Show I AN UPSTART AND A DEMAGOGUE 1 F OR TT r chicanery aud and lying the tho that B E II li Roberts Robert R is ia i ig i probably without a parallel in hi the history of l S m m in Utah He TIe has hu more than thin ever before stooped to uso the method of a ue and ud is fostering a deliberate attempt to the t people i of Utah Roberts is using a It telegram which WitS was sent gout to the tiLe congressional dele delo gation tion by C W V Nibley M 1 Smith and aud L Morris during the tho thoI I j in of the legislature in ilL January J nuary 1000 IDOO He lEe has read noad this telegram tel gram in iu It a number mh 1 of places and for foz a si better understanding of the matter it is ie S r y 1 reprinted Senator Reed Smoot Senator George Sutherland Representative Joseph Josoph Howell Washington D C Gentlemen The state of Utah is aroused and earnestly demand ing prohibition at the hands of the legislators Perhaps ninety per percent perI percent I cent of the people want it The women voters want it The lican party will win b be held responsible if it fails faUs to heed the wishes of J the people The federal fedeRl officers are the main obstacles in the way i of prohibition They are aggressively ively resisting the wishes of the I people and standing stubbornly between them and their heir representatives I I tives tIve in the legislature The Republican party must be saved from disintegration If It the federal officeholders who are allied with the I party and the saloon element succeed in their present efforts the Republican party will be called the I bitten party the party Do you gentlemen support the local leaders in their opposition to prohibition In our judg judgment judgment j ment a little yielding on this point will not only save the party but butwill butwill will win make it stronger than ever Continued inflexibility will wUl result calamitously Signed CHARLES OHARLES W NIBLEY i HYRUM BYRUM M SMITH NEPHI L MORRIS I i It will 11 be he s Heft sn from front a reading of that telegram tt that there wore were no charge in ill it i that t i there theN was wu a deal dl between the congressional delegation oll nut tile the liquor dealers desIr or anybody eke eR Roberts Roberta took the position that be he because cause ause of af the tIb supposed fact fat that there wu was no answer to the telegram the to of a deal was confirmed Md Roberts took the absolute po position that petting getting Jt the th sort of a telegram the members of the congressional delegation did they the would hare hue answered it at once if they were innocent im nt Mr Yr Roberts Roberta was wai assured the next day d by Mears Smith and 1 Morris that an answer an and that it came promptly It is a It matter BlitHer of history that the answer came the next day d There was no denial of any deal dal because Heans there had been beelL no charges bargEil that there was a t deal The telegram show on the fae f of it that dult there was va no intimation by these e three nun imn that there had been It a It deal The Tit whole hole force foree of 01 that telegram wag wa I an appeal that the congressional con delegation atop the opposition of ot the federal officers to prohibition The liv charges charge ha of a deal leal were not made until a month later there thore a aI I prompt denial from each Heh member menther of the too congressional ional delegation at ati 4 i I Washington t awl and those thoe denials were rend read r l by Nephi L Morris at t a meet neet meeting neetI I i ing iN hem lne Silt lake i th interest ef of prohibition This u Fhi s meet meeting j inc ing ift was held closely following follon the th making of those these charges in the legis legislature f lature Jure And ami the tilt denial as a read by b Mr r Morris art are as follows Senator Smoot There never was any MY deal or agreement whatsoever whatsoever whatsoever ever and the charge has been completely refuted by every mem member member ber her of the delegation in Congress You cannot use language too I strong in which to deny the story in my behalf But I fail to under understand j I f I stand why such a denial lenial should be required after what has been I j I said bi by v members of the Utah delegation Senator Sutherland So o far ar as I X am concerned I I most OSt positively and n pJ deny that any compact deal or understanding ex expressed expressed expressed pressed or implied was entered into with the liquor interests or any persons representing them of o any kind or character whatsoever Representative Howell Howen The imputation that the Republican party of Utah entered into any agreement or deal with the liquor interests is absolutely and maliciously false No agreement of any kind or character was made on my behalf with any representative i 1 of the liquor interest at any time I am certain that the same is true so far as the charge of a deal applies to other members of the I 4 delegation or to anyone connected in any manner with the Re Republican Republican publican organization j 5 The actions of B II Roberts Roberta show how just what sort of a demagogue he lie heIs heis lieis Is He lIe n K Ia 6 trying tr ng to show a deal by quoting speeches made ma o a month after i i this telegram was ft sent seat to Washington lington and aud the tho answer received rece oo I iT 11 is trying to tell tel t lI the publio that Nibley Smith and Morris charged a deal when a simple reading of the telegram shows he ho is lying l 0 B n F P Grant Roberts partner told in his hearing that there thero was as an anI I answer received and that the answer was sent to Joseph F P Smith Roberts r thou b bid hU nil hL arguments on that statement and aud said at Murray on Thurs Thursday Thursday day night ni t i Now try it the other way Suppose these gentlemen were guilty 4 that is they had guilty knowledge of whatever compact or trade I I or combine vies ves entered into by the federal hunch bunch with the saloon l i or liquor element Suppose it was a fact and ad this congressional S delegation had knowledge of o it then what would woold they do What would they do Let it oak ak into your mind What would they do Just exactly what they did Not answer these gentlemen who ad addressed addressed addressed dressed that important telegram to them or if they answered at atall ati atI I i all aU they would say Go and see Joe Toe They might at least have havet I t r had the grace to