The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-02-24
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Il This Kind Of journalism Popular
The Denver daiIies are not happy
unless they are v,llifying. lnaligninl
or abusing somebody. That il
what they are published for it seems
Tho higher the persons stand so
| cially or politically the better tn.
daiiies like to attack them. Wher
they can find no prominent victim
or their abuse in q certain line be
comes stale, they take up the live.
and acts of those in the lower paths
even STOPPING so low At times as tc
attack each other.
For a while the victims were ex'
Senator Hill and Hon. Thomas M
Patterson, then the. sheriff and
lnsyor, atterward some poor thiel
or suicide, followed by an unfortu'
nate preacher or weak woman.
We're the tales told about, 0,
charges made against, these people
true, it would not be quito so bad
hut in nine cases out of ten they
are absolute lies and in the tenth
case gross exagseration. These
papers seem to vie with each other
in their efforts ut sensationalism
and do not hesitate to draw freely
upon their practiced Imagination
for material.
For months past Gov. Waite has
served - football for these journ.
alistic kickers, and during the time
has been presented to tho dailies'
readers ~ = fool, Z tyrant, Z thief,
= murderer 4 moral leper-in fact
tho very old devil himself. But
just 40 the daily writer's were seeing
which one could paint the old devil
with the longest tail or sharpest
horns thing which was making
the public very weary-a new sen.
sation was sprung.
According to the daily papers the
matter was given in substance az
follows: Sunday evening. the 4th
inst, a murder was committed on
Capitol Hill, the victim being q
very prominent lawyer and his wife
m attractive society woman; be
was killed by burglars before his
wife's eyes and 80 horrible was the
sight that she hid her face in bet
hands and tainted. That was the
first report and the dailies abused
the police because Of ine&ciency,
culpable negligence aud general
worthlesaness in allowing the sac.
red precincts of Capitol Hill to be
invaded by criminals. The next
report Of one of the papers init.
mated that the wife before her mar.
riage was not what she ought to
have been. This was The signal 70,
other papers, and one after tho 9th.
or added to the story until now the
woman is accused of killing he,
husband herself. Of having eight o,
ten lovers, with associating with
prostitutes and frequenting their
houses, with robbing her husband
to supply her lovers with funds,
etc. Nor did the sensationalism
stop here the murdered man came
in for round Of abuse. too. Sew
era' papers said he had three wives
aud accused him with tho death Of
one Of them. Another charged him
with having Ave wives and says it
Is almost certain there are three or
four moro yet to hear from. He is
said to have lived the life Of q gam
bier and fast man; he hated his
brother aud robbed bis partner; he
patroni1ed pawn shops aud lead \
dual life.
What nastiness! What lies Aod
yet this is the kind of matter the
dailes print every day. And they
have tho audacity to attempt to
control public opinion. No won-
der Gov. Waite curses them. We
believe Job would even curse them
were he in the desh.-Ores and
Metals.