Show if LIBERAL SLANDERS EXPOSED THE mae so called Libe liberal party of utah is nothing if not vituperative and false prom from the beginning its stock in hi trade has been slander and misrepresentation in its attempt to gain control of the board of education in this city it might be thought some regard would be had for truth and decency but the same old tactics are followed and the same mendacity and defamation mark its course wo we do not propose following the flatulent orators who are stumping the all their and untruths un truths but will notice a few statements which are being repeated fn an the various wards one of the chief speakers noted for foi his anti mormon fanaticism which amounts to mania has been trying to throw dirt upon a peopled people Is party candidate for the office oi of school trustee and whom he elegantly names as dick young the particular offense of this gentleman appears to be that he was educated at west point where the stump speaker was educate J does not appear either in or from his public utterances titter ances richard W young is an honored and able young gentleman whose worth to Is recognized by the public and particularly by the people of the municipal ward where he resides but his assailant is angry because the gentleman is a grandson of the late president brigham young and the particular point made about his education is that he could not have obtained it but from the fact that he was wao 19 1 a 9 member of the royal family it should be understood by eveia everybody that no one can enter the military academy at west point who is unable to pass a rigorous examination both as to physical and mental qualifications in either of these the gentleman so basely attacked when he was not present to defend himself is at least the peer of his defamer and in every qualification of manhood ability honor morality and all the qualifications that make up an intelligent gentleman we appeal to the public if he does not stand at least equal in general esteem to the virulent individual who once was glad to feed on the crumbs that fell from brig hams hamps table and who la those tim was denominated by the liberal organ as the tongs of the priesthood 2 how much dishonor attaches to an admission to and a victorious graduation from west ful service as a military officer latida laudatory tory mention as an aid to abe tb judge advocate and high enco at the bar and at literature and how much honor will be to achieved by a soured malignant 10 attempting to smirch his name find an reputation a discerning public may be left to determine either as to public or private character we would be willing to have a strict comparison made bw b tween tue the two individuals andro and W would not be afraid of a aicale simi comparison as to their abilities JO 1 any direction another assertion by a 7 stump speaker is that he was WOO one refused as an applicant for the pool tion of teacher of the thirteenth ward school and the inference be b draws from this is that it was W b cause he was a gentile and ther fore no gentile could gain on eni as a teacher in the brict schools but he carefully concealed the fact that he did obtain employment as teacher of 1118 twentieth ward district school according to his liberal logic he was rejected by ohp th of one ward because he was a gea tile and selected by the mormons cormons Mor mons of another ward for the same res r son several of these retailers of false hood have repeated the untruth tho that no gentile ever obtained amplo employment as school teacher by the mor mons 11 and they have been ena aloyed by the scores during nearly all the years that have passed since the settlement of the territory some of those teachers afterwards aft erwa joined the church others neve did so and a few of them have bad the hardihood to deny a fact patent to all acquainted with their history but this is liberalism pure and an simple again it has been stated abat tb the eighteenth ward of this city I 1 y and has been without a bistro school the truth is that from 00 tb time of the organization of the OW brict up to the date of vacation this tb year a good and efficient district school has been maintained in aba district there iff iffa a denomination 81 school as well sustained by tho e latter day saints and its or clllence cel lence is such that it draws woo it of the children of the ward to 1 00 tethers and influence but the AI district strict school has been kept up 1 t colb the begin ginning ni dg A ex judge who knows about as enuch of thia question as he does of ilie the educational F tatus in jupiter tas has been adding his denunciation of the school system of this territory 10 the general mass of misrepresentation I 1 why even in the years gone by when education educato 1 on had not reached its presen present t mar mark k in utah the school statistics cs of this teral tory ere away ahead of those in the state he halls hails from according to the respective populations what esthe ase abse of decent men ditke him joining ili this campaign of slander to support ort a party that te Is neither fish flesh nor fowl in politics but only oily marmon in spirit and foul una fraudulent in all its ways men who have not been in utah blore than a month have been pleased into the servi ceto repeat the tet put into their mouths by liberals ant and expose their own gnor antee to td all old settlers of every party the object of all this is to capture the votes of comparatively new I 1 who know nothing of the ow adila arid are re perhaps ready to low ow these fictions of stump orators because of 0 f prejudices imbibed before they came here but they ought to make inquiries as to these statements clients and not jump hastily to judgment they will learn upon in tion that the imor Mor cormons mormons m mons honsl l have had aa 48 good a school system from the beginning ginning aa as means and circumstances would woold permit that thai the territory t has as not had a dollar of assistance frow from school lands or other national help or such aai as the states obtain that a free school has always been attainable attai n able here under the laws in every district at ai the option of the I 1 taxpayers that such schools have been maintained in diffie different rent parts t this territory for years that way would have been opened and ept up in some other places but for the opposition of so called I 1 liberals who now attempt to claim all the credit for a compulsory free school law w framed by mormon legisla lors alj and passed by an assembly the large majority of which were mor imor mons and that the liberal tey is one of fraud and 1 I nta tion calumny ani abuse and J hat its pretensions are vain and its 4 couite urse is IA positively infamous the piece learned by heart which a noted liberal speaker gets off ery night about an old tree with i a babbling brook and its tinny finny tribes a village school and a meadow and some cows and all that sort of twaddle delivered in a mour neth I style of bathos is all very pretty if not heard too often once is quite sufficient but where is the logic of the argument therefore vote for liberal trustees however this is quite harmless if some somewhat w hat watery and not to be classed with the direct falsification which characterizes most of the stump oratory in thib tah liberal I attempt to capture the board of education we may not induce any of thesa speakers to keep within the lines of truth or common honor but at least we can expose some of their groundless falsehoods and defend those who are the objects of their vile attacks let tile the sensible people of this city enquire into the facts examine the tickets offe offered red for their suf frages and vote for honest truthful and respectable men to manage the educational cat ional affairs of this city and that is all we ask |