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Show DESERET NEWS. The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH W. RICHARDS. * ao &S A” LON. L 1 °95 ga” h Companies 3 20, , 15,1830. DESERET-NEWS. serving, it is worth binding; for gress did not make the Union; ress, and the phiet the Union made We proj to publish @ small form; and if every subscri shall people made the inion; conseweekly ales large as our lo- preserve each copy of the “News,” quently, on the principles of fedthe same power cul circumstances will permit, to and bind it at the close of the vol- eral repu! he called “Deseret Neios,” de- yume,their children's children may that makes must unmake, if un- pleasure and amusementofour fel- read the doings of their fathers, made at all; and if the Union is which otherwise might have been ever peacefully dissolved, it will de by the oe. people who forgotten; ages to. come, made it; for they lone possess the rightful powerofdissolution withU. S. SENATE. “Sketch of debate,” inthe Sen- in themselves, and not in their ate. for Feb. 6, 8, 12, inclusive, Senators or Representatives; anc 1850, on the Right of Petition; we hope we shall never again hear represent Messrs. Seward, Hale & of any portion of the American Chase as chief speakers. Mr. Man- people petitioning Congress to.do low citizens. gum presented the proceedings of what st has no power to do,even to the highest Conrt of trath for our intentions, and the highest Court of equity for our execution. When we speak, we shall speak fredly, without %o men or party, and when, like other men, weerr, let him who has his eyes open, correct us in meekness, and heshall receive a disciple’s reward. We shall ever take pleasure in communicating foreign news as we have opportunity; in receiving communications from ourfriends, at home and abruad;andsolicit ornaments for the “News” from our poets and pnetesses. The first number may be expected as early in June as, subscriptions will wartant—waiting the action of 300 subscribers. Terms, 6 months, $2,50; tnvariably in advance, denouncing the fanaticism of the North, threateninga dissolution of the Union, in .a certain contingency, &c.— Laid on tlie table— Several petitions were presented by Mr. Hale, from varioussections, “for promotion of the abolition of slavery; improving the condition of the free people of color; to pre- We hold ourscives responsible a meeting at Wilmington, N. C., if ithad thedisposition. Let our Single copy, 15 cents. Advertising, $1.60 per square fines, and 50 each succeeding insertion. $b for half syuare, or 8 dines, "TRAVELLERS AND ANTS; 25 cents per copy, with the inser aton of their names, place residence,time ofarrival end feaving. BY WILL BAGLEY — VOL. 1.--NO. © Morro—‘“Tautu ano Laazarr.” thisi purpose we issue in signed originally torecord the passing eventsof our State, and in connexion,refer to the arts and scienees, embracing geaeral education, medicine, law, divinity, domestic and political economy, and every thing that may fall under our observation, which may, tend to promete the best intefest. welfare, The Irrepressible Conflict With ‘Granny’ Continues SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE upwards,en- people, want the Union peacefully ee ee pe poyprgs pam dissulved, why not dissolve it? PROSPECTUS. ‘A paper that is worth printing, Why ask Congress todo a thing és worth j ing; if worth pre- they have no power to do? Con- Union remain forover, peacefully? TERRIBLE FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO. Am appalling and destructive ‘on the 24th of Defire occ! cember, which threatened for a time to reduce the famouscity of vent the increase of slavery by San Francisco to a heap of smokthe non-admission of new States into the Union; for abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia; to prevent the introduction of slavery in the Territories; to preventinternal slave trade between the States; and respectfully ask Congress to propose, without delay, some plan for the immediate and peaceful dissolution of the American Union.” The Germantown ladiesaddress Congress, as “Dear Friends,” and after an appropriate prayer, ‘“‘we bid’ you an affectionate farewell.” Manyjoined the above gentlemen in debate, which was generally paitce end ay warm, tive; somewhat dramatic, with some symptomsofthetragic, broke dut in ing ruins. The Denuison’s Exchange, and in two hours, nearly a million of dollars worth of property was destroyed The Parker House was among the buildings burned. All the buildings, except the Delmynico Howl, on Portsmouth square, and allon Washington street, cormmen‘ing at the “Eldorado,”anc trannag to Montgomery street, were buned. The Parker House, U. 3. Redtaurat, Exchange, Eldyrad>, Merar <House, chant’s Exchange, Central House, “Washington Ar. cade, Poll lard & Co Auction Room, Guerschard & /an Buren’s esablich and many more valuable buildings vexe burned or blown up, to stop tie progress (Query; Ifthe people,the whole.of thefire. Thursday, June15, 2000 Back in the days when newspaper rivalries were newspaper ri- valries, the rambunctious Salt Lake Tribune pokedfun at the dignified Deseret News as “Grandmother.” The Tribune’s relations with “Granny” have not always been cordial, but they have been interesting. ~° And what LDS historian Edward Tullidge called “the irrepressible conflict” has been good for Utah. Brigham Young did not appreciate competition ofany kind, so he was not