Show 0 WHY NOT HE BE DECENT auf Ou une steer ped Libe liberal raP morning contemporary he has behaved a little bettor better in sonae some respects since its appearance pe arance in a new neve drew dress aut occasionally 1 I casio nally it exhibits its old dispose 41 aud and scold and with low lived language bear false felfle witness against its neighbors we have i r refrained 0 from noticing its bullying 9 blackguardism of the NEWS for some time but will now sac irico a small portion of space to an allusion to one of its sunday paragraphs referring to this paper its characteristic flings it bays some four lines during the past few days it has flatly asserted that the election ba bill vetoed by governor Gover hor thor THOMAS was favored by the utah this is eti entirely false the yew news ona can produce no testimony to corroborate its statement 11 thou then follows a scurrilous allusion in to one member of the utah commission whom it is customary for bully to small assail the gentler paulel fuw plan is absent now any one t produce fram from the columns of the DESE aws a single statement that I 1 the election bill was favored by the utah commission 1 we have said nothing of of the kind it has been co common for years with the infamous sheo sheet which we now deign to notice to make mae pretended quotations from the NEWS and in doing so either manufacture sentences nees that never appeared in our columns orso or so garble and pervert and mis quote asto ae to reverse their meaning in either catle cafe the wrong is ia usually not simple error but wilful and deliberate lying in this this caw case there is a slight thread on which the tribune falsehood has haa been woven we have twice a al hided to the views of the utah corn com mission on one particular point but in neither instance did these relate to the election bill 11 by this phrase we mean the bill designed to meet tho the requirements of the acts of congress for the regulating of elections in utah anti and filling the various offices are elective by popular vote examination Eit of our remarks concerning that measure which is known as the lection bill will show that we anade made n no 0 reference whatever to the views of the utah commission there were two other bills that the governor vetoed en which we made some remarks one was the bill in regard to than jhb classification of cities in speaking of the delay occasioned casio ned by the governors upon the bill we said members of the council then waited on the governor and after a very lengthy conversation learned verbally his bis alleged objections to 10 the bill they were wera chiefly in relation to the new registration he took the ground that under the edmund 4 act the legislature could not change the law in these respects when informed that the chief justice the commission and learned counsel on the liberal side took the opposite view he be had bad to waive that pol point in ih argument but as argument he be still objected to t the i e changes every section in relation to them wa was stricken out this certainly is a not a statement that the utah commission favored therill the bill their opinion on an a single wa w s mentioned that is all our other reference to that body was in regard to the bill making some am amendments to the present registration statute and was as follows 4 th power of the legislature to amend the election laws on governor casts a doubt saying nothing positive however is not cifa disputed aled even b by v the utah commission in no case did we assert that the utah commission or any member of it favored any hill bill presented to the governor in both the instances hen we mentioned their views the reference was confined to a single legal polut point the same in both cases namely the power of the legislature to amend the laws concerning registration and elections in this territory we should think some one with on the aroune wald h haye ave I 1 sense and manhood enough to stop atop the lying ond and blackguardism which so often make it a disgrace to jour and render it an unfit aft to argue with we neither expect nor de sire its favor but wc w think we have the tight fight to denland that its ito hate of the desere r NEWS bews should bet be restrained at the limit of lying as to what appears in our ur columns |