| Show MORE nione IN RELATION TO THE CASE OF SEDUCTION AND ABORTION THE uncovering of the corruption and depravity in the irons fowler seduction lon and abortion case by the NEWS of last evening created considerable excitement euch much much as it if is against our inclination to f urther further handle the filthy subject we are compelled again to direct attention to it by the salt lake tribune the advocate defender and apologist of the seducer the libertine prostitute and abortionist this mornings issue of that vindictive anti mormon sheet contained the following in reference to the abominable wickedness it has exhibited such marked anxiety to smother all the newspaper offices in town were visited on monday by the friends ds of mr irons and the luana inana managers ers of all the papers agreed to suppress names and the facts as much a as possible ossia I 1 C until a hearing had been harln harin had in the case the hearing was set for yesterday mornin moaning at 10 before justice son spiers ers but by request of the prosecution t it was postponed postponed till next tuesday da at 10 0 clock am ble ede the DESERET NEWS on monday last gave ave afe a few facts acts concerning the matter thelo theio the local eale caie editor aitor having agreed to suppress ress reis ss the names ames the evening chronicle had nad a two column article set up in type for its last mondays monday s issue but by i request and on the assurance that none of the papers would say the matter it suppressed the article the herald and tribune by reason of their promises also suppressed names and said as little as possible concerning the case preferring to wait till a hearing was had before commenting on the matter another reason for suppressing ap press ingi the facts was on account of the seriousness of the char charge chare e and the gravity of the of fence the tribune preferring to believe the accused innocent until the contrary was in a court ot of esome isome kind the past record of the parties charged with the crime their general good character and their standing in the community warranted the belief that the charge was unfounded and no harm could possibly come froni from keeping the facts from the public until some evidence was produced implicating the accused if the parties were guilty no condemnatory language sEclent sufficiently ly strong could be found to characterize the diabolism of the deed and if they were innocent the wisdom of the course taken by the papers would be plain to see the NEWS of last evening notwithstanding its promise for some reason or other kave kase the alleged facts in the case setting them forth in all their filthy and disgust gustine disgusting dis inc inz details we adhere to our gur original resolution preferring rin to await the result of the investigation gation gatlon non noa on tuesday next the first paragraph of the quotation Is a square admission regarding the untiring efforts on the part of the friends of the alleged criminal to cover up his misdeeds and if this could be done so sa far as the newspapers are concerned it is fair to infer that lie could by the same influence be screened flom from the operations of the law and be allowed to go scot free this belief Is not weakened by the fact that nickson dickson and varlin vari Var iiri in a as stated in another article of the tribune are attorneys for mccornick co the gent gentleman gentlemen lemin last named being one of the most active in the attempt to suppress the facts of this case this however must be taken in combination with the fact that dickson and varian are the U S prosecuting attorney and assistant the latter being the lawyer who drew up the bond for irons release on ball the tiie fact of his taking this initiative steg step in favor of a person charged with crimes of great enormity at the request of mr nir mccornick cuts no figure lu in the matter it rendered his hia position questionable especially when taken in connection with his well known intimacy with the accused the statement ut of the tribune that it preferred to wait till a hearing was had I 1 I 1 I 1 is characteristically incongruous as well as false we gave plain proof of this from an article on the subject in its issue of tuesday morning which we reproduced in full fuli and from which we now quote the whole matter Is looked upon as a piece of spite work and people generally believe that the charge was trumped up in order to blacken the characters of gentlemen as a sort of setoff set off to the blow given the church by the clawson case ordinary people of fairness and sense will viii not only take that as a comment upon the thie case but in effect pronouncing the alleged crimin criminal alk aik innocent and accusing the I 1 emoi Mo mons imons 1 of one of the most of crimes bearing false witness by trump ing up an abominable charge against innocent persons to blacken their characters for a special object had there been any agreement on the part of all ali the journal of this city to pass by this great infamy that has been perpetrated pet rated in comparative silence this thi 8 villainous comment the case would have been a complete breach of it and would have tsar isar warranted ranted afie tho NEWS in defending the innocent against so foul an aspersion by publishing the f full uli facts thes entered into any