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Show I NOTHING BUT A "NEWS " LIE. A Little Incident That Shows Coii-clHsirely Coii-clHsirely the Character of That Sheet. j - i The Deseret News' maty well be called i "granny." There are some things which I appear in its sanctified columns, " how- ever, that point more unmistakably to an j innate desire to misrepresent and malign than to a: condition of imbecile dotage, j It has always been a hobby of that organ j to point to every article appearing in the Gentile papers which reflected in any way ! on the Mormon church or people, as "the J fruits of a malicious spirit, bent upon ! misrepresentation," etc.; but no unbiased person who watches the shameful and j reckless manner in which the News has ! recently distorted the truth in order to j gain a point against "the enemies cf this j people," can fail to acknowledge tbst the i toughest stories published by any Salt j Lake paper to the injury of the Mormons J have not surpassed the latest concoctions I of Elder Penrose's sheet. . One of its most recent efforts in this l direction is a daily attempt to brand the J reward offered by Marshal Ireland for I the apprehension of George Q. Cannon j as not being bona fide. For several days I the editor has devoted columns ' and columns col-umns to an attempt to disparage the action ac-tion of the Marshal in offering the reward, re-ward, and finally takes recourse to something some-thing either wholly false or a trifling technicality to show that a former reward of $250 offered by the Marshal was reduced to $25 when it was applied for. The case referred to was that of John Waltren, who escaped from the Penitentiary Peniten-tiary last summer, and for whose capture a reward was at the time published. The convict escaped on the 11th of August, and the following card was sent over to the Demochat office and published the next day, the copy bearing the signature of Marshal Ireland : $25 BEWABD. Escaped from the Utah Penitentiary this afternoon, John Waltren, under sentence of four years from the 7th of March, 1883, for placing obstructions on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Then followed the description. de-scription. The above reward will be paid on delivery to me or my deputy in Salt Lake City. E. A. Ireland, TJ. S. Marshal. August 11, 1885. In commenting on Waltren's escape from the penitentiary in the Democrat of the 12th inst., under the heading of "A Bold Break From the Pen," the editor concluded his article with the words: "Marshal Ireland has offered a reward of $25 for his (Waltren's) capture." A reporter took the trouble this morning morn-ing to look up the files of the paper to see whether any typographical error had crept into the card during the time it was published, and discovered that nothing of the kind had happened. Such a technicality, if it had occurred, would have been taken advantage of by the" News, no matter how much assurance they had otherwise received as to the truth of the case. |