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Show COWARDICE AND TOADYISM The Park Record, published at Park City, Utah, in a recent editorial declares that it has no patience with the country newspapers of Utah which of late have been declaring declar-ing themselves to be non-partisan in politics ; that, inasmuch as the editors of these papers have either Republican or Democratic leanings, their actions smack of 'toadyism', and express a cowardice. In answer to this, we would say that the independen; country weekly needs no brief nor needs to offer an apology. . Who are we that we should expound a one-sided presentation presenta-tion of rational politics to our readers, most of whom have subscribed to our newspapers to read the news? The editor undoubtedly has a right to express his opinion and has the means of distribution to do so, but our advertisers do not care whether our paper is read by Republicans or by Democrats. Demo-crats. With the trend of the papers toward businesslike institutions in-stitutions whose purpose is to disseminate news and thus offer a good instrument of advertising, the editor will do well to write a NEWS paper and not lock himself up in his sanctum to write his ideas on how the people of New Jersey, Illinois, or Oregon should vote at national elections. As well attempt to convert our readers to the particular church to which we belong. When news is available, we print it. But since the Park Recbrd has goaded us out of our hole a little way, we might-say that we have tried to be fairly non-partisan in order to spare our Republican readers the discomfiture of reading news about the labors of Democratic senators in exposing the graft and corruption corrup-tion of the past eight years of Republican administration, the while facing the obstacle of apathy on the part of Republican Re-publican sympathizers; of reading news or comment on the Republican promises of federal aid to the fanner after a policy of eighfyears of negation; of a president whose chief claim to fame will lie in his 'silentness' and his policy of wearing burlesque ten-gallon hats while on diplomatic visits to the irritated mid-west states; of reading about an administration ad-ministration who now boasts of its prosperity but formerly vetoed the Soldier's Adjusted Compensation bill and the increase in-crease in wages to postal employees on the ground that the country could not afford it ; of reading the present political abuses of the Republican party in Illinois and Pennsylvania in contrast to the vices of Tammany Hall of years past. No, we do not ordinarily discuss these things, because we have so many good subscribers and patrons of our advertisers, ad-vertisers, who are, like the Park Record says it is, Republican Republi-can and always will be. We leave such discussions to those more gifted in rhetoric than we, content to publish more local news. |