s such uch an arrangement is to locally cally and unqualifiedly ly false andee and aud we presume press aine that mr mccornick will DC be ready to make an admission to that effect us as he was the gentleman who called at this office to induce this journal to refrain irom from the publication of the details to mike the matter clear we will wil give the substance of what occurred at me lue interview between mr mccornick when he called at our office and the depre representative S tentative enta tive on the occasion of this journal mr nicholson mr penrose chief editor being temporarily absent U in the north mr mccornick made known his wishes in relation to the matter and stated that all the other papers had been visited and had agreed to suppress details and names mr nwe N we cannot agree to do anything odthe of the kind we propose to do ao what we conceive to be our duty as journalists in this as well as every other matter mr al the young man malt who is accused is respectably coul coni acted my object is to have the feelings elings te of his parents spared I 1 believe that johnny irons has had illicit intercourse with the girl evans but I 1 do not think he had anything any thin to do with procuring pro curini an abortion he denies any connection with such a deed and I 1 1 never knew him to lie lle to me me before in his life the charge against dr fowler fowier is ridiculous he says all he did in the world was to give the girl a hypodermic lection injection in of morphine 1 I do eio not think a young man should be crushed crashed because he commits an indiscretion why should your paper show a vindictive I 1 spirit when the others agree to be easy regarding this matter mr nir N do you suppose that if dr fowler were guilty that he would tell teli you or anybody else that he had bad procured an abortion you should not talk about vindictiveness to us look at that villainous paper down the street the tribune which constantly pursues and slanders innocent men women and children in the most relentless manner its depravity is unsurpassed on earth mr M I 1 wish you to understand that I 1 do not agree with that kindol kind of thin mr si I 1 do not think boudo you do but in relation to other papers and this matter of which you speak you are a banker a man of financial influence in the community and there are some journals meaning the tribune and chronicle to which ahier you doubtless have but to express your tour wishes and the they would be complied with not so with us there is ig one paper particularly meaning the ithe chronicle anse whose silence or voice I 1 presume you could purchase for the Insign leant sum of ten dollars there is no sum that could be named that could u 1 d pune pure purchase S e the NEWS it is not nou in the h e market til rk tit mr M well weli now the way I 1 look at the matter is this nothing can be gained by publishing the matter matten at present it would atwould only injure the feell feelings of the family of irons and suppose an investigation should show that this case Is not so bad had after all suppose it should come up for sor investigation an examination be waived and the case go te the grand jury it happens in other instances and so it might in this that the grand jug lug lury jury might ignore the case by falling to annu an indictment in the absence of sufficient lent tent evidence to warrant it su suppose this should be the result wro who would be injured mr nir nicholson at this point found certion cert cerl i in suspicions he entertained strengthened and concluded to end the interview which lie he did in this way he took the proof printed tinted slip of a short article on the abortion at abortion case and said to mr mccornick here is what the local editor has written lie he then marked out most of the names in it this seemed to satisfy mr mccornick who left the room returning in a he put his head in at the doorway and said thank you mr nir nicholson that ash ish thank you for mrs irons the young mans mother he then departed and the article that appeared in the NEWS of monday was that now referred ref f to george J taylor and orson F whitney sere were vere in the room a portion of the time the conversation was con bon conducted ducted and heard frag r ments of it the substance of it is given with the exception of an explanation as to how mr varian came to make out the bond in behalf of irons which is not material as we hageal i ready shown the reasons for the erasure of the names in the first article were first to end the interview aa akl it was bearin ne nearing arIn the hour of going to press second to publish limitedly until the most full and complete details could be had which were obtained at the earliest subsequent opportunity port unity and await cevelo developments ments which soon appeared in the stab shape of an accusation by the tribune to the effect that the mormons cormons Mor mons had trumped up a charge to blacken private character and offset off set an existing situation it became necessary to hurl back this aspersion by the publication of the f full uil statement made yesterday third we considered it an imperative duty as journalists to take more than ordinary pains to obtain the f full uli details and connections of the foul crime because of a suspicion that the attempt to cover up the case would