Show Inter-Mountain Republican Imitating the Tribune To denounce your opponent as a slanderer and straightway to slander in a manner and tG a degree that surpass anything he has been guilty of even on your own this shows either a weak case or a poor and perhaps Protesting that B. F. Grant has slandered it by saying that the Republican accepted money from the breweries in the recent prohibition that paper itself descends to the depths of libellous and irrelevant assertions against the chief advocate of prohibition in this Our readers know that we have no confidence ordinary prohibition We think them a kind of goody-goody devices that multiply and bring contempt upon law But we also think that those who advocate prohibition are as sincere as we believe them to be as honest as any other And we are astonished to find the Republican voicing such as the following concerning the character and good taste of a private citizen whose only apparent offense is that he has openly advocated prohibition and has criticised and insinuated the Republican had accepted money from the brewers' Here are some of the gems of billingsgate from a recent editorial of that truth about Brig is that he has himself He acts like a man who believes the people were waking up in the morning only to find what Brig Grant thinks of the And he rushes into print with his message of comment or might be added that he is a liar and a veno- of his To that it might be added in spite of all his for recognition as the one model man in the he is to this very day precisely the sort of man he was when a Milford saloon He got out of the saloon and the moral level of that occupation has been better ever Brig Grant degraded the And there are only a few men living or dead of whom that could be said without fear of This may or may not be truth about but it is a shocking method of attack upon a person who merely dissents as to the best party and the whole mess of slander is Here is of the Republican's gems' of defamatory insinuations the he pretends to desire the closing of the If it doesn't close till B. F. Grant closes Belle London will be drawing money there as long as the people who sold Grant liquor for his saloon shall whistle for their And that looks like a is working for the closing of the Who is in favor of the chief of Grant i sout with indorsements of Who Job Grant indorses The American party city Grant indorses the is openly and unequivocally and at cost the The B. F. Grant is against the knows Job Lyon don't want the stockade He knows Lyon has said that Lyon has told him that the stockade ought to be he know these Then he doesn't know what other members of the league He doesn't know what Joe I He doesn't know what everyone else m town The last paragraph gives away the Republican's case It W m assumes and then Grant these 1 Perhaps he Perhaps he other facts that modify tbS Perhaps he doesn't W tW In any case he ought Jl thus to be held up to execration because he is to certain sF yet does not do what the lican thinks he ought to W And More Like W One more quotation may W. little more than but shall add it JK is the only man ia state of Utah who has the saloon business by of He is the only man in with a consuming vanity strong that he can not let hia record be He is tiT only man in Utah debasing by attaching his calliope to its and raffle phoning himself across the eral 1 slanderer who isn't enough to confess when in a tool of Kearns who hasn't the to send his communications to Tom's paper fearing the A of caste that would follow a a friend of London who lacks the open and gives service by stabbing at the m force she B. V. Grant the peddler of hot air aft fundamental m Only one thing Deeds be With the exception of the the Republican is the only paper in Utah stooped to attempted assassination in order to political is needed in this Public papers that rise M that speak y truth irrespective of its upon the party or the the gang that they Such a paper we are best to And we attempt in Ji no other such the present however made shorter by waste 6 |