The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-04
A SUMMING UP.

Apostle Smoot yesterday morning,
made what he imagined was a tre-
mcndous assault upon The Tribune; but
it lacked a great deal of >Aving any
power back OF it. 1t was isore like
the stone.throwing aud the mouth max.
ing Of vicious little boy who wanted
to be mean and was mean to the cX-
tent of his little powers, but was not
able to effect anything worth while.
With respect to the matter most i'm.
modiately III hand, on which it con
tinues to harp, the alleged misreprc-
sentaticn of Representative Keifer, we
have fully explained that there was
nothing whatever wrong about it, ana
we offer the following from the re-
porter who had the interview as Z
complete statement of the case and
refutation of any vicious charge that
Smoot has made or may make:
Concerning the interview with Hon. j.
Warren Kelfer 10 the Salt Lake Tribune
on the morning Of June 20. 1907, l have
to say that / took that Interview in the
pursuance Of my daily assignment To
cover the hotels and interview people Of
ported interviews with hundreds Of peo-
pie from day to day, and this is the first
time that anyone has. ever questioned
the accuracy and faithfulness OF my re-
ports | had that interview with Mr..
I<efer and wrote II up as printed in The
Tribune. faithfully and truly. There was
thing that he said except as to some
matters which he himself said he did not
wish TO have made public
| saw him In his car the next day and
I'll n a Inn flTh IN
tervlew as reported was referred TO. He
made no criticism upon IT, made no claim
that ii was in any way unfaithful or in
exact. but stated that he did not intend
to imply that the Senate had no legal
right to seat Smoot. The legal power of
the Senate either to seat or unseat Smoot
conversation OF the day before, nor was
there anything on this point in the inter
view as published. Mr keifers allega-
tion that the Senate made q mistake in
seating Smoot was based upon moral and
political grounds alone. And at this sec
ond talk / had with Mr., keifer he said.
pie might not like what he had said nor
the placing OF his opinion on the grounds
stated that he didn't give a d-n"
That Is all there Is 10 The matter. The
interview was truly reported. and was
printed as reported it, p. LOCHRIE.
With respect to our Washington cor
respondence, we, of course, insert moth
ing in that, nor in any other CORE
spondence. II would be quite impossi-
BILE for US to do anything of that sort.
The Smoot "moutb,' in making a
charge of this kind, merely establishes
the fact that it does not know anything
about newspaper work or what is proper
or possible. and what not.
The denial of the Kearns interview
in tue Chicago newspaper was because
that interview did not appear in the
paper of the date which the Smoot
''mouth - said it appeared. That
1t may have appeared in the
paper of some other date was moth
ing TO the purpose, nor were we able
TO find it il any other date that we
had al hand. 1t was unquestionably
miXup, anyway; attributing to Kearns
some other person 5 talk.
Apostle Smoct claims The Tribune
has printed a vicious attack on the
honor Of y, j, Salisbury, which is whoiiy
untrue. The Tribune S political re.
porter wrote a summary of the town
political talk at his own volition was
no. melted thereto by anybody, but
gave the matter precisely. as he under
stood 1T, and as An intelligent interpro-
tatiou of the y. iIticai situation here
justified, Ana the "mouthn knew il
was lying when it printed its state
ment; it was guilty of the evident nm
fairness, also, of refusing to correct its
lie; and the reporter S card appears else
where in the paper.
The story Of the flag being upside
down on tie Federal building on Labor
day was not dependent upon the re.
port Of Richardson or any one else
The city odiior himself verified the
matter. and wrote The chief portion
OF the report. Ho depended on his own
eyes for the fact that the flag was fly
ing upside down on Labor day. said so.
and is ready TO stand by his statement
today.
The Smoot "mouthn asks, "Why
did The Tribune suppress the news of
the McWhirter robbery on the night ii
occurred a' The Tribune suppressed
nothing whatever; it was trying its
best that night to get the facts in that
alleged robbery. The reporter who was
in its employ at that time and is now,