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Show A SUMMING UP. Apostlo Smoot. yesterday morning, made what he imagined was a tremendous tre-mendous assault upon The Tribune; but it lacked a great deal of raving any power back of it. It was tioro like the stone-throwing and the mouth-mak ing of a vicious little boy who wanted to bej mean and was mean to the ex tent of his little powers, but was not able to ctfect anything worth while. With respect to the matter most immediately im-mediately iu hand, on which it con tinues to harp, the alleged misrepre sentTition of Representative Keifcr, vi-have vi-have fully explained that there was nothing whatever wrong about it, and we offer the following from the reporter re-porter who had the jnterviow as a complete statement of the case and refutation of any vicious charge that Smoot has' made or may make: Concerning the interview with Hon. J. Warren Kelfer In the Salt Lake Tribune on the morning of June 20. IP07. 1 have-to have-to say that I took that Interview in the pursuance of my dally assignment io cover the hotels and Interview people of note who are found In them. I have reported re-ported interviews with hundreds of people peo-ple from day to day. and this is the first time that anyone liar, ever Questioned tho accuracy and faithfulness of my reports. re-ports. 1 had that interview with Air. Kelfer and wrote it up as prlntod In Tho Tribune, faithfully and truly. There was neither addition nor suppression of anything any-thing that he said, except as to some matters which he himself said he did not wish to have made public- 1 saw him in his car the next day and In the course of the conversation the interview in-terview as reported was referred to. He made no criticism upon it, made no claim that it was In any way unfaithful or Inexact, In-exact, but stated that he did not Intend to imply that the Senate had no legal right to scat Smoot. The legal power of tho Senate either to seat or unseat Smoot had not been referred to at all In the conversation of the day before, nor, was there anything on this point in tho Interview Inter-view as published. Mr. Keifcr's allegation allega-tion that the Senate made a mistake in seating Smoot was based upon moral and political grounds alone. And at this second sec-ond talk I had with Air. ICelfer he said, in reply to a suggestion that some people peo-ple might not like what he had said, nor the placing of his opinion on the grounds stated, that he "didn't give a d n." That Is till there is to tho matter. The 'interview was truly reported, and was printed as I reported It. P. LOCHRIE. With respect to our Washington correspondence, cor-respondence, we, of course, insert nothing noth-ing in that, nor in any other correspondence. corre-spondence. It would be quite impossible impossi-ble for us to do anything of that sort. The Smoot "mouth," in making a charge of this kind, merely establishes the fact that it does not know anything about newspaper work or what is proper or possible, and what not. The denial of the K&iras interview in the Chicago newspaper was bocause that interview did not appear in tho paper of the date which the Smoot "mouth" said it appeared. That it may have appeared in the paper of some other date was nothing noth-ing to the purpose, nor were we able to find it in any other date that wo had at hand. It was unquestionably a niixup, anyway; attributing to Kearns some other person's talk. Apostle Smoot claims The Tribune has printed a vicious attack on the honor of O. J. Salisbury, which is whoiiy untrue. Tho Tribune's political reporter re-porter wrote, a summary of the town political' talk ;ut his own volition, was not incited thereto by anybody, , but gave tho matter precisely as ho understood under-stood it, and as an intelligent interpretation interpre-tation of the p- hticui situation here justified. And .hc "mouth" knew it was lying when it printod its statement; state-ment; it was guilty of tho evident unfairness, un-fairness, also, of refusing to correct 'its lie; and the reporter's card appears elsewhere else-where in the paper. ' The story of the Hag being upside down on tho Federal building on Labor day was not dependent upon the report re-port of "Richardson" or any one else. Tho city editor himself verified the matter, nnd wrote I he chief portion of the report. Ho depended on his own eyes for tho fact that the Hag was fiy ing upside down on Labor day. said so. and is ready to stand by his statement today. The Smoot "mouth" ask', "Why did The Tribuno suppress the news of the McWhirter robbery on the night it occurred?" Tho Tribuno suppressed nothing whatever; it was trying 'its best that night to get the facts in that alleged robbery. The reporter who was iu its employ at that time and is now, ' as wo understand, tho telegraph editor of tho Smoot "mouth," could probably proba-bly tell as well as any ono why wo did not have that story. Tho combiuo which existed at, that time, however, no longor exists. The "month" affects to beliovo that our claim that; The Tribuno prints what its rcportors ascertain to bo tho facts, desiring to give nothing but tho truth, is a mere pretense "known to bo no more thati a pretense f by every informed in-formed man and woman in town;" but tho claim of the Smoot "mouth" is simply a silly falsehood. Anybody of any sense or information in this town or iu any other town where The Tribuno Trib-uno circulates, knows that what wo claim in this respect is an nbsoluto fact. Of course the Smoot "mouth" is not governed by any such motives as govern Tho Tribune in its honesty in presenting present-ing facts and opinions, because it has been the chief scandalmonger, character charac-ter assassin and buccaneer of all tho newspapers over printed in this Western West-ern country. Controlled by . a felon, managed in the interest of a criminal class, it could not bo expected either to deal honestly with any person, with anything, or to have any conception of what honesty means or fair dealing entails. en-tails. The Tribune stands on its record. Tho chief concern of the Smoot "mouth-" is, and ought to-be, to sever itself as far as possible from the villainous vil-lainous record it has made. |