The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-09
THE BAFFLED DEFAMERS.

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The defamers of DR.. Paden are re-
duced to their last extremity They
| started with the proposition that he had
been arraigning Utah, telling lies about
this State and its people, and that he
| was Justly censurable therefor. Being
confronted with the emphatic aud COM
| plete denial of all the matters charged
against him, the Smoot organ now uu-
or other. by "logic. Accordingly it
had long editorial yesterday morning,
| the gist Of which appeared to he that
even if DR.. Paden had not said the
things attributed to him he ought to
have said them, because logic required
that he should say them. This is alb
surdity reduced OF its ultimate basis,
And not less absurd are the affidavits
produced, that couple his associates with
them and say that his associates -
have said evil things even if no hasn T..
The coupling Of his associates now in
the charges made, since DR.. Paden em-
phatically denies all attributed to him,
is dishonest suhtcrtuge to let the or
iginaI liar down easy. Some "asso-
ciate" said it, Therefore charge it on
DIR. Padcn!
The Smoot organ joins the Deserct
News in stating that DR.. Padcn was
hand in glove with The Tribune in
American party operations here, and
that, therefore, he is TO be blamed any"
how, and they seem TO consider that
anything that they may take notion
to attribute to him BY way of utter
ance, argument. or charge is defensible
on general principles. The dishonesty
Of all that, however, requires no ar
gument, and on that point the Doctor
needs no defense.
At the same time that the Smoot Or
gan and the Deseret News are falsely
arraigning DR.. Padcn because he did
not say what they wanted to attribute
to him, and because DR.. Paden was at
one time supporter OF the American
party in Utah, they both emphasize
the point that DR.. Paden did not fol-
low the American party in its cam
paign of 1911, that he did not act with
The Tribune, and that he supported
the Citizens movement,
If it is true that DR., Paden rejected
the American party in the campaign
of 1911 and supported the Citizens
ticket, why is not the presumption in
his favor so far as the News is con-
cerned, since that is precisely what the
News wanted done7 If the presump-
tion is against DR.. Paden as TO the fact
of what he said, because he was an
American party worker and because be
worked with The Tribune, is not the
presumption changed so that it is in
his favor from the News S standpoint,
from the fact that he refused TO act
with the American party in the cam
paign Of 1911 and opposed The Tribune
in that election? If not, why not :
If the presumption should be against
him because he was with The Tribune
time, why is not the presumption for
him when later he changed and fought
the American party and opposed The
Tribune9 Why should the presumption
be always against him and never in his
favor, especially when he completely
and emphatically denied both what the
Smoot organ charged against him and
what the Deseret News charged against
him7 When we say that his denial is
complete, we, Of course, do not take
any account OF the foolish claim in
the Deseret News that DR.. Paden
charged the Mormon officials with be-
ing engaged in the white slave traf-
fc. That IS something so utterly fool
ish and unwarrantcd that we do not
consider any reputable citizen under
the slightest necessity to deny it, or
refer to it in any way.
But it is surely pitiful position
for the defamers of DR. Paden TO find
themselves in, when they are proved
specifically and definitely to have made
false reports of what he was saying in
Chicago, and when they are now
obliged to fall back on a proposition
that logically he ought to be expected
to say those things. Logically DR.. Pa
den ought not to bo expected to say
anything but the truth, and that ex.
pectation we are firmly convinced was
fully met in what he said, We are
sure that he said nothing but the truth
in his Chicago addresses, just as lie says
nothing but the truth in any addresses
that he makes. His assailants are
themselves in the pit which they dug
So