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Show THAT GARBLED INTERVIEW. (Roprintod by request) Helena, Mont, Sept. 14, 1904. Manager Goodwin's Weekly, Salt Lake, Utah: A Tribune which has just reached the Record office expresses the belief that I came to Montana to avoid supporting the Republican ticket in Utah. Yesterday the Tribune sent to Mr. Shearer of the Record to interview me. I gave him the following: fol-lowing: "To Tribune, Salt Lake. Utah. Helena, Sept. 18. Judge C. C. Goodwin, who assumed editorial charge of the Montana Record yesterday, when asked what ho thought of movement for new party in Utah, said: '"It was bad judgment, bad politics and bad patriotism to spring an Independent party In Utah on the eve of a presidential election, as the resu.t is liable to draw from the Republican party old-fashioned old-fashioned Liberals enough to defeat the Roosevelt and Fairbanks electoral ticket, the Congressman, Legislative ticket and to turn the State over to the Democratic party, which would be just about as much a Church party as the Republican candidates are!' " 'Do you approve the action of Goodwin's Weekly and Truth co-operating and issuing alternate alter-nate evenings as organs of Cutler Republicans?' Judge Goodwin was asked, 'and is the paper thus becoming an organ of the Mormon Church party?' " 'As to Goodwin's Weekly,' replied Judge Goodwin, Good-win, 'it belongs to Tod and If he is running a straight Republican paper, he is in my judgment doing exactly right' " 'I am satisfied he has no connection with the other newspaper named. I am entirely certain he is running a Republican newspaper, and will not make his paper an organ which the Mormon Church will be very much in love with. " 'Goodwin's Weekly fought the factions which finally controlled the Republican nominations in Utali up to the very day of the nominations. '"Then it ceased its opposition, and did what it has always done, began the support of the ticket nominated. " 'Last year it supported the ticket nominated by a boss; this year it supports the ticket which was dictated by an Apostle; but its support of the boss ticket last year did not make it the or- gan of a boss; its support of the ticket named by the Apostle this year will hardly make it a Church organ. " 'We suspect it has no ambition to divide honors hon-ors with Bro. Apostle Penrose.' " ! ( Signed.) "C. T. SHEARER." If the Tribune published it as sent, I do not think anything more is necessary. If it did not, I think you had better, if you think best, explain that my coming here was due to negotiations begun before the date of the Republican Re-publican convention, but that when the nominations nomina-tions were made, it seemed to me there was nothing noth-ing to do up to election day but to support the ticket. I so proclaimed in the Weekly. To everyone who suggested the starting of a new party before election I replied that it would be suicidal, that it would jeopardize the National and State tickets. I have not changed my mind, considering how it was started. I believe the chief Tribune movers did it to defeat the Republican State ticket evou. if that carried down the presidential ticket. My time and chiefest work belong at present to the Record, but I approve of all you have done and will help you all I can. O. C. GOODWIN. |