Show OF OP WHOM HOM IS TIlE THE FELLOW O SPEAKING Z Tribune Wednesday The banquet of ostensibly in iii honor of Abraham Lincoln but really In honor of Smoot camo came off according to schedule at the Commercial club last night Admittedly tho the banquet banquot was given to celebrate the first anniversary of the lie birth of tho the local organ Of Ot whom hom is the fellow speaking What Is the organ oran A year ear ago the Tribune crowd d declared In public conversations that The Republican would be born and amid an would die without any reader of the Tribune ever knowIng know know- Ing lug that such a pap paper r existed For a long time a Sm silly attempt was made by the tho Tribune to ignore the thc existence of The Republican But nut even tho the managers of the tho Kearns Kearns' killer character found round they would have to reckon reckon reck reck- on on with The Tho Republican Ican They found it a factor In Sn th UCo life of oC the lie community that would have to bo be considered The They sought to do tho the work worl wo we compelled them to do and yet et preserve the lie form Corm and substance of or their theft vow OW never to refer reCer to this paper So So they adopted the tho shabby expedient of or calling The Republican the tho organ In the first place the public knew the tho name was not truly applied The public knew lenew that The Tho Republican was not the organ of oC any faction or 01 the tIme champion of or any man They knew lenew that this was and Is Is devot devoted el solely t to the Interests of or Salt Lake Lalee of Utah and of the Republican lican lIean party part But nut every reference the Tribune has made maele to this paper has been a confession of their inability to escape eSCalO recognizing The Republicans Republican's existence And it has been beena a shabby and amid nasty manner of oC confessing it It too Time Tho attempt to discredit has been crowned with failure The Tho slander has been productive of nothing but contumely for the tho Tribune The Tribune was not going to let tho the wot world Id know The Thc Republican existed The Tho Tribune has broken brolien Its word a thousand times And Anel every time line it has referred to 0 the organ tho the people of or Salt Lake Lako have known tho the Tribune was hit lilt and had felt H. H And Il It has been hit lilt and hurt by an opponent it once thought It could afford to Ignore |