pleased when his newspaper monopoly in Utah ended in November 1858. The Mormon leader unhappily noted the appearance of“a vulgar little scurrilous sheet, in the shape of a newspaper for this city called ‘Kirk Anderson’s Valley Tan.’” The Valley Tan, named after the local whiskey, catered to the newly arrived U.S. Army. Rather than use the church-owned Deseret Newsto debate the “gentile” press, LDSauthorities created a new paper, The Mountaineer, to battle the competition. The Tan offered a dissenting voice until it suc- cumbed toa papershortage in 1860, and The Mountaineer died three years later, The first true competition for the Deseret News began with the founding of The Mormon Tribune in 1870 by the “Godbeites,” Mormon dissenters who opposed Young's economicpolicies, which included slashing working men’s wagesfrom $4 to $1 a day. OnApril 15, 1871, the paper became The Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette with vet- eran reporter Oscar G. Sawyer as editor. As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had done before, it supported a new journal, The Salt Lake Herald, to counter The Tribune. Editor Sawyerwas so decidedly anti-Mormon that The Tribune’s original owners eventually accepted his resignation, but circu- Thefirst issue of the Deseret News wasa weekly of four pages and was published June 15, 1850. lation sagged with his departure. Thé war took on new rancor when three Kansans bought the Deseret News Celebrates paper in 1873. Known as “the bor- Sesquicentennial @ Continued from A-1 Sam Brannan’s brother-in-law, to purchase a Ramage press in Boston. Buyinga press, type and news- print was onething, but hauling it 1,100 miles from the Missouri River was another. To do the job, the Mormons turned to Howard Egan, a veteran frontiersman and future Pony Express agent. By May 1849, Egan was on his way west with 57 emigrants, the mail, six dogs, a cat andthe printing press. By thefirst week in August, Egan’s 22 wagons rumbled into Salt Lake Valley. Early in 1850, Thomas Bullock used thepress to print the constitution for the short-lived State of Deseret. On the last Saturday of May, celebrated their accomplishments in the Great Basin. The folksy sermons of Mormon leaders filled column after column of the News well into the 1880s. Young complained thathis printed remarks “often omit the sharp In 1858,U.S. President Buchanan said “he received the Deseret News as a mint — saster, ran in 1900, and the next year adobe building on the corner of the News published its first comic Main Street and South Temple, latersite of the Hotel Utah (now the strip. The paper has been home to some legendary journalists. Scipio Building). City subscribers could ter, cheese, tallow and pork for the News. To discourage everyone in the territory from leaving for the Golden State, the Mormon newspaper loved to tell of disasters in California. Thefirst issue reported that fire had destroyed much ofStockton and San Francisco on Christmas Eve, and a flood had obliterated a million dollars of property in Sacramento.It also noted the deaths of Sen. John Calhoun and Book of Mormonscribe Oliver Cowdery. Throughoutits first decade the Deseret News would struggle — not always successfully — to buy or manufacture enough paperto issue a weekly edition. Resourceful pioneers produced thefirst homemade could “almost see the buttonholes” from the shirts used to make it. In 1860, Young installed paper-making machinery in the old mill at Sugar House, but only the arrival of the bune’s staffers, Penrose wrote, were “the advocates andapologists of the libertine, the prostitute and abortionist.” John Q. Cannon,an editor at the News, took the conflict to the streets when he confronted Tribune reporter Joseph Lippman on the cornerof State and First South to demanda retractionfor a “vile” story. “T want you to get right down here on your knees and apologize for the lie you published about me,” Cannon sputtered. When Lippman refused, Cannonsenthis.rival “flying through the air as if a cannonball had struck him” and then beat Lippman with a whip. Cannon pleaded guilty to the assault and paid a small fine, but went on to serve as executive editor of the News offand-onuntil his death in 1931. With only an occasional armistice, Salt Lake City’s irrepressible culture war raged on until John F. Fitzpatrick took over the helm of The Tribune in 1924. Fitzpatrick brought a new respect for the state’s majority religionto its pages. Butas the official history of the Deseret News notes, the two papers continued their fierce competition. Following World War IL, city circulation for the News hadfallen sition by Fitzpatrick turned the tide. He proposed that both papers negotiate a joint-operating agree- ment that created a separate Newspaper Agency Corporation. The agency continues to manage production and advertising for both papers to this day. When the managers of the Deseret News calculated the cost. of their expansion, they, too, realized Fitzpatrick had offered them a deal they couldn’t refuse. The arrangementhas led many to conclude the papers have the same owner, but readers can’t miss their distinctive styles. And while the old vitriol may be gone,therivalry endures. Tribune religion editor Hal Schindler’s cordial relations with LDSPresident David O. McKayallowed the “gentile” paper to break the story ofplans to build a new church headquarters in the 1960s. That same decade the News won a bitter battle