| Show LIBERAL defamation 0 IT is ft 6 custom with the liberal organ of this city to publish gross falsehoods accompanied by impudent personalities in a manner that renders it almost impossible for the individual assailed if he entertains any self respect to take public notice of the scurrilous attack this Is followed by repeated references to the libel as though it was an undisputed fact and the silence or of the slandered person is assumed to be a tacit acknowledgment of its truth only the most cowardly and unscrupulous of scribes would resort to this ambushed throwing of journalistic stinkpots stink pots one case of this kind we condescend to speak of it is the repeated assertion that the editor of this paper has been furnishing free 0 passes on railroads for colonizers who are expected to vote for the people lp ticket next february if there were any necessity to enter a specific denial of this statement we would be ready to make it at any time but it is so absurd and silly on its face that a little reflection would demonstrate its falsity the idea that railroads would honor passes made out by the editor of this or any other paper in this city is one that only a liberal mind would conceive or entertain As to the low lived remarks that accompany the libel we leave them with many others of a similar kind to that silence which is most expressive of the utter contempt in which we hold them and their unmanly aut authors bors the liberal organ announces with its accustomed abs assurance urance when uttering a deliberate falsehood that P F 8 richards esq of this city has gone to washington charged with a secret mission to the president of the united states relating to amnesty for the ests of utah on condition of certain promises we state here most positively that this is one more whole cloth lie no other word fits the situation added to the long list flat of the liberal organs crimi nali ties mr richards has gone to washington solely for the purpose of arguing the idaho test oath case V ewh is pending before the supreme court of the united states and on which a ruling is looked for that will determine whether this nation will sustain one of the most meat infamous and most palpable violations of the letter and spirit of the national constitution ution ever attempted since the founding of this republic the liberal organ will doubtless repeat the lie and sing the usual changes upon it but in these two instances at least it will not be able t to presume upon our accustomed silence as to most of its misrepresentations se the fear and trepidation of the liberals lest their plans to steal the city next february will fail are manifest in their doings and the sayings of their organ they are working through both official and unofficial mediums to prevent lawful citizens from registering and qualified aliens from naturalization their policy jig is one of falsehood of obstruction and of political robbery they are trying with a desperation that foreshadows fore shadows their defeat to rake up something with which to cast odium upon the peoples peopled party officiate and do not 4 stop even at the filching of public papers the mockery of their pre tensions to morality is becoming every day more and more obvious and their nefarious methods are matters of almost universal comment and denunciation they are making voters for the party of order decorum honesty and steady pro cressand gres sand thus good is coming out of the evil they intend so may it ever bel be |
