| Show FALSE IN EVERY particular As a specimen of the method by which the tribune obtains material for the slander of cormons mormons Mor Mort mons wh come under its displeasure we direct attention to a story which appeared in its columns on the dinst purporting to be au an account of an occurrence in payson the reader would naturally come to the conclusion that the writer was describing something he had seen and heard it gave particulars of an alleged quarrel between the outgoing mayor of payson and a new candidate for that office the retiring officer was said to have exposed the candidate in caucus and to have heaped upon his head bead the most opprobrious epithets taets accusing him of theft false hood treachery and robbery and substantiating stant lating the charges to which the accused could offer no reply not only did this sensational report appear in the tribune rne but it was sent over the wires east and we commented upon the dispatch on thursday evening as it appeared in the denver news under startling besO headlines lines about a mormon split 11 etc it now appears from a communication to the tribune that the whole story was a fabrication it to is probable that no refutation of the slander would have appeared iu in that paper had bad not a number of liberals in payson come to the front and denounced the story as entirely untrue and false in every particular this they do in a communication to the tribune the writer of the slander learned of their action and hastened to got get hold of the document the veracious reporter explains his bis mendacity in this way arriving here on sunday evening last he gathered from street talk on election day that the people bad a red hot time at their caucus and that the mayor bad made the accusations that were given in the special dispatch but as to is customary in these cases the correspondent did not state that he be obtained his bis information from others the account was given as a veritable occurrence without as to particulars received it was written up as a report of a meeting and appeared as though related by a reporter who was present this is the manner in which anti mormon sensations are manufactured for the its correspondents and reporters understand what kind of stuff staff its editors most delight in A rumor on the street to is enough it ills I 1 a worked up into matter of fact painted and trimmed and magnified magni fled and published as though reported by an eye witness when asked for its authority it is given as a reliable gentleman 12 or the questioner is airily informed that it is known to a dozen or more respectable persons and it is useless deless to deny it it is astonishing that so straights straight a correction as appears this morning was published in the omune but it is evident that the disreputable loafer who sent the original falsehood has been compelled to eat his own words by some of his own party but this to is only one In instance of stories that were entirely untrue and false in every particular appearing in that paper but of which no refutation was permitted to appear the present contradiction is doubt doubtless leps due to the fact that prominent liberals in payson were so disgusted with the falsehood that they thrust it down the throat of the defamer and made him bring forth the retraction which appeared this morning the fact that this slander untrue in every particular f J has been telegraphed to eastern papers shows how anti mormon 1 1 stories are manufactured for exportation and how the eastern press become the victims of tribune li bellers in utah |
