| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION cation begun in 1984 and delivered to non-subscribers In 1994 it was changed to The Herald Accent and was produced elec tronically under the leadership of Brian Tregaskis director of production Ownership of the Daily Herald changed during UtahCentennial year when Pulitzer Publishing Company of St Louis purchased it on July 1996 The Salt Lake Tribunehistory of The Salt Lake Tribunefirst 125 years can be divided into two epochs During its first 40 years it was an uninhibited hard-hitting partisan in what historians of that era designated as the irrepressible conflict in Utah The Tribune in 1880 defined it as conflict between two hostile systems each struggling for permanent mastery It wasfight involving political economic ecclesiastical and social policies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints And polygamy was the emotion-arousing club used by The Tribune and its allies to combat what they considered to be church domination of all aspects of the life of the Territory During the second epoch of its history The Tribune gradually changed its role from inciter to restrainer of conflict It successfully pursued policies designed to repress the irrepressible and end the feud not by mastery of one side by the other but by conciliation and accomodation The change did not occur abruptly onspecific date But retrospectively the beginning of the change can be fixed quite precisely at the beginning of 1911 The Tribune carried on its editorial page an announcement of the appointment of McKay to general manager of the newspaper and its afternoon affiliate The Salt Lake Evening Telegram which Thomas Kearns and David Keith commenced publishing in 1902 It would have takenmost perceptive reader to conclude from that announcement that the role of The Tribune over the previous 40 years as spokesman and rallying point of one side 150 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