over liquor-by-thedrink, but The Tribune eventually won the war to bring Utah into th 20th century. . Competing reporters have not horsewhipped each other on State Street for more than a century, but a Deseret News intern this month did rear-end a Tribune reporter as both raced to cover the samestory. And rumorsstill circulate — as they have for 125 years -- that the Mormon church covets The Tribuneandachance to at last repress the Irrepressible Conflict. Tribuners say it will never happen. rhetoric in the Deseret News per- “Bullock’s Money Mill” for its use have their papers delivered for 50 cents every six months and could trade flour, wheat, corn meal, but- untary jig upon an iron floor brought to white heat.” The Tri- sion plans. With the Dp port of the LDS Church, its managers launched their aggressive campaign with offers of free carving sets, toys, radios, bicycles and watches. An economic war replaced the old editorial battle as the News allegedly acquired an astonishing 255,728 subscriptions with its promotions. The Tribune’s largest advertiser, ZCMI, withdrew its support and the paper’s profits evaporated. A rumorcirculated in 1950 that the LDS Church had boughtits old nemesis. News columnist Drew Pearson reported the claim as fact. Only a brilliant business propo- WHAT YOU'VE EN WAITING FOR! tended to establish an independent government and had been preparing for this for years.” Thefiery avirtual chronicleofthe newspaper business in the United States. The. first sports page appeared in April 1898.Its first newsphoto, of stacked coffins from the Scofield mine di- church’s Joseph Smith Memorial footed lunatics dancing an invol- , and The Tribune. On iis et and thought some of Brigham Young’s speeches were terrible.” The sermons convinced the president “that Governor Young in- U.S. Army he sent to ensure the safety of Utah’s new governor. Thehistory of the Deseret Newsis was in a one-room disgrace”in his dreary columns. Penrose responded in kind, mocking Goodwin's “impotent anger” and “grotesque contortions,” which reminded him of “bare- the atonement and vengeance in the Deseret News are downright astonishing. paper’s prospectus, Two weeks lat- The print shop — known as young girl’s shameand everlasting to a mere 12,583 subscribers, trail- words, though they are perfectly understood and applicable here,” suaded Buchanan that the Mormons were ready to fight the East with enough news to begin workonthefirst newspaperprinted in the Rocky Mountains. historian and author. His brother Patis the political cartoonist for TheSalt Lake Tribune. der ruffians,” their red-haired editor Fred Lockley launched a relentless crusade against Young and the Mormontheocracythat lasted for a decade. while Heber C. Kimball observed that editors transformed his colorful sermons into “buttermilk and catnip tea to accommodate the tastes of our enemies.” Yet to modern eyes, the frank discussions of polygamy, blood Apostle/Editor Willard Richardsfinally found time to write the newser, the “lion-hearted letter carrier” Tom Williams arrived from the Will Bagley is a Salt Lake City Lockley mocked “Granny” and called The Herald “the church's hand-organ.” While The Herald went toe-totoe with The Tribune, the News stayed outofthe fray. __The wisdom of this policy_became apparent in November 1884, shortly after Charles Penrose became editor of the Deseret News and C.C. Goodwin took the helm of The Tribune. Goodwin broke a story about a scandalous abortion. When the News published the names and lurid details, win wentballistic. Hecalled Penrose “the Beast of thie News,” a “psalm-singing male prostitute” and a “God-deformed wretch.” Goodwin denounced Penrose as “the bastard in charge of the News” who had exploited “a Africanus Kenner physically resembled Mark Twain, even if his writing didn’t. Beginning in 1861 he established the paper’s “somewhat erratic tradition of humor.” Cartoonist Calvin Grondahl, probably the funniest person ever to work for the News, kept Utahns in stitches during the 1970s and 1980s before leaving for the less restrictive con- fines of the Standard-Examiner of Ogden. Robert Mullins chased a story of murder, kidnapping and suicide over 1,800 miles to win the 1961 Pu- Local-C now onDIR Joha) SAEceee tT litzer Prize for local reporting. Folklorist Olive Burt edited a Sunday magazine with Ray McGuire thatranthe first color photos in an Professional Installation Available. Intermountain newspaper. And of course, there was Swen Teresed, the mysterious columnist of the 1930s. (Read it backward.) The News has not only employed somefirst-rate journalists, but provided training and jobs for many high-ranking LDS Church authorities. Five apostles have edited the journal. Current church President Gordon B. Hinckley got his first job 75 year's ago delivering the Deseret railroad in 1960, eliminated the ee chronic paper shortage. 461-3800 the Deseret News grew into a publishing empire that spawned KSL television and radio, the LDS Church's Salt Lake Printing Center, and retailing titan Deseret Book, \ cera Naehte ‘San ore ett On service address within the Balt Lake designated market area as defined by Nisisen Media Research, inc. Programming. Prices, terma andcondivons subject 10 change. Hardware and programming sold separately, DIRECTV Ia a rogiatored Wademark of DIREGTY,Inc., a unit of Hughes owners. Biactronics Corp. All wademarks and service marke are the property of their based |
