The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-05

The Tribune some days ago deliber-
ately changed the Associated Press dis
patches in regard to the places of rem
devious of Utah and Idaho troops.
On April &c The Herald gave the rem
devious of the Utah troops at Ogden
and Idaho at Pendleton, Oregon, as the
dispatches gave them. The Tribune
named Salt Lake as the Utah rendeZ-
Vous and Pocatello for Idaho, although
in sub-head it said:
UTAH RENDEZVOUS AT OGDEN
On the 9th of April The Herald gave
the list of United States army officers
designated to muster in the volunteers
and the place of muster, as received
from the Associated Press, as follows:
"Otah-Ogden. Second Lieutenant B.
II. Wells, Second infantry"
Standardization First Lieutenant
Robert d. Walsh, Fourth cavalry"
The Tribune printed the assignments
as follows:
"Utah-Salt Lake, Second Lieutenant
b. II. Wells, Second infantry
"Idaho-Pocatello, First Lieutenant
Robert D. Walsh. Fourth cavalry"
The Herald noted the difference and
to be certain that there was no mis-
take, inquiry was made of the Associ-
whether there had been a correction
made in the dispatches, as is often
done when an error occurs. The an
SWer came back that the dispatches
were delivered to The Herald exactly
as received and that no correction had
been made in regard to the place of
rendezvous of Utah and Idaho troops.
Goyernor Wells, having learned from
Ire Herald that Ogden was the Utah
~
partment to change it to Salt Lake
City. which was done.
Senator Shoup had Boise City desig-
mated as the place of muster in place
or Pendleton, Oregon, but some of the
Pocatello people. having been misled
by the Tribune to think Pocatello had
Deen designated originally as the place
OF muster, jumped all over Senator
Shoup and gave him a great deal of
trouble. The Herald on the 2Sth of
April. called attention in a mild way to
the Tribune's taking, but it did no good.
The words ogden" and 'Pendleton'
were tabooed for the time being in the
Tribune office and any telegram with
those words in it was at once bounced
upon, and the plain typewriter word
ogden" was changed to salt Lake
and "Pendleton" to 'Pocatello," be-
cause it was manifest error" This
TO the Tribune's own specials as we'll
and the obnoxious words were stricken
out right and left. Thus the Tribune
did not print in its special from ,Poca-
tello on April 20 the message of Senator
Shoup to Pocatello citizens, saying that
'Pendleton, Oregon, not Pocatello'' was
the original place of rendezvous select
ed by the war department. The Herald
printed the Senator's telegram On
Hx-itH
bic evidence of its guilt staring it in
the face. made the following reference
to The Herald in it's editorial columns:
The ring organ finds fault with the
Tribune because We correct manifest
errors in the telegraphic report-as re-
fusing to make the rallying point for
Idaho troops at a point outside that
state, and refusing to make the like
point in Utah at a place different from
that named by the governor. In each
case the Tribune's judgment is vindi-
Gated by the facts, while The Herald
blindly follows a wrong lead-and gets
left. It all brings into prominence
prominence that the Tribune courts
the fact that the Tribune prints the
news in intelligent form. while The
Herald prints any sort of a blunder it
happens to get Gts proneness to this is
proverbiaD, and when its foolishnesS
becomes apparent-inds fault
Yesterday the Tribune's Washington
was forced to correct
over his own signature the manifest
errors" of the Tribune as follows:
"Pocatello was never mentioned, con-
sidered or designated by the war de-
partment. and the original copy of the
filed at the Tribune bureau
shows that its name did not appear in
the telegram sent by the Western
Union line. w. E. A"
It may be cruelty to animals to thus
convict the Tribune upon evidence sup
piled by its own columns of wiliful and
deliberate Misrepresentation, but really
It is a fraternal kindness to do so, be-
cause it may save the paper from flu
ture manifest errors"
The attention of Idaho people and es-
pecially residents of Pocatello is called
to the manifest errors" OF the Tribune