Show UNITED STATES District Attorney VanZile does not like the HERALD t He says be doesnt and we believe him And yet Mr VanZile profaases to be a true Christian one of those who claim to ba approaching the extremely good condition known as eaactiScation He is so pious a man that it is said of him that ho sometimes some-times occupies the pulpit and instructs in-structs his baa worthy fellows in the prinoipli s and duties of Christianity At any rate ho believes in that religion relig-ion which teaches love for all even for his enemies one of whom we are not which To prove that the HERALD is not an enemy to Mr Van Zilo and that it places great elore by him by his truly good qualities and his knowledge of and respect for the law this journal has for fame time been engaged in preparing tho materials ma-terials for a series of questions which it proposed to propound to him with the hope of getting answers that wuld set certain matters tow being agitated at rest An opinion on some of these same points has bean asked from his superior supe-rior in office the attorney general of the Unit d State hence it will be seen that they are important and that Mr YaaZiles opinion was to bee be-e when it was the intention to placo it by the side of that of Mr Devena As the district attorney has publicly declared that be does not like the HERALD it may now appear impudent in us to ask Icy favor from him but we will risk stating one proposition nt least and thereafter may content ourselves with opinions by the attorney general only The case is this Suppose a man should commit a terrible crime and be duly indicted by the grand jury before the time for trial arrives the accused and his relatives retain aj their attorney in civil actions then pending and to be instituted the district attorney who was to prosecute the criminal action on the part of the people the accused S and relatives pay the publio prosecutor handsomely they are rich and tho natural inference Is their legal business will be considerable and become profitable to their lawyer while conducting the civil business for the indicted man and his associates and friend the time for P the trial of tho crirxinal action arrives t rives but the case is postponed term after term of the court come and go and even years pace and Intro is no trial of the man the district attorney still being the civil lawyer for the accused Now what we had intended to I ask Mr VanZile was what in his I opinion should be thought of the I i district attorney Whatin his opinion UItI mast others think of the district attorney at-torney Whether in his opinion the a district altoiney would be serving his pocket or the public best and most in the above stated case and whether if there were each acase the district attorney would in his opinion be considered Dn honest honorable man and faithful officer These are some of the things that the HERALD was going to ask Mr VanZJe but in view of his announcement ht he does not like the paper of course we could not expect answers should the questions be propounded IT is well known thatthe Associated i Press is operated politically in the interest of the republican party Its manager is a rank republican of the uncompromising sort and he is financially interested in some western papery which are like him bitterly republican The bureau in distributing distri-buting new deals fairly with dogfights dog-fights horse races railroad disasters and saloon fights but when it comes to politics the democrats are invariably in-variably put in the back ground A republican demonstration is magnified magni-fied and expanded whilo a democratic demo-cratic display is reduced or goes with I out mention Nothing is taken from a democratic paper except perhaps some slip of the pen or indiscreet sentence that will help the opposition opposi-tion whila column after column of opinions from republican journal are telegraphed Oar readers will observe that political telegrams from New York almeai invariably begin like this The Times says or thue the Tribune contains the following etc the leading republican organs being quoted From Chicago they read The Il1t rOc al1s special The Tribune has the following It etc Republican majorities at elections elec-tions are always magnified and when democrats win the news is slow in getting before the country and it is I usually accompanied by an explanation explana-tion from some republican journal as to how it was brought about or tho agsertoa of the Press reporter that democratic money was freely used An illua trat < n of the manner in which the Associated frees is conducted ia the interest of the republican re-publican party appears in our columns col-umns this morning < Marshall Jewell chairman of tbel republican national committee has a long telegram in which he is trying to explain something some-thing that has come out against him in connection with the campaign We can glean from his reply that Chairman Barnum has discovered and exposed some of Jewells dirty work but just what it is our readers will have toguees The Associated Press agent could not let the country have BsrhumsJ exposure of Jewells trickery but finds it convenient to send the latters explanation together with a slurring comment on the democratio exposure by the editor of a republican newspaper Barnums card must have been published in New York on Thursday and no doubt the democratic papers bad something to say concerning it It is evident from Jewells explanation that he has been hurt but western democrats dem-ocrats will learn nothing of the exposure until the mail carries the New York papers to them The Associated Press also runs in the government official groove It is in the ring and is supplied sup-plied with all official information that will injure the democratic party If Wade Hampton writes a damphool letter to John Sherman it is handed over to the Associated Press with suitable suit-able republican comments ifit appears from the pension records that Bill English forty years ago cheated his grandmother the item is pointed ont to the Press reporter if the Confederate Confeder-ate records contain anything derogatory deroga-tory to the character cf any prominent democrat of today government employ em-ploy a search it out and the Associated Associ-ated Press sends it to the country at the cost of democratic as well as republican re-publican papers if Sunset Cox frank becomes too numerous throughout through-out the country the Associated Press uses itj immense facilities for letting the fact be known to the injury of the democracy With the exception of half a dozen rich papers the press of the country is i powerless I in the matter The newspapers must take the Associated Press reports re-ports or go without They cannot afford to keep agents at the news centres and obtain special reports Democratic papers must libel and lie about their party in their telegraphic columns must publish a lot of republican repub-lican hogwash and print republican compaign papers or go without i news It makes little difference what i comes to Salt Lake as the only effect favorable or unfavorable democratic reports can have is upon the feelings of the readers Votes cannot be gained or lost l here for we have none But the practice is the same all over the United States The Associated Press whose only legitimate business ia the collection and distribution of news is devotedly attached to the republican re-publican party and hence is bitterly opposed to the democracy It is never fair in its political reports and never does justice to the democratic party |