Arizona republican., 1920-12-28
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TIE REPUBLICAN PASSES THROUGH
 VARIOUS PHASES

As a newspaper The Republican has passed through various phases. It wa. born an organ, not of party, but of faction of a party, and probably a minority faction of the Republican party in the territory. The faction grew smaller and smaller and finally became imperceptible. The paper there upon, attached itself to the Republican party in general without a special in vitation, but through that period there was no mutual advantage in the rela- tionship to either the party or the paper.
 These two phases of The Republican lasted a little more than five years when it entered the third. Though it then came to be recognized as a party organ, it came to be called in 1896 a railroad organ and we believe the soft impeachment was never vigorously de- nied. There was considerable Santa Fe money behind the paper at that tina and the paper earned it by valorousss i fighting battles of the Santa Fe cannot now say that it ever fought un- worthily- The management, 1 am sure, believed it was right; that the Santa Fe was right, but paraphrasing a part of Decatur's famous saying into. "The Santa Fe, may it always be right, but right or wrong, the Santa Fe."
 In the middle of this period such a course had become a very unpopular one in central Arizona. The tide of rsdicalism. by which we mean the of popular rule, was rising rapidly to flow over in 1910. Capitalism was hated for its very name, as was what ever stood for capitalism. The cam paign for the election of delegates to the constitutional convention cost The Republican several hundred subscrib- ers- Its circulation was at a lower stage than it had been in 10 years. But what was left of it was the cream of circulation, the kind that advertisers Republican party or what was left of
 The paper was still the organ of the it after the deluge.. Thought no longer dependent upon the Santa Fe, it was friendly to that road, but the tie was not so close as to warrant persistence in calling The Republican a railroad organ.
 . It was Tn OcOtber or 1912 that The Republican ceased to be an organ and took its proper place, free from all outward influences. It was controlled by its ownership which rightly re- garded it as a private institution with certain recognized though unofficial. public functions. Its first business was to make money by giving to it's readers tho best paper it could, and to adver- tisers their moneys worth in space. In addition, it was believed to be the duty of The Republican to help with cut charge in every worthy undertak
 ing and 1t has done so and helped in many worthy private enterprises.
 But there is one thing The Republi-
 can never was, for which it may thank
 whatever gods there be and then some -an organ of the mob of the hour, a
 so- called peoples paper-whose posi-
 ton in newspaperdom is similar 10
 that of the dog which tries to be toe
 popular in the community, ''every-
 hody's dog and nobody's dog. The
 Republican always had sense to per
 ceive that there were not enough peo-
 pie in this community fools enough to
 believe that the paper was being run
 fer their benefit to cut much Of a . figure in circulation.
 s The Republican has lived to see the y time when respectable newspapers re- : sent being regarded as organs; to see r a time when all the political organs oi e the country, that is, newspapers of any n standing, may be counted on the e fingers of a single hand There may Y be. We suppose there are, cleverly dis l, guised organs of certain private inter- t ests, for there is yet much in this world that is invisible