The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-09
MR.. suTHERLAND's MYSTERIES

LAR BE IT from The Herald 10 dis
L turb the hilarity. OF so joyous an
occasion as a Republican row. but in
a somewhat disorganized statement
made to an afternoon contemporary
yesterday. Congressman George Suth-
crland makes Just one assertion that
The Herald considers worthy OF atten-
ton. He charges that this paper was
guilty of taking part Of special dis
patch from Washington in regard to
the appointment of the postmaster at
Ogden.
Most people understand fake news
to be manufactured news. spurious
news, news that has no foundation in
fact Mr.. Sutherland is wholly mis-
taken when he says The Herald has
been guilty of anything of the kind 1t
is quite true that the dispatch of
which he complains was edited, but
without change of the facts stated, and
that some information received in
Washington correspondence was incor-
porated in the story. but this was
necessary in order that readers OF The
Herald might understand the full sig
nilicance of the incident reported.
Not a single word was printed that
The Herald did not then believe to be
true. and that It does not now. in spite
of Mr.. Sutherland's perfervid denial.
believe to be true. If the congressman
were a newspaper man he would know,
as all newspaper men know. that very
few dispatches are printed in any paper
exactly as they are sent. 1t is now,
and it has always been the custom of
The Herald to treat it's dispatches ex-
actly as it's local news is treated; they
are edited and corrected whenever edit
ing and correction are deemed neces-
sary. Every newspaper in the United
States does precisely the same thing.
There is nothing in this that is novel,
nothing that is worthy of the Suther-
land Mysteries.
Everybody in Utah knows that a Bit
ter factionai fight has been going on
between Utah's Republican representa-
tives at Washington, but The Herald
through it all has endeavored to give
both sides a fair and impartial hear
ing. II the pleasant relations which
should have existed between Congress-
man Sutherland and Senator Kearns
We're not disturbed because of Mr..
Sutherland's interference in the United
States marshalship appointment, when
were they disturbed If the sores then
caused were healed between that time
and the date of the appointment of Mr.
Davis as postmaster at Ogden, when
We're they healed?
Congressman Sutherland should be
the last man to complain about The
Herald. IL has treated him more than
kindly since he went to Washington.
President Roosevelt's commentator of
the Utah man was published in this
paper when the Republican organ
failed TO publish IT, When Mr.. Suther-
land asserted that the Haywood fight
had nothing to do with the Ogden
postoffice The Herald cheerfuIly gave
space TO an interview with him on that
subject, although its candid opinion to-
day is that the contrary is the case.
And. without Wishing to be mean.
The Herald would suggest that that
Roosevelt interview must have been in
tended for home consumption only. II
the president had really loved Mr.
Sutherland as much as Mr. Sutherland
would have US believe. he would have
withdrawn the appointment of Mr.. Da-
Wis from the senate, for later on the
very day that he gave his affeetionate
interview, the senate acted on the NOM
iuation of Davis.
However, The Herald has no personal
interest in the matter. 1t doesn't care
two straws who is appointed to any
Office in the gift of the administration.
In the future, as in the past, The Her
aid win print the news from both fac
tons fully, freely and impartially. The
devil may take the hindmost and all
the rest of the Republican politicians
so far as The Herald is concerned, and
it will refuse TO shed a tear.