Show PRES EXPLAINS he shows how alie attack on him began and Us motive editor will yon kindly print through the columns of your PA per a personal explanation of the heralds attitude toward me and ita meth of ee curing data for such ai article as that which appear edin last fridays issue tuesday morning the Ogden correspondent of the herald called at the college to get data respecting the institution he told me he thought of writing the town and ais educational interests it seemed to him a typical one of utah just such a town as would be of interest to the readers of the an fran checo cieco chronicle and youths compan i n for which papers he was correspondent pon dent I 1 was also told that he rep resented the ogden department of the salt lake herald I 1 accompanied the gentleman through all the departments and explained the work of each and the improvements which had been planned for the coming school year the reporter accepted my invitation to dine with me and expressed his pleasure with what he had been able to learn and observe about the college friday morning the day announced for the meeting of the board an article advocating my removal appeared in the horald soon after the board convened the reporter applied for admission to its seeB ions he was informed ini ormed that he would be welcome to too approved min atea but that it was not customary to admit reporters to it deliberations soon after this application I 1 met him in the hallway and assed if he had written the article in question he da dined 0 o answer bat gave the assure ance of the bich regard in which he personally held me and gave me to further understand distinctly that the article did not represent his views of my qualifications with the policy ol 01 the paper I 1 have nothing to do he continued aad then gave me this sink ne eamile 1 it I 1 w ee sent up in 10 the canpon to get a certain kind of woo 1 woud get the bind I 1 was sent fur As I 1 now have the that this same reporter is the anther of ahse articled arti clee I 1 am very much surprised his statements were como tia as statistics show and when the refutation of abe staten ants were in the tribune he became very n uru alarmed he sought oat students ever bo could and them ran about town for informal on and in every way made efforts to bolster up tho attacks which he had made upon me lam not alto zother familiar wih newspaper bat this instance is one of an unusual character it now appears frim the statements of the gentleman and from other information at hand that he was esat to logan to get a certain kind of wood and that he got it evory s agle attack which the herald haa boen fit t make upon me has been absolutely false but the methods of this man were so ie that it Is difficult to find any excuse for them and I 1 consider the methods more offensive the attack itself re bouis J M lagao utah april |