The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
GOV. WELLS is VRATHY
Writes a White Hot Denial OF
Contribution Tale.
RESPECTS TO REPORTER
SAD JOLT GIVEN COL. LANNAN's
ORGAN.

Somebody has been handing up to
salt Lake people what is known in
sporting circles as the real bull con-"
There are few people in Salt Lake who
failed TO read in the papers the story
that Governor Wells. Thomas Kearns
and Ed Loose had contributed $4,000
each 20 the Hanna campaign fund. The
Herald ana its afternoon cOntempo-
rary, for obvious reasons. treated the
tale in the jOcular spirit with which
Salt Lakers who know things received
it.
The StOTmStarter, however, gravely
swallowed the story in all it's raw de-
tails. Indeed, it went further than
that, for from its special Correspond
ent' in Philadelphia il received a con-
firmation. This confirmation even Jon
tanned an interview with Governor
Wells, in which the executive was made
20 say: Just TO make atonement for
what we have done Oeferring to the
support of Bryan in 1886 we have sent
our checks for $4,000 each to Chair
man Hanna as our contribution to the
campaign"
People who read Colonel Lannan's
paper naturally supposed that he was
the special correspondent They knew
that he was there, If for no other rea-
son than that the editorial page re-
Gently has contained nothing from the
pungent pen of the widely known ed
itor. Knowing that Colonel Lannan
was on the inside, and jumping at the
conclusion that he sent the special
referred to, StOrmstarter readers, even
those who might have known that the
tale was absurd on its face, were led
into tentative credence Of it.
Governor Wells Bitterness.
Now. comes the sockdoIager. Govern
or Wells, in a telegram to the News
published yesterday afternoon, puts
this crimp into Colonel Lannan, if, in
deed the widely known wrote the dis
patch:
New York, June 2S.-Every atom
of the dispatch. from top to bottom
and over, across and along it, is a
glaring, mendaciOus lie, and its author
is a stupid. miserable, constituencies
ScOundrel
Neither of US has subscribed OF
promised to subscribe cent to the
national campaign fund, and no such
interview with Hanna or with any re-
porter, ever took place in Philadelphia
or elsewhere.
"HEBER NJ. WELLS"
the colonel whether he is guilty OF
not It smacks somewhat of ingrati
tude, in the judgment of many people
for Governor Wells to turn on the gpea
editor in this fashion. For days Col
Onel Lannan has been allowing Gov
ernOr Wells to associate with him. AL
most ever since leaving Salt Lake the
widely known has been permitting tn,
son of the man whom he denomina tee
the One-eyed pirate of the WaSatch,
to stop at the same hotel that sheltered
him.
Hard on the Editor.
Colonel Lannan has even gone far
Their He has stretched a point anC
has allowed the executive to vote fO
Orange Salisbury, the best known Ian
mantle on the pike, for national com
miJteeman. Notwithstanding all thes,
favOrs. Governor Wells, always pro
Vided Colonel Lannan was the "Spe
Cial correspondent" and it has not beer
shown otherwise as yet, describes hin
as "a stupid, miserable, constituencies
scOundreI."
Governor Wells has never beer
known as an ungTateful man. When
friend does him a favor he usually re
members 1t a long time. Especially i
this true in such a case as COlOne
Lannans, where it was a lot of trOu
BILE u be as kind to a man as he ha
been to the governor. Therefore, tn
executives friends VIII wait to hea
his side fully before passing judgment
1t is barely possible, they say, tina
the colonel refused to permit the gov
ernOr TO hold a lighted match to nj
cigar and of course a throw-dOwn lilz
that is calculated TO make anybOd.
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