Show WORKING V OVER AN OLD LIEr The Tribune is trying in tn 1908 to get the benefit of or one of oC its Ils infamous acts of or five years ago aco This is that papers paper's shameless confession of total tic dc- pra The Tribune printed yesterday morning the tho warning of oC President Roosevelt given out in January 1903 to the people ot of Utah against the election elec elec- tion of or an apostle of the Mormon church to he be United States senator President Roosevelt said at that time that the election to the United Stales States senate of an apostle would work great harm barth to the state It would be Yer very unwise And further it would certainly lead ead to content contentions tons strife and anti bitterness hero here if it not in Utah and would unquestionably be he n a misfortune to those who ho are interested in all that t goes to make malie the state of ot Utah prost prosperous pros pros- t and great creat H He lie proceeded led to tol l 1 warn wain the legislature against any 11 such t act and closed by by- saying I 1 you 01 to place me on record as kindly but firmly advising ad ng against the election elec clec tion of oC any apostle to a l United States Yes that is what the tho Tribune printed print print- ed and ed-and and an abominable lie lb it was too Theodore Roosevelt never sent that message never ne wrote the words never spoke them never ne thought the sentiments senti senti- I meats ments those those- words express s. s That message was a forgery and the tho most shameless and insolent usurpation usurpation I pat pation on of tf a great name that has offended offended of of- fended the chronicles of American pol pol- Alexander Hamilton used to ac- ac cuso Aaron Burr Durr of measureless Infamies In In- but not in in all nn the accusations ot or that master of 01 invective is there anything laid to the charge of or Burr Durr that equalled the true true- stor story of this tills dispatch which the Tribune In the present week haS Las twice printed J The Tho truth of ot it is th tho dispatch was vas dictated by Perry Heath then iu In Washington and then an ambitious I for fern a seat sent in the United States t t r j J i ti l it II senate from Utah He dictated that tha dispatch in the tho office of or Henry C C. Payne and amI in the tho presence of Tom Kearns of oC Utah and Richard C C. C Koron I of Missouri It was sent at tho the moment moment mo mo- ment meat when it was expected to influence ence enco the action of Utah Republicans to prevent tho the expression slon of their own free choice anti and it was expected to do 10 its work before a denial could be demanded de tie- by Utah anti and responded to bj hr Mr Roosevelt Roose Theodore Roosevelt never sent that tha dispatch and there Isn't a marl man In the world word who knows it better belter than Torn Ton Kearns Reams owner owner of ot tho Tribune in which paper this republication cation of of a five five- year year old old Infamy is now reproduced tJ Theodore Roosevelt never nover s sent nt tha that dispatch and his actions a thousand times have e proved his sentiments were ero not there expressed Ho lie has received received re re- re Reed Smoot with all nIl the fairness fairness fairness fair fair- ness arid anti equity equit which an any man can ask has accorded him just tho the same measure of privilege e other senators enjoy and has found Mr Smoot deserving de do- serving of ever every consideration a a genteman gentleman gen gen- tieman teman a loyal citizen en of the United States a faithful representative e from Utah and a man of or the very er first ability Theodore Roosevelt never ne sent that message an and for four years rears tho the Tribune Tribune Trib Trib- une tine has been trying to blackmail him because ho he didn't and dIdn't-and and because he wouldn't let Tom Kearns twist him about his political little finger er Theodore Roosevelt had been assured assured as IS at that time that Mr 11 Smoot was as a 0 polygamist and had been heen convinced convinced con con- vinced o of it because of Ot his reliance on what he lie supposed was the honor of oC I I Tom Torn Kearns and anti Perr Perry Heath KnowIng KnowIng Know- Know Ing lag he ha had been imposed on trusting in the intelligence and anti manhood of oC the tho Republicans of Utah Mr Smoots Smoot's friends here never demanded of or Mr rr Roosevelt a verification of that dis dis- patch THEY TIlEY KNEW time would reveal reveal reveal re re- re- re veal tho the origin of oC it And Anti that is what time did dill reveal reveal- lon long ong ago Perr Perry Heath the carpetbagger dic ilic dictated that dispatch before his true time character was wac known before he was chased from the national committee at the tail of a criminal crowd Perry Heath dictated that dispatch at a time when he believed he lie had the friendship of tho the gang with which he worked here in Utah Utah the the treacherous treacherous erous Kearns Reams outfit that never dealt fair with a l. l friend nor much hurt hurl an anI enem enemy lo It was at the tho time when the sU silly Perry was used as a stalking horse hors for Dave Daye Keith and who would have ha made his Ills infamous abuse of oC Roosevelt's name the means of boost boost- lag InS one of his owners to a seat sear beside his other owner owner and and left Jelt them both laughing at him for the sucker that he was Now ow the Tribune knows the crimInal criminal criminal crim crim- inal origin of that dispatch and knows that plenty plent of or men here and at Wash Wash- know the history of or it It is like that paper to tr try to get belated benefit from an act so base that not another political coterie from here to I the would stoop to it Sure the tho Tribune printed that yesterday yesterday yes esterday es morning An And tho the Tribune I knew when It tt did so that forgery was again as usual one ono of or its means to toI strive Sor Jor or an unholy end |