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Show MOTIVE IGNOBLY CONFESSED. When the Smoot organ came out in such a vile and vicious tirade of billingsgate bil-lingsgate against former Senator Cannon Can-non of Utah, ostensibly on account, of a tivc-lino paragraph in Tho Tribuno suggesting him as a compromise can-' didaic for tho Senate in Colorado, wo expressed tho opinion that thnt suggestion sug-gestion could not possibly have boon the real mbtive for the attack. Tho Smoot paper now comes forward with a confession that that is true. It reveals re-veals the true motivo as the Cannon articles in Everybody's Magazine, which give an account of tho sccrot manipulations whereby polygamy was restored in practice after it had been given up in theory .by reason of the Woodruff Manifesto of 1800. Tho Manifesto seems to have been kept, so far as now polygamy is concerned, for three or four years, and then, as Son-!ator Son-!ator Cannon points out, tho compact wag violated and tho original "revelation" "revela-tion" enjoining polygamy was put into in-to practice, chiofly through tho efforts of then Apostle and now President Joseph Jo-seph F. Smith. .Resentment, at these exposures was tho real reason why the vicious assault was made upon Frank J. Cannon. This was confessed yesterday yes-terday morning in a supplementary ragtag of billingsgate, in which Shakespeare Shake-speare is mangled and tho English language lan-guage outraged in a big triple-column .display, next to the advertising, tirade in its issue of .yesterday morning. in that blunderbus wad of trash the Smoot organ reiterates its old story about Senator ICenrns and Senator Dubois Du-bois going to New York to arrange for the publication of those articles. The only difference is that heretofore it has said that they arranged with Pearson's Magazine. Now it leaves out Pear son's, hoping no doubt to escape tho odium of being a self-confessed and ovident liar. Every time tho Smoot paper has mado this charge heretofore it has said that tho arrangement was made with Pearson's Magazine. But when this charge was first made, The Tribune wrote to. the editor of. Pearson's' Pear-son's' Magazine, inquiring as to " the facts and "ho sent a" prompt donial. That denial was sent first to the Smoot organ, which refused to print it. Then it waB sent, to The Tribuno, which printed it and showed the dishonest method of the Smoot paper. Neither Mr. Kearns nor Mr. Dubois, tho editor ed-itor of Pearson's declared, had anything any-thing whatever to do with the publication. publi-cation. Then the Smoot. paper printed what purported to bo a letter from the editor of Poarsou's, but which was exposed ex-posed lator as a composito fraud, taking tak-ing a few words out of one letter and a few words out of another and joining join-ing them together, so as to make an appearance of a statement which, in fact, never was made. The unscrupulous unscrupu-lous rascality of the Smoot paper being be-ing tlniB oxposed, it subsided for a while, but at times tho old rabies comes upon it again, and it reiterates that falsehood, repeatedly oxposed as false-by false-by tho very person who would bo certain cer-tain to know. This time, as stated, it does not say that tho arrangement was mado by Messrs. Kearns and "Dubois with Pearson's Pear-son's Magazine. But it undertakes to make it appear that the arrangement was made by them with Everybody's Magazine, which is simply a shift of ground for tho old lie, for nothing of the. kind was arrangod by either, of .them, and neither did they have anything any-thing to do with tho matter in any shape or form, cither for Pearson's or for Everybody's. In fact, they knew nothing . about it until the arrangement arrange-ment had been made for the publication. publica-tion. So thnt tho Smoot paper, simply on a foundation of lies of its, own building, build-ing, bases this false story and repeats it from time to timo with the assurance assur-ance and hardihood of a well-seasoned rogue. The whole attitude of the Smoot paper with -regard to this matter mat-ter is a disgrace to Utah journalism, and simply shows that the Smoot paper, so far from repenting of its. misdeeds, mis-deeds, which have mado it the scorn and contempt of everyone in Utah, is constantly seeking lower depths ' to which it can burrow, and searching. for further efforts at self-abasement, which will sink it yet further in tho just contempt con-tempt of mankind. |