Show SCURVY journalism IT i gratify gratifying ft to know that nothing the NEWS can do pleas pleases esthe the distorters dist of the truth who apost appall it in abo columns of the salt bait lake tribune bune we pointed J out the said to have been mails made by mr W H chelous smith of ogden before the mouse committee when the faulkner bill wad under discussion anis the tribune speaks of as honest enough on our part but it sours vm on the doubt we eVres expressed sed as to the correctness of the report of the proceedings and says that is scurvy of our neighbor after proving its own champion to be a liar it is not fair for it to express an opinion that bune tinted the report because it has no grounds for any such spinson spin lon 11 this is 18 in the scurvy 1 tribune terso favorite style in the be first place he knows that mr smith la Is not on our r champion nor the oliam champion plon of the church as it intimated ia a day or two ago nor is he be our attorney at as it calls him in another part of the same game article from which we now quote nor did our friends neglect nele ct mr smith or have anything 0 do with ith his lon 11 in the second place we did not prove him to be a liall liar we showed that he be was inaccurate af if the tribunes Di bunes report was correct in the third place we did not say the tribune tinted the report but express expressed id the opinion that mr smiths remar remarks had bad been garbled and tinted presumably by the reporter lastly we have very good grounds for such an opinion and they are that the herald report does not contain the objection able ablo items and that the tribune frequently ly indeed as a rule contains not only garbled and tinted reports of both democratic and republican speeches and meetings but butof of religious services and sermons this has become so notorious that it is a public pu alic scandal we can prove when necessary that the tribune has printed accounts of gatherings that aid not take place statements about discourses courses and prayers by persons who were not present pr ebent and remarks that were never made by anybody present or absent its reports of meetings met tings and speeches of its opponents are usually unreliable and oft often en wilfully false and deceptive the NEWS in this case did what the tribune is not likely to do that isa is it defended a political opponent from misrepresentation and while pointing out the errors in the alleged statements of his detractor gave him the benefit of the doubt as to chiq words being correctly reported the meanest thing about the mean articles the tribune prevaricator las written on this matter is the charge that the church the saints and the NEWS have I 1 eleo ted n hired and sent men to washing ng ton who do not represent them nor their cause and whom the scribe himself does not believe for a moment is connected with us in any way way what ever if there is anything that justifies the use of the term scurvy it is that kind of low lived journalism |