Show VILE SLANDERS REFUTED THE salt lake tribune of friday april contains an abusive and libelous editorial which requires some gotico from the un der signed the grow gross personalities which are the chief stock in trade of that paper place it on too low a level for frequent attention occasionally we deem it necessary to reply but always reel feel after doing so that we have performed a 9 dis dig agreeable duty and bandied words with a blackguard the article to which we now new refer is in relation to the confirmation by the united states senate of E H parsons as marshal for utah the clique which has been trying to secure eure this position for a person more likely to become its tool is fairly wild with rage over the defeat of its vile and contemptible work affidavits which wee either utterly false or wide exaggerations were secretly obtained and sent to washington to blacken the character of mr parsons and aid in the scheme to oust him but investigation ordered from the capital disclosed the nature of the attack made upon him and show showed ed that it was prompted by personal animosity as AH well as a desire to accomplish the purpose we have indicated the consequence is that one of the chief plotters has lost his own official I 1 head and the object of his assault has gained a signal victory hence the vile tirade which is indulged in on friday morning by the organ and abettor of the defeated clique it is charged that there is an arrangement ran gement between mr parsons and certain men high tn in authority in the mormon church by which the men of prominence at least in that church are to be exempted from arrest A little calm reflection will show to any intelligent portion person that this is as childish as it is malicious if there are men high in authority or without any authority in or out of the chemor mormon church who are guilty of violating the jaw it is not the business of the marshal to arrest them until abarge has been preferred and a warrant issued and placed in his hands the marshal is nut not the public prosecutor nor the grand jury nor a court the tribune admits that this presumption of official malfeasance cannot be established by absolute proof but justifies its meanness mea uness by stating that the guilty ones in the mormon church are not being punished if it is true that any guilty ones ches are not being punished cannot the fabricator of these charges see that the blame lies at some other door than the marshal marshalle Mar shaPe le and is not this insinuation a covert tribune thrust at some other official or officials fici als alb if not its folly is only exceeded by its petty malice the tribune says marshal parsons confirmation was opposed by affidavits charging him with grob gro B immorality but he proceeded to get counter affidavits affidavit A to show that the first were not true that of course is simply awful the proper thing for the marshal to do undoubtedly was to let the lying affidavits perform their intended work and permit the clique that was sneaking after his bis official footgear to put its tool in his place to circumvent his bis unscrupulous foes is in their eyes an unpardonable bin BID and now dow we come to something more specific the tribune says one woman who had bad made an affidavit later made a second affidavit asserting that she did not read the contents content of the first one the secret of her counter affidavit was that she had married a son of charles W penrose r ase of the NEWS and when reproached for making the counter affidavit she as g good 0 0 a as s admitted that tere it was 1 in the e i interest n pt of her own people that she did it if that pointed to lo anything direct it pointed to the I 1 fact that an arrangement bad been made between marshal parsons and 0 W penrose and on account of the church charch and through the influence of penrose the countey counter affidavit was forced from this poor woman 19 it if there was any sense of shame in the author and of the foregoing go ng falsehoods when he thinks of his own underhand but now useless work he be should wear a perpetual blood red blush it is a fact that one of the false or exaggerated affidavits was signed by a lady married to a a son of C W penrose that she was persuaded into signing it by a personal enemy of the marshall Mara halls that she did not read it that it turned out to bean be au exaggerated statement of an occurrence over five years ago which did not involve gross immorality and which would never have been mentioned but for strong pressure and importunity that when the purport and object of the paper were disclosed she made another affidavit as to the circumstances under which she was wai induced to sign the former statement that she did so without being forced 11 or influenced or being under stress 11 1 1 and without any intent to carry a false also impression pr jor do anything elfee than set a crooked matter straight the villainous insinuation that an arrangement had bad been made between marshal parsons and CW penrose 1 in any way relating to this matter is utterly false and all of a piece with the rest of this shameful garment firment of slander it is altogether worthy of the salt bait lake tribune and characteristic of its gent gentlemanly lenly method of conducting journalistic courtesies the undersigned undersigner under signed so tar far as he remembers never had but two interviews with marshal parsons and these them were at the Mar marshals office in relation to the detention of prisoners sobers in the penitentiary after their terms had expired for costs when no line fine had bad been imposed the marshal explained that he be could not do otherwise than hold them because the commitment in every case specified imprisonment until the ibe costs costa were paid A writ of habeas corpus was sued out in one of these cases cases before judge zane the detained person was liberated and the mar marshal abal then agreed that fuch prisoners should be discharged on the expiration of their respective terms marshal marsha parsons never asked C W penrose to do anything respecting the affidavit refer gred to or in regard to his confirmation fir or in relation to his office or the efforts to oust him he never entered into any arrangement of any kind whatever with C W penrose unless the promise to do his duty in regard to the discharge of prisoners after their terms expired can be called an arrangement there is not any foundation or excuse for the libel uttered by the tribune which was doubtless suggested by th the same individuals who have endeavored to intimidate persons unwilling lojkin to join in their scheme As to the fitness of E H parsons for the office of marshal we have nothing to say because we know nothing about it we have had no intimate acquaintance with the man at any time and are not with his qualifications but we do know that he be has been assailed in a mean and despicable manner odd and therefore we are not grieved that failure and chagrin and discomfiture have come to the clique that p plotted 0 t his downfall if there shall dball be need of further steps in regard to these shameful libels and false insinuations and we are placed under the I 1 unpleasant necessity of taking other than defensive action the weapons used will not be such as can be turned aside by bv the shield of stern fact nor be melted into thin air by the sunlight of truth that the full and sole responsibility for this article may not be misunderstood the writer departs from the ordinary rule and hereunto appends his signature I 1 W PENROSE |