The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-24
MOTIVE IGNoBLY Confessed.

When the Smoot organ came out in
such a vic and vicious TRADE of bill
lingsgatc against former Senator Can
non of Utah, ostensbly on account of
a Bve-linc paragraph III The Tribune
suggesting him as compromise can
didate for the Senate IN Colorado, we
expressed the opinion that that sug-
gestion could not possibly have been
the real motive for the attack Tho
Smoot paper now comes forward with
confession that that is true, 1t re-
yeals the true motive as the Cannon
articles in Everybody's Magazine,
which give an account of the secret
manipulations whereby polygamy was
restored in practice after it had been
given up in theory by reason of the
Woodruff Manifesto of 1890. The
Manifesto seems to have been kept, so
far as new polygamy is concerned, for
three or four years, and then, as Sen
ator Cannon points out, the compact
was violated and the original "revcla-
tion'' enjoining polygamy was put in
w lhc chOi %
Of then Apostle and now President Jo-
seph +. Smith Resentment at these
exposures was the real reason why the
vicious assault was made upon Frank
J. Cannon. This was confessed yes
torday morning i'll a supplementary
ragtag of billjngsgate, in which Shake
speare is mangled and the English Ian
guage outraged in a big triple-column
display, next to the advertising. TRADE
in its issue of yesterday morning.
In that blunderbus wad of trash the
Smoot organ reiterates its old story
about Senator Kearns and Senator Du
bois going to New York to arrange for
the publication of those articles. The
only difference is that heretofore it has
said that they arranged with Pearson 8
Now it leaves out Pear
son S, hoping no doubt to escape the
odium of being selfconfessed and
evident liar Every time the Smoot
paper has made this charge heretofore
it has said that the arrangement was
made with Pearson S Magazine. But
when this charge was first made, The
Tribune wrote to the editor of Pear
son S Magazine, inquiring as to the
facts and he sent a prompt denial
That denial was sent first to the Smoot
organ, which refused to print it, Then
it was sent to The Tribune, which
printed it and showed the dishonest
method of the Smoot paper. Neither
Mr.. Kearns nor Mr.. Dubois. the ed
itor of Pearson's IS declared, had any
thing whatever to do with the publi- |
cation, Then the Smoot paper printed
what purported to be letter from the
editor of Pearson IS, but which was eN-
posed later as composite fraud, TAX
ing a few words out of one letter and |
q few words out of another and join
ing them together, so as to make an
appearance Of a statement which, in
fact, never was made. The unscrupu
Gus rascality of the Smoot paper be-
ng thus exposed, it subsided for a
while, but at times the old rabies comes
Ipon it again, and it reiterates that
'alschood, repeatedly exposed as false
1y the very person who would be GER
ain to know.
This time, as stated, it does not say
hat the arrangement was made by
Iessrs Kearns and Dubois with Pear
on g Magazine. But il undertakes to
make it appear that the arrangement
vas made by them with Everybody
which is simply shift of
ground for the old lie, for nothing of
he kind was arranged by either of
hem, and neither did they have any
hing to do with the matter in any
hape or form, either for Pearson 8 or
or Evervhodys In fact, they knew
lothing about it until the arrange
nent had been made for the publica-
ion.
So that the Smoot paper. simply on
foundation of lies of its own build
ng, bases this false story and repeats
{ from time to time with the assur-
nee and hardihood Of we'll seasoned
ogue. The whole attitude of the
'moot paper with regard to this mat
er is a disgrace TO Utah journalism,
nd simply shows that the Smoot paper.
o far from repenting of its mis-
leeds. which have made it the scorn
nd contempt of everyone in Utah, is
onstantly seeking lower depths to
fhich it can burrow, and searching for
urther efforts al self .abasement, which
sll sink it yet further in the just con-