| Show REFINED AND conclusive ARGUMENT THE brillant gentlemanly and scholarly editor of the sam salt lake tribune daily alternates between two questions silver and the mormons cormons Mor mons or mormonism and silver when opposed on either subject he resorts to the most powerful weapon at his intellectual command that is personal abuse and a series of epithets this morning he be holds a characteristic te argument with the editor of the springfield republican who has dared to question the morality of some of the liberal editors utterances in relation to certain senators and the silver question this is the sort of reasoning wherewith he the springfield disputant A hypocrite and a knave the dishonest springfield Be republican publican 91 11 all the time it was lying it has been full of these tricks all its life 0 the father of the present owner of the Be republican publican was a dishonest man and the evidences are that he transmitted his dishonesty to his son 11 of course that is conclusive there is no room for further discussion of the silver question that is the method by which the gifted I 1 journalist and profound logician of the tribune demolishes his opponents on the mormon question the writer who has the temerity to expose his bis errors and straighten out his serpentine contortions of speech is either a scrub a fool a knave a hired liar a sorry ass am whatever that may be or something else equally vile but scarcely fit to be repeated here or his lather father mother or some near relative to Is assailed in terms similarly contemptible we do not know how we can better express the estimate in which he is held among conservative people of both parties in this city than by his own words which thus conclude the article to which we have made brief reference on general principles we believe a man who is eternally searching for something through which he can attack someone some one else in away a way to prejudice outside people is a scoundrel and a knave himself |
