The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-18
4 SHATTERED IDOL.

Inc 0lSDleaSure OF the esteemed IT'D
une. We have not succeeded in con-
Quoting The Herald to the entire salts
faction of our neighbor. Our interest,"
ing and acurate reflection of the polit-
zeal situation in our Political Arena"
is the source of envy and complaint
AS usual in all cases where we are SO
imprudent as to give offense, our eff
forts are denounced as the aggregate
mendacity" of our editorial and man.
agerial collection of ''sneaks"
There is but one specification detail
ed in the latest indictment against u.s.;
all the rest consists of a flood of vitup-
Grafton in our contemporary well
known ornate style. So far as that
specification is concerned we plead not
guilty, and assert that the statement
printed in this paper was made by the
gentleman to whom it was ascribed
despite the esteemed Tribune's allega-
ton that he denies it.
What, by the way, is this Salt Lake
Tribune? From whose butcher shop
hath this Caesar fed that it has grown
so great? Why should it presume to
set itself up as the censor of journal
lstlc morals? Can it be possible that
this is the same journal that disgraced
civilization by many OF its methods
and suggestions? that for years has
Viclously assaulted the personal char
acters of nearly every man who has
dared to differ with it? that by car
toon and comment has attempted to
hlacken the names of many of it's politi-
cal opponents? Whatever motive may
have actuated this attack it certainly
cannot properly be ascribed to just in
dignation.
What then? A discriminating public
familiar with current events will have
no difficulty in naming the cause.
It has been the melancholy duty of
this paper within the past year, first,
to mention and denounce the unfor-
tunate straddIe of the venerab ole editor
Of the Tribune upon the silver ques-
ton at the Denver League meeting;
second, to chronicle the fact that this
same editor had failed to impress his
intellectual superiority upon the con-
stitutional convention either by any
great speech, statesman-l;ke sugges-
tons or commanding influence. or. in
deed, in any other or higher respect
than as a man of fair attainments
with a strong sense Of humor constant
~ displayed; third, to expose the fact
That the Republican party in this ter
ritory is split into warning factions,
Of which the Tribune represents but a
fragment; fourth, to demonstrate as to
Silver what We SO conclusively
established as to the tariff, that
while the Tribune editor wrote mag
nificent obituaries and displayed
certain familiarity with the superficial
points in dispute, yet he was often
ignorant as to the underlying prin-
ciples.
That task has not been a pleasant
one. We have been willing TO concede
the many excellent qualities of heart
and mind and the long service Of the
editor in the interests of the west, and
to do so Notwithstanding the blemishes
that have marred his work, the mis-
takes he has occasionally fallen into,
and the courteous treatment we have
received al his hands. We have ever
striven TO avoid personalities in jour
nalsm; that our offenses in that direc-
ton have universally been in response
to attacks on US, VIII be attested by
those who are acquainted.
But we have found justification for
our apparent violation of this law of
journalism, not only in the principle
Of self-defense but in the fact that
the editor of the Tribune is not only
an editor, but has held and now aspires
TO political office within the gift of his
party. He has been sent to political
conventions and was elected as a dele
gate to assist in framing the constitu-
ton. 1t is generally believed and al
legged and remains uncontradicted that
he is a candidate for the United
States senatorship His public mis-
takes are the subject of legitimate
public criticism. 1t is because We
should regret to see Utah represented
in the Senate by man willing 10
concede all that silver men and the
west hold dear, at the dictation of a
political boss, and by a man, who,
having failed TO impress his identity
upon a convention in the main
Of mediocre average ability, must
Of necessity fall in the greater
forum, that we have ridiculed
the ambition of our contemporary
editor. That we have taken away his
stuffed reputation, it is most true; true,
we have worried him; the very head
and front of our offending hath this
extent, no more. And it must appear
simply and transparency ridiculous to
a person familiar with the two papers,
that the ssteemed Tribune should pre-
sumo to attack The Herald on the
score of journalistic depravity.
We decline to enter into name-can-
ing contest with our neighbor. We
are quite sure that such arguments
neither convince nor please the public.
If at any time we shall bear false wit
ness, let our contemporary, the self
appointed high priest of intermountain
journalism, accuse US of it, telling
wherein and how; if, then, we cannot
justify ourselves we will stand con-
victed before the great public jury.