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Show DISHONEST TO ITS HEADERS. It. is the province of a newspaper to i givo tho news. Honest newspapers do fo. The reader of a newspaper expects i to find, and is entitled to find, in it the nows of the day, especially the news of ' importance. It is remarkable, therefore, that tho Smoot paper in this city yesterday morning refused to print tho most, important im-portant and sensational piece of news that came over tho wires tho night before thnt telling of Republican defeat de-feat aud Democratic success in the special Congressional election in the Monroe county district, Now York, on Tuesday. This refusal seems to bo for tho reason rea-son I hat Iho result of that election was distasteful lo. il wae adverse to the Republican party. That paper, therefore, edits its news in its party interest, suppressing that which is againsi its party and using only that which suits it. That pnper is. therefore, dishonest with its readers, and unworthy of their confidence. It. does not print, tho nows. Its subscribers cannot dopcud upon getting in its columns oven tho most important events of the time. It is .a very serious matter for a paper to lose tho confidence of tho community and sink into public contempt. Yet that is precisely the plight of tho Smoot paper today. |