| Show IT HAS COME AT LAST Marshal Parsons Sues the Tribune For Libel 525000 DAMAGES CLAIMED The Domestic Infelicity of the Liberal Republican Repub-lican Union Will be Aired In Court Manager Lannan Talks It has come at last The family jar in the RepublicanLiberal campus came to a focus last evening when Marshal Parsons hurled a legal thunderbolt thunder-bolt back at the Tribune It had been rumored for several days that the marshal proposed to meet the attacks tacks made upon him by that paper with a libel suit and the papers were filed in the Third district court last evening Marshal Parsons claims damages in the sum of 25000 and his attorneys are Judge Hen lerson Arthur Brown J L Rawlins and E B Critchlow THE COMPLAINT Following is the complaint in full In the district court of the Third ju dicial district territory of Utah county of Salt Luke Elias H Parsons plaintiff vs the Tribune Publishing company defendant The plaintiff complains of the defendant and alleges that at the date of the filing of this complaint and at all tho dates hereinafter mentioned the defendant was andis a corpora lon duly organized and existing under the I Intra of the territory of Utah and doing business busi-ness as such that the plaintiff now bolus the office of UNITED STATES MARSHAL for the said territory of Utah and has been such officer from ana since the 18th day of July IbSU that the said defendant publishes a newspaper news-paper having a large dally and weekly circulation circula-tion within the city and county of bait Lake and territory of Utah and elsewhere within the United States that in the dally Issue of said paper published on the Jind day of December ibJl the said defendant IALSELY AND MALICIOUSLY published of and concerning plaintiff towit THE CASE OF MARSHAL PARSONS The Tribune opposed the appointment of E g 1naora H Parsons as United States marshal and warned the President that if he should be appointed ap-pointed he would dishonor his administration We did it because we believed he was a thoroughly corrupt man a hypocrite and amoral a-moral leper When he was annotated however the Tribune announced that would judge him in his office i solely by the record he mado in that office We I have been true to our word Of late it has I been a duty to Investigate some of the accounts of Parsons shortcomings as they have been brought in The investigation has cost some money and the facts we have presented have all been smoothed down Much that we have obtained is TOO GROSSLY INDECENT for publication In the meantime he has been swaggering around and threatening a libel suit so soon as his attorney should return We knew that he might begin the suit we knew quite as well that if he should it would simply be a sorry Bluff that there is not power enough In the steamroller to draw him up to the point of bringing the suit to trial for he knows that the Tribune when it attacks a man has the facts Now we understand that the grand jury is considering con-sidering his case on its merits If that be true from what we know that body cannot fail to In dict him for various offenses covering the WHOLE RANGE OF CRIMES from dishonesty in office to gross and beastly crimes which are a shame to anyone wearing the human form There nre other things which even the grand jury cannot reach He has been a common liar and slanderer has been going around defaming men whose boots he is not worthy to cleanin short he had shown himself utterly wanting in every attribute which is supposed to attach to a gentleman and honest man It is no pleasure not even a satisfaction to know that when we predicted that he would I DISHONOR TUE ADMINISTRATION which gave him an honorable and valuable office we spoke with a clear premonition of what he would be For the sake of his family we wish he might have lived a decent life and performed honestly the duties of his office But he has made his own bed That thereby the said defendant Intended to and did charge the said plaintiff with committing commit-ting various offenses covering the whole range of crimes from dishonesty in office to GROSS AND BEASTLY CRIMES I including in the said charge all crmes defined in the penal code of Utah that the said libel has spoken of the said plaintiff with reference to his position in the public office aforesaid to wit that of United States marshal that the said HLel and each and every innuendo and Insinuation therein is FALSE MALICIOUS DEFAMATORY and injurious to the said plaintiff that by means of the said publication of the said libel the plaintiff has been greatly Injured In mind and in his standing and reputation atSalt Lake city where he lives and in other places where he is known that HIS FEELINGS HAVE BEEN OUTRAGED and his character malignedand injured to his damage in the sum of 525000 Wherefore the said plaintiff demands judgment judg-ment against the said defendant In the SUM OF 25000 and costs of suit Brown A Henderson Rawlins Critchlow attorneys lor plaintiff MR LANNAN SPEAKS P H Lannan the manager of the Tribune Trib-une was seen by a HERALD reporter last evening and when asked how he vIewed the situation he replied The Tribune has not attacked Marshal Parsons througn malice but because it believed it to be a duty I have not consulted my partners yet but wo shall statod on the truth of the article and if Marshal Parsons proves his case he will get the money thats all there is to it The damages claimed in the libel suits now pending against the Tribune aggregate I something like 200000 |
