Show UNFAIR TREATMENT OF OPPONENTS WE have heretofore taken occasion to point out the unfair treatment accorded by some of thep the partisan artlean jour nals nala of the territory toward their political opponents the excuse generally put forward in extenuation of this species of injustice to ig that every thing is fair in politics i those who act upon such each ii a contemptible motto are not likely to be straight in other respects honest treatment is twofold two fold in its ito operation it in ia every manis mana man Is duty to accord it and every man manin mana in right to receive it this should be recognized in politics aa in every other department of attain affairs the disingenuous partisan practice to which we refer consists principally in the misconstruction of the statements of an opponent causing him to appear to have said aard what wait waa evidently foreign to his intention As AB an instance attempts have been made to show that one of the republican delegates to the minneapolis convention east cast reflections upon the mormon community so far as relates relater to their past history superficial people especially ally those who have great faith in whatever appears in type be misled by such tortuous constructions when they are examined however in the light of circumstances which called forth the expressions thus twisted from the he intent of the gentleman who uttered them their true character stands out conspicuously in fighting before the committees for seats in the convention the liberal P factionist faction fists resorted to the old worn out auti antl Mormon tactics tactic they raked up the ashes of the dead put pact they had piles of books containing ser sermonia delivered in the early times of the settlement of this region these were copiously quoted but they had not the remotest reference to present conditions and issues the expressions quoted be longed to the ancient history of the territory and bad as much reference to the present status of utah as the sayings of leading men of colonial times would have to the present condition of the american nation when the regular delegate from utah obtained on an the floor of the convention ven tion fe recognition cognition from chairman mckinley he could not know that the same mine courtesy would not be also accorded ts te a delegate of the liberal faction if the latter had been permitted to follow it goes without that he would have rehashed the stale and ancient stuff he had inflicted upon the committees this being the casette case the regular delegate shaped his bis speech so no as to break the force of the trash an AD the gentleman consequently spoke to the expectation that quotations would be read by his opponent from statements state menti made in the long ago he showed that the opposing delegat delegates were back nu in here bers aland Jl and referring to the fact of their resurrecting old sermons bonss stated ironically that they were living hying in the past and uninformed on the conditions of the present incidentally he said that thoy athey did not know brigham young was dead to claim that there was any intention on his part to gast a reflection upon the memory of that great man to is an absurdity upon its face yet such an intimation ti has been made A construction of that character is manifestly unjust |