Show TOO LOW TO DEGENERATE We have it from very straight authority thority that the letter was secured by The Herald first sent to a country paper to be published so that The Herald Her-ald could publish it as being copied iromi an exchange without being charged with publishing confidential communications That is what the Salt Lake Tribune says editorially in reference to the Crane circular instructing Republican leaders throughout the territory last all to claim everything advice which they have certainly endeavored to follow The statement above is intended tended as justification for the publica tion in the Tribune of a private letter in answer < to a question and for which the querist sent a stamp or reply If what is alleged by the Tribune is i true it does not justify its own act I in the least which was one of a sneak and a scoundrel to use its own style of language As to the assertion made by very straight authority it is a double falsehood false-hood made intentionally wilfully contemptibly con-temptibly and with malice afore thought In the first place it did not come to the Tribune from very straight authority The only authority for it was the imagination of the writer of the untruth > and that Is no authority and is very crooked In the second place there is not a wordof truth in it The communication was published in several papers and was clipped by a local reporter of The Herald from a country journal which was the first that was known of It in II this office I The whole Tribune sentence which I we have quoted was manufactured by that paper in the same way that purported I pur-ported letters have been fabricated on its premises and palmed off upon the public as having come from correspondents corre-spondents or been picked up in the street There is not a word of truth in it nor does the writer of It believe there is By a twist of a sentence culled from The Herald and in Tribune style perverted per-verted from its meaning The Herald is made to appear as fearing that it is degenerating Take the phrase how you please as to The Herald but there is no danger of the Tribune ting t-ing It is as low dowm and mean and thoroughly despicable as a public journal jour-nal can possibly be |