The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-22
THAT WILSON CANARD.

IN its issue OF Sunday. October 18th
the Smoot organ in this city had for
its leading editorial a vile falsehood
told against Governor Wilson by Que
j. w. Park Of Los Angeles, who SAYS
that when he was n student of Prince
ton, Mr.. Wilson expressed himself in
the following words:
do not believe in democracy-tho rule
.of uic many believe in aristocracy-
the rule of the few; bat ! wish an aris-
iocracy Of brains, not OF wealth,
! disapprOve OF the Chautauqua idea
The attempt 10 give srnattering Of cul-
ture 70 everybody. which results In Sc
curing conceit withou, knowledge
! am opposed TO the higher education
Tor the common people: somebody must
do Tie d!-iE work of The world; why
shouldn't Inc children @; The working
classes be brought up 10 do ;ne worl,
'he'r parents are now doing
The fact that this stupid SANDER wa,
Instantly denied upon its reaching the
East cut no figure with the Smoot
organ. which printed the story after
II was denounced n a lie, precisely as
though there had been no denial. and
n If the expression attributed TO Gov
eruor Wilson had been fully proved
upon him.
The Tribune, while being As firmly
opposed 20 the election Of Governor
Wilson as any paper can be, promptly
pointed out the uniairnes, Of that kind
Of campaigning. We did SO primarily
because that sort of political work is
indecent. scandalous. and such as no
true man will indulge in: and second,
because upon the facts becoming
known. there is sure TO be a reaction
in favor Of the man who has thus
falsely been accused; for the Amer
lean people are fair. manly, and resent
full of that sort of Justification That
sort of work not only does no good with
fair.minded Americans, but surely re.
acts against those who bring the false
charge.
And vet the direct positive. and re.
peated dcnials OF that foolish story
did no, prevent the Smoot organ from
again making it prominent editorially
in it's issue of Sunday last To be
sure, the type reproducing the scan
dalous charge was not quite so big and
so black as in the issue of the week
before, but 1t was big enough and
black enough to establish the willful
dishonesty and obstinate perversity Of
the Smoot organ in insistcntly putting
forward as a charge against a Presi-
Dental candidate a story which he
had specifically and dccisivelv branded
as altogether false.
The repetition Of this story received
its due castigation in the replies from
the Wilson campaign department in
Chicago in shc form Of q specific and
absolute denial from Governor Wilson
that he had ever entertained OF uttered
such sentiments and dcnunciation
from him OF Mr.. j w. Park, who
started this story, as man who
showed in his studies at Princeton a
complete confusion Of thought and in
ability to get his degree. Governor
Wilson states that this story told by
Park is only "another instance Of his
tcrprct anything said to him.
And so this Park story is, let US
hope, entirely put to rest, for it is un-
bclievable that any American edu
Gator or public man would harbor any
such thoughts as those attributed TO
Governor Wilson, much less give eI-
preston TO them in instruction in a
or in an American school, OF
utter them in any form or on any oc-
casion. For. the hope Of the Republic
is in the education Of all of its people,
and the full endowment Of them with
all of the powers necessary for the
exercise Of high order Of citizenship,
and this is impossible without cdu-
cation.
But it is singular indeed that the
Smoot organ should lay itself open to
such apprehension ss is necessarily in
volvcd in its repeated publication of
what il fully comprehends to be dis
reputable campaign falsebood. None
but a paper Of the most depraved ten
1encics and wholly callous to honor or
icccucy would persist in this sort of
viudictive and easily rcfuted false
hood.