| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION paper In fact it is intensely anti-Mormon and its cuts and flings at the religion to which Utah owes her existence ascommonwealth today are often unworthy ofrespectable journal but the Miner man wieldspungent pen It changed hands later that year but on April 1883 the Park Record noted The Silver Reef Miner has got mired so deep in the sand that the owners could not dig it up again When the concern got into Mormon hands we felt satisfied it was doomed to death OgdenDaily News ushered into the community in 1885 with well-known Utah journalist Leo Haefeli as editor didn retain him long as its anti-Mormon policies came to the fore It managed to survive though until June peared 1887 then disap What prompted the Park Record to go onbrief editorial denunciation of Mormonism isnreadily understood But on July 25 1885 Camomile joined Sam Raddon as its co-publisher and the following November the Territorial Engquirer of Provo commented Please knock it in the head The Park Record has got the Mormon rabies bad and is proving itself to beconsummate ass Poor thing it isfinancial fizzle asnewspaper and thinks it may getliving by catering to the taste of anti-Mormons Interestingly 1885 financial fizzle was still reaching its Park City readers 110 years later the Enquirer is unremembered in Provo where its masthead disappeared in 1920 The arrival of the Provo American in April 1887 was an nounced by its existing competitor the Territorial Enquirer which labelled it in advance Anti-Mormon and pro-Loyal League By May 31st the Enquirer reported Provo now has two papers The one essentially Mormon anti-Mormon and the other bitterly The latter embellishes its front page with the euphonious title of The American and is published weekly In May 1889 the American was reported to have suffered martyrdom In Richfield the Advocate came on the scene in 1887 and by March of that year was the subject of an article in the St George Union which commented Richfieldtwo papers are engaged in the highly edifying occupation 276 of saying mean Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
