Show recklessness AND desperation ONE of the most humorous assertions that the organ of bate published in this city has baa made for some time to is to the effect that tbt the hews appeared orn on may 19 as a republican organ here are am its words the NEWS appeared last night for the first time in its it role as a republican organ after making this extraordinary statement however that journals journal heart admitting for arguments sake that it figuratively possesses possess one seemed to sink at ther the very absurdity of its remark and it hedged by following up with this qualification it was not very successful to be sure but what would you of a novice now that to is the old illogical way of presenting a proposition and following it by an opposing argument we admit the force of the qualifying statement the NEWS of last evening or any other evening indicates an entire absence of success in a role it has never assumed As indisputable evidence of this we have only to refer to the columns of this journal which give proof positive of what we now state to show the desperation as well as utter untruthfulness of the journal referred to which speaks as if it were in the throes of dissolution we refer to another position taken in the same article as the one in which the NEWS is in accused of want of success in the role of republican organ yesterday this infamous paper accused certain republicans of having sold out their party because they had simply taken a position in favor of a popular political division in utah on national party lines in place of maintaining the old local organizations it says this the NEWS as organ of that movement distinctly deny that the conferences feren ces have occurred on the contrary it admits them when it says that certain gentlemen geat lemen have been using their own minds in the matter we here reproduce our own language which appeared in yesterdays yester daya issue the slanderous imputation thrown out by the organ of defamation upon gentlemen who nave have bad sufficient independence pen dence to use their won own minds in place of electing to be subject to the most galling dictatorship ever witnessed in this republic is most despicable it remains to be seen whether or not there shall be a abject submission to such tyranny one 0 of f the questions connected with the present situation is shall intelligent citizens slavishly follow aaion of an unscrupulous clique which insists in sitting upon the tau tail of progress shouting whoa it will be observed that we characterized the charge of our against the gentlemen referred to as a slanderous imputation ap maliciously maue because those against whom it was hurled had shown sufficient independence to use their own minds in place of electing to be subject to the galling tyranny of an unscrupulous clique the NEWS showed that in thus making use of their own minds they were acting in record accord with an invitation of the organ ot of liberal corruption which used thaw words it is in an occasion when every republican should use his own mind igind and use it with as serious intent as aa he ever did in his hia life 1 for thus utilizing their own mental bapa capacities cities instead of bowing to the dictum of the rule or ruin clique this te Is what these gentlemen received the republicans who thus undertake to sell out their party are in the position of the devil when he offered the kingdoms of the earth for a little worship they had nothing to trade and neither had he be y I 1 why is this slanderous cry of desperation pe ration raised by the source from which it issues it is 18 that the reign of terror of the tribune clique may be perpetuate dand the freedom of law abiding citizens trampled in the dust por for this purpose the old anti mor mon bitterness which has been subsiding toward obliteration may be resurrected and the progress of this territory impeded we are at the defiance of all men to correctly assert that the NEWS is the organ of either of the national parties its position lon is independent and our motto is truth and liberty which are intimately associated this journal reserves the right to defend the liberties of all citizens no matter to what party they may belong and to crit cri lotie attempts to stifle the free expression of any claw class of people without refe reference tence to creed or political inclinations and in regard to aiming to be truthful we are pleased to be able to say that many honorable men in this territory who are not in unison with our general views have frequently asserted that the NEWS stands second to no journal in the west |