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Show ' ' FAR FETCHED. l , '""""""' The Tribune of yesterday contained an 4i article in which an attempt was made to j put the Democrat in a wrong position. ' The Tribune's reasons for this are too well known to require setting them forth. Its article ended with this : I We brand the statement that a Gentile jury has ever yet in Utah oonvioted any Mormon of crime, without the most ample evidenoe, a9 a causeless and most unwarranted unwar-ranted falsehood and insult, and one parfcio- ularly freighted with mischief at this time. IThis is a pretty broad assertion even for the Tribune to make, and is a little far fetched when compared with what the U Democrat said. , What the Democrat I did say was this : i ll A leading lawyer came very near putting i the situation in Utah as it is when he re-- re-- ) . marked a few days ago: "A Mormon jury . i won't convict, no matter how much nor what t; the weight of the evidence is; and a Gentile '. jury will convict whether there is any evi-denoe evi-denoe or not." V1 j Does , it justify what the Tribune at-tempts at-tempts to make us say? The Democrat has never said nor intended to say that I j x Mormons have been convicted by Gen- I I tiles without evidence, and this the Tri-' Tri-' bune well knows. We merely used the h remark of the attorney referred to to !jj illustrate the feeling which exists in Utah between Mormons and non-Mormons, yA:. and it illustrates it very well, too. The z'l man, be he Mormon or Gen- h tile, who took the . remark literally, j was evidently hunting for something ; - to take umbrage at, and seems to have i, found it. We wish him a full enjoyment I of it. Terhapsthe Tribune thinks there I ia no prejudice in Utah between the I Mormons and Gentiles, but whether or k -A"""'"'' not it thinks so, there is. The Tribune ' seems to have taken such mortal offense at our illustration that we will give it an- 1 1 other. On New Year's day a gentleman of this city said to us that our illustration was very near right, an4 he supplemented this remark by saying that if he were ' summoned as a juror in a polygamy or - unlawful cohabitation case, he would ask j Vj the Court to excuse him because in any j t such case he did not believe he ! fi could serve as an impartial juror. ! ; j The gentleman to whom we now refer: y ' . iB not a Democrat nor a Mormon, but this j " j same gentleman was a United States ! I officer In Utah a few years ago. - : j In conclusion we desire to call the at- i ' ' k- - . : " ' "v - . ..... ' '"i1 1 ' 11 111 1 '. i I ,) tcntion of the Tribune- to our language introductory to the remark of the attorney "A leading lawyer came very neax putting put-ting the situation in Utah as it is when he remarked a few days ago.Tetc. Does this not show that the Tribune's construction con-struction of what was said is a little far fetched? ' |