| Show HAULED Idaho auB aud one falsehood of a disreputable sheet the following account of proceedings in the idaho constitutional con bention is taken from the idaho democrat of july on thursday morning last after the reading of the journal hon 1 george ainslie rose to a question of privilege and sent to the clerks deak a copy of the salt lake tribune bearing date wednesday july after the clerk bad read such portions as he had been directed a part of a dispatch and a scurrilous editorial entitled mormonism niem in idaho mr ainslie proceeded to comment upon th e same both as wilful and malicious misrepresentations he said in substance that he had intended to noticed a former attack made in last saturdays issue of the same journal but had been deterred because certain republicans had assured him there would be a prompt retraction instead of that the tribune was now flaunting its lie and declaring it would never retract he was followed by major cavanagh judge mayhew and mr poe when mr Coanell Le a republican offered the following resolution resolved thai the correspondent of the salt lake tribune be requested to publish a retraction oi the charges published against hon geo ainsle or be denied the future privileges of the floor orlando batten spoke in favor of the leso ution mr beattie republican thought the correspondent should have time to make correction of an error he may have committed mr hagan thought the theocracy of the mormon church be met by the united front oi the convention he was for the resolution and bei lieveld the bravest man was he who dared to acknowledge he had been wrong major cavanagh did no believe it best to eppell the correspond ent and have the convention make itself the laughing stock of the terri tory as did the last legislature in a similar case and moved to strike out all of the resolution after the word ainslie this was agreed to and the resolution was passed unanimously during the remarks of mr hagan who lived in utah a few years ago he said that he remembered well when the bravest following the tribune had was a band of true and tried democrats in that territory this tells the whole story in relation to the tribune it was established for the ostensible purpose of fighting the mormon church and in the meantime some success having been achieved partly perhaps through its influence it throws off au disguise and becomes intensely republican and villi fies abuses and traducer traduces tra duces all anti cormons mormons who will not come at its bidding into the republican camp and in so doing uses the most vituperative language it has learned a lesson from the cormons mormons Mor mons it has often asserted that cormons mormons would help jack cormons mormons to office until they had an undisputed majority and when that time the jack must join the church or be left out in the cold democrats helped to warm the salt lake viper into life and after having done BO it turns to be classed as anything but a rabid dishonest disreputable Ee publican sheet are too ganzy to deceive any ona with a gram of commod sense in his remarks upon the question of privilege raised by hon george ainslie last thursday in the constitutional convention mr poe asked did the reporter presume upon the number of his political friends in this convention of course he did the tribune is as brave as any hyena when it seems to be backed up by a republican majority and it acts as if it thought such majority had nothing pise to do but to defend it in its falsehoods libels and slanders at the sacrifice of honor and decency it missed its figuring just once |
