Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-10-15 | Page 6 | The "Mouth's" New Canard

THE "MOUTH'S" NEW CANARD. Tho Smoot "Mouth" is vying with the News in setting afloat campaign canards. The "Mouth" was especially vehement yesterdaj' morning in this line, having, under gor' headlines and in the biggest sort of type, a story to the effect that tho American candidate for Governor', Judge Street, is to re-sigu, re-sigu, and that Jesse W. Knight, tho Democratic candidate for Governor, is to replace him at the head of the American Ameri-can ticket. And the "Mouth" entered into detail and circumstance in getting up this canard in a way that might impress im-press unthinking people with the idea that there must bo something to it. And yet the thing is an absoluto falsehood from first to last, an air3p fabric fa-bric of the imagination alone. There is not tho least basis in fact for.it. Nobody No-body has urged the withdrawal of Judge Street from his candidacy for the Governorship. Gov-ernorship. No American wants him to withdraw. He has no idea of withdrawing; with-drawing; tho thing has never been discussed dis-cussed or disputed about in any shape or form. The story was absolutely baseless base-less from first to last, and was doubtless doubt-less known to be so by the Smoot "Mouth" when it printed it. That sort of campaigning is practically practi-cally new to Utah the printing, with all tho similitude of truth and verity as an apparent news story, of something some-thing that has not the least basis in fact. The Deserct News has been pretty yellow in this line, but it is excelled, so far as this etory is concerned, by the Smoot "Mout-h." But it must be confessed con-fessed that they arc rather closo rivals in ingcniousnoBS of fancy and in unscrupulous un-scrupulous gall in printing stories that have absolutely no truth in them, and that can serve no purpose whatever, since they aro so easily disposed of und eo absolutely ridiculous on the faco of them.