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Show : TELLS FALSEHOOD AID REFUSES 10 RETRACT Smoot "Mouth" Declines to Print Letter Contradicting Its Lie. J. iMv-I,vvr j'v!"vvv vl' vv 'I- The appended Bolf cxplnna- 4 4 tor3T letter was presented Wed- -r nes'duj to Le Koy Armstrong, f 'Jr editor of tho Smootito organ, r v with a request that it be print- -T ed. Mr. Armstrong declared ! that ho would not print a "d d I J lino of it," asserting that he r f had not beon accorded "decent -J treatment" by Tho .Tribune. He f acknowledged that the particu- t f lnr memljor of Tho Tribune staff whose uumo is signed to tho let- i I- ter had not been guilty of any j i' offense or discourtesy to him at 1 any time. Following is the let- ! ter. f v Salt Lake, Utah, July S. 1907. 4 4 To tho Editor of iho Inter-Moun- i tain Republican: y -h I hope that "Journalistic courte-4 courte-4 ay" In Salt Lake has not reached -j 4- a point where you would wilfully v r misquote or misrepresent a fel- -j-- low newspaper worker. Therefore --f- I respectfully request that you j- correct tho following paragraph v j- which appeared in your editorial y !- columns this morning'. , ? 4 "The man who wrote the vicious y 4- attack on the honor of O. J. Snl- y 4 isbury has since repeatedly stated -r N that he knew It was not true, hut 4 4- the general manager of The Trlb- y 4 una wan tod the article, and ho y 4 v.'roto It under orders." v 4 You have evidently been grossly v 4- misinformed. As the author of tho -! 4-. "vicious attack" In question, I v !- wish to assert most emphatically 5 4 that I have never made the state- 4 4. ment here attributed to me. nor 4- have I made any statement, which r 4- could be construed or twisted Into y 4- such a declaration. I happen to y 4- know, moreover, that the general 4. manager of The Tribune knew 4-4- nothing concerning the aforesaid 4 4 "vicious attack" until It appeared y v In print. y i. It Is true that when a certain v 4 Republican politician of more or 4 4- less -notoriety accused me of hav- 4 4- Ing written the story under orders, v 4 knowing it to be untrue, I let his 4-4- remark pass unchallenged, he- 4 cause I did not consider what 4- 4. might or might not have trans- 4 4- plred In The Tribune office any 4 -t. of his affair. It Is clear to mo 4- X that upon this trifling Incident 4 -i. has been built the charge that I 4 4- had admitted writing, under or- 4 4. ders, a story I knew to be un- 4 4. true. Very respectfully. 4 X D. K. LARIMER. 4. 4, , . . . f . . . , , ..T |