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Show AN EXPLANATION. As n rulo wo do not bellovc In personal per-sonal explanations or In tho exploiting of our own business, as we believe that every nuwspapor should spoak for Itself It-self by Its visible .merits, but in Provo wo havo a peculiar circumstance, or perhaps wo might better say, a combination combi-nation of circumstances. Wo therefore there-fore bollovo that an explanation Is duo to our friends nnd patrons, as well as to tho general publlo, not only In justice jus-tice to thorn, but also lu justlco to ourselves. our-selves. To begin with tho postmaster of Provo City Is also manngor und practically practi-cally tho editor of tho Provo Enquirer. That same gentleman l.as many times maintained that ho would not allow any othor newspaper but thocEnqtiirer to llvo in l'rovo. In tho pursuance of that laudable (?) purpose tho manager of tho Enquirer In Ills zeal to advance tho Interests of his paper, frequently forgetH his duties as the servant oi tho pcoplo lu the capacity of postmastor of Provo city. Mull dlreoted to tho Utah County Dismockat cither In tho shape of letters, let-ters, newspapers or postal cards do not always reach us on tlmo. Wo wquld especially warn our correspondents not to uso tho latter, as a rcccut Instance of Important matter In that shape shows two days difTernnco between the deposit In tho Provo postofflco and deposit de-posit In The Democrat box. In regard to our paper wo will say that we Issue on Wednesdays nnd Saturdays, Sat-urdays, nnd nearly always considerably lu ndvanco of the Enquirer upon thoso days, Again overlooking his duty as postmaster (and a sorvaut of the, peo-pio) peo-pio) tho Enquirer manager always 'arranges 'ar-ranges that his paper shall be first distributed dis-tributed in boxes or to subscribers through the general delivery. In Uu rccont instances where 'The Utah County Demoohat was dolivured to tho postotllce over ono and one-half hours In advance of tho Provo Enquirer Enquir-er our pa pit r was delayed aud tho latter lat-ter delivered first. ' These are only n few Instances of tho malicious Jobbery, or total lueompo-teney lueompo-teney of the picsent Incumbent of tho postmnstorslilp. Wu have others of greater magnitude, hut oiler these only to tho people to explain tho failure of prompt delivery of their papers or failure fail-ure In the announcement of news In the only people's medium. |