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Show A (jL'KiriO.N OF Jl!II(!Mi:.Yr. r.imtly seven days ago tho court reporter ot the Nhws brought to this o 111 co, along with the statement that V. li. Thurber had been nppolnted by thuTerrltorlal Hut, rt me Court a United Htnlis oomiiiltslontr for Hevler county, tlio copy of alvtttr irom that couuty signed by prominent Republicans endorsing en-dorsing Mr. Thurber and claiming that lilt appolutnient would have n good clleot upon the "i arty ot prognss." The editor declined to let the letter appiar In bis columns; firstly, hcciuiu there wns no reatoa tobellovoMr. Tiiurber's candidacy iixjulieJ a pirtlssu appeil In his fror, orthat his success was In any way dei undent upou II; secondly, becauiu a decent respect for the Hu-preme Hu-preme Court reiulred tint private documents fllod with that body, whether appropriate or not, did not concern the publlo at large; thirdly, btoiuiutho Xkuh hat no luttreit lu the partisan blukerlugs that others setk to stimulate, nut depluns the political tlngo Hilt Is anight to bo lm. I arted to every word, uot nni retult; aud fourthly, because lu tho whole communication theru was nothing In tho nature uf news. This js thu letter which our two brisk coteuiporarlea publish this morn-lug morn-lug ris somothlii which "has Just come to llitlt." They mean doubtless that It has Juit coma to their light, that Is, to tho light of the one reporter whom they both employ to furnish in sj udlcate form court news for them. The K I.WU ulludea to thoclrcutmtjnce to show that hard times havo uot shnr tilled their wits lu ncwrgalherlug though suggesting economy In their reportorlul silary list; also to permit nn Intelligent publlo to Judgo between tho dllierent estimates as to what constitutes con-stitutes news uud the motives whloli have weight In thu usu of It. |
