Show SUTHERLANDS LAST WORD Senator Letter Which Con Concludes Concludes Concludes Correspondence Salt Lake City Cit July 10 1906 Hon William M lL McCarty Sir I Iam Iam Iam am in receipt of your jour our letter bearing date the nIt which has been forwarded to me from Washington In reply to that Portion of it which is personal to your yourself yourself yourself self permit me to say I have no interest direct t or indirect in the publication called Truth and have no more to do with Its statements re respecting you jou or indeed any other mat matter matter matter ter than yon have had yourself Your reference to the paper as my personal or organ organ organ gan is wholly unwarranted because wholly ly I unfounded in tact fact And I know nothing which could properly give rise to such an idea in your our mind It Is I likewise ab untrue that I have ever sent ent any person or intimated a desire to any per person person person son to malign or speak ill of you jou or anyone else els oj nj o that person or any an clique or faction or publication pUbic tion is author to speak for me in any matter what whatsoever whatsoever whatsoever Whatever I may maj have to say about anybody or anything I say per personally personally and take the responsibility for it and you jou nor anyone an one else can truthfully say that I have ever cyer carried on a po or other contest except ex e t in the open I am not responsible and decline d cline to be held responsible to what anyone an one except myself may majr say about you jou ou or anybody else It is quite quit true that your letters about Thomas and Hobbs were within my gen general general eral invitation to write me with refer reference reference reference ence to such matters and they were an answered answered answered I think with courtesy and promptness It is however not true that copies copie of my mj answers were sero sent to others except that one copy op of one letter was sent to one man m n not to be shown to others nor with the suggestion that It should be shown but for a different pur purpose purpose purpose pose entirely which you y U are Ut t liberty to know if you jou have any curiosity on the subject You seem eem to have written under some stress of feeling occasioned by an attack upon you which you jou consider unjust and I therefore ignore the present tain tam insinuations contained in your let letter letter I ter which I resent I Ido Ido do not answer them and I did not nod re reply reply reply i ply to a former letter of yours jours ours because without desiring to be offensive but only to be candid I could not understand upon what theory theor you conceived it to be your jour business to write me as you did and therefore considered that the I courtesies did not require me to answer If I should undertake to deliver a written lecture to you jou ou concerning the idle gossip the criticism the lying scandal which may have been busy with your own name from time to time and you jou you deceive yourself if you U think you ou have escaped what other men in pub lic lie life Ufe with no more reason have suf feres you would in my judgment be justified in consigning the letter to the waste basket as a piece of intolerable im impertinence Impertinence impertinence pertinence arid and on on my part and In advising me if you replied at atall atall atall all that my spY time would be more satis employed attending to my own affairs aff a and undertaking to correct correct my myown myown own wn o shortcomings However this Is pure purely purey lj ly l y a matter of or taste and you rou arc wel welcome welcome come ome c to your own views on the sub subject subject j cj If IC I have ha v any matter ma t ler in either ither e of your our letters In which you are p concerned I shall be very glad at any an time to discuss it with you ou Yours very verj VCr truly trul r GEO SUTHERLAND |