Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-09-18
MEANING MADE PLAIN.

After five years of the most bitter and uncalled for vituperation against President Mckinley by some of the democratic papers, the self same papers now want to appear at the head of the procession as chief mourn CTS over his death.-Journal Murphy.
 "The above indicates that you are disappointed that democratic news papers do not jubilate over the as sassination of a good citizen; that, had a democratic president been elected whom you had bitterly op- posed five years had been assRssinated you would have jubilated over his as sassination. If your comment means anything it means this. It means that you think that only republican newspapers have any right to express sympathy for man struck down in such a cowardly manner, and that only republican papers have a right to express horror at the crime. If this is your idea of politics, if this is your idea of American citizenship, may the Lord have mercy on your soul, if he can locate it, for verify, it can travel 1000 years in crossing the interior of a mustard seed. Courier.
 The Journal Miner means none of the things attributed to it above, but in order to make its meaning plain it will state it meant that the demo- cratic papers, the Courier included, which have been personally, malici- ous maligning, by innuendo and otherwise, not politically critisizing, President Mckinley for the past five years, place the impress of falsehood on all they have said concerning him heretofore by their truthful utterances since his death, setting forth match less personal qualities, to say nothing of the question of sincerity in their latter utterances. Criticism of off cial actions is one thing, defamation of personal character, dealing in inuendo, and a general belittling of an official which is calculated to bring him into contempt by the ignor- ant and vicious, is an entirely differ ent thing.
 The Journal Miner had. the San Francisco Examiner specially in mind when the above paragraph was penned. That sheet has been one of the chief papers which has published
 utrageous caricatures and cartoons of the president, and on the morning of the day he was assassinated had a cartoon representing him as negro minstrel. Since then it has been singing psalms and quoting scripture setting forth the good qualities of the dead president, thereby demonstrat- ing the viciousness and maliciousness of its former course.
 Our contemporary's conscience CD seems to have been hit by the article intended for the Examiner, princi- pally, but which applied to all papers of its class, whether big or little. The Counters course prior to the presi- dents death is well known in this community. Instead of digniied DO. litical criticisms of his official actions reference to him was as a rule in the nature of inuendo, the same as has been applied to the territorial repub ican officials, and of which, concern. ing the latter, its issue this morning affords several examples.
 In recent interview in Chicago Governor Murphy truthfully said that "the course of certain papers il the United States were contributor to the feeling which inspires murder CTS of public officials. This is not 5 freedom of the press of which we boast, but dangerous and disgrace ful license. The proprietors of the yellow journals, Governor Murphy believed, were only little less guilty of the murder of President McKinley than Czolgosz, who only actually fired the shot," That these paper: have since his death, for the frst time, published truthful utterance: about him, is a slight redeemine trait, it is true, but does not and can not atone for the vile and maliciou. policy with which they relentlessly pursued him for five years and more
 No, the Journal Miner does no think "that only republican news papers should express sympathy fo a man struck down in such a coward ly manner" but it does mean that tn, fulsome praise expressed by som, papers, in view of their past policy sounds like hollow mockeryandm mucl like unto the sympathy expressed b that arch-anarchist. Emma Goldman