Show THE HERALD AND LABOR UNIONS the salt lake herald editor who can turn more Bomer in its editorial writing than all other editors in the state combined and whose paper stands confessed as the only paper in the state that was loaned to millionaires for a money consideration takes deeply to heart the statement of the standard that the labor unions helped to defeat governor wells or renoil nation the herald says that governor wells owes his defeat entirely and absolutely sol to senator reed smoot ot provo and the influences senator smoot was able to bring to bear we challenge the herald to the proof of that statement we further state that one delegate from ogden who was azember of the federated trades council did more to switch votes from wells to cutler between the two ballots for the gubernatorial nomination than all other influence combined and reed smoot had absolutely no influence with this labor delegate whatever the standard editor does not claim that governor wells did wrong in the carbon county matters but we do claim that organized labor was offended by the haste governor wells displayed in bending troops to the troubled district the herald need not fool itself on that proposition at erfil governor wells has repeatedly stated himself that union labor has resented hg action in carbon county even going so far as to state that union men refused to work in the same mine with soldiers who were in the carbon county trouble the heralds contention Is inconsistent and would be analogous to a statement that the labor unions ot colorado do not object to the sending of the militia to cripple creek because the mine owners association and the citizens favor euch action the herald baye it is not holding a brief for defending governor wells that is probably true governor wells needs no defense so far as the arciclo in this paper is concerned because no attack was mado upon him there was simply a statement of fact concerning tho sentiment of the labor unions in regard to governor wells that the heralda 1 Is leatho lo 10 drevs revs nize the and would take the sido adverse to ho labor unions Is readily explained ita alleged owners senators clark and kearne and david keith are millionaire and the second of the three visited colorado recently for tha avowed purpose as staled tn one of his organs to ascertain now tho colorado authorities t the socialistic tendency among the miners |