Salt Lake Herald | 1900-10-16 | Page 4 | Says the Tribune Tells Fairy Tales

SAYS THE TRIBUNE TELLS TELL FAIRY FAIRYTALES FAIRYTALES FAIRYTALES TALES To the Editor of The Herald You have usually treated me with courtesy and fairness and I have therefore less reluctance in asking you yo yoto to give gie place to a brief reply to your YOUl editorial of this morning The story told by b the Tribune In 1896 concerning a n purported l interview between myself and the late Charles Crocker is one of or half a dozen fairy stories concerning one that occasionally go the rounds of the press There is not a word of truth in it from beginning to end endI I marvel manel that anyone should be un under under Under der the Impression that I claim to have h ye supported Mr Bryan in 1896 As vice president of the national silver committee I canvassed the south and andest west est in 1890 1590 in company with Hon A AJ AT AJ J T Warner of Ohio advocating free coinage of sliver silver but in 1896 I 1 regarded the restoration of a protective tariff as of greater greatel importance than the res rex restoration restoration of free coinage of silver and andI I canvassed the northwestern states for the Republican Republica n ticket although I I had then and have hove now no unkind criticism to offer of those who saw their duty dut in a different light THOMAS THO FITCH I Salt Lake City Oct c 15