| Show A QUESTION OF JUDGMENT exactly seven days ago the court reporter of the NEWS brought to this office along with the statement that W E thurber had been appointed by the territorial supreme court a united states cammi lioner for sevier county the copy of a letter irom that county signed by prominent republicans endorsing mr thurber and claiming that his appointment would have a good effect upon the party of progress the editor declined to let the letter appear in his big columns firstly because there was no reasor to believe mr thu Thur aber bera s candidacy enquired a partisan appeal in his bis favor or that his success was in any way dependent upon it secondly because a decent respect for the supreme court required that private documents filed with that body whether appropriate or not did not concern the public at atlary larga larg thirdly because the NEWS has haa no interest in the partisan bicke bluke rings i hat others seek to stimulate and deplores the political tinge that is sought to be imparted to every word act and result and fourthly because in ID the whole communication there was nothing in the nature of news this to Is the letter which our two brisk co temporaries publish this morning as something which has just come to light J they mean doubtless that it has just come to their light that ir if to the light of the onn one reporter whom they both employ to furnish in syndicate form court news for them the NEWS alludes to the circumstance to show that hard bard times have not sharpened their wits in news gathering though suggesting tinK economy in thet the reportorial salary list also to permit an intelligent public to judge between the different estimates as to what constitutes utes news and the motives which have weight in the use of it |
