Show andge rhodes answered EDITOR STANDARD on notice that judge rhodes misdirects his fire the subject under discussion is daniel hamer and his misappropriation of the peoples money no charge is made against anyone except the county collector and the party that was responsible for his election and ia now responsible to the public for the performance of honest business in that office will judge rhodes hunt up and publish the names of congregationalists that do not endorse my action it is immaterial to me whether they do or not the yew west authorities did not put me in ogden to cover fraud when I 1 aeo it I 1 would not retract a word if they should ask me to do so if all the democrats in ogden or in the united states including saint cleveland himself were our patrons there would not be a word of retraction from principal curry or the authorities themselves judge rhodes says I 1 am educated yes I 1 am enough to know that a libel salt can not be based on a that is the truth I 1 do not plead ignorance of what I 1 wrote I 1 do plead justification on the ground that it is consummate injustice for a tax collector to take or 14 from any one on legal verbiage f thirty two folios on a tax certificate that any school boy educated in public or private schools if ho had not served a term in prove could put into six folios and say a much I 1 can plead provocation in the fact that the public is wronged I 1 will defend their rights against the church my own party the democrats or my employers I 1 think judge rhodes could be attacked but I 1 ha vo no desire for that except so far as he defends daniel bamer and the democratic party I 1 repeat it that if adv virtue remains in the parly they will call a halt in daniel hamer if they wish to eave the county from infamy when drake sailed on a piratical expedition tion carrying the englich spaniards or any other people ought to leavo punished him for piracy when a man collects of taxes and claims alio right to hold out or any part of it nobody but a dishonest man will support him democrats pull him off or you will lose the voles of all decent men if this is blackmail let it be so the charge that I 1 am an amorine is also false D A CURBY in behalf of all honest and decent men of all parties mr curry is in error in supposing that the democratic party of ogurn and and weber county is in favor of daniel hamer receiving about one third of all the funds of the county for his services ve awu kwu a areat many democrats who strongly denounce it editor |