Show I THE TRIBUNE IS MISTAKEN lH o r Il s' s el S for the that th-t ft It Itis Is rIgl right and nd er e every o one els f in Utah h I Is Tong wrong It Is the I Tribune that Is In C error r. r 1 Its Tuesday mornings morning's two iwo condemnation of the eft city officials elected b by the A American party part viii not convince any one and will not fr many The people peo-I peo people peo peo- pIe w whom om It assails with charges chR df corruption n. n and graft with dereliction of or dut duty with selfishness and broken brok brok- en cn pledges are beu better belter r than tho the no matter how bad they have been Thc They They- rather than the Tribune Tribune Trib Trib- une express the average crage rectitude of or the he American party part In the recent fall fail campaign the American Ati Al party part could have won but for the Tribune That Tha paper was a fatal Catal handicap The best men and women of the party part did not at all approve e Its Us course and would wout not follow follow follow fol fol- low it St And without the b best st men and and andl women no party ean can succeed The ma makers ers of oC that thal paper seemed l to think If h had all the hud had elements clements of or the city tho the American party part could be rushed through to Ictor victory Any An on that beJet bellef belief be be- Jet lief they coddled the lawless made a political Issue of 1 protected police protected bun bunco o and officially defended israll n In the conduct of or public offices They attacked everyman o of oC prominence who failed tailed or refused to lo openly an ally himself himself with their Y party part arty and threatened threatened with 1 markIng markIng markIng mark Ing and remembering and ostracising those who took an active party In the Republican campaign Salt Lake Is with a a few low exceptions a city of oC goodmen good goodmen men and women and the they did not approve the tho course Jr c of the newspaper organ of or the American parly party They openly openly openly open open- ly repudiated It They openly protested a n. thousand times that they had no part nor lot with Tom Ton I earns earns earni nor the Tribune and sought to convince tho the public so Those who remained with the American party part anu ana wont went down honorably with will It ft to the thu defeat which history has recorded did it wishing the Tribune and Tom Kearns were against them Because the tho Tribune a and ll Its owner were WC-I for Cor cv evry ry- ry thing that was bad and opposed to everything that was Wll good In the campaign The Tribune and Its owner were then the sponsors and defenders of oC the el very cil city officials that they so 80 bitterly denounce now The told the tha good people of the American party that Thu Republican can was falsely accusing city officials and so o cl deceived some som of oC its readers But never for Cor an Instant did it then n demand that Its wicked official representatives cease their wrong wrung course coure and do right If rr that paper had told the truth In the campaign had campaign had compelled the tho auditors auditor's office office office of of- of- of fice and tho the water office and the street department and the police pollee department to tu do right right right-if If the they had not hushed up the police scan scandal al and rushed to tho defense e of or Chief Sheets when a thousand ten robbery rubbery was wai adjusted In his thc headquarters they headquarters they would have held the fellowship of oC tho the good men and aud women whose defection to the Ro Ro- publican party brought victory with it The whole course of thy the Tribune Is wrong It has convinced con con- vinced the East that 00 Utah Is IN s a community of or criminals crimin- crimin als and then has hag sought Bought to establish in its own political l party the thc truth truth of the characterization So far as i It could the Tribune made tho the American party criminal But It could not compel the complicity of oC the tru true reformers In that organization and it went down to def defeat de de- de- de f feat TILE feat-TILE THE WORST VORST DAMNED ORGAN THAT THAl EVER WAS COMPELLED COl TO ITS OWN OVERTHROW OVER OVER- THROW N l It will not do for the Tribune to preach righteousness righteous rIghteous- ness s to the city official crowd A seraphs seraph may pray r for r a sinner But a sinner must pray for Cor hl himself tJI r f The American party can not survive that Tribune campaign n. n It It can never again get together as as' as asit It was wa wast 1 t 1 t f t I r 1 I b before fOre tho the county election It lna may pretend to road read the I rascals out of the party and aull hope to reorganize In somo some new form in time for Cor the next ell city campaign But never again can the Tribune or any other othel reassemble I the American party part of last spring pring Then all nil tho the good goodmen goodmen goodmen men an anti and l good women believed the thc campaign promises would be redeemed Now ow the they know those promises were made but to be broken Then Theil the s-ou s good men an and goo good women believed the Tribune hall had they hind the they didn't understand just how how espoused espoused the cause e of or n l h ne ness 8 and that it was as really working along tho the shortest mind and most logical wn way to peace and pi progress ogress Now v o thc they know that tho the Tribune was never neel so wicked a as j when In Inthe Inthe inthe the county count campaign of or 1906 and that It systematically systematical systematical- l ly abandoned truth In order ordel to establish a u lie Never has a n community been so overwhelmingly o convinced of oC the untruthfulness of a n paper papel of or the vicious prejudice of a paper of or the willing pio prostitution pl of or a paper as was this community convinced in the case u of ur the Tribune And It can not regain the good standing It IL once enjoyed It can an do something b by absolutely abandoning Its cour course courso o of oC homo home defamation It can win back something of the friendship It formerly formell possessed if it will do du o Its utmost to correct that Eastern belle belief that Utah is a i community of or criminals But It will not recover cl the good people It has lost nor nOl hold hol the bad ones It directed while Willie It insists on following Its Us present course |