Show THEY KEEP AT IT The refined gentlemanly and courteous courte-ous editor of the Salt Lake Tribune states that the straightforward statement state-ment of The Herald as to the authorship author-ship and responsibility of the letter which has occasioned so mu h controversy contro-versy is simply an evasion We omit the epithets the public know what they are without repetition from us If there was anything evasive In the language lan-guage of The Herald we fail to perceive per-ceive it and it has not been pointed outThe The latest twist which the Tribune has given to this matter is that the substance the letter was dictated to One of The Herald staff and prepared by him We have reason to believe that the writer of that positive falsehood false-hood knew when he penned it that it was every wbrd untrue No person connected in any way with The Herald either wrote it or dictated it or had Ian I-an thing to do with it or knew anything any-thing about it until it was received by mail in this office from another city I with a letter from a prominent gentleman gentle-man vouching for its truth i The Tribune is right in saying the I gentleman who vouched for the facts I in the letter will never reach the standing of the Tribune writer We I I trust not We hope he will never fall I so low He would have to reach the deepest depths of moral degradation The letter was not nasty If there was in It as was claimed by the Tribune Tri-bune people an error aa to the person I I who impudently accosted the Chief i Justice and received snub for it as we have shown before the gist of the i 1 matter the same And all the blackguardism I black-guardism In which the w false accuser of 1 I The Herald is such an adept will not cover up the fact that the snub was I I I given and would not have been administered J 1 admin-istered if there had been no cause for jt I If the Tiibune people find any satisfaction I satis-faction in repeating their false accusation accusa-tion in different forms day after day they are welcome to all they can gain I I But we do not envy them the disposition disposi-tion which prompts such ebullitions of vulgarity as the editorial columns of i I f rt J < i r that par1 hive displayed oci tha matter which after all is not worth a i hundredth part of the fuss that has II been made about it |