The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08
HOW THE DETRAoToRs soUIRM!

As was to have been expected, the
Smoot organ undertakes to maintain
the accuracy of its report OF DR.. Pa
den 8 remarks, in spite OF the explicit
and complete denial that he said the
things attributed to him in Chicago or
anywhere else. It said yesterday
morning that it obtained its informa-
tion as to what DR.. Paden said "from
reliable sources and it gives some
names in connection Herewith. And
yet the report was totally false. How,
then, could it possibly be called relia-
BILE? As to the bad repute Of the or
gan itself its notorious and repeated
falsities, its unscrupulous disregard for
veracity, or for the character or repute
must make its statements in a matter
of this kind absolutely futile. The
Salt Lake public has been imposed upon
so often and so braZenly by that pa
per, which seems to think that all it
has to do is TO tell what it considers
good lie and stick to it in order to have
some portion at least Of the public be-
Eeve that it is telling the truth, that
this public is obliged to condemn the
organ, for its falsity is so notorious
that the discerning citizen will not put
the least trust in anything that that
organ may say by way Of exculpating
itself from the desperate plight in
which it finds itself in all this busi.
mess regarding DR.. Paden.
There was nothing before this COM
munity by way of agitation or in any
way derogatory to Utah, nothing said
anywhere TO occasion a furore; but all
at once from the clear sky came the
false claim that DR.. Paden had been
saying some dreadful things about Utah
and about the Mormons. The Tribune
never believed those reports for one
moment, and stated from the first that
it was sure that they were misrepre
sentations and falsehoods. AS soon as
we could get DR.. Paden, we telegraphed
as said by him. He made an absolute,
complete, and positive denial Of the
whole matter, saying: "I have not
said here or elsewhere any Of the things
you cite as quotations from my speech.
es,' the citations being the box head
in the Smoot organ which give special
ly vicious quotations and attributed
them TO DR.. Paden.
And yet that organ undertakes to be-
little the denial Of DR.. Paden and to
insist that its report came from relia-
bic sources! It multiplies the charges
against itself by stating that this is
not the first time that it has misrep-
resented DR.. Paden, alleging that on
the 18th it printed a. letter from Mr.. E.
II. Van Cott containing the facts in
substantially the same words as the
later one that aroused The Tribune,
yet Dr. Paden did not deny them
then" The Tribune has no recollec-
tion Of seeing anything Of this kind
but the organ in pleading that the of.
fense which aroused the interest Of
The Tribune was not its first offense
in this direction, simply adds to it's
offense and stigmatizes it as a hard
ened offender, repeated and unscru-
pulous vilifier Of DIR, Paden, without
reason or cause. It's position in this
whole matter is most pitiable, and
would be insupportable by a paper
that had any regard whatever for
truth, decency, or the ordinary courte.
sizes and amenities that prevail among
mankind,