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Show SO THE PEOPLE iY KNOW i ma 1 An editorial in the Call headed "What Senator Smoot Might Have Said". Read the following letters and then recall to mind the letter published in the Herald Republican some years ago stgnedl by the same editor offering to devote his paper to the cause of the liquor interests for $150. Then recall that the people peo-ple of Salina arose in their righteous righte-ous wrath and drove him out off town. The editorials he offered to print and the letters he would send lauding Reed Smoot to the skies, a copy of It can be produced if necessary. nec-essary. (Oopy) THE CALL. C. N. Lund, Jr., Mt. Pleasant, Utah. June 17,1920. Mr. F. G. Matson, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Mr. Matson: I am enclosing you a copy of a rather mutilated and soiled one, but it was done in a hurry of an e'ditorial, or rather one of a series ser-ies of editorials, to appear at the psy-. psy-. chctogical time of the campaign on the return of Senator Smoot to the Senate. I have through a line of reasonig, and an incident which I will not mention, come to believe that Reed, Smoot must be returned to Washington and am doing "what I think is right In the matter. Now, if you will STUDY the copy I am sending you you will find it a powerful article in his favor, and counting for much because it comes from one who has been more or less opposed to him, and I have certain plans concerning it which I would like to talk over with you. WITH THE ARTICLE GOES A PERSONAL LETTER TO THE SENATOR WHICH MAY HAVE JUST AS MUCH; SIGNIFICANCE, WHICH I AM HOLDING BACK. Now besides talking over this article with you I am in possession of some information informa-tion given out here confidentially to leading Democrats by the higher ups In the party that has come to me. I was planning to come Sunday, but my means are limited. Could i you do as you did before by me, and I will come in Sunday. PLEASE WRITE ME SO I GET IT BY SATURDAY'S SAT-URDAY'S MAIL, NO LATER, or telegraph tel-egraph me yes or no. If I "go in it must be Sunday and the answer must reach me Saturday sure. Now, Mr. Matson, this letter and this editorial are entirely and strictly confidential and not for publication in whole nor part, and I trust yom will regard my rights in the matter. It is to be published later, at a time agreed upon, when the personal letter let-ter I speak of will go with it. You ' will get no abler and more "taking" . article during the whole campaign. The people will read it, especially the Mormon people and it will go a tong way toward re-electing the Rfinnfftr Very truly yours, (Signed) C. N. Lund, Jr. , (Copy) THE CALL C. N. Lund, Jr., Mt. Pleasant, Utah. July 13, 1920. Mr. F. G. Matson, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Mr. Matson: Will you please return to me the letters I sent you on Senator Smoot. You know which I mean. 'Send both the e'ditorial you received and the letter I sent to Senator Smoot in your care. It seems there is no desire to have the matter used. Do you know of any way that could be worked out to help my pa- Per either to incorporate or to pay off part of its mortgage? Please advise ad-vise me. Yours truly, (Signed C. N. Lund, Jr. Mt. Pleasant, Utah. (Oopy) THE CALL C. N. Lund, Jr., October 2nd, 1920 Mr. F. G. Matson, 'Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Mr. Matson: You will see by the papers I have sent you that I am on the other side. I received your letter with remittance. Thanks. The Calli is now going to all parts of the state. I trust you will remember remem-ber what I said to yorself and the senator in a former letter to the ef- feet that the editorial I sent you (which never appaered in the Call) was not to be used by you in any way. Thanks for past favors and wishing wish-ing you well, I remain, Very truly youirs, C. N. Lund, Jr. Republican State Committee Hotel Utah Salt Lake City.Utah, Oct.7 1920 Mr. John T. Oldroy'd, Republican County Chairman, San Pete County, Fountain Green, Utah. Dear Mr. Oldroyd: I am enclosing copies and one original letter of some correspondence relating to Mt. Pleasant Pleas-ant Call, which should prove of great interest to the voters of San pete county, in view of the attitude of our friend Lund has now taken. The editorial which Mr. Lund speaks of in his letter, I returned to him, and to the best of my knowledge, know-ledge, the Senator also returned the one he received. Anyway, Mr. Lund went on to the pace of some two hundred words extolling the merits of Senator Smoot. He wanted $1200, would have taken $600, and in the final bargain would have come down to $100, pledging the paper to the Senator's support. Assuring you of my warm personal per-sonal regards, I remain , Sincerely yours, F. G. MATSON, Publicity Director. What Senator Smoot Might Have Said to the Editor of the Call. "In view of your former attitu'de your offer to devote your paper to urging the people to re-elect me to the Senate, for $1200 and finally for $100, and your offer to divulge what had come to you confidentially from some of the Democratic "higher up a" brands you as a crook and a blackmailer, who would betray me for a price, as you offer to betray them for a price. , The support of a man so utterly devoid of principle can do me no good and his opposition but very little lit-tle harm. Your thinly veiled bol-shiviki bol-shiviki gibbering has no place in the discussion of the issues before the people. ' As for myself, I had rather be defeated than to win by such 'dishonorable 'dis-honorable means." What Senator Smoot Did was to return the slobbering dust licking socalled editorial' and letter to their author and treat it with contempt. Read the last paragraph of his letter. It says: "The people will read it especially the Mormon people. : It will go a long way toward re-electing the 'Senator." In view of his present attitude was he willing to betray ' the Mormon people for $100? ! 1 Then take the dirty attack made bv the editor of the Call on Major Mabey, who offered his life mafiy times that freedom should not perish from the earth, that the glorious Stars and Stripes should wave over the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. But the Editor of the Call calls this "Lip Service." How unjust, ungrateful and uncalled for! (Political Advertisement.) |