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Show Tue Old Style The following appears ap-pears as a press dispatch from Salt Lako in most of our exchanges: Salt Lake City, Aug. 6. It is thought, that Maxwell, lor delegate, lias received about 3.500 votes in the Territory, which tho "Tribune" believes be-lieves in a muj TMyot'all tho leal votes-cast, votes-cast, a a laige proportion of the Mormons Mor-mons are neuner native nur naturalized. The Liberal press assert, without contradiction, that the school of the prophets, by direeiion of Brigham iouug. instigated and assisted tho out-raft1 out-raft1 ou Saturday night. Horace Meyers, oue of the editors of tho "Mining Journal, " was assaulted in tho street laat night by the Mormon re porters of the Geutiie press, and de nied access to the records of the police court. j he citizens are signing a call (or a public meeting in the cuuo of free .speech. The meetiDg will bo held in j front of tho Salt Lake- House next i Saturday nii;ht. j There aro just fivo sentences in the above. Tho first contains two untruths, un-truths, or the writer U too grossly ignorant ig-norant to be at large without somebody some-body to take care of him. Nobody but a fool thought Maxwell had received 3,500 votes; and the "Tribune" didn't j believe anything of the kind stated, though it might say it did. Tho "Liberal press" gadsooks ! may have asserted what is alleged, just as it daily asserts the most unblushing un-blushing falsehoods "without contradiction." contra-diction." A decent man couldn't condescend con-descend to directly notice that "press" without feeling humiliated in so doiDg. The third sentence about little Meyers is too rich: for merev's sake don't renort anything of that kind or we shall burst something in the cachinnatory result. "Mormoo reporters of the Gentile press" in unctuous ; and being refused access to tho police records re-cords is on a par with dignifying any petty street brarrl said small person may have as an assault on the street What about "the meeting in the cause of freo speech?'1 Did anybody hereof it before? Ea ? Thia telegraphist telegraph-ist will keep breaking out in the old spots and with the old disease. Evidently Evi-dently it's a constitutional adment with him. |