Show LANNANS OPTION STILL OPEN On Sunday The Herald offered Colonel Col-onel P Henry Lannan his choice of two thIngs either to apologize like a gentleman for what he knew was a false statemEnt about The Herald or to sUck to tie lie as blackguard always al-ways doS do-S ThE expected happened Colonel Lan nan did not apologize and he did stick to his statement More he added to I Ills original falsehood a profusIon and i varIety of additional fairy tales that do credit to his ingenuity If they do injure S i-njure his reputation for veracity ii i i For the convenience of our readers I these falsehoods may be treated by C numbEr since they occur in both the f local and editorial columns of the eel I uners personal organ 1 I said Saturday The Herald the property man and machine of Alfred I W 1une has taken to the falsifca tion of telegrams to work out the spites i ton and hatreds of its miionaire owner I sUnder i a Washington date line ester dar it published a fake story wrought out of its oYn inner consclcusnes and labeled it Special to The Herald Yesterday it declared i had never sald that 11 lcCune owned The Her rald and then says that he controls It i Neither statement is true a we rhave already said explicitly The fae dispatch has been read by the ownEr of the Tribune by this time and be Imows whether or not it I was a genuine special telegram I l J z In a libelous effort to Injure a com J ttOIs business Cohnel Lannan oays r The Heralds course durIng the campaign cam-paign cot the paper about half of its ilready very srll subscription list sand that the list ha not increased since Nobody knows better than does Colonel Col-onel Lannan that every word eif this is inallcIously untrue He can look ut his own subsriplon list any day In the Lweek and know he falsifies He knows L05 well as man lan know that The Herald Her-ald has added nearly a thousand bona jde paying nfW daily subscribers to bt busines within the past ninety r days and that man o them were for r merIy Tribune readers who had become be-come disgusted with its base desertion tof silver ami every other principle dear ito most ct the people of the west 00 L o 1Iirlng probably from his own ioas of revenue Colonel Lannau f recet los Cys an esimate of The Herds income in-come SlId expenses whIch 15 even fur It tIter from the truth than his other mIs stateinentS I Te Herald company epcnds money freely In getting the tisews i Is safe to say no one has any r ause to object but the readers of the Trbun who miss that nes If for instancte this paper goes to the cost of V sending a staff correspondent to an Francisco to mct the batS bat-S tories and the Tribune thereby hteres baly scoped Colonel Lannans olieitUdC aboU our entorprise may be soUctudc any understood I we choose to get tour < mining news from the mining camps direct at some cost whle our gcompetltor picks up what It con In kcmpettor we opine that is sufficient uae for worry in the colonels mind 1le Herald tins no revenue from Mark F Hanna Qr the various other dubious sources that contribute to the colonels r pxchetier but be needt et thin on l i I tat account he has troubles enough of 1ls own G < 0 These arc only a feW rre specimens of the 010neI5 ability In his own pe cular line As he himself would say space forbids extended mention As has been said before The Herald is oc cupie In getting out the bet newspaper news-paper IJublie between Denver and the ceact The results are ample com penston for the grief that overtakes us when we think how greatly Colonel Iannan disapproves of such a course 4dc < But that option still remains open Pita colonel may apologize or stick to it a he chooses I J |