The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-20
THE CONDITION 1T is IN.

Our elegant and gentlemanly neigh
Dor which mistakes invective for ar
gument and foulness for force, informs
the public that 1.-The Salt Lake Herald
is "a malicious, premeditated and mon
umental liar" What for? Why be-
cause, so it says, The Herald remarked
that the Tribune has been in some
respects so unreliable that dependence
cannot always be placed upon it, If
we were to respond in the same style
we should say that if there is any
kind of a liar that the Tribune has
not proved itself to be we have never
heard of it. We will make one soli
tary exception; it is that kind which
has or ought to have a good memory;
our mendacious neighbor has the
poorest memory of any wilful prevar-i
Gator in the domain Of Journalism. It
cannot remember one day the false
hood it told the day before, and so in
wolves itself in a network of self-con-
voting presentations.
Even in stating the reason why 1T
makes such am assault on The Herald
it does not tell the truth. 1t was the
Tribune's Washington correspondence,
not the Tribune itself, that we, said
was 'In some respects so unreliable
that dependence cannot always be
reasonably placed upon it, Our
statement has been borne out by the
facts beyond fair dispute. That cores
pondent is known as ''Ananias'' among
the press fraternity at the capital. He
has sent false dispatches to the Tri-
bune many times. He has sent inter-
views that never took place. Among
them the alleged utterances of Dele
never made. So we have the right to
doubt anything that comes from that
source. But as the Tribune endorses
that kind of thing it may now take
the remark as applying to itself. So
much for that.
In another editorial on the same page
the Tribune attempts to show that
The Herald ''can see no difference be-
tween on-partisanship and bi-parti-
sanship' If we were to reply in the
choice language of our contemporary
we would be fully justified in one
sense, but perhaps would not feel that
we had maintained our self-respect
The article to which the Tribune refers
shows that The Herald does dis
tinguish the difference, but that it
maintains the position that the effect
is the same as to the Board of Edu-
cation, if the members are equally
balanced between the two parties
whether you call the Board non-parti-
san or bipartisan. One of the char
acteristics Of our unesteemed conten-
porary is that it never states the ex-
act position or language of an OPP
ponent, when it can garbie the Ian
guage or present tine situation in an
incorrect light. 1t is noted for setting
up a man of straw and expanding such
vigor as it can muster in knocking it
dignifed manner.
AS to this partisan business in school
matters, THE Tribune wants a major
ity of Republicans on the Board. That
is the position it takes, and that be-
ing SO, all its pretence that it desires
non-p artisanship in the schools is a
sham, as hollow and transparent as
many Others of its violent departures
from the truth and from common
sense, which are of almost daily oc-
currence.
Our neighbor is exhibiting sad evil
dences of rapid decay. 1t fails daily in
getting important items of news, and
then twlts more enterprising journals
with not being newspapers. 1t con-
tradicts in one column the statements
that appear in another column of the
same issue. 1t attacks people on
street rumor. 1t poses as a know-all
and displays such consummate ignor-
ance as to make it a marvel to it's
readers. 1t uses the phraseology of
the blackguard while pretending to be
a family paper, and tries to play the
bully when its is SO nerveless, fiabby
and senile as TO show that it is in its
dotage. TRANSMISSION is the only proba-
bic remedy that will bring back it's
grip and its virility. Poor thing
SUFFRAGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA.