Arizona republican., 1911-01-06
"Jernalism" as Committed by "Men
 with Brains"

In an indignant column editorial, the Arizona Gazette resolutely de- clines to apologize for its measly telegraph service. It was not the ex- day, when it instituted a comparison between its complete account of the Arch Hoxsey tragedy and the absence of any account at all in the other papers of Phoenix that such an out burst as this would be produced. Still less was it the expectation of this paper that the Gazette. congenitally foolish as it is, would attempt a gen. eral apology for its telegraph service there is no apology. The Gazette is right in indignantly refusing to at tempt the impossible.
 But if the Gazette had stopped at this refusal it would have been better for it. It erred in entering upon a series of wild explanations.
 
 not break until 3:12 D. m, Phoenix time, whereas the Gazette must go to press at 3:3O. There was no law prohibiting the Gazette from issuing an extra or from holding its press for a few minutes or from at least bulletining the most sensational trag edy of months, one which thrilled the entire world.
 But the fact is, the Gazette did not get the news; it would not have got it if it had held it's press until mid night. It never heard of the oeath of Hoxsey until in the morning, when all Phoenix and the Salt River Valley read the complete story in The Re publican It was not entitled to that bit of news.
 The Los Angeles Times disaster broke" in the morning of October l, just as The Republican was prepar- ing to go to press. Within five min utes there was a flash" in this of- flee and within half an hour The Re publican had as complete a story of the Times tragedy as could be gath cred out of the awful confusion and horror of the early morning.
 The explosion at the Llewellyn Iron Works took place one morning after The Republican went to press. In less than ten minutes after a police man saw the flash of it it was flashed" into The Republican office, While the press was laundering be- low, as much of the story as could be collected was made up and sub stituted in the form" for far less important news.
 Says the Gazette of itself:
 No apologies are necessary for the news, its amount and character which this paper serves it's readers. and as for promptness, nothing in Arizona can exceed it.
 Just what this awkwardly construct ed and involved sentence means is not clear, but if it means anything, it means that for the amount and char acter of its news and for its prompt ness in serving it, it is not exceeded by any paper in Arizona. On its own statement, its "promptness" is some times fatal; so prompt" was it in the Hoxsey affair that it missed the news altogether.
 But the statement as to the amount and character of it's service is an internally silly lie. of which all its more intelligent readers are aware. There is not a daily newspaper in with a more meager genuine service. There are several that have far larger service. Among l them are both the Tucson papers. | one of the Bisbee papers. one Globe paper, one in Douglas. and the Jour nal Miner of Prescott. The Repub | lican prints more genuine telegraph l every morning than the Gazette prints in any week
 It is true that the Gazette prints | much wooden, stolen. rotten and other fake telegraph under current date lines. Last spring and summer The day after day, under the head of Fraud and Graft Exposed" directed attention to the crime of the Gazette against its readers. It was shown that that fraud ran all the way from 1000 words some days to the enormous number of more than 10000. when the Gazette telegraph editor was more than usually insane or when his scissors were abnormally sharp.
 The Republican kept up this ex- posture until it got tired. Since then the Gazette has been pursuing its fraudulent career undisturbed. a con- -ributor to the gayety of the commit