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Show J The Trainer9 Failure. A TB'R'Ry HEATH AJT HIS ELETHAJVT. One definition of a promotor is this: A person who tries to sell something he isn't sure of to somebody who doesn't want it. Now there's Perry Heath, he of the shifty eye, the Seventh National and the post office department, depart-ment, the automatic, ever ready self-letter writer; and the elephant he would like to dispose of the Salt Lake Tribune. His is another case of "Young man, go West," and show them how, and of failing to make good. Such cases are common, if not in the newspaper business, in other lines, and Perry would hate to tell you how the subscribers of years have dropped off since he took hold. He grabbed a wolf by the ears, and though "he loves his mountain home," he would love to let go, and he's looking hard for an opening. Perry Heath is a typical example of the carpet car-pet bag journalist, but it takes a newspaper man to make a great newspaper. But this wasn't Perry object in taking the management of the Tribune, though lots of us gave him credit for better judgment in the publication of the sloppy stuff from Washington in reference to the hub of the universe, T. Kearns, and his hired man, P. Heath. But a close authority states that Heath is looking look-ing for a customer. That the Salt Lake Tribune is for sale at a bargain, that the lack of patronage outside the office, and the general unrest inside from the press room to the roof, where that de-ciple de-ciple of principal and honor, Jack Daveler, throws slugs, has sickened the suave manager, and that he is ready and willing to move Since Goodwin's Weekly first began publication, publica-tion, we have received countless letters and clippings clip-pings from all parts of the country, and at this juncture we publish below a few of them to show how very popular the Tribune has been from the start of its gush a year ago to the miserable failure of its last New Year's edition. edi-tion. The cost of publishing the paper has been increased in-creased $2,500.00 a month, but in quantity, not quality, and it is not worth today nearly so much as It was eighteen months ago. Here are a few extracts from some of the letters let-ters and clippings: Gazelle, Siskiyou Co., Cal., June 21st, 1902. My Dear Judge: Some weeks ago there came to me here the initial copy of "Goodwin's Week, ly." Find enclosed P. O. money order for $2. Send the paper to me at Baker City, Oregon. In a general way I am cognizant of the situa. tion in Salt Lake, and the degeneracy of the Trib-une. Trib-une. Great pity! I wish the Aveekly all kinds of success. Yours truly, JOHN C. YOUNG. & & 1248 Blaine Ave., June 14th, 1902. Editor Goodwin's Weekly: My Dear Judge Goodwin: I And that I cannot "do business" well without being a regular subscriber to Goodwin's Weekly. I congratulate you on the success and merits of your new paper. I am greatly delighted to enjoy again the natural eloquence, the literary flavor, and the independent, forceful discussions of local, state and National questions which made the editorial page of the Salt Lake Daily Trib-une Trib-une the equal, for power and influence of any edl. torial page in this country, for over twenty years Now that the other local papers have so many "strings" attached to them, it is truly refreshing to find such thoroughly outspoken and independ. ent, yet just and fair, discussions of vital ques-tions ques-tions on the editorial page of one local paper that is thoroughly free to speak its honest convictions I wish great success to Goodwin's Weekly so long as it has no "strings" on it. Heartily yours, A SQUARE DEAL, R. G. McNIECE. lw fe7 Spanish Fork, Utah, May 8th, 1902. Judge C. C. Goodwin: Dear Sir: It is a mat-ter mat-ter of rejoicing to your old friends down here to know that you are going to start a paper. We can't get used to the Tribune as it is now, and hail the forthcoming of "Goodwin's Weekly." I am quite sure if you will send me your initial num. ber I can secure some subscribers. Many of the Tribune subscribers have discontinued it. I came to Utah in '82, and have been reading the "Trib" ever since. Cordially, MRS. THEO. LEE. t& t& Logan, Utah, June 3rd, 1902. Judge C. C. Goodwin: My Dear Sir: I am pleased beyond the power of perfect expression to know that you have established an independ. Gnt newspaper in Salt Lake City. I have been a reader of the Tribune from its first incipiency and through all of its varied phases to the Heath transfer and your retirement, and noticed the sudden sud-den eclipse your withdrawal produced upon the paper, it revealed the potoncy of your pen and the scope of your power as a writer. The editorial page which you illuminated with polished, brilliant bril-liant thoughts suddenly became a dull waste, cumbersome cum-bersome and sterile. I sent a notice of discontinuance discon-tinuance and have felt a hunger of the spirit for your magic power again, for I know of no one who has exactly your felicities of thought and