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...Young Fitzpatrick, who went about his business as a newly hired railroad clerk, did not know it at the time, but the mudfight had been going on spiritedly for 40 years. The Tribune, established in 1870 by bitter Mormon dissidents, was winning; its virulent assaults on church practices and its vicious lampoons of Mormon leaders attracted even church members, who sneaked copies on the sly. The Deseret News, founded in 1850 by Brigham Young himself, was staggering beneath the burden of must-run church news and saintly strictures that were its daily...
Declaration of War. The young Roman Catholic Irishman was destined to play a significant role in Utah journalism. From railroad clerking, John Francis Fitzpatrick went on to be secretary to another Irishman, Thomas Kearns, former U.S. Senator from Utah (1901-05) and millionaire silver miner. With a share of his fortune, Kearns bought the Tribune in 1913. After his death, Kearns's heirs named John Francis Fitzpatrick publisher of the Tribune...
John Francis Fitzpatrick set out to turn himself into a newspaperman and the Tribune into a newspaper. While the Deseret News looked on enviously, the Tribune set up elaborate regional coverage in Utah and Idaho, soon was serving an area bigger than all New England. He introduced fair and comprehensive news coverage to fill the space once heavily committed to fulminations against the church. When the Saints came marching in to Salt Lake City for their semi-annual "conference," the Tribune staffed the story generously and played it straight...
This, too, might have gone on forever if it had not been for John Francis Fitzpatrick. Here and there, in all the right places, he dropped hints on how to end the hostilities. When these filtered up to the Mormon high councils, the elders, already weary of the expensive battle, gave them a cordial reception. In 1952, largely on John Francis Fitzpatrick's terms, the war ended in a truce...
...Salt Lake Telegram). Then the once-bitter rivals joined hands by forming the Newspaper Agency Corp., through which both papers share the same printing plant and the same advertising, circulation and distribution organizations. They remain rivals-and staunch rivals-only editorially. President of the combined operation: John Francis Fitzpatrick...