Word: mudfight
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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...
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