Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-06
A NpER JOURNAL.

Within the past week or two the State
Reporter, published at Sacra-
mcnto, has been guilty Of moro news
paporial plumbers than we ever remem-
Der to have observed, in the same
Of time, in II daily paper which
pretended to claim a leading position.
Whether these mistakes nre ascribable
to ignorance Of the business, intentional
or gross care%lessn0ss, is
moro than We are prepared to say. II
correct and capable reporters n
proof-readsrs are procurablc in Sacra-
mcnto, one of these causes is just ms
culpable as either of the others. In re-
porting the ratification meeting held
in Sacramento recently, Judge Brock
way was credited with a speech in which
no took strong grounds in favor of uni
versal suffrage. The fact was that the
Judge was sixty milcs away, addressing
a similar meeting in Nevada. On the
exposure of this error the paper excused
itself by stating that their reporter had
seen Judge Brockway's name announced
as second on the list, and "took it for
granted" that Judge Porter, who mp
reared second in order, was Judge
Brockway. Now, if he was near enough
to pretend to give a faithful report OF
tho speech, he must have been sufi-
GENTLY close to hear the Chairman's in
PRODUCTION of tho speaker.
In d~cscanting on the result Of the i'm
parchment trial the same paper referred
to the vote as having stood rs ayes to
10 noes, thus materially lcssening the
pr%epouderance of those who voted
for conviction. To tho full extent
that tho mistake could oxort any
influence it Injured to tho benefit Of tho
cause Of which the Reporter is an advo-
cate. As one of the mistakes misrepre-
scented q Republican speaker, and the
other made a false showing Of Republic
can strength in the Senate, we had in
clined to tho opinion that the mistakes
of that paper had been in the explana-
tions rather than in the thing explained,
but in the Reporter Of the 4th we OBJ
served two mistakes in II short para
gragh, ono Of which is so ludicrous rs
to satisfy US that the Reporter folks have
become so bewildered by tho nomina-
ton of Grant and Colfax, or so dement,
ed by their Haight-mania, MS to be, for
the nonce, totally unfit for the newspa-
per business. In transferring q current
item concerning Livermoro's challenge
to play Winnie Wright n billiard match
on n second.size table, "crotches
barred" tho Reporter has changed
| Winuic's sobriquiet to "Wanie," and
has made it q condition of the game that
the table shall DO "elom bound" instead
Of that proposed by Livermore Of bar
ring crotches."
W. have purposely omitted allusion
to q late geographical conceit of the
Reporter; we prefer to say nothing
about that matter, in fact, there is moth.
ing in it, only tho Reporter transplauted
the great States Of Illinois aud Ohio from
the eastern to the western bank Of the
Mississippi, probably to Offset the great
Radical States of Minnesota, Iowa, Mis-.
souri, and Kansas, and when Informed
that modern geographers caused the
Father of Waters to flow between these
latter and the two which in his school
days had been west Of the Mississippi,
he claimed that "any n acquainted with
newspaper business would understand
how the mistake occurred" It was u
fact that every ono acquainted with
newspaper bushes, did understand
that a gross error had been committed
by some one who neither understood
the newspaper business nor the geog'
raphy Of his country. But we will say
nothing about this mattcr-let it pass.