The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-24

= consequently I could not be hs :.
:. personal friend. | did not so :.
= state TO the representative OF inc :.
= Herald Republican and the pur- :.
= ported interview with me re- :.
= rardinr Smoot and religious :.
i prejudice printed in that news !
- paper this morning is absolutely :.
= untrue. | said nothing of the :,
:. kind
:. This is the emphatic way in :.
=. which former Senator IL. i. :!
- Petiigrew of South Dakota re ;.
). pndiates an interview credited !
= 10 him in the Hemorrhagc Satur- :;
= day morning. :
!
Nowhere in the country can there
be found a paper that has as httIe re
gard for the truth as has the daily
IIemorrhage, the official organ OF Apos
tie Senator Smoot. the Federal bunch
and the Alta club scxtettc. Indeed
most people in Utah have become cor
vinccd that tho Hcmorrhaee would
rather lie than tell the truth and resort
to ANYTHING and everything 10 bolster
mn the apostle seustor, il the edition
of The Hemorrhaeo Saturday morning
appeared what purportcd 10 be an IN,
InryicJy with former Senator Pettigre"
~ Snu+b Dakota The alleged inter
view headlines and all is as follows;
Here is Purported Interview,
Fanatics have hurt Salt Lake For
,lsr Senator Pettigrew says feHs4ous
prejudice Is past IN eaSt: p,t,i.,o,, nj
Sioux Falls. :. j., prominent IN rcria
nation work throughout the west ar, ar,
rived in Salt Lake late last 6n nIE6n' Ia Ia
Chicago enroute 10 Twln f2iiS' ioI,
,yh"rr Ie goes in company with j, Is
Pcrrine, head OF the Twin Fals teC,a ndo
tion company. which is reclalmlhg l'ooo''
OOn acres of land in Idaho. .,,
friend of senator Reed Smoot. In SPEAK,
ing of the recent tariff iight ne dCSl1Ttu
that Senator Smoot gained the admira, a.
,inn NJ ali members of both houses In
his stubborn stand for extreme PIotec-
ton for western industries
Even the men nc opposed had notnins
but good TO say Of tho man from ulah'
said former Senator Pcttigrcw.
MANY years ago ] was here when Sal'
Lake was just western to"n 70"
yer in the back ground. Where the Colo
rJdo capital has one thing 10 gro" lor
Salt Lake has three. The asrlculturh
territory tributary to Sait Lahs ls a'oi,' ,1.'.s
,Tbo wonderful mining industry mere
should make the town II every thing elS'
failed. And, with no advantages az 9.l
tho very situation Of the place ana its
historic associations, would be sunlclen'
for the sustaining OF large menopons
IN fact The only reason salt Lake has
not aIready rivaled and surpassed some
OF the larger cities is because OF the re,
liciorS prejudice of the past, Now tha'
drawback is a thing OF the past In ,nt
east, and Reed Smoot with his adInlrao pc
record in the natlonai senate c'u Hu''
Ia remove 1T. A.,
United States senate for twelve Years. r:.
rcpresenting South Dakota. He withdrew
from national politics in 1901, ana ma
hcen Gevotiug himself 10 private interest,":
since then. lie Is enthusiastic over th'
reclamation work in the west
Ancient Egypt may boast OF 5000, OCT
acres Of land irrigated semi-annualy by
The great River Nile. but one company
in Idaho lrrigatcs with artificial mean:
nne-fifth OF that area" declared the for
mer senator.
Repudiates Mention of smoct
When shown the purported interview
by representative Of The Tribune
Senator PetJigrew repudiated every
thing in il pertaining TO Apostle
Smoot and reference to religious preJu
dice,
~ never said anything of the kline
10 the Herald Republican. The inter
view is absolutely false and untrue
| am not q personal friend of Senate
sight and have never spoken TO him
consequently I could not be his per
sonal friend \ reporter stating tina
he represented the Herald Republican
called upon me Friday evening at NJ,
hotel and asked my views upon Sal
Lake.
81 said TO him that / was here man,
Years ago whom salt Lake was smal
CITY: that ] had been here sevcra
times since. and that | was ihtcrestc'
in several mining and irrigation pro
jccts in the intermouutaln country
and that while the great mining In
forests IN the territory tributary TO Sal
Lake was sufficient to build a city O
itself, with the vast agriculture
possibilities due to reclamation worl
there was nothing TO stop it from NAL;
ing a great city, Recent events ha
removed the fear of people from com
ing TO Salt Lake; that is the redemE
tion Of the city from tho rule hereto
fore in charge, and the development
by the reclamation projects IN the stat
and southern Idaho, WAS bringing i
the kind of people that make and bull
up CITIES and states.
Position Is Well Known.
81 did not say anything TO th
Herald Republican representative abou
religious prciudices. My position 0
me Mormon question is wen KNOWN.
introduced, fought for and secured tn
adoption OF the anti-polygamy plank i
Inc platform Of the Democratic nations
convention in st. Louis in 1901 I Ell
dcavored to nave the same plank il
corporated in the platform of the Demo
cratic national convention at Denvc
last year. / made the Gght for th
seating of the Dubois delegation frol
Idaho in that convention. Ny positio
is thoroughly understood. Fred Dubo
was and is my warm personal frient
I could not, if | would, stultify my re-
ord.
''rhe interview, as printed in III
Herald Republican. which pertains ;
Smoot and religious prejudice. agai
repeat that it is absolutely utrue i
every particular
Senator Pcttigrew was tho guest ,
r. J. Donohue Of this city on Satu
day. aud he left for Twin Falls, Ida
saturday night. in company with
y. Pcrrinc OF that city.
Philharmonic Orchestra for Good Mus.
All occasions. Hell 3sl6-Y, Ind 1887