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Show MATT. IS AFTER THEM, Mr. Matt. Daugherly, whom God hath blest with more intensity and sincerity than with discretion or diplomacy, lakes up the challenge of the Smootito shoot and tells some things that ho believes of the bargain which he claims was mado by tho Republican leaders with the Mormon hierarchy. As a part of his vivid presentation of his personal views, ho makes a scries of assertions interrogatively nnd requests answer. The Smootito shoot, regards the letter of Matt. Daugherty as being important enough for black-face typo in many columns col-umns of its front page; but lo, the inquiries in-quiries of Matt. Daugherty aro permitted permit-ted to go unanswered; while tho Smoot. organ replies with abuse of Senator Kcarns holding that Mr. Daugherty has derived his inspiration from that gentleman. Well, what of it? It is not true. Senator Sen-ator Kcarns has been absent from tho State for some time. If Matt. Daugherty Daugher-ty consulted anyone but tho fiery temper tem-per which he inherited from a long lino of noble ancestors, tho facJ. has not become be-come apparent. But what if he did in his letter merely expross a view which was derived de-rived from someone else? His interrogatories inter-rogatories wero substantial enough to demand an answer from an' paper which assumed that the subject was worth presenting under scare-heads. The waifis about right now on tho one side. illc. Smootito orgaiu.whieh substitutes sub-stitutes for knowledge of Utah affairs af-fairs a measureless nerve and mendacity; men-dacity; and on the other sido Matt. Daugherty, who is no more afraid of a lying hireling than ho is afraid of a bribing hicrarch. Let them wrcstlo it out, and may the truth win; nnd in such event tho odds are in' favor of Daugherty. Daugh-erty. Not as desiring to aid ouo sido or the other unfnirly in this conflict, but, as helping to remind tho public of sonic circumstances of importance not distantly dis-tantly related to this case, The Tribune recalls to the attention of its readers the boasts which the apostles publicly made, tha Smoot would bo protected and that President Roosevelt was their friend; the direct implication in the Musser let ter, dictated by Joseph F. Smith, that sufficient arrangements had been mado with certain Ropublican leaders to assure as-sure favor for Smoot and the church; tho street talk so common that, nearly every man in Salt Lake has heard from the lips of prominent Mormons that "our people" had made an understanding understand-ing with the Ropublican party and that the fight against them in Washington would bo so much wasted powder. If no bargain was made the hicrarchs nnd tho priests of the Mormon church have falsified concerning the Republican Republi-can parly and hnve misled their people. |
