The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-04
Dress and Comment
For Clean Newspaper Work.

FOr SlcdN newspaper wv OTh.
Taking for its text the recent boycott proclaimed
against it by intoerant devotees of the Mormon
establishment and the sympathetic utterances Of the
Mormon press the Blackfoot Republican engages in
discussion of the ethics of newspaperdom
In some of the editorial gatherings of the state, it
appears the subject of clean and unpreudiced news
paper accounts of public doings has been referred
to and it has been understood that sentiment among
newsmongers favored a presentation of the truth
without considering the political side of the nforma-
ton delivered to the subscribers of newspapers.
The Twin Falls convention the bone of con-
teenton the boycott having been instituted against
the Blackfoot paper because it refused to print
biased report of the doings of that gathering for
the enjoyment of the Mormon boycotters.
The Republican pays its respects to the Paris Post,
edited by Mr.. Hoge, saying:
In giving his readers an account of the democratic
convention at Twin Falls Editor Hoge mlsrepre-
Sented it. Whether he was mlSlntormed or did 1t
from prejudice we only conjecture, but the fact
remains that the whole trend of the article was mis-
leading and not in conformity with the facts. 1t IS
of very little Importance and nothing to us for we
there disinterested spectator, but we are
surprised that Mr.. Hoge after attending the meeting
of the Press club here and making such favorable
impression upon all, should deliberately take his
information about the big rumpus at Twin Falls
from unreliable source, or let his prejudice against
Dubois, cause him to msinform his readers who pay
him for the delivery of news
If our political opponent does something,
should pass it to readers just as it happens,
regardless Of whether it suits not, and any mis-
representations we may make can not be JUSTIFIED on
any grounds whatever.
The Backfoot paper is so clearly in the right that
the Paris editor can do nothing but hide his dimin-
ished head and enter plea in extenuaton that his
readers would stand for the TRUTH that being the
presumed cause of his fragrant Misrepresentation
Yet it may be advanced good sound doctrine
that community that does not want the truth does
not need newspaper for paper that prints things
that have not happened, saying that they have
happened, will soon place community out of touch
with the worlds events and mslead it to culpable
degree.
Dipping into the details of the Twin Falls affair."
the Blackfoot Republican says:
Editor Hoge should investigate the source of his
information and when convinced that it was wrong
it is up to him to get his information from
body else hereafter He probably got of it
from the Capital News, but he has outdone them in
of his his report, saying that Chairman Nc
Kinley used language that was v1le obscene and
filthy in the presence of ladies when he trying
to restore order in the convention.
This is little the worst we have seen yet among
the many padded reports of that event. and the fact
that the only bunch of ladies in the convention got
close to Mckinley they could and cheered
and waved handkerchiefS and held banners aoft to
help him carry his point leaves Editor Hoge and the
ladies to determine which is occupying the improper
position Either the ladies cheering obscenity
from Mckinley Editor Hoge has unwittingly put
them in a wrong light and it is in order for him to
make acknowledgment.
1t is of some Importance to the faction that
wantony maligned by the Mormon and Jack Nor
press to find an npreudiceddefen with man
hood enough to state the truth for the truths sake
and to be able to state it from his personal OBJ
servaton.
His political antecedents would lead one to suppose
that he would have preferred to have had the con-
vention go the other way. But it did not go the