Show that horse controversy editor eliat controversy has now the appearance of becoming a controversy on honor and that too of men that should have kept themselves entirely out of the squabble lor we cannot sec why they should have taken sides with either party for wo know that was anything but the best of feeling existing between them and us but their actions cause us in vindicating our own honor to point out to them tho balaity of their affidavit we very much regret we are compelled to do for aliis is a very delicate subject to handle in our article alt we alluded to Ki elsons article published in the utah agriculturist and made our assertion on the article in its entirety which contains about fifty numbers now gentlemen if simons certificate of pedigree contains lie above you have made a true affidavit we will here produce the main feature of ind then point out its misleading and falbe nature after having carefully read examined and compared alie contents of I 1 the above we now declare on our oaths that tho article referred to above as found in the utah agriculturist of december last in as far as it relates to the pedigree of mr rosmus ie laona pcr cheron bt allion simon is strictly correct nothing in alie said article in so far as it relates to the pedigree of said horse is added nothing left out 0 A now gentlemen what are we to un veraland de raland by alie words in as far as it relates to the pedigree of mr Xi elsons stallion simon is strictly correct do you mean that you have chosen out of that conglomerate mass of bumbers published in the utah agriculturist lucli numbers as will correspond with the the true certificate if so then how dare you that nothing added thereto nor nothing left out and thereby making your affidavit more misleading i than alie article yon are trying to defend fow gentlemen if you will take an oath or make an affidavit that the certificate of pedigree of simon contains all the numbers published in alie utah agriculturist and will show us the certificate of pedigree to prove it we will sign any correction you may wish us to make and publish it in every paper in the U you so desire if you can not do that then make an affidavit that it does not contain them and thereby extricate yourselves from the trap you leave so u unwittingly been lead into by nielson who is now boasting that the horse controversy is entirely kofl his shoulders and that means that it rests upon yours we will now try to answer a few of the silly questions propounded by kielson in his last article why was not davoust given a fifth prize because there were only three given in that and according to elsons Ni statement that simon was put chased in illinois on the first of april lie obtained one of them and also the prize for his imported mare that came into the country at ane same time through fraud they not having been in the country sis months the time required by the awarding committee consequently the premium mr is making so much fuss about he has no right to first second or third as he has imposed upon the awaad ing committee and the public to get it and deprive honest competition of their just dues now creer and rees bow are you going to defend this yes at abe fair and competed in a fair and honorable manner thank you mr nielson for alie compliment ment and that is aliat we propose to do alien we show our stock in regard to the applying of names we did not deem it necessary as nielson lias had bis horses BO extensively advertised through the country that everybody who was interested jonew what horse the colta were sired by neither did we say the colts were ired by simon as his misleading article would infer and cause the public to believe wo will now state that it was roustans Rou stans colts that were competing the same horse eliat he used to as much fuss about as lie now does over simon and the same horse that he dared not exhibit in a contest for speed on a walk or a trot at the late territorial fair against that we backed with money to or trot any registered draft horse on the fairgrounds thus established him the best horse in another very essential quality we annex his numbers that he may have a name you know and if a horse without a number is without a name nameless horses and mares are referred to about fifteen times in simons pedigree as published in the utah agriculturist this too not being in accordance with the true certificate of pedigree of simon we do not wish to be understood that simons of pedigree is wrong but on the contrary ft is our proof of the falsity of the article published in the V tali agriculturist we will not undertake to point out all his attributed to us but will refer to one and the reader can judge of the accuracy the others by this one we stated that the competition was so close that the judges did not know which one to give the prize to for chere was only one prize contemplated in this we refer to tho secretary of the utah agriculturist and manufacturing Socie tys letter which has been reproduced so many times and if it is a lie Nelson had better attribute it to where it belongs we will hero quote from an article published inthe in the utah and dated november signed by F meaning fool we suppose and published in the interest of nielson where he produces the lette in full for the first time which athe awarding committee found the competition so close that decided to give three prizes now F is made out to be the liar for making use of the same now mr nielson we want you to understand der stand we have the courage to defy all such false and misleading affidavits as you have load crear and rees to make and are perfectly able to do 0 o without dragging anyone elsa into trouble with us which was the best traveling horse among all the Perc herons at the fair bowens horse davoust Davon st american na french no SPANISH feb adv |