Show LET THE MYSTERY BE CLEAnED UPS UP-S me of our friends think The Herald pays too much attention to the fan tankerous and unprincipled paper which daily pours out venom and gall They say they do not read the Tribune and that those who do always make allowances al-lowances for a large percentage of misrepresentation and therefore that we attach too much importance to the sheet by noticing its attacks Different people however hold different dif-ferent views on the same subject There are others who think The Herald is not severe enough in its exposure of Tribune falsehood and folly They want the thing handled without gloves and held up to the ignominy it merits We are inclined to think there is some force in the remarks of the first named class of our readers and will bear them In mind At the same time it must be remembered that one of the tricks of that concern is to emit a volume of slander and If its assertions asser-tions are not denied to take silence I for assent to their truth Itlbecomes necessary then sometimes to refute its libellous statements although they are frequently so manifestly untrue and absurd that they can be allowed to go without comment The Herald at present is accused of I having struggled for almost eighty I days to have counted in a Democratic majority That is as untrue as a sentence sen-tence could be made The Herald has done nothing whatever 5n that direction direc-tion It has merely contended for the execution of the laws Jn relation to elections and when fraud was charged refused to believe any had been committed com-mitted until the evidence of it should be forthcoming t As to what The Herald1 has said about Commissioner Shermans private handling of the Sanpete returns we have simply stated the facts developed in the evidence given in court That I too was in response to the Tribunes appeal to Ithe record It Is useless for that paper to reiterate ithe fact that Sherman and his man did not have the turns in their private possession until those returns had been canvassed because be-cause we have stated that whenever we have alluded < to the matter Indeed that is one of the pertinent points in the statement The facts disclosed in court are these The Utah Commission examined and canvassed the Sanpete returns carefully and thoroughly They found discrepancies discrepan-cies there which caused them to go to the ballot boxes Commissioner Sher man was the first to move for the sending send-ing of those ballob boxes and Tatlock seconded the motion The Democratic Commissioners coincided When those returns had been repeatedly examined no difference In the ink used in the crosses was discovered Neither did any one discern the difference in the writing of the word voted These differnces were pointed out In court by counsel for the petitioners No one was shown to have had access to those returns re-turns after the canvass but Sherman and a man whpmi he engaged and they had J them for at least two whole days The Herald has simply pointed out these facts as appearing In the record rec-ord The Tribune says we have done so n order to cast suspicion on a I man who It knows Is absolutely innocent I inno-cent of any wrong We do not know that the man is absolutely innocent we have not said or Intimated that he is guilty We have brought forward facts testified to on the trial And the query arises Innocent of what Will the Tribune explain We have had nothing to say about his innocence or guilt But the Tribune has endeavored to fasten guilt upon the Democratic members of the Utah Commission and persons employed by them It has I utterly failed in its attempts So have I TatlocK et al with whom the Tribune was in sympathy Was that done to use its OUT language simply through its natural partisan meanness or to divert attention from its own pets Further that paper has stated We know who the actual perpetrators perpetra-tors of the fraud were as well as we know there is a place called Timbuctoo in Africa If that Is true the information which is thus claimed to be In possession of the Tribune people ought to be given to the public prosecutor or to the grand jury The Herald can but repeat that it Is In Ignorance of the facts as1 to the perpetration of fraud and the person per-son or persons who are guilty of it But if the Tribune writer knows he ought to be required to tell There is a little variation as usual in the state meats of that paper One day it is one hand and one pen that did the business busi-ness and next day there are perpetrators perpetra-tors in the plural Sometimes announces an-nounces that the work was done by somebody gaining access to the Commission Com-mission building who left their tracks in the snow at others it was someone some-one employed there who had opportunities oppor-tunities for doing the work I We do not believe the Tribunes > claim to knowledge Is true We consider con-sider that there is still a cloud of mystery around the Sanpete returns which has been by no means cleared up and we want to see the guilty exposed ex-posed and the innocent exculpated That apears to anger the Tribune for some inexplicable cause but even though it makes our neighbor uneasy and spiteful and abusive we still say everything possible should be done to I hunt the rascals down I |