be carried into the grand jury room where dickson and varian mccornick co s attorneys have a most powerful official influence as U S prosecuting attorneys this idea was heightened by mr Mc Cornicks allusions to the possibility of an in being ignored we did not propose to be in a position to allow an attempt of this kind to be made without possessing ss essing ourselves of facts that would expose a plot of that description besides we conf confess ess to a lack of confidence jn in grand juries that a aru are re packed by open venire process for when it is desired by the packers men who will find indictments in a certain class of cases and ignore them in others can cac be readily found and what with packed juries bitterly part izan and prejudiced prosecuting attorneys and a judge who says in in one breath to a man convicted of marrying a second wife and living with her that a person could not be punished for his belief and in the next breath telling tellin him that his sentence had been increased in severity because of his belief how much assurance is there of justice being done in any instance it Is a disgraceful disgraced ua state of affairs judicial dangerous to the public weal not only is the salt lake tribune the apologist and advocate of the seducer libertine prostitute and abortionist in a strictly editorial sense but its columns are the receptacle for communications from fellows of its own fraternity an article of that class appears this morning over the signature of IS S 0 L potter M D 11 whoever that individual may b be ills his hig correspondence pon dence is a labored defense of dr fowler whom he does not believe to be guilty of the crime with which he is charged the closing paragraph will suffice to exhibit him in his proper light here it is in this matteri matter I 1 have no interest whatever except to defend a brother physician from what I 1 believe to be an outrageous and indefensible attack on his character I 1 have nave little more adre than a s speaking leaking acquaintance with dr bowler fowier fowler but from what I 1 know of the stand he has made in past years against others guilty of this crime I 1 believe that he would be the last man in this city to tobe be connected with such a deed 11 balso also aiso firmly believe that the woman did the business herself as she was well qualified to do it both by inclination cli nation and by education the person who can cast such a stigma upon the poor helpless lured injured In crushed more sinned against than sinning girl who has been wronged beyond the possibility of re repair pairis is himself a wretch in whom the last spark of manhood has evidently been extinguished ion lons ago now will not some more mom moral monal vultures of the tribune und mad come out in defense of men who destroy the innocent and virtuous and magnanimously shoot loi Fol poisoned darts at their helpless victims the tribune as we have frequently shown has shamelessly advocated the seduction of the young mormons cormons Mor mons from rom the paths of rectitude and virtue as a means of solving the IA mormon formon question itras it bas has called it freedom for the you youth t to revel in sensual excesses and has invited young utah to fall into t its polluted aims and taste the hwee swee sweets of liberation from the control of mormonism mormonism which enjoins the strictest morality we will again quote what athas said on this subject in an endorsement of the drinking saloon the gambling ambling den and house of prostitution as mediums by which the youth of utah could be seduced from the influence of the priesthood freedom is the farst arst requisite of manhood and if it can be won tit without vIt hout excesses so much the better if it cant never mind the excesses win the freedom john W irons is one of those young men who listened to such seductive wiles and was won over to the side of the anti antl 13 mormon formon when he was charged with committing an infamous and horrible crime the tribune was ready to come to his rescue as one of its converts who had be come co meree merge free habad he had broken the moral trammels with which mormonism mormonism had held alm nim fast in the embrace of virtue in his earlier years and the vile sheet heet was ready to rejoice over him as one redeemed now mark the change this morning that paper having discovered that the evidences of his bis crime are out notwithstanding the efforts made to suppress them it kicks him off contemptuously saying it was all about a mormon bishops son and the daughter of a blessed saint take into consideration what utter hatred the tribune folks entertain and constantly express for anything or anybody mormon and it will be seen at once whai what a savage kick they have given their former in e rp pet et any 0 of f the youths of ef utah who wio may so far fa forget aget their duty to themselves to their connections to society and to god as to plunge into the filthy stream amlin in which thel tribune fellows are constantly inviting them to float may anticipate their probable fate by the instance now so prominently bei fore tore them not only will they be ba wrecked upon the rock of crime but so soon as th they e y are no longer of use to their thein tempters they are arc by them despised and cast 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