Even the Tribby has been pressed into
service at this critical juncture. On Mon
evening it said: ‘‘lf The Leader will just
continue to fill its columns with this kind
of stuff the republicans will have no fault
to find with it in this campaign.” Last
night, however, it discovered the execu
tion which had been done and it could not
find words abusive enough in the English
language to characterize anybody who had
anything to say about Warren’s mistreat
ment of the small ranchmen. It devotes
itself to the impossible task of trying to
refute the interview with Mrs. Chiving
ton. It prints what pretends to be a
written card from the lady in which,
while she does not attempt to deny
that she and her husband were
absolutely forced out of house and
home by Warren she is made to assert
that many of the statements contained in
The Leader interview are false. Just
in what respect any statement therein
contained is incorrect is not specified. I’he
fact of the matter is that Mrs. Chivington
cannot den}’ that the story is incorrect in
its essential <•’ ulars as precisely the
same story has been heard scores of times
from her own lips and the lips of her hus
band. A Leader reporter called last
evening at the residence of Mrs. Chiving
ton but she could not be found. In this
connection the appended affidavit will be
found of interest:
I hereby certify on oath that the state
ments made to me by Mrs. A. 11. Chiv
ington, as published in The Leader this
(Tuesday) morning, were correctly re
ported in every essential partictlar—that
she made the statements absolutely with
out qualification. I further certify that
she was informed several times that the
interview would appear in The Leader,
and that we discussed the propriety and
policy of having her name appear, and
that she assented to it freely. I further
certify that having informed her of the
purpose of the interview and where it
would be published, I took out my note
book and took down her words as she
uttered them, and that she saw me do so.
