Show METHODS OF CHRONIC One of the unfortunate things connected with the editorial meeting at Logan was the disreputable methods that some of the chronic would-he officeholders indulged in to obtain Statements were made by the president elected and the three brothers of and one or two others who did not know the true that cast untrue reflections on and the other officers who served only a portion of last Curbstone political methods were used in Salt and editors were buttonholed oni the train by these who made statements against the old officers that were insulting and They said we must elect new officers who will do something and put new life and new blood into our They insinuated that and the other officers were old fogies and were not doing their The editors who had not regularly attended the previous meetings and did not know the true were won over by the insinuating stories of those and new blood and new officers were One of the office-seekers boldly stated that any editor living in Salt Lake City was not wanted for It was no wonder that would not run when such insulting- slurs were thrown out against in there was no editor elected to office who published a paper in Salt Lake An office should seek the man and not the man the Ninety per cent of the Utah State Press association wanted to serve another but the criticisms about new blood and too much Salt and more naturally caused him to that made the other Salt Lake officers get out of the way for some of the self-lauded new blood officers who were Now As to the The new life and new blood officers who were elected will have to reconcile the following facts to their new blood and new life stories hold At the annual meeting one year ago there were only nine present who had the right to About fifteen were present at the first quarterly meeting held at Tooele last Decoration where was elected The first held after became president was held in Ogden and it was the largest that the association had ever held up to that The next meeting was still about thirty-eight editors being This meeting was held A special train was provided for the exclusive use of the editors by the S. R. R. and some of the other old fogy as the new blood called secured that special train without any expense to the The meeting at Tremonton was a great success from every point of The next meeting held under was the one at which was a little toger than any previous labored under great difficulties during the eight months he was president of the Utah Press The association was nearly broken up by a little quarrel within when he took hold of The previous secretary had run off with minute the constitution and Some of the old members had not received receipts for the money they had paid and dissatisfaction was in evidence on every But with it during the eight months while was president greater and better meetings were greater harmony more new members were received into the and more money collected than ever before in one year during its And with it all some of the chronic office-seekers administration and succeeded in throwing him out of should have received a complimentary vote from the association for president even if it were known that he could not serve half of his If the new blood and the new as some of the new officers call can do as well as the editor of the Utah Independent will overlook their eagerness for office and their unfair reflections upon and do all he can to further the interest of the Utah Press |