The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-27
Smootites Falsely Saying Trib-
une's Expose of Fillmore
POstOffice Is Political.
STAR ROUTE SALISBURY
PARTICULARLY VEHEMENT
What The Tribune Prints 1t
Can Prove. as Mutton Bill"
Jones Discovered.

State Chairman Salisbury of star.route
fame and Major Myton Of Indian res
orvation notcriety, are reported to be
unusually busy these days trying TO dis
count the expose of the Fillmore post
Office scandal.
1t is noteworthy how jealously some
Of the reigning political clique guard
the wrougdoings Of those of their clan.
The fellow feeling seems to move them
when the public interest does not phase
them
The chairman of the State committee
is quoted as saying that the Postoffice
department had the Fillmore affair in
vestigated by a special agent, and that
1t was found that there was nothing in
the charges against the Hsnsons as ex,
posed by The Tribune, The Major is
said to be telling those with whom he
is on speaking terms that he believes
the people OF Salt Lake arc growing
very tired of the stories about the Fill.
more case. He says it is all a political
conspiracy.
Willard Hanson, who at first declared
that the fight on his brother was "only
by lot of damn Mormons who had
grievance against Frank" F" has changed
his story to n declaration that there is
nothing in the matter but politics. 9th
ers are taking up the same cue and
the matter is buzzing like the "Mut-
ton Bill Jones' case buzzed.
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charges. they are saying.
Gan Prove What It Prints.
Well, The Tribune has always been
able to prove what it prints II s only
printing the charges of the people of
Fillmore in the Hanson case, but it be-
lisves it can maintain its reputation in
this case in the courts without half try
ing if there is anyone who wants to
try ii on.
II Chairman Salisbury really is telling
the people that the Postofice depart
ment has investigated the Fillmore case,
he is either deceived himself or he is
misrepresenting the facts. The only
Postoffce department official who looked
into the case was the Inspector who
tipped it of TO United States District
Attorney Booth that The Tribune was
about to visit him and lay a trap for
him. The same inspector, without war
rant of the law, cut from one of the
records of the Fillmore postot1ice a page
| that bore evidence Of one of the boldest
forgeries ever committed in any civil
lied country.
When that forgery was discovered,
Joseph S. Smith. son-in-law to Martha
]. Jackson. one of the victims of the
Fillmore postofilce crimes, called Post
Office Inspector Frank G, Sharp by phone
and told him OF the affair. Sharp is
the inspector who was dismissed from
the service last year after exposures of
his conduct by The Tribune. He re
piled to Smith that he didn't give
blank for a little $40 affair, He even
refused TO pay the telephone toll
And yet this little $40 affair was so
grave as the stealing of registered
letter addressed to a poor old woman
and the forging of two, and perhaps
three, signatures. Maybe this is the in
vestigation of the Fillmore affair that
Chairman Salisbury Of star-route fame
experiences had in mind when he is said
to have attempted to discredit The
Tribune IS stories
Sharp Expert Whitewasher.
Sharp would not investigate anything
that affected the local political clique,
He whitewashed the local postofiice for
years and the number of his acts of Of
fetal neglect and connivance would fill
n big book.
The Tribune does not believe the De-
partment OF Justice or the PostotIice
department will overlook the Fillmore
affair, The people of that town are not
going to let this matter drop until they
are satisfied that the affair has had
proper investigation. Several of these
Mormon and non -Mormon-have as
sured The Tribune that they mean to
keep on talking about the matter until
there is righting of the wrongs done
them.
Some of them have received their
money. They acknowledge this. But
they do not believe this should settle
the matter. They believe in the intee-
rity of the mails, They believe that
a man who commits crimes in the ham
ding of the mails should be punished.
They do not think the restoring of funds
illegally or feloniously secured should
end the affair. Neither do they believe
persons responsible for the suppression
of crime or Of the compounding of
crimes should be nnwhipped Of the law
Authorities Turned Deaf Ear.
Several citizens of Fillmore urged The
Tribune to take up their cause. They
had appealed to the constituted authori.
ties without avail. They had their faith
shaken in the integrity Of the Post.
Office department until Tho Tribune