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Show H IF YOU SEE IT IN THE HERALD-REPUBLICAN, IT'S A LIE. Hi Ever since the publishor of this paper has taken up the people's H ( cause in championing Progressive principles and Bob La Folletto, Hi the Horald-Pvepublican has resorted to ridicule and lying to besmirch Hr, 1he character of the organizer of the people's forces. Yesterday M the publisher called on the editor of tho Herald-Republican and B offered to wager him $500 against $100 that his whole story about H jIr. Glasmann interfering in the Socialist affairs m Salt Lake City H ' -was a lie made out of whole cloth. The editor pleaded the excuse H ' that it was tho rule of the IIorald-Republican never to divulge tho H. name of a person furnishing information even if the informant m wero a liar. H j Now, just to show that the Herald-Republican is an untruthful H sheet and not entitled to the confidence of decent citizens, we offer H i to donate to public charity the sum of $100 to $1,600 if the Hcrald- H Republican can show that its statements as published Sunday morn- H 'ing are true or that even a part of them is truo. H ' Now, Mr. Anti-People's newspaper, show up or stand convicted Hl i of a wilful slander. Hl Wc clip each paragraph from the Herald-Republican and offer Hj a reward for the proof of either one or all statements: H 1st "The hand of Mayor William Glasmann of Ogdeu Hj ( has reached into the Socialist campaign in Salt Lake and, Hj i through the agency of the bartender's uuion, has endeav- H ored to disrupt, the Salt Lako Federation of Labor as a pun-' H ishjnent for its recent endorsement of the Socialist ticket H ' at thq recent stato convention of the State Federation of H Labor at Ogden." H This paper offers to give the Ladies' Relief society of H Provo $100, if tho Anti-People's organ can prove the above state- H ' ment. H i 2nd "Tho action of the bartenders was the direct re- H I suit, it is charged by the officials of the federation who H I claim to know of a conference the bartenders' officials had H- prior to tho state convention -with Mayor Glasmann of Hj ) Ogden. Glasmann, it is charged, persuaded the bartenders H i to combat tho endorsement, and, if necessary, attempt to H dissolve the federation by withdrawing themselves and Hl j inducing other unions to follow suit." H This paper will givo $100 to the Ladies' Relief society of West H Weber if the Anti-Progressive sheet furnishes the legal proof for H the above. H j 3rd "The Glasmann plan, prompted by his desire to ' H i promoto an insurgent labor party in the state, did not work H We offer to pay the Kearns Orphans Home, Salt Lake City, H j $100 for the legal proof that Glasmann ever had a plan for. any Hl kind of a labor party. H ( 4th ''It is openly charged among the unions friendly Hj , to the Socialist endorsement that when the convention was H , held in Ogden there was a sum am'ounting to $500 in the H possession of the bartenders' officials immediately after Hj they held a conference in Glasmann 's office. This is H i vehemently denied, however, by the bartenders them- H 1 selves." H ' c offer to pay the Martha Charity association of Ogden $100, H if the Federal Bunch sheet will furnish legal proof of the last H statement. Hl - 5th "The object of Glasmann's desire to have a split H in the ranks of labor over the Socialist movement is under- H. stood to be the formation of an insurgent labor party H under the dictation of Glasmann, to be used in furthering H certain insurgent plots he has against the voters of the state. Hj One of these plots is a Utah branch of the Progressive H League of America. Glasmann has been promised high H reward and political glory if he succeeds in getting the H league duly formed in Utah.'1 H This paper will pay $100 to the Ladies' Relief society of Salt H Lake City, if the Herald-Republican liar can even prove one-half iH . of what is charged in the last preceding paragraph. j 6tlu "With the exception of tho bartenders, the pamt- B , crs, the carpenters and the building trades council, which Hl has a clause in its by-laws preventing any political endorser H ments, all tho Salt Lake unions have refused to fall into the H Glasmann trap.7' H This paper offers $100 to be donated to the Ogden Ladies' H Relief society if the Anti-Workman's organ will prove that the H party named had a trap of any kind for anybody. H Now, there is $600 offered to six charity societies, which the H; Herald-Republican editor can present to those institutions if he can j prove all of the six. statements to be true. H Jnst think of the fine advertising the sheet will get out of it, Hl tf it can show it is truthful! It couULforever say Ave were "tested j and found true." It would be worth thousands of dollars to the H Herald-Rjpublican to be. able, truthful, to say that. Pj While we are at it, Ave offer to donate $1,000 to any charity 1 j society Senator Reed Smoot may name, if the Herald-Republican 1 will furnjsTi the legal proof of the ridiculous statement it made that H the publisher of this paper offered Senator Clapp Avater several H times and that lie was rebuked by the Senator at the Salt LakV HJ meeting. H I Tto is $1,600 all told. That is much money and wo have not H that much loose change in our -dst pocket, but there is a bank in Hj Ogden that has a great deal of confidence in' us and who knows we H will pay back every cent, and, therefore John Pingrce, cashier of H tho First National bank, Ogden, Utah, soys it would tickle him all H over to honor our chocks for tho full $1,600. If tho Salt Lake sheet H of tho predatory rich has any doubt about our good faith, let it Hj call up the bank and it will discover the money awaits the proof of H the anti-decent sheet. H Is it any Avonder that the poor man has so few friends in the H newspaper business' when, the papers of tile rich make every effort H to destroy every man who espouses the cause of the poor and A7oak? H Kdw, let the Herald furnish its proof or stand convicted. |