The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-10
IT is FOUL, NOT CLEAN.

the chief church organ, warmly SECONDS
some proposal that is given out by au
Eastern paper toward "Cleaner Jour
nalism' this, however, only meaning
that the foul church organ wants The
Tribune and other newspapers i'll this
State, but especially The Tribune, 10
Ibc gentle, aud let it have the field OF
l"cuss words all to itself, The Trlh'
une tried that course for number OF
years, during the so called 'eTa ot
good feeling" here. During that time
The Tribune refraincd from narrowing
up the local situation. even where IT
really ought to have made exposures
and denunciations. 1t let many things
pass without comment that should nave
been commented on and denounced ,
and all the time the Deseret News
was extremely busy in abusing the old
Liberal party and the Christian MN
listers here, and all the outg,rlngS OF
synods. associations, and meetings OF
orthodox reli eious people. 1t 'sloshed
around promiscuously, abusing every
body that was non Mormon, and IN Ell
feet calling upon everybody to submit
TO the Mormon yoke, and to receive un-
resistingly its vile lashlngs and abuse.
| More recently, tho church organ has
filed its columns with mendaclous and
reckless abuse OF the American party
and false statements about the Amer
lean administration in this city.
In pursuance of its hypocritical snivel
| Inn
day afternoon had in one OF its edl-
torial columns an enforcement OF
"Cleaner Journalism, AS pleaded for
by Nathaniel G. Wright of the Cleve-
land Leader, in an address before a
club in New York City. In the same
issue, on the same editorial page, 1T
had false account about fight on
Main street, mendaciously heading it
"a Common Occurrence On the same
page also, its leading editorial was a
malicious, misreprcsenting account OF
the school election ih the Fifth ward,
the following paragraph being the
kernel in the nut Of its misrepre'
sentations:
The proceedings in the Fifth Precinct,
| [wardJ demonstrated again that the
crowd In control OF the American
party is dete ermned that no one. who Is
suspected of broad American views on
| local questions can be placed in posi-
| tion OF trust. If that crowd can prevent
| IL. Wherever II dominates. not only the
| hated 'Mormons," but possible friends
OF fair play and a square deal TO the
| "Mormons' must be kept out OF offices.
That un American spirit governs that
| crowd on all occasions.
This means, of course, if it means
anything at all, that w. j. Barrette,
the American candidate, is not man
Lof broad American views on local ques-
tions, and that DR.. douglas also fails
| to be a man of that character. The
only man of broad American views is
the man endorsed by the Federal Bunch.
The only real patriots are those who
stand in with the bogus non partisan
bitterly partisan gang, which insists
that the minority sect here must have
the majority Of the members of the
Board of Education-six out of the
ten. No more groveling, wretchedly
false statement than that contained in
the editorial from the News, could ap-
pear in any of the most depraved "yel-
low journals of the United States
Another sample Of its "cleanness
is contained in the following paragraph
from the same mendacious editorial:
In the Fifth Precinct. where "Ameri-
cam partisanship Is strongly cntrenched,
one candidate endorsed by the con-
vention was defeated and partisan
American elected in his place. The or
derstanding previous 10 the convention
that the two incumbents, Bailey and
Barettc. were 10 be endorsed. but that
this understanding WAS violated by the
nomination of Or. Pfoutz instead OF
Bailey. As a measure Of retaliation. the
organ says. the Americans" elected DR.
Douglas.
AS 10 which. so far as The Tribune
is concerned, this paper evidently be-
ing ''the organ referred to, it is
only necessary TO say, as the News
knew perfectly well, when il printed
its "cute' Misrepresentation, that the
reason why Mr. Bailey was not nom
mated by the American primary in the
Fifth ward, was that he had refused to
be a candidate at the second primary.
There would have been no question at
all about his nomination, if he had
wished it. Knowing this, as the News
did, its misrepresenta tions in the para.
graph last above quoted are shocking
example of the yelowest sort Of mem
dacity. And this is displayed right
alongside OF another editorial which
was fcryent and toplofty in au endorse.
ment Of the plea for ''Cleaner Jour
palism! j" The meaning of ''Cleaner
Journalism to the church organ SIM
ply is that other journals must be
clean, and leave it to a monopoly of
that which is foul,