Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-24

TIE journalistic war has fairly | opened at Phenix and it promises to become quite interesting. The es- tablishment of new daily by the federal and territorial officials in op- position to the old and stanch repub- lican newspapers. has awakened the latter to resentful utterances that would have remained unspoken but for this highly injudicious act of poli- tical suicide. A late number of the Herald of that city, gives the follow ing bit of states evidence" in the trial before the court of public opinion:
 "The bad man on the pretended Re- publican morning paper jumps up, cracks his heels together and whoops on our reference to his organ. He says: In the first place what consti- tutes an organ? As we understand it, it is newspaper truculently following the lead of an individual, without re- ference to right or principle. A thing of type that will assume the collar of an individual, for pelf, and deserting party and principle promulgate the edicts and desires of such individual. Such a paper is, as rule, neither fish nor fowl neither Re publican nor Dem- ocrat, satisfying to no one, not even to the creature who runs and sells it, and thoroughly useless to him who buys it. If the Herald thinks The Republican is a paper of that class, it is mistaken when it says so by direc- tion, or indirection, it lies. Now that is not exactly what we "think" of you, neighbOr; we know it. We know you wear the collar of your political bosses and are compelled to publish their sentiments; we know that they own the stock in your concern organized for the avowed purpose of destroying the Citizen and also the. Herald, paper that they never could control and which is owned solely by its editor and publisher who owes no man anything i; we know that your would-be Senator attempted to bulldoze the Herald into yielding up its integrity, its manhood, to him, and failed in his purpose; we know that the attempt was made to establish an opposition that would destroy the Herald and that the at tempt miserably failed we know, that you are merely the tool of this man and such as have seen fit to ally themselves with his fortunes for political purposes; we know that you are to spew out on this com munity the vituperation, the bom- bast and the hate which your mana gers put ill your mouth we know that you are to be ridden daily with whip and spur to carry out the offal drop ped in your office; we know that if you have the manhood of man and the instincts of gentleman, you will be obliged to retire from the job you have undertaken, we are charitable enough to believe, innocently; We know that the packers of your adven- ture hope to manipulate the Republi- can party of the Territory to the bene- fit of a small coterie of political trick sters and cormoIants; we know that you seek a chance to air your packers and to attempt to make capital for yourself and managers and to create division in the Republican ranks or whip its members into subjection to political bossism of which you are the exponent; we know the character oi the howl you are about to voice, the points you will attempt to make al the dictation of your managers; we know that nothing but a craven sycophant can carry out the job you are expected to carry out; we know that nothing but political prostitution and the notoriety you seek would in
 duce you to depart from the language of a gentleman to that of drunken sot; we know your great desire tC please your masters will carry you farther than you want to go in many things; we "think" none of these things. Do you know what you art yourselfY The people do"