Ogden Sun | 1905-12-12 | Page 4 | Truth and the Tribune

TRUTH AND THE TRIBUNE truth of salt lake does not accept the tribunes statements as truth but to tho contrary declares many of the announcements to be based on balea deductions hero Is a short comment from the salt lale weekly that cala for an answer from the tribune the tribune has asserted that because reed smoot was elected a senator of the united states and because of tho opposition to him retaining his seat cormona residing sn the east are discriminated against in various walks of life in pi bof of that assertion editor cannon altos a case in which a relative of his own attending an eastern college tailed of becoming the president of tola class the editor says his failure was because he was discriminated against on account of his being a mormon this argument did not however hold good in the of carl badger a mormon and private secretary tu senator smoot who was chosen president of bis class in the george washington university of washington D C neither did it apply in tho case of A C whose homo Is in provo senator smoots home town and who js a mormon mr was chosen ns president of tho junior law class of the goorge washington university notwithstanding his mormonism and senator smoot it does bot occur to kuttor cannon that qualification has something to do with success anything however absurd is good enough for the tribuna to usa as an argument against sena smoot