Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-04-14
TUESDAY, APRIL 14TH. 1896.
REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER
VULGARITY.

We Populists are sometimes
thought to be too severe in our
condemnation of what we con-
slider wrong. We are reproach-
ed for that by our Republican
brethren. They latter say that
we should speak respectfully
about the men and measures Of
other parties and at least give
them credit for honesty. Now
we do not deny that some Popu-
list newspapers do at times for
get becoming propriety of lang
uage and descend to vituperation.
But there is this excuse for them
that they have generally had
great provocation in the first
place.
But newspaper scurrility, vul-
garity or vituperation attain to
perfection at present in the Re-
publican press. The Benson
Times quotes approving]y an ar
ticle from the Midway News on
Gov. Clough that forcibly il
Illustrates our topic. The Benson
Times, though posing as some
thing of a newspaper, evidently
lacked editorial gray matter of a
sufficiently violated type to pro
duce a regular 'committee of a
hundred" roast on Gov. Clough,
hence the quotation Of which the
following is a sample:
His political trickery and ras-
cality have all been so cunningly
concealed, and he has shown
such a keen appreciation of cum
ming political rascals as to merit
a re-re denomination and election.
Herein consists Gov. Clough's
strength if we are to take the
newspapers friendly to his re-re-
denomination for it. We read the
exchanges carefully and we posi-
lively have seen no other reason
advanced. And there is none.
His strength lies in his political
trickery and his political dishon-
esty. He has openly traduced
his own home, his own city and
his own county, and he would
probably not hesitate to traduce
his state or his country if there
by he could advance his own in
terests as he did in obtaining the
governorship. Governor Clough
is not respected of respectable
men. His strength is of a mega
tive kind and it cannot last.
The little boom worked up for
him among the newspaper boys
on the occasion of the state edi-
torial meeting will scarcely gain
him a re-re denomination.
Now mark, this is from a Re-
publican newspaper, and en-
dorsed by another Republican
newspaper, and concerning Re
publican Governor, who is adj
mitted even by these hellish
slanderers to have made good
governor. Now if a Populist
newspaper, or a democratic
newspaper, had made such
charges against a Republican
governor everybody would have
cried shame! shame! and justly
so: But what shall we say when
Republican newspapers thus
rake down and SANDER their own
party's governor of the state?
And the Republican press of the
state has any number of such
vile sheets. " And what can be
their motives for descending TO
such low depths of infamy?
Probably the failure get a job
Of cleaning spittoons at Il few
dollars day during the session
of the legislature, or possibly a
promise from the Committee. Of
100 for a similar job in the futures;
that, and nothing more. And
these servile blather.skite pre-.
tend to be the moulders Of pub:
lie opinion ia decent comm mi.
ties! And you decent republi.
cans give such papers your NOR
s$Iand tinaneial sup DIT, only to-
have your b9st zen covered with