Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-05-30
.a Helena, Montana, Thursday, May 80, 1872.
Dana,s Doom.

From the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch May s. 6's
One OF the most notorious and persistent
newspaper ibelers in the land has come to
sudden but merited grief Werefer, of course,
to "Cesspool" Dana, of the New York Sun,
Whose Office 1t has been, and is, to slander
every one who is not in accord with his venal
purposes In connection with the Evans case,
Dana naturally assailed ex-State Treasurer
Kemble, and, of course, unjustly held him up
to public ridicule and contempt For this
offense he was arrested and held for trial
Fixing his own time-for the case was not a
persecution but prosecution to subserye the
ends of public as well as private Justice
Dana, yesterday, on being called for trial,
forfeited his bail and fed, like a board-yard
cur, from deserved punishment. The pro-
ceedings in the case are elsewhere detailed in
full, and we direct attention to the report of
the same, with regret only, that his insolent
lawyer was not committed to the cell that
Dana ought to occupy. gs, a, vt,.a.,asi .,s ,s,,
When the culprit in this case was arrested,
a month ago, we stated our opinion of Dana
in explicit terms. Since then he was indicted
by our grand jury. By courtesy he has had a
sufficiency of the laws delay, and yesterday,
on his promise that no further postponement
would be expected on his part, was set for his
trial. During the week, General McC Cantlless,
his attorney, was busy to prevent his trial by
a jury, and, not succeeding, on Friday, Dana
himself took charge of the machine, endeav-
oring to persuade Messrs. Mann and Cassidy,
who represent the prosecution, to let him off.
Acting strictly in accord with the views of
their client, Dana was informed that the case
must be tried, whereupon his New York
Tombs lawyer associated with him, VIM. t.
Hirst, ESQ.,, who, fully cogniZant of all the
facts in the case, yesterday appeared for him.
But Dana was not there, and Bartlett, his
Tombs lawer, believing himself to be in the
polluted purlieus of Gotham, sought to serve
his client by abusing the grand jury, the pros
ecution and the sitting judge, much as Dana
abuses everybody who is not in strict accord
with him. Judge Allison, with the courtesy
toward strangers that is proverbial in our
courts, instead of sending Bartlett to prison
for contempt, simply seated him. and thus
insolece as well as mpudence was simply re-
buked. Meanwhile Dana's bail (S5, 000) was
forfeited, the culprit being frightened fugi-
tive from justice, and, more than that, a re-
creant to his bondsman, who kept him from
the corridors of our county prison.
Now one thing is certain, Dana will hence
forth never dare to set his foot on Pennsylva-
mia soil False to the friends who served and
saved him, and bailed him and kept him out
of Jail; a lying hbeler, who has no defence
save that which depends upon persistence in
wrong a coward who skulks from the results
of the injuries he has unjustly inflicted on
others; a whelp without a history and a
hound without honor-we are glad to know
that Philadelphia will hereafter be free from
his pestilential presence, though we had hoped
that Messrs. Mann and Cassidy would, as they
should, have consigned him to the confines
of Moyamensing prison. Had Dana been a
just man he would have vindicated the gen.
tleman he assailed. Being a blackguard, he
is only fitted for q Jail, and there we hope to
find him.