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Show I The day after the election, the Kearns' or- I gan blandly Informed the public that it had con- 1 ducted a "clean campaign" which was "devoid I of personalities." The man who survived writing I that (it was probably Editor Cannon) without an attaok of pen paralysis will probably always be an Immune from such an affliction. It is quite fair to state that no journal of standing in the United States ever conducted such a vicious and slandirous campaign as did this same Tribune i during the past few weelcs. It whipped the air in I a fine frenzy over alleged irregularities in the county administration that wore too trivial for i mention even if true; it published and editorially . I endorsed an unprincipled attack upon President . j Roosevelt; and from the beginning it has abused ' i and insulted Gentiles who remained loyal to the ' Republican party. Just at present a few signs of penitence would be far more becoming in the old j j journalistic culprit than its latest specialty of as- v sumlng a virtue which it hath not. I . |