Show t 00 O O. O Ot O DISHONORS THE FLAG morning O ate mentioned tI the tho o ah absolute lutc of or truth Vc c culled attention IJO lo to Its c character of or common liar Vu a asked led the tho people of ot Salt aIt Ial Lake If Ir thc they felt cU that an all newspaper Mi-mcd Mi d power cr to tu harm hunn a at a. n a I Is b- b should b be permitted per ver- muted to to til go n forward rUI In this campaign n s when lieu its habIt wat tras blander and Its 1 e was wa lies Wo Vc want ant to Jim cut a n t case cae J Last a t Monday morning John II B. ICI Ferguson u un jm janitor tm of I the lie federal In lii this city tho Stars Slurs mid Snipes the thc hug lias of Ills Ids country and the thc banner we C c nil alt should I ix t on Oil the ncr rr that lint building F Fifteen later inter on Jc the lit b building Mr 11 1 looked hack back will Iti a It prop care for his Ids work oik and noticed that the lie fin ling hag had bud been tu tossed cd b by tho the wind t to III Hie top tOil of the tho pole and had there M H 54 that hUt the lie blue Held with its 15 while slays showed hu v bilo lo lothe the lie red stripes He Hc Immediately returned rC to to the lie building climbed to to thu roof and released the lie banner su that It t fi-ce fi to lie tho We c c present helm below the article published h by the lie next neM day In and alon ulon the lie signed r-Il r of ur urh Mr h Ir Ferguson lon on brought Jat In to this olliee ollice nil on Wednesday mor ln as us Id IsIs his defense e a n athe tile the curiously I malicious charges cs the thc Tribune brought hL u against t him 46 a Article Old 01 Glory flouted floated from froni the lie flagstaff of oC tho the Federal In hi Suit Salt Lake Monday morning ing upside down Thus It Il wn was unfurled unCurled luring during all nil the tho time Into of the parade of the lic union mm the union worl workers ers the tho ho brawn nn and and brains of oC the tho workers of oC Salt Lake City Much comment was IVIS made b by the marchers at the tho spectacle of or the lie American fla hag l In iii this his position on tho only onh building owned d by Uncle Sam in lii the thu ell city of SAlt Ut Lake Ilk There Thero was much bitterness sho shown shon n too over the tho matter But nut what eared tho custodian oC ot tho ho Salt Lal Lake e as al to Ih tho thi position lilion of th tho American American- Slag lIa on oil the tho building h Ills lines his sympathies are arc with a it band baud of oC twenty-six twenty person ho JO are arc governed got gov h by nn an alien government o who to toa toa toa a hierarch who whoso whose e own confession showed him him to lo be an antagonistic nn- nn to tn the American Union and und a a. law breaker and law v This custodian In char charge o of oC tho the Federa Federal Fed Fed- era eral building permitted tho lie Shag HURT of oC his country to bo ito unfurled over the thc Salt Lake e CIl City down and for Cor why Was Sas aM It Il to 10 show hl his loyalty and devotion to tho the senator of oC tho the United States from Crom Utah Pah wh n he ho oars fours and to whom he owes ones his Job Was tas as It to show how the honest working men of or Salt Lako Luko how lit little tic Jill Ifo regarded their feelings of patriotism Was Vas Jt It to show them theta that he floated the tho American lIn hag lIp down because his hits political boss I an nn had hail declared under oath that hint he 1111 would ob obey an order ot of his chur h rather rathel than Ihan one from his country For shame shanie The rhe custodian of the should resign for the Insult ho he offered the tho Shag for COI the lie he Insult he offered lie loyal working men of oC Salt SaIL 1 Lake 11 e CIl City tho lie state stale and the country countr for Cor the insult ho he offered tho lie people of oC Salt Lake his neighbors He lie should resign n his position post post- Ion tion and If Ir ho hol holds c any other othor position under tho o he should resign that am at on once Otherwise Otherwise Otherwise Other Other- wise he lie bo be thrown out from tho the position which he h has lias J disgraced and that at nt once once- J t Letter Editor Republican In Iii yesterday mornings morning's Tribune appears a l statement to the he effect that the lie National was waR yesterday llY hoisted over o Uio Uw Federal building build build- lug ing and In the lie elegant language of or that lint paper was sas unfurled unCurled upside down and thai hint II remained In that position Monday morning I am ala Janitor in chance of the Federal building and at 7 74 a a. a in m I hoisted the fin flag to 10 the lie masthead I descended from the root rooe and locked the lie door leading to tn I It It retaining the ke key In lii my possession Shortly when on m my way home homo I happened to look Jool at the building and noticed that thiat the tile wind vind had hud raised the lie fla flag until the lie lower Jower sIde wu was cau caught ht showing tho the stripes above c tho lie Held field of oC blue I went vent back Immediately Imme Immo- and und within five o minutes hall had released It and ami tho the lag flag floated In Itt Its Ill rightful position At Al n about out 10 a a. m. m I went to Liberty park and antI remained there hero until late hate In the afternoon No Nn one ono olse ohse bail access to tho the roof Tho rho statement that the flag was unfurled up hJo I down I 1 a doll deliberate elu c und and malicious lie Tho The further statement that It remained in lii arty any unusual position for any length of or time limo I pronounce also nIso a deliberate lie I served In the lie Spanish war nail and was a a. member of oC the tho Utah battery batter mid find served my country until I Iwas was honorably mustered out I served ell for Cor or months after my enlistment