The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-03-19
SUCH HYPOCRISY

entail regard the editorial utter
ances OF a daily newspaper; for, we
have fallen upon times when frequen'
cy Of publication is the index o.
authority in journalism. We doubt
not that hundreds of intelligent
men and women have read the arti.
Gle which we are about to repro,
duce, and as it emanated from a
daily paper with press dispatches
and pretentious display Of head
lines, they probably felt that in
reading it they were absorbing wis.
dom.
To properly and politely intro
duce this product of the daily press,
it should be remarked that it is
brought forth after six months of
incessant warfare made by this
same daily press upon Mr.. Woolley.
1t will be recalled that when Mr..
Woolley was recommended for ap-
pointment, the Boise Statesman be-
gan campaign against him of al
most unparalleled vindictiveness
and bitterness. 1t charged against
him almost every crime it could de-
scribe without making itself obnox-
ious to criminal libel. It's first at
tackled him for being a Mormon
bishop and the beneficiary of cor
rupt bartering in church influence.
This charge it was unable to sus-
tain. 1t then, by innuendo, accus-
ed him of official dishonesty. This
charge 1t dared not make directly
and openly and failed to sustain
covertly and secretly. 1t has
charged against him ignorance and
incompetency, when it knows moth
ing about his qualifications. 1t has
abused and libeled everybody that
had anything to do with Mr.. Wool
ley's appointment. It has raked
the State over to find somebody
contemplate enough to confirm its
charges, for a consideration, we be-
lieve. It has written personal let
tiers to the President of the United
States; it has, we are told, enlisted
in some measure, the active sym
pathy of high State officials by its
wilful and ignorant misrepresenta-
tons. 1t is the only newspaper in
the State which has made any fight
on Mr.. Woolley, and probably the
only newspaper in the world capable
OF making quite so mean and scrub
by a fight as it has made; and,
now, beaten on every point, its
baseness fully established and ex-
posed, it makes maudlin pretense
oil wanting the whole miserable
business REARED. We wonder if
there is a human being in the State
who can be imposed on by such
rank hypocrisy. We wonder if any
one can read such stuff without
turning sick to the stomach. Yet,
we should never forget that it comes
from a daily newspaper which
speaks for the people of a sovereign
State, and exudes wisdom and
morality from every pore.
Now, kind reader, put yourself
in the losition of an innocent man
who had been prosecuted and SLAM
dered for six months by mealy
mouthed, vindictive hypocrite.
Then suppose that that by pocrite,
AFTER exhaust1ng all his venom and
v1llainy had failed to ruin you.
Suppose you had disproved all his
lying and sneaking accusations,
and stood indicated in the esteem
of all square men. Then suppose
this same contemplate hypocrite
should call on you to reopen the
contest and go through it all again,
what would you think of that kind
of hypocritical hyena anyway?
With all the facts in mind read the
following from the Boise Statesman
of March IS, 1904:
Now that Wooley has been con-
hrmed, would it not be a good idea
to get at the record of the case and
give 1t to the public2 By some
kind of misrepresentation the presi-
dent was induced to make the ap-
pointment, and the senate, unable