The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-17
Now C0nfesSeS That .CenSuS
Figures We're Obtained in
Salt Lake.
DISREPUTABLE SHEET IS
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS
That Famous Washington Cor
respondent" Is Only a
Mouth" Myth.

The Morning Gimlct," some times
known as the Herald Republican. Is an
institution OF short memory When the
"Gimlet" published It's special dispatch
from Washington giving what it alleged
were the census figures for Salt Lake
city, IL emphasized the assertion that this
information came from Washington, and
from Washington only. The "Gimlet'
lay stress on the excellence OF its wash
ington service and lauded its mythical
Washington correspondent TO tho skies
and little higher. He was the eternal
lynX-cye dog on watch for the "Glmlct'
In Washington. was this correspondent
Nothing ever got past him; no, indeed.
That was only q few months ago. The
Washington correspondent had landed the
census figures for the "Gimlet' and for
the 'GImlet' solely and a'onc- Now 1t
develops that the Washington CORE
spondcnt didn't have a iinger In the pie
at all. Laudation Of him has ceased,
and The real heroes come to the front.
Listen TO this from the "Glmlet's" cdi-
torial OF Wednesday morning:
1T wasn't much Of sensation in the
Herald Republican Office. The employees
of this paper are on the Herald Republi-
can pay roll because they are the most cf-
ilcicnt in the west. Note that Washing
ton has suddenly been transferred to the
wcst.I They arc the best men of their
calling and so forth ad libitum and ad
nauScatum.
When Did He Co.
Just preceding that sudden switch of
Washington and its Justly famous corrc- =
spondcnt TO the west. The "Gimlct" has
20 offer.
"Our figures were 1926 below those
given out Monday at Washington. The
Fort Douglas figures account for 1000.
the publication In the Herald -Republi-
can, AS THE REPORT WAS NOT
SENT TO WASHINGTON FOR 4 WEEK
AETER a TER WE PUBLISHED THE FIG
That ought TO be clear enough. Even
the use OF an improved and up-t date
urim and thummim couldn't make it
palmer The tgures were printed in the
Washington. Just so, The Tribune said
at tho time that the figures were pifercd
from the OFFICE OF the census supervisor.
that was the only way they could have
were not sent To Washington until Il
week after the "Gimlct" had printed
them; 1t is slightly difficult to under
stand how that Jealous Washington corrc =
spondent could have got them. when, in
deed they had never left Salt Lake, and
did not leave Salt Lake for IL week
Mr., McMillin Talks.
In another issue the "Gimlct," by nee
essary inference, accuses Supervisor IL
a, McMil!in Of having knowledge OF how
the figures got out Mr.. McMilln said
last night;
II have TO say what ] always said
that those figures did not come from
Washington but were stolen from the
supervisors office. There is every cvi-
dcncc that this is so, SO far from the
additions the Herald Republican reCer.,
To being only nincty-six. the additions in
fact. we're moro than 500 The census
of Fort Douglas was not 1000. il was
l0t2."
Mr. McMllin again cmphatically denied
that he had the slightest inlslinG of how
the figures were purloued from his Of
flee, but his indignation over the fact
that they were abstracted WAS none the
less keen.
Having admitted that the Washing
ton special was a myth. and that tho
figures were stolen here. II may not he
amiSs To ask what has become OF the
cycr-alert Washington correspondent
Neither may il be so very wide Of the
mark To suggest that the "Gimlct' got
the census liguroS where II got the $4,000
graft from Salt Lake county for printing
that notorious tax list.