had hall expired I have O us as much love lovo ant and reverence for or the lie hag as the tho paid libeling hireling who sent the reporter with Instructions to magnify the lie story und and prepare a roast and who hio persisted in Ha Its publication tion lifter after ho he have l known It Il was waR untrue I camo calli lo to Utah many years ClIS ago go und and I am tuli willing wining that In the tie mining camps campI and In Salt Lako Lake City where when I 1 have lived lI my lIlY record should be bo looked Into and compared with the lie man inait who lilO Is responsible for foi this tills maliciously false e publication and I think It will be he found that huiri him I was vas not forced to leave leavo JO my ray position In iii Ina a Ii city In tho th Mississippi valley for Cor questionable acts Involving m my integrity i um urn respectfully John li ll Ferguson Salt Suit Lake Sept Sent 1 l. l f f- f 44 0 4 f i I. I 1 J ui ht o'clock ll r f-a f p tI ri Hr tI the o 1 called e l h lIsOn n a I to told 11 t t lt r-o r 1 O. O lall 1 Ir r J Tio etI r 1 t the 4 I I. I 1 h o 1 rc r. tJ hi 1 1 ij Jf It mr hC tel Jill c. c 1 r cr l F hie reporter asked him to o toll on hits tho usual COll cAi I lcd for lieu reading It believing hJ the nl mans man's s l statement that lint lie cumo CUo from rout tho ho sigh I I Ithe the lie tl nod mid lie ho did not nol to set lil hl paper C. C ll right ht in order fIlets facts the lie exact ter and w only to Ret gt c J JIo It had not hot seen Secil Postmaster Thomas Jl Ho purposely pur JIU The Tho reporter did not conic from from flum Thomas honest t S Scotchman honorably JI discharged faithful an un Clr leeched deceived the lie man mun before him a a lI C soldier of oC the tho army of tho lie United States statement which Ferguson u ulI Tribune and wrote rotc and published a It olliee And Ami then lien he lie went ent bad back to the lie e Is holly untrue mill and which the lie to The Tile Republican It which far us as refers h by ill no means MJ so Tribune 1 knew llew was vas lien it matte made publication 14 tI hn has Hero here I Is the lie concluding con cuzi- The Tribune make The Tue Republican lias hus not resorted to fr forgery ct to tu a It ease case and published h by it h the ii Imru paragraph of the lie statement so MJ prepared by statement I did dill not 1101 give Io It to the Mountain Inter Republican Re lc- I ma made e out my and namo was not my statement over ovel my In lii that paper article appearing publican an and ho was run without any authority from toni me the lie following statement with witha and presented Yesterday Mr 11 tV Pcr Ferguson u oll came caine to tho ho Hel Republican onico a It request for fur its publication Tribune appears a It statement over 0 m my signature In this mornings morning's Editor In Republican of fact act I by me mo Last nl night ht about S 11 p. p m m. a It Tribune to be 10 a statement which purports which I see the tho postmaster said Kald he hail had b been boh oh sent to sec me mo by lU reporter called upon me and 1 untruthful In 10 regard to the unjust anti and lIe He questioned mo mu have since found Cound to be le untrue replied giving him him the thc facts as stated In m my letter leUel I L In tho the Tribune of or Iu Tuesday article published what I said lid on Wednesday lie He apparently wrote pf pC Republican Mountain Inter published In The Chic of small size a and 1111 I sl signed the stal statement m nl To my surprise and chagrin cha clia- two loose sheets printed of or paper a 0 statement which totally misrepresents what I said and which contains contains con con- gnu grin there was waN statements I IUd did not Ilot mal make c 4 published published pub puh- last last- as understood that thal I stand b by my letter of or tho the I wish It to bo be distinctly in Itt paper I am respectfully 0 your JOHN JOliN D B. B FERGUSON FEnGUSON Salt Lake Sept 6 6 j j I premeditated slander Jit of If an ill o of the lie go O It Is more than limit the lie lids 1 his Is more than loin the lie It Is b Tribune de leo Tribune method of lying a cl hl hl at ul l' l Postmaster r Thomas It Is a n has hills hasCen seen Cen III lit to make from flom whole lc cloth a falsehood for dishonoring the Iho lIu Slag flag or of o our HI country That of tile the federal service lee and the thc wilful staining of the tile tho ho defamation of an o for oll originally flag fing of ur Its country with a n He lie of its Kind hunt has lias h he been n it one of Its easiest L c base hase kc fr We c Vt do un not 1101 o bellco he lie Ilc descended to I so 51 o a n Xo Now ue tre do not bellow UIl any reporter leporter deceived his Ids olliee We 0 believe belie the tho hole rah falsehood Including the lie shabby effort to get out of it Jr was itS demised I h by the thc Tribune mann management This 0 c e J because U O In lii thirty years scars we wc hate ha found lint hut two no And Ami hose C men are not in iii Salt Lake lio would 1111 n ICCi C their heir editor has hns willingly ly become How lIu low lut how lOtt contemptible how ha base c a n liar the thc Tribune TrIbute upside flown down It was not lint so 80 unfurled Tho rho lIu Slug was nas tint not unfurled 11 o over I the lie Salt Stilt Lake Ine City F Ferguson did thu make the lie c correction as US published Mr 11 oll during hurl hg nh all nB the lie time hue of the In parade of lie tho union teen men In lii The fill lie Republican and lie repudiation of that that that- statement puh published In tho ho Tribune I Is straight ht forgery Iu lust t that lint Ju Just t that thul thiat-anil and the Ille fact that lint they han lia I hl ln 11 the lie Stars Stairs and mul Stripes to 10 o sanctify a U lie to to 0 O 00 O. 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