OCR Text |
Show NIGGER IN THE JOURNALISTIC JOUR-NALISTIC WOODPILE "The OnlyV Attempt to Injure Republican Not Inspired by Holy Zeal, but in the Hope of Personal Advantage. Under the caption "Hedging," "the only" makes an attempt to prove that this paper is anti-Mormon, antagonistic antagon-istic to the sentiment of this community, com-munity, an enemy of the people, and othei rot of tills nature the Inference being left that "the only" Is the paper to which the Latter-day Saints may look for consideration, fair treatment, treat-ment, etc. Coming from a paper which for jears devoted much of Its space to the questioning of every movement of every high chinch olllclal coming into this vallej from a paper whose columns col-umns were tilled with ridicule, vindication, vindi-cation, abuse, and accusation against officials fiom the President dow if, this stuff is really amusing. The people of this community do not have to stretch their memories to lecall these things, and we heaid It stated but jesteiday that the old Journal tiles would piove the best evidence the opposition could Introduce before the Senate Committee at Washington. The "only's" present depleted subscription subscrip-tion list Is certainly a painful reminder of those unfortunate dajs and should serve to keep before the managers the addagc that people who live in glass houses should not be so active In propelling a fiagment of the Paleozoic age at any of their brethren. These memories must necessarily give our esteemed friends of "the onlj" a cold chill along their entile spinal column, and there is not in Tiik Rki'UM.ioan make-up sufficient of that disposition manifest during the Spanish Inquisition to enjoy the Haunting Haunt-ing of our neighbor's misdeeds befoie the people, and it is done only to piove that the moto in the Republican Republi-can eje appears much laiger to our Journalistic ft lends than the beam In their own oplic. There Is a motive back of "the onlj's" attempt to get this paper Into III favor with the church, and the secret Is this: Tiik Rkcum.ioan'x piogiess has been tho sorest tiial "the only" has ever had to face. Tli.it paper has watched Tiik Rki-uiimcan giow fiom nothingness eighteen months ago to an honored place befoie the people, and with a subscription list that Is not second to that which It lias taken "the onlj" twcnty-tlve jeais to scenic. sc-enic. Eighteen months ago "the only's" avowed policy was to not mention men-tion "The Republican" hi Its columns for the cxpiessed leason that "It will play out In ashoit time, and to mention men-tion It at all will be but to adveilisc it." Instead of "playing out" in a slioit time, Tin: Rki'uiimcan proceeded pro-ceeded along Its way -crawled for a-vvlille, a-vvlille, then walked, and In eighteen months has ai rived at that place where It lias ordered $300.00 worth of new machlneiyand gencialeqiilpment and has bought the building and ground and a poitlou of the plant ownedbya foimcr competitor, who has retired. Xotonly this but Tiik Rki'Uiimoan', as the organ of that paty which "the onlj" has "lammed, skinned and Jay-hawked" for jears without interruption, has questioned its statements, and proved it, if not a deliberate falsi Her, at least a most reckless user of Tacts. - These things have been gall and wormwood to the bunch which continues con-tinues to conduct Its patent medicine almanac in a stj Ic in vogue during the Rennalsance, and for these leasons "the onlj" will not hesitate to use even illegitimate means to cut off the progiess of this papci. "Tho onlj" knows that Tiik Rk-I'UIilican Rk-I'UIilican will continue to prosper and outstrip it on every scoie unless there is a nock-out blow delivered somehow;. The "only" knows that Tho Republican Is an able champion of theiVTty it lepresents and that it will pYoteet It ln tfrc 'coining campaign cam-paign and in futuie campaigns against the vindications and misstatements of "the only". Knowing all these things, "the only's" attempts to Injure this paper tlnoiigh chinch picjudicc Is all the inoie keen. Tiik Rkpuhuoan ineiely asks this, that hi leading "the onlj's" vitupciatioii, the past recoid and present motives of that paper be taken into consideration. |