| Show A COWARDLY SLANDER THERE is nothing more mean and cowardly than the way in which the salt lake tribune ghouls assail the dead governor axtell would not succumb to the tribune las lash h while he was the executive of the territory so go he was maligned and abused and secretly slandered by the gang and when he was transferred to another territory their malevolence followed him to his new appointment now he is gone from this world and its injustice they talk of him in this way it is believed that for a moneyed consideration elde ration he sold out to the mormon 9 church 1 I and on this surmise they make the final statement as an excuse for slandering him in his grave that he in life betrayed his trust and vl vi his bis solemn oath the statement is a lie the rumor on which it to is based was groundless fiction governor axtell simply tried to do what was at that time an impossible thing namely to reconcile the lib oral eral conspirators with the people against whom they were plotting no man spoke more plainly than he to the imor mormon mon people as to the supremacy of the law and their duty to obey it but he be did not bold himself aloof from thousands of people who had never broken the law nor understand it his duty to move solely in the narrow cir cle drawn by the tribune fo for r all federal officials he did not consider his trust to be the interests of a little faction nor did he take any oath to receive his orders from the tribune office therefore he betrayed nothing and violated no DO oath governor axtell desired to break down the wall of P prejudice re u that divided the people and have no opposition here except on national party lines if there to is anything smaller and more contemptible in ia the ways of the scandalmonger scandal aandal monger than this method of the aroune lo we have never heard beard of it 1969 it is believed that he soil a out to the mormon church therefore he betrayed his trust and violated his solemn oath that is tribune logic sad and tribune det defamation am stion no gres greater ter depth of depravity is reached than the tribune custom of elan slandering dering the living and defaming the dead |
