innocent eXculpated
:. That apears to anger the Tribune TO
- some inexplicable cause, but ever
= though it makes our neighbor uneas.
= and spftefm and abusive, we still say
:. everything possible should be done t
- hunt the rascals down.
b. DR. e. s. Wayne, the eminent Gin
:. einnati chemist, declares DR.. Price
Baking Powder absolutely pure.
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