Show NO USE FOR FAIR PLAY Fal following lowing ia is a copy of 0 a letter written to the salt like herald in reply to an assault permit permitted tea in that pa perlis columns upon lion hon john honry henry smith with editorial endorsement and sanction other attack attacks upon the gentleman named ai as well as upon hon joseph F sanith smith were published and on beveral several occasions occA siona the heraas editor saw iu to emphasize them with slurs and of bla his own tux STANDARD has noticed and replied to some of 0 the more eona of these articles bat but is quite willine willing to giro give this correspondent a hearing bea rewrites iio writes that aa as a subscriber of the herald he lie deemed it not improper to bend send bis his communication ther the ebat rebut h be a baa hag given up the hope of seeing it in those ci lumba najja with much earnest aws the rule or rain ruin principles ot of the democracy of bygone days are still vivid in my memory and they hava have not changed ono one walt his letter to the harald is in aa as follows A W li K K rich county utah I 1 jan U 1 1 wi editor of the theft the semiweekly semi weekly arsue of the herald of december contain contains a hort short article signed A democratic mormon in which he undertakes to impugn the motives of 0 john henry smith by claiming that he be Is wilfully trying to wield an absolute and injury injurious 0 power over bis his fel lowman A democratic ll mormon ormon ays rays that he be has boa been a mormon for some forty lears yearn l ears and that he be li Is a democrat and that a good many mormon are democrats etc as t though bough be had a tight right on that account to deprive oi 01 hen hers of their political rights altogether yet ibis this is only a lair fair representation of the now your humble servant has not been a mormon forty years but he be has been an american citizen for over fifty year years and ind when the dark cloud clouds of w ar r hung bung over our lair fair country be volunteered his services to protect and perpetuate the best government on eurth as against the strong democratic measure measures of that time which were in all that the word ImpI leond lito altogether gether pernicious as even A democratic mormon perhaps has ince since learned wo we are told by democratic leaden leaders that their principles have not changed then is it any wonder that republican principles which saved our country from ruin are so distasteful to A D democratic e mo cratic Mor mormon the some principles even in their infancy were equally distasteful to the chivalrous element of the south there ha has been a great deal said and written in regard to the political opinions expressed by john henry and joseph F smith we it Is time to call a halt they are known to be good men of round judgment hence the ta gerness of A democratic mormon to step a above bove his business and try to put a padlock on their lips perhaps it if he be was the taint saint he lie would wa uld fain lain make ui us believe and understood and regarded gard d the fundamental principle of his creed would he would not have issued his despotic flat john henry smith has no right to dictate to a democrat Demorat ll be he be momon mo wo mon or gentile as Ls to what political principles he shall adopt neither do we believe hr ho has any desire todo so therefore we would suggest that aa A fo mormon discuss his democratic principles upon their merits if they have any and not try to bilag reproach upon good men FAIR FLAT PLAY THE tint DEMOCRATS in 10 utah litah cannot now hes hesitate itale about throwing overboard the bill prep prepared ered by their executive committee mr tellers Te llera bill baa has every good feature of the home rule bill and none of its weaknesses it removed removes the objections of those who took umbrage at what they considered 1 a half insult and meets the fondest expectations of those w who bo want home rule it is heroic bat that is a way the republicans have they do not mince matters when the time comes for action AT THE jackson DAY procession in new now Oi orleans leans one of the tailor made girls was gushing rushing over the a achievement chie of the old warrior when a cynical young man observed that Jacks jackson onset set one example at new orleans that seems to be pretty religiously emulated by come some people even yet questioned by his idair fair neighbor as to which trait he saw imitated he grimly replied cotton breastworks THE FIRST bill introduced in the house of representatives this session was for the reclamation of the arid add lands of the united S atea since then numerous other billa bills having the same gen eral purpose have been presented oat out of the masa that is offered one good corn probo neive measure ought to bi eira 0 enactment there would seem to ba no object objection ioa to generous legislation on the suba ct the evening mall mail last evening suspended publication until next monday when it expects to resume as negotiations are now pending which will place it on a firm financial foundation the mail is at least worthy of commendation tor for this it leave its patrons to find out for themselves that it has ba quit it notifies them in advance A GEORGIA editor who was recently tarred and feathered by a mob was not half hall ao so I 1 indignant r at taht treatment as at the meanness of the mob who called the following night and presented the bill tor for the tar TUB tux Aine american rican stoutly dam socratic as it is has no use far senator dave davell hill it neatly observes that if 11 mr mir cleveland deserved to ba be loved for the enemies he baa has made mr hill deserves to be distrusted for the friends he has made |