Show SUPPRESS THE NUISANCE WE WB have had frequent occasion to inveigh against per personal squal interviewers of a certain class they are a public nuisance and ought to be suppressed we do not wish to db understood as intimating that they should be summarily dispatched to the place reserved fo lor r them that love ano and make ai lie but we think that if the law does not fit their case legislation should supply the defect and any person who invents an in ler ter view that is who manufactures remarks as coming comans from prominent individuals divi duals als which they never uttered an dpn conviction be severely pun dished i but the practice which has bas become co boremon remon coi pinon of reporting bogus interviews can be stopped slopped effectually it editors and publishers so det determine deter ermie A newspaper scribe who wh when en unable to make a man speak as he be desires invents an interview and misrepresents and thus iva ID uras ores his victim and deceives the public ought nota no to bee be employed i ra on auy any journal claiming to tobe be respectable respectably and the fact act that bogus interviews are in apy any given newspaper one to be a signal to the public bublic that the misleading Jo leading paper Is s a lying sheet only fit t for the flames reporters Ke e porters who ho resort this infamous trio trick should be tabooed booe by newspaper dom and such prints as the lOwll low lived ived vagabonds bg by pu publishing their invent inventions lous should be e boycotted by the public IC comments om ment have been made ju in local loca and ol 01 bolher her journals on infer i vi W HOD 4 john F ohn sharp who a sh ti ago we went nt to the hast east on r railroad ai broad b business the alleged inter view appeared in ID the pittsburg press and chronicle telegraph graph and contained sensational stat emR hitt to the effect thit the lilt imald d he be wali wab going to washington Washing tonto to meet delegate caine and coaler with him in regard to pending ending legislation against polygamy poly eamy ina lamear it knori that the two pa papera gr named were ere in the habit of publishing bogus interviews with prominent mon men to 0 salt bait lake and then to ew york arid and learned by authentic replica that vice vice president preside t sharp ot 0 the utah central 1 I who ft la also a director pi rector I 1 of the union pacific tom company pOlly was as in new york not washington eton ou cm business connected with railroads and that on his way he be had seen two reporters at Pitt but the had va no in formation for the press it I 1 is the he rule auld with the gentleman named when wh enway away from home to decline interviews with representatives otibe press because he be has been repeatedly the victim of their misrepresentations the perfidy of the two pittsburg papers has as taus been established and they and their methods ogba W u be denounced by reputable journalists Journalist i everywhere about as unfair and despicable as the manufacture mann facture of bogus interviews is the conduct of editors who understanding the views of public men iben with tithe whom they ey are acquainted and thus being able to detect the hk falsehood chood of statements alleged to have been made by them yet fake up manu fractured utterances and ana comment upon binem ern as authentic to the disadvantage of ight IB absent victim s it Is a mean and contempt contemptible ibe way to slander a man behind his back and take advantage of his bis inability to refute the falsehood it is a common practice with a cert certain maln mormon I 1 sheet in this city which is known to he be utterly without honor pud and entirely destitute scruples of about truth I 1 it does not matter a great deal whether hon john sharp went to new york and abd boston on railroad business or to washington on ii b business as 1 I ajas I 1 he had a perfect right to do either if necessary or desirable to himor hla bib friends it is the principle or rather lack of principle we are arc after and which we post most emphatically condemn and we shall be pleased to learn that the leading journals off the country set their faces against this common evil and thus preserve their own charse character for reliability and relieve public men from the outrage of appearing on their pa gesto say tunings which watch are foreign to their sentiments dissimilar to their language and mis leading as to thair position upon important questions the bogus interviewer must go |