| Show AN ATTEMPT TO intimidate WE usually take no notice of anon communications they are consigned to the waste aaste basket and sent with other refuse to the paper mill to bo be ground up into pulp if correspondents want their letters noticed they must send bend us their names if they do not wish to have them published we shall not expose them but wo require the name of a correspondent as a guaranty the annexed which we received this thia morning however Is of such buch a character tant we make it the exception to our rule and insert it that we may add some comments salt bait lake city olty UT U T june is 1883 83 editor deseret wema anees arai aref ayou the fact that postmaster J T lynch Is ia an intimate ate friend ol of the secretary of the In an interior H M teller that he secured his place both the first and second time through him it has been thought by gentiles that it was owing to hia his good ac count of you that the mormons cormons nave naye so BO treated by tho the secretary heretofore the attack made upon mr lynch especially pic specially lally aily those placards la at the he worst thing for yourselves you mormons cormons ever did and will rebound on you as you little expect AN OLD cololian conoe COLOE adlas adlan v the writer of the foregoing has made mado a great nil nii mistake stake if he imagines that we are to be deterred from any course which we think to be right by threats or dangers real or imaginary we are not made of that ind 0 on to intimidate are cowardly and contemptible temp tible and their only effect is t to 0 stimulate us in the opposite direction to that desired i 4 now we wish to state that we have made no attack upon mr lynch the attack attach was upon the character of the young men and women of our community and purported to come from mr lynch the placard referred to contained imply simply the article published by the st HI louis Be republican publican and the chicago a simple explanation as to who was the alleged author of me libel the DESERET NEWS has given to the public mr lynchs lyncha verbal statement admitting parts of the alleged conversation denying others this is 13 no attack on anyone it is a defenda defensa of those who have been grossly falsely and vilely attacked attached ty by a reporter who plainly names mr lynch as his authority mr lynch has had the opportunity to set himself right ou on the record ho he can if ho he chooses mako make a statement of the facts over his bis own signature we havo have offered him the space freely the public think that he should correct the false statements of the republican reporter coupling his bis name with the slander if they are false and make the tho correction as wide as the slander this la Is his own affair however he can do as he pleases of course and the public can think what they choose or what appears reasonable to them but mr lynches friends make a grave mistake in trying to intimidate us or tho the I 1 mormon people by any buch such craven and despicable threats us as couched in the foregoing communication we do not believe that secretary teller has been privately influenced in favor of the mormons cormons Mor mons by any one we have no faith in the potency of the postmaster over that distinguished official at the seat sent of government we do not believe that however mail mait clous elous may bo be the feeling and intent of mr lynch he can do the cormons mormons Mor mons the gajary insinuated by an old Color adjan adlan 11 butir but bat 11 ws believed that ho he had accomplished complis hed euch buch wander wonders and alid had the power and the intention of doing all that is threatened threaten edit kit lit would not affect our course one iota we expect to stand by the cause and character charac tex at atthe the monnon Mo unon people and espow expose those who slander thenh them under all circumstances in the face of every peril and in spite of eve evo every ry menace the Mormon sare not responsible for our remarks nor for the placards we shoulder the responsibility of our own utterance sand stand ready to meet it some prominent gentlemen of this city toor toos the lead in getting out those placards that the people might know who was foully them and their sons and daughters if a man who is ij cited as the author of villainous defala dionis of character permits the libels to pasa without correction the public are justified in a viewing the individual as responsible it is the cormons mormons Mor mons who have bave the real grievance it II mr lynch has any it Is against the reporter and not against the cormons mormons Mor mons and now what Js Is the character of the terrible vengence ven genco to be wrecked wreaked upon the 9 mormon people ac cording to oid old Color adlan they thov should t r r emble embie it simply means if it means anything that mr lynch is going to use his great influence as the intimate friend of the secretary of the interior to 99 rebound anthe on the mormons cormons Mor mons in a way that they rithey little expect very magnanimous Is it not we are not aware of any particular favors received or expected by the mor olmon mons from secretary teller all we have ever asked from any official is fairness and justice wo we want nothing but what is right we kick against nothing but what is wrong let mr lynch tell teller all about it we have no objection but let facts not rumors figure in the telling mr lynch has credited vile rumors and is charged by the can reporter not by the mormons cormons Mor mons with them for if we chose choge to go upon rumors with very plausible backing we co could conid u id pince place the gentleman in a veraun very veny unenviable b le nosi position tion before the public but bat we dout dont answer rumor with rumor scandal with scandal or reviling with reviling if wo we should find tit lit it necessary to make a public statement of private matters we shall not depend on re report 0 r it will twill undisputable bo facts tir tit that t w wo place on record with with names and dates and figures that will stand the test of scrutiny and legal judgment if 1 go away 99 old Color adlan and hide bide yourself somewhere till you yon can see how mean and paltry are your threats and insinuations or fling them at bome some one who can be scared seared by the hooting of an owl and turned from a right course by the secret terrors of a tale |
