The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-26
THE DEGRADED sMOoT.

In his speech at Logan Monday even
ing. Apostle Smoot referred to tht
charges as to "that liquor deal,' and
in that connection he denounced them
as "false as HE'LL and as a story con
cocted by the "poor, rotten old Trib
une after the defeat of it's party in
Salt Lake county" He said that he
thought it sad condition when some
dirty, low-lived scoundrel could start
story about respectable people, and
when they remained silent commence
to prate about evidence.
In making that statement Apostle
Smoot got down to the level of the
guttersnipe politician and ward heeler,
being quite as coarse and false in his
statements as any guttcrsnipe or ward
heeler could have been, In stating
what he did, Smoot stated a coarse
falsehood, and stands naked and shame.
less before the people of this State,
their derisiou and scorn.
For that deal is we'll attested, even
by prominent Mormons. President
Nephi l.. Morris of this city in his
speech ct the Salt Lake theatcr on
Wednesday evening, February oath,
1909, 'a-e circulation throughout the
State to the story Of this deal, and
plainly gave his hearers to understand
that lie believed it to be true. He re.
cited his conversations with a number
Of members of the legislature, and
summed up: "The deal has been de-
MED, but three members of the house
practically admitted the existence of
the obligation-three men who voted
against the Cannon bill
Judge King in his speech at the Dem
oSratic convention in Provo emphatical
ly affirmed that deal, saying that "the
Republican machine sold whatever
honor it held within its own party to
the liquor interests of this State for
money
Former Mayor William L. Roylance,
referring to this same matter, said
that "there have been good many
things done In Utah that make Demo
Gratis shiver, There have been good
many things done by the Republicans
of Utah that they should be ashamed
of. - Elder D. H. Morris of ST. George,
a member of the legislature of 1909,
and other speakers referred unmistak-
ably to this same deal
President B. H. Roberts in his letter
to the Provo Herald emphatically re
iterated his belief in the deal, stating
the amount of money that was receiN ID
We do not suppose that even so callous
and rascally liar as Smoot would
claim that President Roberts got his
information and rested his belief ex-
clusively on what The Tribune reported
Large numbers of speakers in the
present campaign have emphatically
proclaimed their belief in it, and a.
number of the members of the last leg
islature during the session Of that body
advanced the same opinion without re-
serve.
For Smoot to come ont now and say
that the story rests entirely on the
of The Tribune is one of the
most brazen pieces of imppdent men.
dacity that this State has ever seen
To be sure, The Tribune believed the
story, and believes it now, tnis on evi-
dence that has convinced multitudes of
others. 1t printed it az the current
news of the day, and printed it also
as given utterance by numbers of the
legislators and by speakers of different
parties at various times. 1t is impos.
sible for Smoot to make anybody be
lieve his statement. He is an impu-
dent liar in his Logan remarks under
this head, and he must necessarily
stand before the people of this State
as utterly unworthy of belief Not only
so, but as a man who to advance his
political arguments and to clinch his
political points stops at no falsehood
and hesitates at no calumny.