Show JUDGED BY HIS RECORD ani has iwer made any pretense to fluency nor resorted to ambiguity in its locution but has confined itself to plain matter of fact language its bluntness blunt may at times have wound I 1 fd f d ita friends fri ands but we think ample assurance has been given to convince them hat we intended them no personal wrong and partly for the reason that ur effort would be misunderstood or misjudged we have refrained in the from saying anything that would have the appearance of unmasking the policy governing our contemporary the gazette of this city or of the presiding genius thero confident that a little time would do it so effectually that woid if ours could add to alie odium attaching 0 o the being artfully passed upon the people our course was justified by the editorial page of the bast issue in alie first dissertation we are mentioned personally and called to the arr of our own conscience in a screed that for irony infidelity brass hypocrisy idiocy saintliness and blasphemy hs few equals in the range of our experience the inference that the congress of the united states was moved upon by the lord to pass the law by which ur probate judges are appointed in or to punish THE for its ar lo gance and reward the gazette presumably for its humility is the only point labored with and is intended for ery acute deduction and being spiced with euch expressions aa the holy prophet joseph the true gospel latter day saint holy priesthood and brother graham id expected to sound like a humble exposition of Monnon ism it is the irony t fate that when treachery would con real itself the most scrupulously it is ahe most apparent but such hypocrisy and toadyism aa this is about all we may expect from mich a character as we have to deal with A wanderer from home since boyhood kinsling min sling in turns alie lowest and with the most fashionable grades of fiuman kind in brazil in mexico in australia ind in the sandwich island today to day a tramp and tomorrow to morrow 1 lie private secretary of such a prime minister ns gibson passing within a month through all the transitions from a street bear to a society editor of a fashionable journal in sydney we arc prepared to see in him an anomaly but not necessarily alow schemer and this not for the purpose of casting reflections upon that which may have been beyond his control the experience is entirely apart from the naan of a noble nature such an impression would mould a of the mere opinions of men and not a sycophant such a character with such an experience would be a cosmopolitan mo politan but never a charlatan a man af but not a dastard we have no quarrel with any man but with the methods of C W w haar no fellowship and we base our estimate of hia methods upon a knowledge of his history since bis coming to utah arriving here four or five years ago with no means of obtaining a livelihood the was the first to extend to ha not long after engaging with us an ogdan mas offered to him ilia ability its w writer and his wily pretense of friendship for the cause of the people soon gained for him there the confidence of the leaders not content with a mere accented friendliness he must manifest a zeal altogether uncalled for by unwarrantably rant ably traducing the characters of several federal officials in jail for this act his true coloia were first unequivocally brought to flie light at a imp when it was of the utmost import ancic chii honor prevail secrets to which he had been made a confidant were basely used and the dost of aalf was io stirred t the very depths by the thing to hii release the ingloriousness dt the wt L fet in its proper light only the treatment for which it was a return is fully known the ogden herald company placing the utmost confidence in him mistook the he perpetrated for ingenuousness and alt alie while a it afterwards transpired his only apparently was lo 10 place the company in so questionable a po as to mate liis services a dire necessity and himself a dictator the judas gibson once annon a timo had nn apt pupil despised by all who know him and the means by which he obtained his liberty the onca respected hemenway out of the territory covered with disgrace ie now returns to try the arts of blandishment aff which he is a past gnaster upon a unsuspicious father and the utaji gazetted the knowing well what awaits his chief accomplishment ment will stand him in good stead in the crisis all his specious powers have been brought to bear upon that father in law and the public does an officer of the county court have a little appear in the it is announced he is consid ert d the most popular man in the court honsa does a selectman call at the office he is a very able man and a pond of firer by such fulsome adala 1 tiou lie insults the self respect of his readers and thinks to cajole them into a belief in his frankness such an opinion of the simplicity of the people ho e is alie natural outgrowth of the associations of our subject with the races among whom he has chosen for the meat part to cast hia lot of a piece with this social hypocrisy anil the chief of his mistakes is mr he men ways pretentious to the mormon faila while nt Ogden we are informed he ent through the mockery of baptism and from the glib way in which he use s such phrases as the holy priesthood we infer that he h a not yet given up alie idea that his best policy is to be a mormon a little longer the keenness of the man in adopting this line of pro is in striking contrast with his imbecility in attempting the parade he undertook last friday and here for the last three months has the creature been posing with the apparent nobility glimpse now and then of the donkeys hide ganeath eliut in last fridays issue of his sheet the skin is thrown completely apart and the gaunt features of the braying beast are so unmistakably exposed that he who runs may not be deceived to make his offending the more atrocious he loads the whole of his infamy upon the shoulders of a trusting wife by placing her name at the head of bis title page when the sound of the tinkling cymbal ia mistaken for the music of the golden wedding bell then mr hemen wiy may be taken for a latter day saint and this is the thing that calls us to the bar of our own conscience we have given this much space to the discussion of mr C W henenway because we think he deserves it he is uncommonly keen and his versatility is unbounded it is our opinion that he is a hypocrite to the core that his methods are perfectly unscrupulous that he only awaits a convenient time to declare openly against the cormons mormons Mor mons and that a snake in the grass is more to be dreaded than a lion on the open plain if in any line of this review we have said aught that is unjust of you mr hemenway all that you will need to do to get from us a full and free retraction is to give to alie people yon have sought to wrong proof that we have ban mistaken in our estimate of your true character and until you do this wp shall not only wish for your disfavor but we shall try to deserve it you will observe that in making the foregoing comments we have scrupulously avoided passing any judgment you and in conclusion ne quote from your own article god judges our hearts and having called you to the bar of your own conscience we leave you with the best of wished to his care and the judgment of his nill JOHN C GRAHAM |