Show gcorge y 14 CANNONS 8 DENIAL As to a statement attributed to me int nt at a meeting in city on it monday last to the effect that A a certain man mail lied had been paid for stealing the election ol of salt lake city slid and be was now at the head bead of si another nother political organization vaniza tion and my iny later denul denial of having either made or intended any attack upon anybody on the oc calon ion referred to I 1 desi desire re tn in say sav I 1 have absolutely no knowledge of having made the statement quoted above or anything like it so that there could hn han a e been no wilful attention on my part to prejudice or injure the certain man referred to or the cause uit with h which lie is at present in what I 1 have sinco since said concerning the remark I 1 waB was intentionally as poo positive tive and unequivocal as I 1 knew how to be because I 1 felt perfectly confident that it could not have been made without lea leaving vinc some impression on my linit mind w which latter as stated was not the case but bit bi t on conversing subs with some of those to whom I 1 referred preferred in my interview fur its corroboration 1 I was in loomed to my astonishment that thai some such remarks had bad actually been made of course I 1 immediately took pains to have the w bole truth of the incident communicated munica ted to those most affected by it and now feel it only proper that this public occasion should be taken to lay it before the community mu n ity I 1 repeat that there was not a scintilla of malice or malicious intent in mn m mind and no desire to be offensive to anybody and I 1 can call therefore with the utmost candor ador and sincerity express reggie regret t that the incidents should have occurred anything that could be construed into an attempt to reche past bitterness or chiow additional into the excitement unpleasantness present cit ement ement or militate against future harmony and welfare nel fare I 1 dand boregard do regard as aa extremely deplorable an and I 1 should regret exceedingly if anything that I 1 hane hae said could be U ed cd as having a tendency in that unfortunate direction whatever influence I 1 have uita the people of utah I 1 desire to be used to bring about an improved condition of feeling between the dif lerent clas clasps es of the community and that so far it aa politics and office holding bolding are con concerned berned the fords mormon and non mormon should be stricken out of our vocabulary in keeping with the spi spirit of expressions I 1 would farther say that if the gentleman who it lias 11 taken this matter as ae personal to himself is still disposed to regard it as wilful and offensive I 1 wish to withdraw the remarks and trust this statement i ill be to him as an apology FORCE Q CANNON judge powers has pub publicly liely de claibo claier that he be accepts the apology now whose rp porters lied those on oil the republican who made a villainous attack without investigating the matter the republican cana what lea leading dinc democrats deny that geo Q cannon made any attack upon judge we w n ill give fifty dallai a for the name of any such leading democrat will the republican furnish his name or will it arav crawfish fish from the way things at aie e going and from the HIP editorial edit oual in the tribune of last friday it look as if mr cannon was doing more to hurt the state and disrupt the church than judge powers or any anyone else could do will the republican please fasten the lying where it belongs and tell us who did the lying in ill regard to that brigham city aff affair the grand stand plays have all been made by republicans in this campaign to cover up the hie improper ecclesiastical done clone in the lie interest of the republican party |