Show wt OF IT t iTh eSau francisco CW of the B jacak ard 3rd instant kajs president letter to puck in which feea vs 1 I dont think there ever was a time when news was BO general and BO nn an as at and there never was aho pun where it nourished as it OOPS in this etc aa a had reak for the new year the president to be A weaker man than lie has the credit of being newspapers necessarily publish rumor s which the cannot atlie moment verify it lii not always possible when a report reaches an odice at one or two in tin morning to trace it to its source in time that mornings issue there would in fact very liitle news in ahn papers if all items were carefully before allowed in print yes newspapers necessarily publish rumors which at brt that vas nil that editor hemenway did in the instances wherein he was ac of libel in none of all the basea now pending against ann could any reasonable person believe for a moment that the was actuated by any actual persona malice take for example the first case wherein the editor was accused and convicted of libel because he gave utterance to the prevalent rumor that dackson and were pooling their fees amri had no personal acquaintance with the gentlemen of whom he wrote nor was he at all acquainted with their elivea or past histories and personally he could have had no feeling ufa personal nature against then he published the libel about the may last but a month or two elapsed before he ever beard it intimated that the article was a libel the parties presumably aggrieved namely dickson mckay and vandercook nor any of their friends took the to inform the editor of his error in order that he might apologize id fact it was well understood none of the parties against whom the libel was uttered cared enough about it to require a correction aud commissioner mckay testified upon witness stand that the libelous article in question did him no barm but that it possibly did him some g again take case wherein editor hemenway was charged with li beling the chief ju tice the alleged libelous evide nt ly written upon the spur of the moment at a time of great public excitement had noc yen come to the notice of chief justice zane before the grand ury had indicted the editor and the editor himself took advantage of the earliest opportunity port unity to explain away the li beldua construction put apon alie article in question and to disclaim even a disrespectful motive to the editor abe chief justice waa aa a stranger personally and the former could have had no personal malice in the premises neither the chief justice nor any of his friends called the attention of the editor to the alleged libel nor did he or any anc request a correction of the alleged libelous libe loua statements or indicate that an error had been committed until the grand jury brought in an indictment was this fair was was it reasonable the filea of the different papers of utah are full of just buch libels as these of editor efin enway and yet he alone iw been proceeded against and why when editor first came to utah and n before he as fumed editorial control of the oo 00 tan HERALD a salt lake anti mormon print him by the publication of an article ridiculing him by reason of certain alleged natural dil acte and the like but the federal and grand jurica have ignored that libel lately the same print baa prel a most unmitigated libel concerning him but the bamo law and court arms have dono nothing to protect him these are facts of common notoriety which be successfully denied why have anti mormon officials and grand juries acted so partially why have they seemed to league to octher in one combine I 1 effort to overwhelm a comparatively young stranger struggling alone whilo they hive withhold from him the protection of the la i ever since editor hemenway Hc began to wield hia pen hi behalf of the cormons mormons Mor mons the augean stable of abuse vilification aud libel have poured forth upon hini from day today regular installments of libel latterly impregnated with iluf degree of venom alone handed and supported only by a of gubatan su batan hal rectitude ho editor fought the combined body of the anti mor apparently forhia for hii defeat ecial and when in the popular tila grand juices hia political first indicted him fur libel u local scribbler fur fedr eliat those ahu bondsmen might expect to bee him t i t i fl 1 arid leave them in ue lurch ihus al tempting t insure hia inisi 1 but the editor ID struggle ou aloud aa bist bi st lit could when he wad wanted was always on hand to faco liis lu cumers when hu with ihu allegation clial carai ol 01 i i the ikirt i etui ilia covert inclines lie 1 iva not lui aled cheni f he alternated ditl threats uyi fuh Vs litt hc va ats cases caia 0 fur couns wo havea iiii buiu frankly abild ali moat aud and y au open venire jury exclusively packed ciul hiis quoit deadly political enemies when hemund to be clearly a technical violator of the libel law tharo lin but ho came forward candid ly and jike a man at the eaic thuie signifying signify iny his intention of f aulta in future but thi doca not satisfy the ailta mornion they continue the editor pl tb work is now beginning to bear choice fruits iu the of various journals all over the country as witness the following miserable subbiah rub biah taken fiam 1 l curlent Cu rient as a sample the binau of the o irtely fir libi by fair nf tin ile lioom have sei lat la t lew A car ao way at ti esq t ity inho doubt teti alir acted by the lio cil lia cl rt yiyan he wasa and desired lotaire loti ire a liall aud make a public sen iut If lieve faiia story ibid benti bis jou for afier itlie mart biad it waa learfield lear fied hat lie wai afraid of bueral ju eral ait had roasy roh sy ais onit linna this and no f conscience biad caused iland de liar inre at croie loss it is the all airia av that alie era in utah hope to bainy and oh afi beni selves i this piece oi bosh h palpably sr rotten and false in everyn particular that no refutation is here but we liay only way editor Hein cnway has grossly wronged gen J writing and in the baise I 1 several i i ier of that eminent and unac uttering I 1 n the and laudatory account of a reception given by ahti generals daughter at his residence at ajar rack c still fadd to aliis already long article a quotation of a of local abuse which in opinion iou is no lass alian libel it of an local print and runs ai follows 0 W the r et irin modest anil diihr libeler lib elfr matiie next th anil not as if clibbo cli iBo 10 or leprosy quietly hint tie alm ie i e aion u in liia arch chefs tall IVl iruan in eliat by thai the chini act 1 l itans th tt reformed was a court thuril ilie knits 3 may it meant KW crinch crin nh for alir court to maloly alfird in hia o to airie or limprun imp run the Ht ieler in id lasie haid nian to thu t jhb that the thia paragraph evi deatly beant by thin that filitor n y had the small pox or leprosy or fco me kindred con or foul disorder when lie atie writer said that the judge aa it ching to the sinnit pox ur lep 1 P quietly sentence Ben tence aa above in the that the convict shall have somewhat reformed g that owns was a technical uirl which meant gat clear the court ti ti tidily tily lii tie nuigi in hid arfi enca to alio lb abier ier evi dently thal tho editor biad bome foul or winch ht the juda graid furj thi t evident that body ignore jt it ia littered against lone t the bas virti filly n uary orf form ahe press ol 01 Ul ulalia alin that it hua il dared thai liia awu v mt will defend somewhat ampon ins fidelity in living up to his gon to coill in T K liia power for the elevation of journalism in utah and to set an example to which wall tend to the elevation df the entire corn tle as arme to court of utah has ever delegated quite lucli ail worthy and ac 1 to any individual editor thia eiph ps itson in all sa arid sincerity i and only prays for the far operation of tha very which has thus abi aiau riau hinl 1 f i |