Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-03
THE POSITION OF rue .NEws."

A gentleman OF political proclivities
recently made the assertion in public
place that the DEsEREr NEWS had be-
come quite partisan Ia politics, an ID
We have heard Of similar statements
being made ia other places by other
people. The following question,
therefore, Just received, Is timely aud
appropriate, as the answer thereto
will be m answer to all aud, II Ia hoped,
set the subject referred TO Mt rest 30 far
as this paper Is conccsnel;
10 which Of tho great National par
tics docs the News attach itself. by avn
/ patty or otherwise, and N 10 neither,
which docs its conductors preiorG
Some people have ideas 10 pecu'
liar to Themselves that to an8wor one Of
their questions Ia general way might
not NJ the case At all, and In order tina,
what is herein said may cover every
possible phase Of the subject We will, at
the risk Of being considered "woriy"
and tedious, state the case for ourselves
In full.
Tho DEsEREr NEWS Is not neutral
paper In politics In tue sense that neu.
trality IL commonly understood, that
Is, having no opinions and no prefer
ences on any occasion. Quite othor.
wise. IL eau b.. as II has oftsu been,
,omething OF q partisan In its tendcn-
Giles, but Il differs from mes, OF its
cotemporaries Ia that TIA partisanshlp
is not defined for II by others, nor does
II see 1T ut all times, II ut any time, &
acknowledge the boundaries set by
party leaders. Even II we hal thu
disposition to do 50 It would bs dinl
cult II not an absurd position to place
the paper In, since the two great par
ties nave changed their moorings,
shifted thelr ballasts and taken ON new
csrgoss constantly. In but one grand
feature OF national policy have they
preserved anything like their respno
tive attitudes, and this Is that
OF tho aggregation raj dIdl'
sion OF power, the Republicans
tending TO strength nj Washington
aud all other parts OF the country being
subsidiary, while the Democrats would
have all the parts coordinate oach In
Ito sphere. Both Of these doctrines ar,
right when not carried 10 extremes
which In the former case would msau
monarchy In the guise OF republican.
ism aud In the latter mobloracy more
or les. restrained by the forms Of law.
IA to this feature, then, the NEWS Il
so decidedly Republican that It believes
the President aud Congress, are thu
head VI the nation, not 80 many atom
no more conspicuous than any other
Ia the fabric; and 1t Is 80 decided
ly Democratic that It believes on'
citizen who upholds the honor and
integrity OF his country In al
proper ways IL the equal socially
OF any other citizen, oven th'
President himself. IL l. undenlabl,
that one party is a check on the other
preventing the very extremes Spoken
Of and the fact that they are 10 nearly
equal in numbers Is the best guarantee
that excsssas or abuses cannot be-
successfully prlctiosd for any great
length OF tune. 1t Ia thus the patriotic
duty Of the citizen to be ready to 20 t
the opposition when such noutes o
excesses are pracJiced or evsu propose,
by the party Ia power, otherwise b
would contiuue In power ani complete
the mischief designed. Whoncver,
therefore, the Dsnlcratio party I
mauiCestly in the wrong, or the Repub
lean party "a distinctly in the right
this paper is Repunlican,and Ucs Ucrsd
1t IL not Republican or Democrats
at any other times, the statements o
friend. or enemies to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
II ought to be- recognized by ovel
{ the stauuchest par,isaus that bin,
, fealty to any political organization b
~ oid.iashiouei as IL 10 ohjcctIonabl
and improbable. We douot say sold
fashioned" in order To convey the ido
that all old-hshioned things are Oh
eotionahle, but to show that the,
0 had greater sway than now at