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Show THAT SALEM It ALLY. Referring to a speech made by the writer heroof at Salem, The Enquirer has this to say: Mr. Gibus made a political speech at the democratic funeral services at Salem, in which he accused Chairman Geo. M. Cannon of being capable of any dirty low down triclc We freely confess to having proven to the satisfaction of every unbiased mind present in the meeting at Salem last Wednesday night, that in the use of that "Holiness to the Lord" button as a campaign vote-winner George M. Cannon is a scrub and political trickster trick-ster of the first water. And we hereby charge out neighbor with publishing that "Holiness-to-the-Lord" button dodger after it had been proven to be a fraud. And under those circumstances we feel justified in charging our neighbor with being bb much meaner and more centemptible than George M. Cannon as he is meaner and more dispicable than 0, E. Allen. While we are on the subject, we may ' ab well notice allegations made by the Enquirei's Salem correspondent relative rela-tive to that Salem speech, and which ' our neighbor prints under the heading "aiK, GIBBS AT SALEM." and which contained the following: "J. P. Gibbs, of the Provo Dispatch, railed against the authorities of the church." We "railed" not against any authorities author-ities of the church. We merely re hearsed a little of the religio-politico hiBtorv of the past three years. We had no gloves, bo the handling had to be done bare-handed. We explained, in part, the law of transmission and ante-natal influences, and gaye Mr. Joseph P. Smith the benefit of the results. re-sults. We spoke kindly- of Mr. P. M. Lyman, who has been all aloDg opposed op-posed to anostolic Btumping. We did not give Mr. John Henry Smith the benefit of any doubt, or ante-natal influences. in-fluences. The Salem correspondent continued thuBly: He also attacked John C. Graham and the Enquirer, claiming that for two weeks he had an open challenge for the Enquirer to show wherein the farmer paid the tariff, |