Show THRESHING OLD STRAW TALK about threshing old straw 13 what has the liberal organ been at for several days past it has hag been welting away at dead issues and stubble that has not the ghost of a living grain in it ft and all that la Is so ac accomplished is lathe the raising of a cloud tit df dust duet with which it hopes to hide bide its own folly and falsehood today it attempts to bolster up the balderdash of the swashbuckler who insulted this community in an address to general alger of course the coarse and abusive talk that disgusted all who heard it furnishes sweet morsels to the tribune and nearly a column of equally falde and allsy material is devoted to its endorsement dor there is nothing in it to answer but one ene sentence which repeats an old tele and empty slander that no do one so far as we have heard beard as ever taken the trouble to rep reply ly to it has been beben told over and over again by the tribune av as an admitted fact and yet there is not a syllable of truth in it it to is th that t john T caine brought back that agus constitution from washington and a convention of priests was called ta to ratify it this refers to the constitution adopted in 1887 by the delegates elected by the people of the whole territory it was modeled after the constitution ution of 1882 which it closely followed with two notable exceptions the clause forbidding polygamy and that in relation to the lion of church and state the abune has charged with nauseating frequency that john T calne caine brought home in his bis pocket this constitution or the portion of it relating to poly gamy and that the convention merely ratified what he brought we happen to know that there is not dot the faintest shred of truth in the statement it would not matter much if there was but the folly and nonsense of the tribunes Tribune 18 continual statement are patent to all the members of that convention Conventi Qu as well as many others hon HOD john T caine did not bring it or any part of it or any reference to it from washington or elsewhere he had no more to do with it than any other member of the convention aud not so much as some of them for being president Adent of the convention he was not even one of the committee that P prepared it why has it not been denied before simply because it was no not worth the trouble we notice it now because the tribune talks about threshing old straw and we thought we would enter a denial so eo that it may have no BO excuse for banging away at this old rotten and musty straw any longer |