Arizona republican., 1899-02-15
A ONE SIDED VIEW.
There Is More Than One Way of
 Reporting Legislatures.

''The Phoenix Republican it seems, is not loved by the legislature. The re- ports of the proceedings of the law makers, published in that live daily, differ somewhat from those published in the other Phoenix dailies, and this may make difference with the mem- bers of the legislature. e.'-Coconin0 Sun.
 The Coconino Sun is in error. Tho Republican is not unloved by the leg islature, but the Sun might have | Itruthfully said that The Republican is not loved by it's local contemporaries, on account of it's style of doing" the | legislature The antipathy of th9 the other Phoenix Journals finds con- tinUed expression in criticism of this newspaper to which the Sun alludes, with proper discrimination, as a live daily whose legislative reports differ from those of the other Phoenix pa- Ders. Only last Monday night the Phoenix Herald invited a comparison between The Republicans entertain ing. report and it's own publication Of the legislative minutes. The COcOninO Sun is not alone in it's views regarding Legislative reporting. Yesterday Q prominent republican official said:
 ''The tax payers of Phoenix, yes, of all Arizona, everybody interested ln the advancement of the territory ought to contribute a large fund to subsidiza the other papers, than The Republican, to keep their reporters out of the leg islature. Their accounts of the pro- ceedings are a josh on Arizona, calcu- lated to put the territory in contempt, discourage capital and delay statehood and the development Of our material resources"
 Of course this is only the opinion of one man. There is, as there al ways is, another side Of> the contro- Versy. There is much in the HeraIds style to admire. Its opening is caIcu- lated to elicit the widest attention, for instance:
 February 13-Morning
 ''The council was called to order by tho clerks. were all present.
 Roll call showed a quorum present; the clerqs were present.
 Prayer was offered by the chap Iain.''
 Here is succiently set forth several sets of facts which The Re 1 publican reporter, either overlooked | or carelessly misrepresented i thereby deceiving the readers. Though | he did not say so in so many words, he left an in l6I0uCC IudI Iu0 COuuCn WAS CdlI- ! ed to order by the president instead of | the clerks. He neglected to say whether there was a quorum present, | and made no mention at all of the 'clerqs." With a negligence almost l criminal, he omitted reference to the | chaplain, thus permitting the readers to suppose that the morning prayer had been offered by Mr. Carpenter or MT. Hunt, CT some other godly council man, then and there present
 The Herald guardedly and properly states that the prayer was "offered;" t was not necessarily accepted or heard
 There is a pleonasm in the Herald's account which, however, is not un- DardOnable, in it's reference to the presence of the clerks. Having called he council to order they must have )een present.
 The Republican reporter was sc rerely ''jacked up" by the manage nent for his carelessness and de- oarture from the Herald's concise and -ccurate style. He promised not to re- 'eat his offense, but he is probably in orrigible and 'sot'' in his way, ac- Iuired from years of reporting legisIz- ures for New York and Chicago pa ,ers. It is hard for a man coming rom the cffete east to at cnce fall into he ways of western journalism. Only
 genius can do it, and not many -eniuses have come west.