of utterance. Please send to my address your paper and the price of it for one year and I will promptly remit. CHARLES I. GOODWIN. & & zt Salt Lake City, Utah, May 23, 1902. Hon. C. C. Goodwin: My Dear Sir: Enclosed please find ray check for $2 in payment for one year's subscription to "Goodwin's "Weekly." In doing this I want to express to you my sincere thanks for the enjoyment I have derived while reading the contents of the first issue. From the time you left the Tribune sanctum until now, it has seemed to me and, inoeed, to many others that we have been in a condition that might be compared to that of a man who has made a long, i tedious journey by night, comes suddenly into glorious sunlight and is thrilled with Nature's choicest scenes around him he finds, after all, I that life is worth living. ; Permit me then, as one of your humble ad- ; mirers, to extend a hearty welcome to the Week- i ly, and to express the hope that from its modest ' ring it may grow and continue to grow in patronage, progressiveness and power until it shall have become a daily, and as a daily, the very best in the nation just such a daily as its grandly able editor is capable of making it. Sincerely yours, H. ,F. EVANS fc7 W 5 Ouray Indian Agency, Utah, May 22, 1902. J. Tod Goodwin, manager Goodwin's Weekly: My Dear Sir: For fifteen years ever since locating lo-cating in Utah in 1887 I have been a constant reader of the Tribune, but .it now seems like another, an-other, and a stranger, since you and the judge ceased writing for it, and I would like to supplement supple-ment it with the Weekly. Please begin my sub-i sub-i scription with the initial numbei. Am unable at 1 this moment to lay hands on your advertisement, but am under impression that $2.00 is the price. If not, will make correction upon receipt of .your advice. You probably do not remember as vividly as I do having helped put me through the initiation ini-tiation into No. 85, B. P. O. Elks in 1899. Very truly, L. W, CURRY, S S S C. C. Goodwin, Dear Sir: Received your "Weekly" sample paper as ordered, and now enclose en-close check for year's subscription for same. I want to say for myself and husband that we took the Tribune for the past fifteen years and enjoyed and appreciated your editorials immensely. The editorials in your "Weekly" have the same old ring to them that the Tribune used to have. We wish you all success with your Weekly and only wish it was a daily. Yours respectfully, MR. AND MRS. P. C. BROWN, City, Thursday, May 22nd, 1902. Eagle Valley, Lincoln Co., Nev., June 14. Mr. C. C. Goodwin: Dear Sir: Please send me a sample copy of your paper, the old Tribune is not worth a cent any more, and oblice, DR. WILLIAM BELL. t & Ogden, Utah, May 20, 1902. Goodwin's Weekly: Gents: Please find enclosed en-closed $2, the price of your paper for one year. I believe. Regret you over left the Tribune, as I enjoyed en-joyed your conduct of the paper very much, having hav-ing read it for many years, and appreciated your patriotism and independence. To what base uses has it now descended, and yet I must read it, or, God forbid, the Standard. Respectfully, H. M. BOND. tv t(5 w We have just read in the Salt Lake Tribune the only really sensible and truthful editorial seen in that paper since it was taken charge of by Perry S. Heath. The editorial reads: "People who have made good strikes in the Thunder Mountain Moun-tain country obstinately refuse to believe the experts ex-perts who say the district is no good." Weiser (Ida.) Signal. V fcyW Goodwin's Weekly is a most welcome contribution contri-bution to our table. In Mr. Goodwin's "editorials" we recognize tho great mind that filled the Tribune Trib-une with good things for "lo these many years," though only a weekly, we look anxiously for Its arrival and welcome the good things with which it is filled. De La Mar (Nev.) Lode. We desire to tell his many admirers in this i JjHn part of the globe that C. C. Goodwin, for a third of f ! I f?H a century the brains of the Salt Lake Tribune, has l'( I kfH started a new paper in the Mormon capital called T fffR Goodwin's Weekly, the first issue of which is out. l''t)laB It is needless to say that the editorials which made fi, I JB the Tribune famous vill not only be duplicated JflB but improved upon if that were possible in the If'WljiB new paper, and those who desire to keep up with jjf Jf'1 jH the literary gems of the day will enclose a two- 'ij yfB dollar bill for the paper a year. The Tribune of- 1 1, V"Mi flee did not feel like it could live without Good- T 1 H win's Tribune, but since he dropped out the charm Hf B disappeared and the wrapper was seldom removed MliB from it Gunnison (Colo.) Tribune. ? I 9 ' IB Judge Goodwin's Salt Lake weekly, registered ."Wa as Goodwin's Weekly, will necv-3sarily have a V il1 'B large subscription patronage in Colorado, as well 1 iV !? as Utah and adjoining states, and for the reasons i'ii!B that he is familiar with western history for at i'lfltfav least half a century, and doubly so for his force m 'H' $jm and ability as a writer upon political, industrial ljiH and historical subjects Judge Goodwin is an able ll'l AB man. Durango (Colo.) Democrat. 