Show CONCLUSIVE 5 I We are not at all surprised that our morning contemporary is not satisfied with what The Herald has given to the public in relation to the abduction of a Wyoming Senator who was never abducted The Tribune now has the politeness to intimate that the gentleman gentle-man whom it has failed to implicate in the abduction which was a piece of sheer fiction ought to inform it what was his business in the town where the occurrence that never took place WAS said to have happened Modesty and truth ought to go together and the excess of both in ourbaffled neighbor neigh-bor must be reaJly oppressive to its readers We have disproved its personal allegations alle-gations out of its own columns and yet it is not satisfied We are desired to prove a negative All that is necessary for any sensible person has been adduced ad-duced and that ought to be sufficient I Of course it is not enough for our neighbor The Herald did not descend to personal explanations for the benefit ben-efit of the accuser It was for the public pub-lic The burden of proof is on the Tribune The evidence of its failure and of its perfidy are its own publications publica-tions on the subject Why didnt the Tribune improvise another an-other respectable old lady as its authority for the libel it has utterly failed to make stick The story from the first was halt lame blind and silly and could not hold water enough to make a damp spot on a blotting pad Just as soon as particulars were entered into as usual fiat failure fell on the Tribune Now it cant let the matter alone It has to wallow around again in the mud of its own contradictions and the fcg of its own suppositions But there is one thing it does not attempt to I touch that is the point on which the original controversy with The Herald turned and from which it has run I away just like the Republicans did i whose escapade was the matter in contention i con-tention I If the Tribune had proved that some I I body connected with The Herald actually actu-ally abducted a man and had him I now secreted somewhere about his I i clothes or his premises on what principle prin-ciple of logic would that prove that four Republicans legislators in running run-ning anvay from their posts of duty and hiding from the officers sent to bring them back did exactly right and only performed a public duty That is the only point of contention and the abduction yarn was simply a diversion to avoid meeting the issue and to abuse and malign an opponent whose argument the Tribune could not i fairly answer The Tribunes logic is the four Utah Republican runaways acted out of pure patriotism and the proof of it is that somebody said to foe connected i with The Herald was alleged to have spirited a man away a year ago in Wyoming The prisoners are innocent of contempt because comebody else is charged with abduction Conclusive i Conclu-sive Why who can doubt it |