Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-06-29
REHAsHED YELLOW LITERATURE

REHASHED YELLOW LITERATURE
 Because forsooth the JOURNAL
 MINER dared to criticise the pessi
 mistic utterances of one H. Conques'
 Clarke, in the Phenix Republican
 our pretentious contemporary of tht
 capital city accuses it of being jeal
 ous and bilious. As to the former
 accusation, it can be truthfully said
 that the JoURNAL-MINER's liver wa:
 never in better working condition
 than at the present, although it will
 admit that the perusal of Coaquesl's
 pessimistic, epistolary, effusions Is
 enough 10 make one bilious. As to jealousy, Mir. Clarke's base of opera tions are too far removed from the
 JOURNAL MINER for it to be jealous
 of him, and the pessimistic tommy
 rot' that be dresses up into very
 readable style for his letters. can
 always be obtained fresh by the
 JOURNAL MINER, or, for that matter,
 by any other paper that would care
 to publish it, irom the yellow jour
 nals of the day.
 Our contemporary of Phenix lays
 claim for it's correspondent tha. he
 is in position to know what IS
 going on in diplomatic and military
 and naval circles in Washington" away abead of the common, ordinary
 war correspondents of other papers. This is 6 mighty big boast for as small paper as the Republican. even with all its pretentious to mak 2. But, without denying that Mir. Con- quest is a bigger man" than all other correspondents combined, his letters do not bear any marks of originality or priority about them, so far as the information they con- tain are concerned. The same alarm ing and pessimistic information is sent out by telegraph to the yellow journals away in advance of MN Couquest's letters, the only feature of the letters, which the JoURNALs MINER criticised being the deeper dark hue in which he painted tbem, rolling them as a sweet morsel un- der his pen," as it were.
 The Republican, always boasiful of the good English to be found in its columns, says "Clarke employed good English" The JouRNAL-MrNER gave him credit for all that and also for his display of talent in dressing up yellow journal literature in very presentable style, and of making the alleged information it contains even more pessimistic than he found it. l The cases, cited by the Republican, of NIT. Clarke's superior "know it. alF qualities have all been treated 1 in other telegraphic dispatches, the Aguinaldo affair particularly, having been telegraphed all over the coun- try two weeks or more prior to Mir. Conquest's discovery of 1t, or atleast prior to his elaboration of it, with the superior advantages he possesses for obtaining information. He only dressed the story up in a new suit. 'uch an one as only he eau lnanufae- .ure, and put it on dress parade again before the Republicans read DTS. As for Gomez being just where Mir. Clarke left him weeks Igo, it was the New York Journal hat introduced the Cuban general o Mir. Clarke, as we'll as the rest of he world in his present situation. t was that paper which first raised he alarm of the Cubaus being un- ; certain allies of the United States. Weeks afterwards, when the incident lad been about forgotten, MT, >larke again parades the news, which e obtains on account of his superior dvsntages. (
 Why bless your egotistie soul, !, 'eighbor Republican, it does not i ake bilious man or 8 jealous man ' 0 see these things. They are the t aughing stock of readers of the Re ublican among people who read ! ther papers. Were they not given | lch prominence as they are, by the [ oast of possessing superior advan- t ages in obtaining them, they would @ less noticeable. MT. Clarke is a pod correspondent. and his elabo- V ation of the subjects treated in the C ress reports is accomplished with W pod literary effect. He no doubt sl equal ability to write elab- Y ration of cheerful news as of pessi fl istic news. Why not dish up the f tier in his good English, and make W $ readers feel cheerful instead of tC wing them the blues. His letters ;r 8 really rehashed yellow journal W pl