The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-18
POWERS AND HOWELL.

UDGE POWERS invitation to Con-
gresham Howell ought to bring
forth a response of some kind at once.
If Mr.. Howell is willing to profit in sill
ence by the circulation of such false
hoods as are being used in his behalf
openly. he ought to confess it and say
he doesn't care what methods are used
if he can win. On the other hand. if
- Is the manly man a congressman
ought to be. if he is unwilling to allow
his supposed friends to lie maliciously
about his opponent, he certainly ought
to speak up. The latter course would
be the only honorable one, and it would
win him the respect of the people of this
state who have been amazed at his ST.
lence thus far.
In his open letter Judge Powers quot
ed some but not all of the outrageous
lies that have been manufactured for
campaign purposes. The Provo En-
quirer, which has been particularly
vicious and diligent in its publication
of these falsehoods, said in an editorial
OF Oct IA:
The talk that is being made in the in
terest of Q. w. Powers is entirely differ
candidacy. The salt Lake Herald said
THAI ne was labored with far into the
night. just before the Democratic state
convention, 10 Join with the new move
ment; and when Mr.. Powers denied that
statement in his speech at Logan, he con-
fessed having walked home with Mr..
IipDman late that evening, and having
heard from him that his (PoWers) name
was about to be published in connection
with the anti-church party. Mr. Powers
at once requested that it be not done, as
II evidently would not be good politics,
he thought.
The Salt Lake Herald has never said
that Judge Powers was labored with
far into the night just before the state
convention to join with the new move
ment" The Herald has published moth
ing that could be distorted into such a
statement Of untupth. On the contrary
all that it has printed on this subject
has been the plain truth from the be-
ginning and that was the fact that
Judge Powers had no part or parcel
in the formation of the new party; he
was not consulted about it because his
views were known without any neces-
sity for consultation; and he urged
from the inception of the Republican
fractional fight that all Democrats
"mind their own business" and keep
strictly within party lines.
Judge Powers record has been Sc
Straightforward, so open on this mat
ter that there could be. no possible ex-
cuse for manufacturing untruths about
IT. The Provo Enquirer and its editor
John c. Graham, knew that The Her
aid had published nothing Of the mat
ter attributed to It. The only explana-
ton of that publication. therefore, lies
in the determination Of the editor e
deceive his readers by any means pos
sible, no matter what the cost to the
state, no matter what the ultimate ef-
feet on the political situation here.
The Herald does not believe the PEG
pie OF Utah will stand for such meth
DDS; it does not believe the Mormon
Democrats, to whom The Provo En-.
quirer is addressing its libelous and un-
truthful statements, will suffer them.
selves to be led into abandonment Of
their party allegiance by such means
II believes the reaction against sucl
qualifications will convince even the En-
ouirer. and John c. Graham, its editor
that decency and honesty and trutf
are profitable in politics as in the othe
affairs Of life.
Meanwhile, one is constrained TO ad
nit that Providence works in a mys
terious way In the days of Anania'
and Sapphire lying resulted in death
Yet today, Bill Glasmann and John c
Graham and their iik, who have beer
circulating these canards, seem to b'
fairly good insurance risks.