Show A FAIR JUDGMENT WE should not notice anymore any more the contention about c kentucky smith smitha a speeches before congressional corn com mitte ep but for the tribunes renewed references to the DESERET NEWS in connection with the subject that paper prints a communication from ito ite washington correspondent which it coin commends mends to the MEWS N aws and we will be able to judge whether mr annias dispatches were doctored in the office correct so go far we are able to judge we have judged and have concluded that they were or the correspondent has told a few more falsehoods our reasons reason eare are these the correspondent states to him smith I 1 said as I 1 did to all the statehood delegation that I 1 was here to report facts leaving editorial comments to 10 my paper which as they know was not supporting their position but further on in an attempt to explain the conversation reported by mr C C richards and mr smith in which they stated that the correspondent said to mr smith he would have to roast him that hill hie paper pape r did not want the truth and he was going to lie about him like the devil he now saye say 1 I said to him your speech was a corker but im going to roast 3 jou ou 11 and further he says he told the delegation he be was against them 91 9 now if all he was to do was to report fact Q 12 why was waa he going to roast kentucky smith in simply reporting ng his hie speech and why need he be ag alnet all the delegation here w was as the animus he meant to him and he be did he wired to the tribune av comments reported him as saying things that he be did not say it if the correspondents own stenographic report r t after afterwards afterward fi is to be believed now re be either did not confine himself to reporting facts facto or else ibis his paper supplied p lied the comments arid and thus the dispatches were doctored in the tribune office the correspondent virtually admits that he telegraphed words that were not in the speech made by kentucky smith for he quotes what smith said and what he be wired and shows that in one instance another word was substituted for that which he telegraphed A correspondent who avows himself as 46 against a delegation of speakers reporting for a paper which was ai also so against them and who telegraphs expressions pres sas as coming from them which are re not to be found in disown his own full report and nd who fills up his des patches with attacks orn on the speakers does not carry out his own pro gramme of confining himself aimse if to the facts but indulges in the a common tactics of the sensational penny a liner and the tribune correspondent has baa done all this or else the tribune doctored his dis dispatches and in any case is responsible for th the wrong we are jud indifferent if ferent as to which is the culprit in this case we have proven beyond denial the essential discrepancy diacre pancy between the telegraphed and written reports purporting to come com e from the same abandand ban dand if the tribune dibuno wants to flounder over this miserable business any more it is welcome to say what it plea pleased seG |