| Show PERSONALITIES IV JOURXAMSM We do not believe the people of Utah are interested in the personal characteristics charac-teristics of newspaper men so much as they are in the principles the newspapers news-papers advocate and the news they publish Therefore when our morning morn-ing contemporary indulges in its delightful de-lightful pastime of flinging mud at some writer who differs from it in politics poli-tics or policy the public feel disgust rather than admiration or gratification gratifica-tion It is customary with the Tribune when worsted an argument to turn in and personally abuse its opponent who has polemically knocked it out That is the natural way with persons who grovel in the lowest gutter of debased de-based journalism It gratifies spite but it proves no point and simply exhibits ex-hibits the characteristics of those who get down to such a level That is all we care to say as to the personal abuse which occasionally comes from the I gentlemen of the Tribune who thus show their good breeding We fail to see what the probable course of any former or present editor of The Herald under given circumstances I circum-stances has to do with the right of the Utah Commission to go to the ballot I boxes in order to find out who has been duly elected to the Constitutional II Convention But then we have not studied logic from the same basis as our abusive contemporary According to its high mode of reasoning it maybe may-be that if The Heralds writers are bad men the Utah Commission have no lawful right to go behind the returns re-turns of the election but we have not reached so lofty a flight or so miry a level whichever it may be Our neighbor has abandoned the legal le-gal controversy which it commenced in relation to the powers of the Commission Com-mission and no doubt that was prudential pru-dential Legal argument is not its forte Abuse and mudthrowing are more in its line In that it is an adept We do not pretend to compete com-pete with it in that diversion So it may go on and take delight in its congenial con-genial occupation and we will be content con-tent with advancing facts figures and fair reasoning no matter how much filth the Tribune may fling The case in consideration is unique It has not bsfore been tested It matters mat-ters not what any editor would be likely to have done in years gone by when conditions were different We have to view things as they are and draw our conclusions from what we now see and understand The Utah Commission have been trying to discharge dis-charge a duty imposed upon them by congressional law and there is not a microscopical atom of evidence that they have done anything less or more The Herald believes that the law requires re-quires them under the circumstances existing to open the ballot bOxes and count the votes cast in certain precincts pre-cincts as the only way to determine the rights of contending candidates If they have not that right the language lan-guage of the Utah election law is misleading mis-leading Whether the ballot boxes were tampered tam-pered with before reaching the Commission Com-mission is altogether another question and does not affect that Whi h has to be very soon decided by the courts J s j j > We ali notoif the opinion that there has be yLm t intpmng laS t1 t thatfrflge1yhftrged bour I r raabpztenporry But we i are iin i iou ftr evfery J kidof 4JaWful invest r ttonp tflter t1rntcan be i vised 1T J y 1ii 1 f howeve tiftpeIz H f f onaI l 1 h4etotthe v rltrs on TD 2 b < > It 7 Herald tffgt 1 oer t does notap l roach tb8 r ii i dispute nd en I tt6ftfj 1i n tlIeth ifut nt 1 f r1hothin With 7r I v tUonl lfhl ri < fii Y I eQpIdtIflW t thE eIsrtroversy Td Us fi 4 < l t spcli J i dirsion S confncIngiduiee < thattleibdsho resrtqtuiat h < r < sOrtof r literarlr SOaenger ii arlt ar i tiit < out < OJ argimentsaid MLS rncL are I r > jt1sl iffi a1 dhI t hd cf s ttstli i tA qlHedJ < fr1 i < > J1tt 7 > iJ < 4 |