1 1' lH i'E$lfH Goodwin's Weekly. ifPffl Under the above name Judge C, C. Goodwin if; nvfljSB has started a paper in Salt Lake City. It is a SfrfH thinking paper for thinking people and should Jr.''1 H meet with abundant success. The fact that Judge hi ffvHH Goodwin is the editor stamps success on every f' MMl page, for there never was a writer in the west that ii Jl$PiB could compare favorably with this veteran jour- IwfH nalist. Jl H $jfl During the quarter of a century which Good- IllflilH win has served as editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. Ill fj ifl tail Is ' 9BB1 he won the friendship of a great many, and the 1 ' ,'i' ifH admiration of all people, not only in Utah, but 1 H j j jifl throughout the entire intermountain region, who iIbiI HI will be glad to hear that ho is once more before i'l ' them as a public educator, and we do not think i!P they will be slow in tendering the patronage he llfK lifl so well merits. Macky (Ida.) Telegraph. j iffl v fc t jijjj , 'I'.tH Goodwin's Weekly, No. 4, arrived at this office Iffillrlfl Saturday. It is published at Salt Lake City and iwP $fl edited by Judge C. C. Goodwin, with J. T. Good- HHI win manager. The name of the editor alone lIfffflB makes his paper welcomed everywhere because Mm" f; I'pfB he is the acknowledged superior of all writers on 'Iw't ''IB the Pacific coast. Elmore (Ida.) Bulletin. im" ill (Continued on page 11.) 1('1,!mB ilLiillM The Trainer Failure Continued Just one word from that master pen of Judge C. C. Goodwin. We all want to read after him again. How feelingly he can portray the terrors of the destruction of St. Pierre! How logically and strongly he deals with the pending Philippine controversy! con-troversy! How sadly he comments over Fate's decree that drove Sampson to his grave his ambition am-bition crushed, his hope gone and last days saddened. sad-dened. It will be a long time before another journalist jour-nalist gets such a place in Utah's affections. Richfield (Utah) Reaper. c? t& c Goodwin's Weekly, that formerly came to the Journal in a single wrapper, now comes loose, indicating a growing circulation, in Telluride necessitating ne-cessitating a package. It is well. No one can read Goodwin's Weekly without receiving intellectual, moral and physical benefit. Telluride (Col.) Journal. Jour-nal. c& t&H t From no other source can so much good, able, original editorial discussion of present day topics be had for so little money as in Goodwin's Weekly, printed every Saturday at Salt Lake City,Utah. It fills the vacuum created when Frank Pixley of the Argonaut passed on. Telluride (Col.) Journal. tpfr 5 Judge C. C. Goodwin's new weekly, Goodwin's Weekly of Salt Lake City, is gliding rapidly into the front rank of the competent commentaries. Judge Goodwin, through his distinguished career as editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, has long been recognized as one of America's ablest editorial writers. Fairhaven (Wash.) Times. cJC C v The first exchange that came to our table was Goodwin's Weekly. Judge Goodwin, for so many years at the head of the editorial staff of the Salt Lake Tribune, is one of the best known newspaper men in the west. It is doubtful if he has a peer as an editorial writer; the only man that deserves comparison with him being Harvey Scott of the Oregonian. When, under the recent management, Tudge Goodwin retired from the staff of the Tribune, Trib-une, it seemed an irreparable loss to western journalism. jour-nalism. However, the loss has been made good by the advent of the new paper, and every one of the judge's host of friends and admirers has cause to rejoice that he lias re-entered the field of journalism. jour-nalism. Success and a large sphere of usefulness to Goodwin's Weekly. Priest River (Ida.) Enterprise. Enter-prise. tx l fc The editorial page of Goodwin's Weekly portends por-tends strenuous times ahead for those who barter in public office in Utah. The tenderfeet political manipulators made a mistake when they undertook under-took to eliminate that staunch old war horse, Judge Goodwin, from party .councils in the state where he hag lived and led for nearly half a century. cen-tury. Telluride (Col.) Journal. t t fc? A copy of Goodwin's Weekly; a paper issued in magazine form, at Salt Lake, has been received at this office. It is a new venture, having reached only its ninth number, but is one of the brightest and ablest publications received at this office in many a day. It is edited by Judge C. C. Goodwin, one of the ablest editorial writers in the United States, who, as editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, made a national reputation for himself and the paper. It is hoped that this number may not be the only one to find its way to our exchange table. Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner. |