Show NOT QUITE ACCURATE We have no desIre to take from the Tribune such comfort as it can c n get out of the record its friends made In Inthe inthe the contest waged against the title of Senator Smoot to hIs place in the Unit United United ed States Senate The Tho owners of the paper in question devoted themselves with a remarkable persIstency to the fight against the decision of their state in the tho matter and quite as the judgment of the nation And they naturally are eager to get some consolation from avery a avery very slender result But we will have to correct their statement that it was the friends of f Senator Smoot Who vho spread the state statement statement ment and made the formal forma charge that he was a It is perfectly known that even cven th the Tribune fathered that charge at the time oYthe contest and even after the vote of the senate settled the case for all time that pa paper paper per declared Smoot had h d never yet dis disproved proved that he was a polygamIst It Is gratifying to note the Tribunes clear el declaration even at this late day Its statement that the senator is not and ar r W k will knot ba forgotten But it must not be permit I te to charge with m against himself That is hard hardly hardly ly reasonable And It has the further weakness Of not at all beIng in accord with the facts |