The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-21
In Attempt to Defend the Nc
Whirters 1t MaIiciously
Twists the Facts.
ANY ONE THAT DESIRES
CAN SEE MAYB0LE STORY
One Glance at Clipping in Trib-
une's Possession Will Prove
News Scribe q Fakir.

When that journalistic mnlefactor,
the Organ of the Lord. and the bnnch
OF political conspirators whom 1T shields
and defends gets caught in their ne1ar-
ious plottings, il invariably replies by'
charging all and sundry with crime and
persecution. and with like invarlablllty
docs IL fail TO answer the accusations
made against it and it's cohorts.
IT gave another exhibition OF this
mendacity in its issue OF Friday even
ing, in an article devoted to defense
of the McWhirter family, in which 1t
utterly fails TO refute any of the state
ments made by The Tribune, but in
which 1t maliciousiy charges this paper
with irterpolatiue sentence into the
Srotchman s letter, which was pub
Iished exclusively in The Tribune FIJI
day morning.
The malefactor's baseless accusation
is rouched in the following language;
The most recent phase Of the McWhir
ter story is the reproduction this morn
Ing by The Tribune OF letter from Alex
auder McWhirtcr TO his home paper. but
10 make it's point IL charoctertstically IN
Ing the Scotland paper authority for the
statement that the McWhlrters were as
sisted by friends In getting into business.
There is not one word In the Scotland pa
per, the Ayrshire Post, a copy OF which is
before The present writer. 10 Justify this
cold plooded perversion 10 accomplish n
point. The full text OF the letter home,
with the Scotland papers comment is Civ
en- below. following The Trihune's al
legged quotation with comment as follows: /:
THE McWbirters have now commenced
business With the kInc assistance OF
friends, says the paper. II would be in
tnrec'ing 10 know, In the light OF the pc
Culiar conditions and facts. who the kind
friends are.
Gall and See It.
The article which contained the SEN
tence which the SANITY organ charges
was lnterpolared was taken from an
Ayrshire paper and published in its
entirety, as so stated at the time The
! Tribune has in it's editorial rooms the
complete cutting which was reproduced,
where any one who cares TO see the or
iginal expose Of the political conspiracy
! made by ex-Councilor McWhirter, and
in which ne assails the members OF the
American party "a men ''who will
stoop TO any dishonoTable act,' car
do so.
The Tribune does not need TO jus.
tify it's acts TO any writer on the HE.
rarchial organ; the acts Of the organ
and the political bunch behind it Jus
tify anything that may be said The
following is the language used by the
Scottish paper In introducing the sub
| ,lc'b ~ lIS ItSUcfS.
In last weeks issue We gave a report
Of how exCouncilor McWhirter, late Of
Msybole who, along with his brother
William; had been robbed of s1o, ,ooo in
Salt Lake City, Amerqca. AS Mr. Nc
! Whirter was we'll known and highly re-
| spected IN Msybole, the report In last
weeks newspaper has created a good
deal Of CONSERVATION among the inhabi-
| tents. From the updernoted letter which
was sent TO friend IN Mavbole It will
be observed that the brothers McWhirter.
| ,t.tt l. L. rf,-I -N1t1
| now commenced business on their own
! account
Part of 1t Suppressed
While the Organ of the Lord pub
lishes the body of the letter written
by Alec McWhirter TO Scotland, and
by the way, the letter is not published
by the Ayrshire paper in full, some.
thing is suppressed, it does not publish
the newspaper introduction to tha
matter as contained IN the extract in
| the possession of The Tribune, but sub.
stitutes another introduction. Evident
| ly the allusion to ''the assistance OF
kind friends did not suit its purpose.
And as the church organ and its con
federates make the kind friends an
issue, The Tribune repeats ite query.
1t would be interesting to know, in
the light of the peculiar conditions and
| facts. who the "kind friends are.
| Whirters2 For what services was this
compensation -iven?
The church organ makes no defense
of the political conspiracy of which
it and It's associates made the Nc.
Whirters part. On that point it is 81
lent. thus giving consent. 1t makes
no alluslon TO Alexander the Coun.
cilor's Misrepresentation, and stamps
them with its approval The Tribune
does not persistently attack me-" as
Alexander put it-or is made to put
it-by the organ which is now on its
| defense. The Tribune did suggest and
does so again that Alexander confne
| himself to the truth in his description
| of the citizens Of this American CITY,
in which he has elected TO establish a
residence. That s all.
But the difficulty seems to be that
| Alexander, in his nrdent desire to in
form the Ayrshire 'Fbillies'' of his do,
ing in America, minus the interesting
personal details which would have en-,
hanced and embellished the story and
given 1t dash of romance. has lifted
the lid on the political mess, and he is
liable to have it full and running over
IN his next ebullition.