say What the hell do we care Roberts stoops sto ps as low as the Salt Lake Tribune which is low enough in Jn referring Je errin to the aged president of the Mormon church Joseph F Smith SmithS as Joe Then he lie quotes from the Tribune What tim the hell do we wo care carel carelL S L that paper AHr ht s attributed to Senator Smoot and which it has bas used for six ais mouths months m on its editorial page pao every cery day All AU men can plainly see that this man Roberts Roberta in in arguing as ItS he be doo doos from a n falo f lio promise and in rearing the structure of falsehood that he has built is I just what a great man of Utah said he be was an up upstart upstart 1 start in religion and aud a n fa in politics TRIBUNE BEGINS TO THREATEN T lIE policy heretofore followed by the Salt Lake Tribune in pleading with the tho Mormon Democrats to vote ote its ticket because the Tribune party is the party part of progress 9 has now been dropped and the organ of the deal has Las begun to threaten Here is a sample of the threat that was as voiced ou on the fir first firt t page of yesterdays Tribune The record of Smoot Sutherland and Howell Howen and not the new polygamy in this state prompted a a number of great magazines to investigate the cause of their servitude AND YOU MAY BE ASSURED THAT THE EXPOSURES OF OP THE OUTRAGEOUS DEALS IN WASHINGTON IN POLITICS AND BUSINESS WILL WILLBE WILLBE BE A GREATER SENSATION if Smoot and the federal gang triumph at the polls next neAt Tuesday than was ever published concern concerning concerning ing tag the peculiar conditions in this state In other words if the people of Utah do not vote rote the Democratic ticket on Tuesday there will bo be such Buell a hue and cry raised d that the entire state will be libeled and vilified as it never was before It is isaa isaa is isas aa as plain a throat as could be bo written If the Republican party triumphs the Tribune will vill extend its policy of vilification to yet other othor agencies of publicity throughout the nation natio 1 The Tribune says The record of Smoot Sutherland and Howell prompted a n number of groat magazines i to investigate the cause of their servitude No This paper laper published many months month ago what prompted these thoo th great magazines magazin m 1 to slander Utah h Arrangements were made for these th C slander by T l Dubois Democratic tor of Idaho and aud Thomas S Kearns who wont went to New York together t and arranged for these articles by personal calls on the editors of these the e magazines Kearns was faS seen in the tho private office of the tho editor of McClures and the tho editor ad admitted admitted admitted later to a It former Salt Lake man that Kearns was tolling telling him of the tho awful conditions in Utah and that he was going to publish a series of articles on tho the subject and aud Dubois employed Frank Prank Cannon jailbird to write the slander for and aud when McClure McClures man un etUDe came hero here ho hAd hud an au office in the Tribune building and Kearns vouched for him at one of the local clubs And AUtI the tho Tribune now comes out with rith a threat that if its ticket is not supported next Tuesday that is if the Tribune party should lose 1056 in the county and the Democratic party in the state that all aU the vilification and slander of Utah that has been u set in motion by that paper heretofore will be as nothing to that which will fellow fallow a Republican victory And Au it is is rather plain iut it the effect the Tribune desires to have hare on the tho men inca of Salt SnIt Laki each and anti all aU of whom agree that if it tho the Tribune were blotted out of oi existence Salt Lake might have liase some I chance to become a Ii great city cit It is serving notice on the business men that the only way in which they thoy can shut up the Tribune is to elect the Tribune ticket in the tho county and the Democratic ticket in the state The Tribune party has been he en in control of Salt Lake Jake City for five years ana anci the campaign camp ign of slander has hail gone on unceasingly So there seems little reason to believe that victory in the county and state would end its cam cain campaign of slander and defamation Here is ia an elaboration of the threat a part of oC the same article in the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday morning published above aboTe If is defeated at the polls it will be the most important step towards the solution of the Utah problem that could be taken On the other hand if through his combine with the majority of the liquor men of the state he should succeed in thwarting the desires of a great majority of the people of Utah the fight would grow fiercer and the result no man mm can guess gue s as to the direful effect That is more moro ample notice of what will happen if the Democratic Tribune deal is not a success net Tuesday The Salt Lake Tribune gives fair notice to the people of Utah and Salt Lake that if they the dare return the Republican party it will continue its policy that has baa been in in operation since Kearns was defeated for the tho Senate It means we suppose that more will wilt be ne deceived or subsidized into defaming Utah It means menns we suppose that the tIe statement that Salt Lake is the only city in the United States that fiat has lisa smallpox the year round will be he printed in parts of the United States that had Iad not seen it here heretofore heretofore heretofore It means moans that the Salt Lake Tribune and its evening Bg appendix will continue their policy against Utah It means mean that the policy of arraying one claw d dais of the people of Utah against another will be maintained as it has been Deen ever since sinco the people decided they had ld had enough of Kearns for senator It moans means that if the people uphold Republican principles Kearns will continue his policies It moons moans moo that if Howell Howe is elected I will continue to t blacken the name of Utah everywhere It moans that if a n Republican log legislature is Ut Utah h may be expected to continue The Tribune seems to imply that it must or Just what is we wc dont know but we do know what is in We Wo rather believe the people of Utah would prefer to It is not however a question of men but of principles Shall the iii policies which have made Utah great triumph or shall they the not noti f I |