| Show JOURNALISTIC CHESTNUTS Some days ago the morning Republican Republi-can organ actuated by one of those inexplicable in-explicable desires to say something startling without a ghost of foundation for the assertion which semioccasion ally affects it opened up to the wondering wonder-ing gaze of everybody who reads it a deep laid plot whereby Utah was to be admitted as a State next session on a Democratic basis in order to strengthen that party in the Electoral College It was not one of the feelers frequently used in the profession to try the other fellows position but a genuine statement that the bargain was made and the goods ready for delivery To those who know anything of the state of affairs here it was simply ridiculous but to many who take the organ solely for its morning news and who are hoodwinked by its constant and unremitting sheetiron thunder that tires its readers far more than the crowd it is shaken at it bore the likelihood of truth It was our duty then to stamp it as an unmitigated falsehood false-hood with only the desperately cornered brain of its author for architect and material ma-terial and a perfect specimen of what for years past under the guise of supersub limated rodomontade and high sounding phrases intended to catch the ear of the uninnitiatedhas been almost daily paraded parad-ed in its columns as journalistic writing That accomplishedjwe passed the matter by carefully noting that not one in all the list of our exchanges noticed the organs or-gans ridiculous statement and believing it died just where it wa born as under ordinary circumstances it would do The circumstances however under which it was born were not ordinary as we find the tail end of the organ published in faroff Oregon viz the Portland News now comes to the front with an article which shows the writer to be a pupil of the i great manipulator of inuendo and at the finish of a parrotlike iteration of some of the organs morning thunder he feebly toots the following It is no wonder that the Utah Liberals are wollnigk discouraged If certain notorious noto-rious rumors arc true the heaviest blow at reform in Utah may yet be in store It js publicly asserted that the Mormons and certain Democratic lenders have formed a combination whereby Utah is to be admitted as a State and in return is to send two Democratic Dem-ocratic members to the Senate and three Democratic votes to the Electoral College The moment that the Territory is admitted with polygamists in theory or in practice on the bench and in the Governors chair there will be no more room for Gentiles in Utah The DKMOCUVT informs the Portland editor that he made a mistake in going among the webfeet He should send a copy of this extract from his paper and his terms to the great North American it is said editor Deacon Pickering of the San Francisco Call and he could obtain ob-tain twice the money he now receives for that kind of noncommittal and meaningless mean-ingless inuendo It is a great relief to know that this parading of journalistic chestnuts of which the above extract is a fair sample no longer deceives even the oldest residents and that the organ will in selfdefense therefore be compelled to relinquish a habit that for years has stood it in good stead for everyday and wideawake journalistic comment |
