Show THE ALLEGED KEY MYSTERY I We again remind the public that the stories manufactured from day to day by the Salt Lake Tribune concerning the ballot box and other proceedings of the Utah Commission are thoroughly thorough-ly unreliable Some of them are wholly false others are so completely mixed and mingled with error as to be of a similar nature though milder in form The dark and bloody broken key mystery which it concocted for a Qhristmas sensation turns out just as The Herald declared The fact of the broKen key was related weeks ago inj The Herald and was reported by the Commission Now the particulars are I explained and they will be found in I another column of this paper The untruths that have been told by the Tribune concerning the recount which has been made necessary because be-cause of the irregularities and discrepancies discrep-ancies in the returns have served a temporary but disgraceful purpose lit is to prejudice the public mind But it will probably not succeed in its endeavor en-deavor to sway if possible the Republican Repub-lican judge who has to pass upon the question as to the right of the Commission Com-mission to go behind the returns nor its attempt to intimidate that body or rather the majority of its members into backing down from the position they have taken on this matter The broken key story with its embellishments em-bellishments is a fair sample of the tales told by the Tribune durintr this controversy All its cries of fraud are about as worthy of notice as that It has distorted and misrepresented everything relating to the proceedings for partisan ends and the public oughtnot to heed its libellous fulminations fulmina-tions Let the law take its course and the lying be stopped |