Show DR PADENS PADEN'S S 'S DENIAL H Y I Dr r. r William M. M Paden denials in the T TILE TIU Salt Suit Luke Lake Tribune of of the remarks remarks attributed to toMm hint him must be he considered in the light of many mon circumstances nee That he should den deny for Utah consumption consumption con con- l' l responsibility for the misstatements that have been Leen quoted as ag emanating emanating- front from him is under Against his word in tho matter master tel is that of the Chicago correspondents for the Salt SnIt Lake papers nn and the thc staff men of tho Chicago newspapers who reported his big remarks and who could have ha no such knowledge of Utah as would enable them to concoct a reasonable fabrication In addition to these facts is the employment in which tho the former Salt Lake pastor finds nd himself Dr Paden is actively el interested in a cause that cannot succeed except by such misrepresentation of this slate state and its citizens as that of which he has been guilty It was announced at tho the time th the nc Rev Air Mr Paden retired from the pastorate of tho the First Presbyterian church that he lie was to become a member of the propaganda propaganda propaganda prop prop- that has for years ears been slandering Utah Obviously Obviously Ob- Ob Obviously he would bo Le of no service if ho he chose to pic pie picture picture ture conditions as we wo hero in Utah know mow them Conspicuously displayed ed in the booth and exhibit at Chicago Chieno for which Dr Paden is the lecturer is a n petition which sets forth that Senator Reed Recd Smoot is is a most dangerous L' and disloyal character fin and pra prays s 's that his case caso may be reopened and I III that he be Le e expelled ex ox- polled from the Senate although it require a constitutional constitutional constitutional amen amendment aim to accomplish it It is tho dut duty of Dr Paden and amid his ns associate tc Mans Hans J P. P Freece to excite their listeners to such a pitch of disgust against Utah that thc they will sign this petition It was for this work that Dr Paden was em em- employed employed he lie earns his liis salary salar by bJ- traveling from place pInel to place I to secure signatures to a monster petition which his rn hope will result in the expulsion of Senator Smoot and quid nn an investigation of conditions in inthis inthis inthis this state Is an any Utahn so childlike and bland to suppose that Dr Paden Dr Paden is doing this by praising the school s system stem of Utah Does Docs an anybody body suppose that flint the hired salaried pleader for a cause is pre presenting enting anything anything anything any- any thing but the strongest possible pos ible ease case for his clients an and exa exaggerating the worst that could coul 1 be said of his opponents or those against asRin t whom his propaganda is directed Is it logical to suppose that Dr Paden in instead instead in- in in- in stead of condemning and misrepresenting Utah school facilities as he lie has done is praising them as he claims claim in his denial to the Salt Lake Tribune A RELIABLE SOURCE TIlE information published in this newspaper was Vas 1 furnished by its Chicago correspondent c. c E E. R. R Van Cott of Salt Lake a non Mormon gra graduate of tho the University of Utah now attending school in in Chi Oh cago cage On May lay Ja 18 this newspaper published a letter from front Mr Van Yon Cott Cot t containing the facts in ill substantially substantially tinny the same MIme words word as the later ones that aroused tho ho Tribune yet Dr Pa Paden cn did not deny them then That letter also declared that Mans Hans P. P Freece Dr Padens Paden's associate was wa daily declaring declaring- that only the sectarian schools of Utah could save the Ule benighted youth oath of that state and that Dr Paden not only heard him in satisfied silence but re refused used those who desired to reply an opportunity to do so The truth is and it cannot be challenged that Dr Paden was employed to do just what he ho is doing doing mis mis misrepresent represent this state in order that Senator Smoots Smoot's enemies m may y triumph over him His lIis business is to raise such a storm of indignation a against Ut Utah ah that tho national administration will be forced to proceed against the senior senator He i is doing Tom Kearns Kearns' work mrk for him just as he w was doing it lon long ago ho lie is doing it in the same wa way that Mr Kearns Kearns' ne newspaper was doing until forced by waning business and increasing increasing increasing in in- creasing deficit to desist st he is using tho the Rome material ma mn- tonal that was war furnished the great magazines a few v years ago by Kearns earns Fred T. T Dubois and Frank T T. Cannon The methods arc entirely the same and the intent has in no wise changed One On paragraph in Dr Padens Paden's letter to tho Tribune published by Ly that newspaper yesterday is highly sig sig- It reads Tho The wisdom om of or the mana management ement of or the thc World rollel In Jn Chicago In In Riving giving us u's a place has ha been made lle evident b by the time Interest shown In our oUt corner cornel o of the exposition It might be interesting to discover whom Dr Paden means by us HUS Since he was writing to the Tri Tribune une that us indicates the it is is altogether probable what casual reader would infer infer the the connection between himself the Tribune bune and the Chicago exhibit It would surprise surprise se none should the hand of T. T Kearns be found in this as in every other campaign against Utah |