Show IMPORTANT FALSEHOOD REPUTED The following political roorback appeared ap-peared in the Salt Lake Tribune on election day Nov 6 1894 A PENROSE LIE NAILED A Democratic falsehood was neatly shown up and efuted yesterday by the following letter which explains itself A L Toone Esq Ogden UtahIn the absence of George Q Cannon who isin Idaho J am able to say to you and through you to whom it concerns that Charles AV Penrose takes an unwarranted un-warranted liberty in doing what you say he did namely declare to the people peo-ple of North Ogden for the purpose of catching votes that President Cannon is a Democrat Whatever President Cannons past affiliations may have been I understand him to be a believer be-liever in a protective tariff reciprocity of trade with other nations in articles of consumption welch cannot be produced pro-duced in the United States and in the principle of bounty which would place him without the vale of Democracy according ac-cording to the present Democratic doctrinaries GEORGE F GIBBS Secretary The purpose of the foregoing is evident evi-dent It appeared at a time when it was supposed it would be too late for I the truth to be told so as to correct the impression it was intended to create I Charles W Penrose did not take the unwarranted liberty which George F Gibbs impertinently assumes to denounce de-nounce The undersigned did not state at North Ogden or at any other place anything about President Cannon He did state that the Delegates in Congress Con-gress from Utah were Democrats and mentioned them all from Dr Bernhisel to J L Rawlins of course including George Q Cannon In doing this he toook no liberty whatever but merely mentioned facts which are historic George F Gibbs however takes the unwarranted liberty to express his I opinion as to President Cannons political belief which is not in question ques-tion He does not deny that Hon George Q Cannon was a Democrat in Congress or that he is a Democrat now What George F Gibbs understands or is able to say on this matter is of very little consequence to any one and would not have been noticed but for the fact that his impudent use of my name in this connection has been furnished for publication It is not the first time that George Fr Gibbs has taken unwarranted liberties with the names of church authorities in reference refer-ence to political matters as he does now with President Cannons and he has shown no more discretion in this than on former occasions If he had read the Deseret News instead of rushing into print in the Tribune he would have learned that if the gentleman for whom he undertakes to speak has anything to say to the people he will know how and when to say it without aid or prompting from those who seem so fearfully solicitous that he may be understood The political trick which George F Gibbs undertook in this instance in-stance whether for the purpose of catching votes or otherwise will only revert to his own discredit I CHARLES W PENROSE |