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Show THAT LYMAN INTERVIEW. In last evening's Enquirer there appeared ap-peared a long fanfaronade claiming claim-ing to be an interview witn ApoBtle F. M Lyman. The Enquirer has become bo steeped in lies;so utterly depraved and recklesB in its insane de-site de-site to defeat truth and justice, that it cannot touch a question uf any kind vithout lying outrageously, and to quote the words it put into the mouth of ApoBtle Lyman, we say that interview inter-view was a "lie made out of whole cloth" (nearly), We haye known Francis M. Lyman from our boyhood, and know him to be truthful. Mr. Lyman made this office a pleasant visit and we had a long chat on tbe situa tion, but did not feel at liberty to publish pub-lish any part of that talk as an interview. inter-view. But the Enquirer's lies regarding regard-ing Mr, Lyman and which are calculated calcu-lated to injure him, induce us to state a few facts relative to our talk with that gentleman. Mr. Lyman conceded all the material mater-ial points in the affidavit of Mr. Tolton and also in the statement of Mr.Green-wood. Mr.Green-wood. Mr. Lyman talked frankly and honestly and made more concessions than have yet been published. He averred he had never tried to get a democrat to become a republican. Ho conceded that he had, sb a republican, tried to win uoubtfulB to his party, and against that jfee democrats laye just causa for B-laiut, because Mr. Lyman was traveling among the people peo-ple as an apostle, and as the majority of the Mormon people are democrats, and pay the larger part of Mr. Ly man's salary for his services as an apostle, they haye an undoubted right to protest against his apostolic prosety-tling. prosety-tling. Mr. Lyman frankly gave his reasons rea-sons for hiB course; reasons that we do not care to publish, because unlike our truckling and deprayed ne'ghbor, we do not desire, -rather do we scorn, to make any political capital stock out of a friendly and unembarrassed discussion of present lamentable conditions. con-ditions. And we deeply regret the necessiiy'of referring to the incident of Mr. Lyman's visit. |