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Show ' I consummate Blackguardism m For consummate blackguardism m I nothing could possibly surpass the Salt I Lake Tribune. Blackguardism Is the 111 I proper word. The Tribune lacks every I clement of refined villainy. Its meth- a' B ods aro those of the base, coarse and I brutal class of men called blackguards. I Decent people aro dlsgustod with It. B This policy of tho paper Is conducted B by a triumvirate composed of cx-Sen B ator Kcams, Joseph I.Ippman and ex-B. ex-B. Senator Frank J. Cannon. Tho das-B das-B tardly and altogether despicable moth-B moth-B ods arc conceived by Mr. Uppmnn, 11 B executed by Mr. Cannon and paid for B " by Mr. Kcams. Such a triumvirated B never before disgraced nowspapcrdom. B When Perry S. Heath, the king cf B grafters, was manager of tho paper it B was thought tho lowest depths of ln- B famy had been reached by tho sheet, B but since his (tight to other lands, still B 'ower depths have been reached. No Hj man, Gentile or Mormon, vho refuses B to be a tool and a slavo of tho ownor B of tho sheet is safe from its calumny B and abuse. It not only vllliflcs in- B divlduals, but it blackens tho name of I B the state and tho city. It has already Bj wrought untold Injury to Salt Lako. I retarded its growth and hurt Its bust- II ness interests to such an extent that IS there is a general outcry against It. I I U has made Utah a hissing and byword 1 1 In tho nation. It has manufactured j and published the grossest falsehoods and misrepresented Utah and all her People. Before ex-Senator Koarns ! bought ex-Senator Cannon Its abuso was principally of Gentiles who would not bow the knee to Mr. Koarns. Since Mr. Cannon's advent on the sheet in Jho capacity of editor, its wrath has 1 heen principally directed at Mormons. And who Is tho triumvirate which is I sco,lr8'ng tho people of this stato? , slmU 'ogln by saying n few words jwut Mr. Cannon in this issue of 4 roth and later will have something 10 say about the other two. Cannoh was born a Mormon, aid taking hs own wonls foi. it ho ia "Mormon through and through from hhtmVn f hlS heild t0 th0 60,03 of who i IIe 18 no of tll0se Mormon3 Ilk , a Mormon for revenue; bo was 'vlse a nepubllcan for revenue. 1C a silver Republican for revenue, then a Democrat for revenue, then an "American" for revenue. When his father was the ruling spirit of tho Mormon church he was tho church's commercial agent, and found his position posi-tion exceedingly profitable. He called himself a good Mormon then. He paid tithing, carried a recommendation from his bishop in bis pocket and exhibited ex-hibited it during political campaigns when he was a candidate for ofllcc. He approved polygamy and preached its rightfulness. Then he was a Mormon "through and' through,' at least ho said so. When ho wns deriving de-riving sustenance from the church, when ho wa3 tho recipient of church Influenco above any other man in tho state, when tho peoplo wore henping honors upon him, then he said ho was a good Mormon. When the Republicans Repub-licans elected him to office ho said ho was a Republican, but ho proved a traitor to tho Republican party just as a short time later ho sold out the Democratic party. Ho has proved a traitor to every cause ho over espoused. es-poused. Ho became a traitor to his own people when they refijsctl to al low him to live longer In luxury and easo at their expense. His present antipathy an-tipathy to tho church Is solely and only because iho rovonuos of the church wore diverted from his lap. The moral character of ox-Senator Cnnnon is probably worso than that of any other man in tho stato. Years ago ho was known as tho Brcckln-ridge Brcckln-ridge of Utah and ho has not improved im-proved any since. Ho is a wrecker of homes, a despoller of women. After his election to tho United States son-ato son-ato his immorality was so gross and notorious that ho was asked by a multitude mul-titude of his consltltuents to resign his sent In tho senate because ho was a disgrace to tho stato bo represented In that body. When ho nnd other senatorial sena-torial candidates wore before the legislature leg-islature about the expiration of Mr. Cannon's first and only term, ono of those candidates suddenly disappeared from public view, but was soon located lo-cated in a house In tho tenderloin district dis-trict which ho refused to leavo for about a week, while his supporters In tho legislature wero dally voting for him for tho exalted ofllcc of United Sta js senator. We ask Mr. Cnnnon which of those senatorial candidates or Pharisees that was, and if ho Is a fit man to bo the leader of any icforms or of a holy cause, such n man as Gentiles who nre convinced that reforms are needed can look up to with trust nnd confidence? |
