The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-07
STILL LICKING ITS SORES.

place of rendezvous for Idaho troops,
and Ogden for Utah troops. 1t seems
| sublimely unconscious of the fact
that troops called out by the governor
of a state always rendezvous at point
i the governor selects, and that there is
4 no record of any governor ever
designating such rendezvous outside
! his own state. AS a matter of fact,
there has never been the slightest prob
ability that the points named by the
ring organ would be places of ~endez-
vous. But, of course, an outfit that
doesn't know the rudiments of the case,
could not be expected to get anything
right. BY the way, how about that uiti-
n alum that Woodford had to deliver?
Does the ring organ confess its
/ error also as to that? If not, why not?
! Or does it rate testimony it gladly
counts for itself in the one case, value
less in the other?"
The orders of the war department
designated Ogden, Utah, and Pendle-
ton, Ore, as the places where the vol.
unteers from Utah and Idaho would
rendezvous The Associated Press sent
the orders as formulated by the war de-
/ partment The Tribune deliberately
| falsified the Associated Press dispatch
| Changes were subsequently made on re-
quest of Governor Wells and Senator
Shoup.
No troops have been called out by
Governor Wells, or by the governor of
any other state in the Union. Governor
Wells, and the governors of the other
states, issued call for volunteers in
response to a call by President McKin-
ley for 125,00O volunteers.
| Neither Governor Wells nor any other
| governor designated the. place of rem
devious for the volunteers.
| On Tuesday, April 10, the Tribune's
Washington correspondent telegraphed:
! president Mckinley this afternoon
signed the joint resolution of congress,
and Immediately cabled to Minister
| Wcodford at Madrid the ultimatum of
the United States'' That was a false
hood. for the resolution was not signed
until 1924 a. M, Wednesday, April 20.
On Wednesday, April 90 the Tribune S
! Washington correspondent telegraphed
| that paper that 'the press associations
were Informed that the resolutions
would not be signed. nor the ultimatum
sent, until 10 o'clock today" That state
| ment is a direct contradiction of the
| one made by the same correspondent
! the day before.
Thursday April 81, the Washington
! correspondent of the Tribune telegraph
ed that paper that ION Tuesday night.
as stated in these dispatches, a draft
of the resolutions and the ultimatum
were cabled to Minister WoOdfOrd. with
directions to lay them before the Span
ish government Immediately on receipt
of an open cablegram." That was
! repetition of the falsehood of the 18th,
and the refutation of it is contained in
the very next paragraph of the dis
patch. 1t says: 1.-THE president withheld
official announcement of his signature
and refrained from delivering the ulti-
matum to Minister Polo until Minister
Woodford had been cabled to act. This
was done on Wednesday morning, and
it was supposed that long before the
Spanish minister could communicate
with his government, the American
minister would have presented the ul-
timatum to Senior Sagasta."
On Friday, April %. the Washington
correspondent of the Tribune telegraph
ed that paper that Minister Woodford
has got safely out of Spain. He is in
practical disgrace with the admins
tration. He had a fine opportu-
nifty to checkmate Spanish diplomacy,
and, by hardness, which has marked
he oil him
self to be outwitted. He is thoroughly
denounced at the White House and
state department"
That was all falsehood and rot" and
nothing like it was published in any
other paper in the United States.
Under date of May 4. the Tribune cor
respondent telegraphed that "the Lon
don Post this morning prints an inter-
view with Queen Christina of Spain, in
which she says: Previously the United
States minister had delivered this YER
bal uItimatum, either Cuba must be
Dacified within 4S hours, or else rup-
ture of diplomatic relations" That is,
war will ensue. Under these circum
stances, the reception of a written ul-
timatum had become unnecessary.
That proves nothing at all, seeing
that it lacks defniteness as to date,
and no matter what date it might have,
it has nothing whatever to do with the
Tribune's statement that the resolu- |
tons and ultimatum were signed and
telegraphed Minister Woodford April
10. The Tribune's correspondent quotes |
the London Post to the effect that a |
verbal ultimatum was delivered to the |
Spanish ministry to prove that the |
Tribune dispatch of two weeks ago, |!
stating that Minister Woodford had |
been instructed to deliver our ulti- |
matum to Spain twenty hours in
advance of its delivery to Senior Polo !
Y Bernabe, the Spanish minister, is alb |
solutely confirmed today"
If this is true, what of the truthful |
ness of the Tribune dispatch of the
22nd of April, in which it was stated |
that Minister Woodford was in practi- |
cal disgrace with the administration, |
and that he was thoroughly denounced |
at the White House and state depart |
ment? Nothing is more certain than |
that there is a lie out somewhere be-
tween these dispatches. The fact is,
the first dispatch was a falsehood, and |
the others have been manufactured to
bolster them up; to prove this all that
is necessary is to place the dispatches
side by side.
by the way, how about that ulti-
matum that Woodford had to deliver?"
A CASE OF POETIC JUSTICE.