The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-17


Salt Lake City, Oct. Is, 1904
/ Hon. Joseph Howell.
Sir:-I address you this public letter
because hope that others will read il
| as well as yourself. / desire the pub
lie TO read it, because it refers TO mat
tiers of public concern. II deals di-
rectly with the methods that are being
pursued by your managers and your
organs in their desperate efforts to
encompass your election. You and 1
are candidates for congress. We are
both before the people for their suf-
| frages. Being aspirants for d posi-
| ton so honOrab bic and dignified as that
I OF representative for Utah in the con-
| gress of the United States. it would
| seem that we both should desire that
| the contest for tie Office shall be
waged i'm an honorable and fair man
ner and without resort to campaign
| lies and yitUperatiOn. OF course, not
| knowing you intimately, / am un
| aware of your ideas al 10 how a pOIiti-
! cal campaign should be conducted. but.
! speaking for myself, l can truly say.
| that l do not desire to succeed. if to
! succeed. it is necessary to resort 10
| the vile and despicable methods that
are being resorted to in order to re-
| elect you. l will particularize.
Anonymous Falsehoods Published.
Recently anonymous articles have
| been appearing in your organs in
! which I am attacked viciOusly, and
/ which are so replete with falsehOOds
/ that they would cause the father of
/ lies TO blush should he read them and
| thereby realize lis absolute ncOm-
/ potency TO equal them. You must
1 know enough OF the world to realize
| that the anonymous writer is base
/ and cOWardly character assassin He
would, We're he not so craven. stab
/ his victim in the back in the black
ness of the night You must, also APP
! preciate that whoever is knowingly
| the beneficiary of the assaults of the
| character assassin. is i'm turpitude
| scarcely one degree removed from the
I creature whose low carnations he
/ profits from. 1t thus becomes inter
esting to the public, and important for
| the voters, TO know whether YOU de-
sire TO tread a pathway paved with
/ lies in your effort to retain the Office
/ that you now hold
Without quoting the newspaper
articles in full | viii briefly take eX-
| tracts therefrOm quoting sufficient so
| that you can recall their meanness and
| the people understand their mendacity:
Some of the Lies.
First-It is stated that have threat
! ened in my speeches that unless [ am
| elected / will so back to The old
| Liberal party and cause all sorts Of evil
| TO come upon the people. The fight that
| kearns and Dubois are making IS an
honorable one compared 10 the threats
| and innuendOes that their partner is max
/ ing For would il not be safer to know
hat
| tack upon you. than TO be compelled to
| hug one TO your breast to keep il from
| raising its. head to strike?'
Second-lt is stated that as 4 matter
of fact. and the story is becoming TOO
well known to be able to question it. O.
W Powers had as much to do with the
prosecution of the Reed SmOOU invcstiga-
ton as did Critchlow. Charles Taylor.
the attorney, or any of the rest Of
them
Furthermore. i is d well au-
] thenticated fact that Powers was III COM
munication with Attorney Taylor and
mittee for over year before the hearing
came up"
Fourth-"The testimony given ny Pow
erS In the SmOOt investigation was. as a
matter of fact, nothing more or less than
a studied argument. which he had been
preparing for weeks
Ffth-''As a matter of fact, cOmbind-
ton has long been in existence between
Powers, Kearns ex-senator Frank j.
Cannon and Senator Clark from Montana,
the object of which was TO control the
deStinies of Idaho and of this state, nor
WAS Fred Dubois of Idaho ignorant OF
the scheme. The intention of this COM
bination was TO entirely down Reed
Smoot for 50 long as Smoot was in the
senate Kearns could not become leader
Sixth-.'The night before Judge Powers
received the Democratic nomination for
congress he was IN consultation with the
leaders of the SO-callcd American party
.re~nrH II. - n9aNn.
he intimates that the movement Will
have his open support after election pro-
Vided he is defeated.
Seventh-'sIt is a sure fact that within
fifteen minutes after he IL defcs,od-and
ne will be defeated-he viii JOIN this new
party movement
Fighth-It is stated that "One of the
Judges who sat on the bench AT the time
O. w Powers was a member OF that
body. says that to his personal kEoWiedge
Mr.. Powers, Senator kearns and senator
Dubois were in consultation .hree con-
secutive nights while the latter gentle
man was in Salt Lake recently. II might
be interesting to know what these gem
tlemen find that is of such common IN
terest.
nected with a deal with t'raak j. can
non and OF hers by which il was arranged
that Cannon would join the American
party.
Howell Knows They're Lies.
Each one of the foregoing statements is
an unqualified falsehoOd and not one of
them has even the shadow of truth as a
basis Each and all are untrue in sub
stance and effect. You know in your
own heart that they are untrue. The
tools who wrote them and the party
slaves who printed them knew that they
were untrue when written and printed. l
am able to demonstrate the falsity of
these lying statements by unimpeachable
evidence.
II is also stated by one of your anony-
nous champions that Powers has been
using the expression of Chairman SprY
of the Republican state committee that
for every Republican lost he would get
two Mormon Democrats. O. W. Powers
knew positively before his recent tour
through the state that no such statement
was ever made"
Let me tell you that O. W. Powers
through the state, and he knows posi-
lively now. that the Republican chalr-
man Mr.. Spry. on Sept. 6, 1914, at SAT-
Lake City stated TO Mr.. A e. Mackeh-
zie of The Salt Lake Herald that where
they get one of the Old Liberals away
from us here in town we VIII ger Two
Mormon Democrats IN the country rms
statement was published weeks ago.
Chairman Spry has never publicly dehleg
the same He cannot deny the same and
sneak the truth. You are well aware that
ne uttered the words
The vice OF these published charges lies
not alone In the fact that they are hes.
false witness against thy neighbor,' but
as we'll IN the further fact. and in this
the people are interested they are writ
ten to arouse religious prejudice In the
hone that the Mormon BnoDle -iH divide
along religious lines and defeat my can