Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-06
BETTER BE CONSISTENT.

bad frame or mlnl TOT dDv"t '"'"N"'
Ever since Us political representations
were found 10 be utterly fallacious and
extrayagant It has been casting about
for excuses. ana trying 10 throw the
blame OF rs false prophecies on Nor
mon" Church influence. The baby talk
in which lt has INDUCED while threat
ening to quit playing politics and leave
the field entirely to the other fellows,
has been puerlle aud pitIable, and now
Il is whining In the same key over the
results Of the school election.
It is manly, after a fair struggle to
take q defeat cheerfully and TO recog-
nize the true cause Of results. But IL Is
childish to prattle about Church inlu-
ence' when beaten squarcly at the
POLLS, by numbers composed Of voters OF
an classes Of the community. hosts OF
whom could not be moved by any such
influence. and when hundreds Of Nor
mons" voted on opposing sides.
But the Herald has been worse than
puerlle IN the matter Of the school
election particularly as to the First
municipal ward A rash reporter saw
some circulars distributed at a Mutual
Improvement meeting on Sunday even
ing and having gone there expecting 20
pick up something that could be con-
strued into Church influence 90 the
coming school election. jumped TO the
conclusion that they were tickets for
the candidate from that part Of the
city. So It appeared In the Herald on
Monday morning, that tickets were cir
cuated bearing these words: vote for
Frank Branting FOR member Of the
Board OF Education from the First pre-.
clnct"
The facts were explained that the cir
cular distributed was nothing but an
offer by Prof Evan stephens Of prize
Of $50 for the Sunday school having the
largest nln,ber Of attendants al his
music class by Christmas. The presl-
dent OF the meeting also declared
that no such tickets as named
were circulated there. But the Herald
repeated the falsehood and declared
that the ticket bore those very words
which we have quoted.
The Deserct News showed that no
such tickets had been printed. There.
fore none Of them could have been cir.
cu'ated. But now the Herald comes
out with a flaming card. bearing this
device; For member Of the board OF
education Frank Brantng" And that
paper adds some ridiculous comments
and seems obllyious OF the fact that Il
has simply. % use It's own language.
demonstrated 'the mendacity and un-
yeraclty OF certain editorial writer's"
to wit those OF the Salt Lake Herald.
The ticket which It trlumphantly pre-
sents In FAC slmile was that circulated
In the convention on Monday evening
and was copied into the Deseret News
but was not circulated in the meeting
on Sunday, and Is not the ticket nor
Ike the ticket which the Herald twice
affirmed was the one It's representative
saw IN that meeting.
This Is o small matter to which per-
haps too much prominence has been
given. But the Herald persists In its
menoacity, and when the facts are pre-
scented, Is determined not 10 admit Il
was mistaken, but INDUCES in malicious
inslnuations against those who explain
the truth in relation 20 Il. We there
fore give place in another part Of this
paper, 10 a refutatIon OF the Heralls
statements and advise lt 20 reform. and
either acknowledge an error when 10 So
clear that e has Numbered or have
the sense 10 be silent on the subject.
Now we win say once more. that
Mormon candidates have equal rights
with nom" Mormon" ofice-seekers
That gentlemen who support them are
not 10 be deferred from advocating che
claims OF their friends 10 the public
confidence and the votes Of citizens. De-.
cause they may be prominent ln Nor
mon circles They have the right and
should exercise &c. freely. 10 clrculat.
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