Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-17
a EINAL EXPLANATION.

Noyle. is checrrully given this prom
inent space. Notwithstanding the crit
icism of this paper contained in 1t. Mr..
Movie is OF the opinion that an edi-
torial in the News of Nov. Z. re-
on the previous Saturday, has placed
him in a false position before the
readers of this paper, representing
him as unjustly attacking the News
and giving to the Tribune undue
praise. and as we have no other de-
sire, no other aim. than to give the
truth, and the whole truth, to our.
under all circumstances, we gladly
accord to our correspondent the OPP
portunity of stating his position. No
one who knows Mr.. Moyle Will believe
for a minute that he Is otherwise than
loyal and true to his party, as to his
friends and his Church, and there was
certainly no intention on our part to
insinuate. much less affirm. co-opera-
ton between him, as the chairman
OF the Democratic party, and the pa
per that has slandcrcd the party. Will
lied the Church leaders. and been a
detriment to the business interests of
this City. We certainly had no inten-
ton of aiding In the creation of such
false impression, but If this has been
done through anything that has APP
peared IN the News" an apology is
hereby sincerely rendered Mr.. Moyle
did draw what to the Editor of this
paper appeared to be an odious COM
parison which we felt should not pass
unnotlced, but in offering u word of
defense for the News" we certainly
did not intend to place Mr. Moyle in
false light. The gentleman's COLI
municatlon follows:
ITO the Editor of The News: wish to
make another appeal to your sense
of Justice, and ask YOU to state my
position 1nirly to your readers.
Nov that the campaign is over and
I. the Republican party has realized all
1T could from your attack upon me,
land Indirectly the Democratic party,
tor your editorial was so treated by
the aldRepublican,) in your lead
ing editorial of the evening prcced-
ing election, l will ask you to print the
following excerpt from the stenosra-
phic report of my talk in the Salt Lake
y theater last Saturday night, and which
covers all l said about The Deseret
News and Tribune:
~ call the attention of the Re-
publicans, who are here tonight, to
the fact, that having no newspaper;
nor even, by the way, would The
Deserct News publish my offer OF
reward for the answer to that tclc-
gram. and VIC had no other means of
reaching the people. True, they did
publish 1t in part, like they have
published In part practically every
thing that we have given them
Everything that we had to publish
has been sent to all the papers, even
TO the neutrality-suspicious. which says
that we took the Tribune only as our
organ. which paper Is entitled to the
credit of having published what we
gave them. The erald-Republican
has had the same opportunity but 1t
didn't publish the. letters in order
that they might say that the Tribune
was our organ and thus lie aboutu
1t stated that Mr.. Roberts letter was
first published in the Salt Lake
. Tribune. We offered 1t to them and we
would have been glad If they had
published 1t: VIC would have paid them
to publish It, AS n matter of fact. 1t
was first published the day before 1t
appeared In The Tribune. In the Daily
Herald at Provo, paper that we had
4 to get to help us out in this campaign
In southern Utah. and when they say
to the people of this state that It was
first published in the Salt Lake
Tribune. it Is false. The Tribune was
the only great paper In Salt Lake that
would publish 1t; to its credit
There was nothing In that or in
anything | said TO Justify the follow
ing In your editorial of Monday:
. I Mpyl in.
address on Saturday. took occasion to
say that The Descret News had refused
to print matter sent to II from Demo-
cratic headquarters; that 1t had mutt
lated copy and In general played havoc
With It, At the same time he Landed
the so-caled american" party organ
for Its generosity in the matter OF
space
10 give The Tribune credit for an
act OF fairness, and for printing signed
statements without mutilatlon is not
laudation 1t Is a simple act of Justice
to which any newspaper is entitled
when 1t treats political opponents with
courtesy.
ITO give tn, devil his due is not an
approval Of what he stands for. any
moro than the refusal Of The News to
advocate statewide prohibition when
there Is an opportunity Of getting 1t,
Indicates It's entire abandonment of the
principle involved.
But | do wish to call Your at
tention 70 the fact that you gave un-
usual prominence to an unauthorized
and unfonnded rumor. started as YOU
now know, by a Republican in a public
restaurant, that n deal had been CON
sunmated between the Democratic and
the American leaders: that you ran 1t
under large scare head in your issue
of Nov, 3 while my reward OF thou
sand dollars offered for an answer al
legged to have been nt-bv the Wash
irr'on delegation to prohibition Re-
publicans IN this city, concerning n
public question before the state Iegis-
lnturc, was remodccd and putt on a
page Of advertising matter where 1t
could he found only with difficulty.
and | want to ask you, MS ~ friend
and subscriber to your paper, how II
hnppens that. although YOU conscien-
tlously rcpprt prize fights and horse
races, there was not N word about the
women's temperance meeting of Sat
urday afternoon nor of the magnificent
Democratic meeting, both held In the
Salt Lake thcnter on the Saturday att
erroon and night preceding the cleo
ton?
IN the editorial from which the fore
going excerpt is taken you say;
1--WE have printed notices Of meet
lngs to be held all over the state, and
reports. of meetings
s5ss"You define the policy Of The News
4 to be the giving Of news impartially.'
Il In View of this declaration please OK
,4g plain these matters to which I have
5called your attention. Remember that,
8sauite contrary to the accustomed rule