| Show HOW WE ARE INJURED the NEWS exceedingly dislikes to be drawn into anything that looks like a political controversy contro verey with its ito rarie and will not be except in so far as is necessary emary to correct a false impression fig an to its ito attitude or to call down those who quote it unfairly our attention is called to an article in tn ane e herald of yesterday morning in which extracts extra oto from a speech delivered by frank J cannon at minneapolis in june last are reproduced as being taken from the NEWS of june jun one of them reads as follow when the republican party declared in its platform that it would exterminate the twin iwin relies relics of barbarism it fought one with the sword and it fought one with intelligence thank god it conque conquered redl now the unfairness of this quotation to is that it omits all reference to a subsequent correction published in our issue af the t june referring to the strictures upon the speech alluded to and regretting particularly that they were based upon the NEWS report 0 01 1 the speech this paper on the date last jast mentioned editorially editor lally said what purported to be a portion of the delivered by hon frank cannon in the minneapolis convention hakoo has occasioned casio ned a good deal of comment the language owing to incorrect punctuation etc did not appear appear in the dispatches as express expressed by t the he speaker the follow following ils is the portion of the speech referred to correctly stated as it appeared in the minneapolis tribunes when the republican party declared in its platform that it would exterminate the twin relics ot of barba barbarism nom it fought one with the sword and it fought one with intelligence thank god it conquered with the sword and when it had finished its work in the south it wroe wroe with the hand of peace fiat finis P the minneapolis tribune has given above the exact words as they appear in the official proceedings of the convention ven vent tion ioD prepared by its secretary and just issued in pamphlet form it if we aid add the next sentence alter after the words 11 from the same authority we complete the reference from which the incorrect paragraph was first made up that sentence wan wak now it has accomplished just as much in utah by school hou sesby newspapers by bv law and by the growth of in intelligence 1 in the younger people of that territory 11 applause a As stated in the outset our only in terest in this affair is to we see that we are correctly quo quoted teil to use with deliberation a report which was afterwards corrected as prominently as it was first published ito 1 to say may the he least quite unworthy of either reputable journalism or honest politics |
