Show AT Al 1 ITS OLI W JU r 1 Tho The antl Mormon ormon morning paper In Inthis J J title this city ell him bun reverted to Its lis i maneuvers tho the big blu black head I f Uno lino of oC Important Witnesses In F Smoot Cane Caso Dodged Ily By II The Th Marshal i It endeavors to give Klo the tho Impression lon to the tho public that ns nil stated slated lit ft tho the of ot tho article the tho Church line hils organ zed to avoid tho the service on ell all 1 who ho might ho forced to malta tJ I lug Ing admissions Tho The malignity ot or these thello r j falsehoods lit is evident to avery over reader teader of ot L I the tho mess of DC untruths the Tribune has concocted There Th re is not n B particle of oC evidence that any of ot the gentlemen named as aB wanted at lit Washington dodged ser eer service er vice lel Tho rho Marshal does docs not make mako any such statement If It he ho did It would not be correct And nd tho assertion that tho the Church organized to avoid olt service Is III not only absolutely false but Lut entirely without reason or excuse No one here knew anything about the tho names ot of wit witnesses nesses wanted wan led until they were nub pub Senator Smoot wa WM unable to obtain them In advance when ho was desirous of oC knowing whom he ho should need for tor the defence There has hM not been any proof of oC re to go 10 to Washington ton on the part of ot either of oC tho tim whit fd Id Tho The gentlemen subpoenaed ho were unable to go had physicians ter certificates certificates to show dhow their condition In each ellch case the Inability was and Is le known to 10 l h 13 genuine There Is no doubt about that In the tho cases of oC those absent It Is h beyond reasonable dispute that UI they were away awny Iwa on business and had been long before It was known th y were wonted wanted The Tho Tribune says they were the tine moro more Important witnesses that they were those who were most wanted and that they avoided service because they might be forced to make damaging damagIng ing lag admissions Yet It says that President Joseph F P Smith went will wUl willingly willIngly though Ho lie will be compelled to 10 answer tho the charge that he lie Is the thi th husband of ot five 1110 wives and has hn had many children by them There will willbe willbe be no compulsion or need of oC compulsion lion sion as I to any witness anti and the Salt Bait Lake Tribune Is le not likely to gain any comfort cOin tort from tho the Investigation when It ItIs ItIs Itis Is completed In publishing such n a string siring of or base baseless less hes charges and Insinuations as ns Its ef d effusion effusion fusion of or today loday It establishes nothing but the fact tact that It Is stilt still the same sama old organ or un of ot abuso abuse and defamation See II n Peter leter Z 2 22 |