Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-03

Civil War i'm the Realms Of Shyster-
dom:
In the dispatches to Sundays Enter
priss We have the following:

about an article published In the Eieith.J
C,t,t retiec.in. most seriously upon the
De Youncs of the Chronicle. their mother
and sisters The Chronicle to-day con-
ftins an editorial article attacking the
editor and proprietor Of the S"t, and
this evening they retaliated with a col
I,nn and n half OF most scUrrilous mat
ter. As soon as the offensive article was
discovered Gus De Young went 10 Val
entine's printing office and finding the
>,,i. proprietor. Fitzgerald. there. pro
cee,ied to beat him and gave him sound
irubhin" This done. he pied the San :
forms. smashed their type. and then had
nine of the workmen arrested for libel.
To-nioht the De Youngs were hunting
for Il. T. Nlptnaly, the SEA editor, but
he is secreted or has left the city. Per
sons have paid as high as 81 30 for cop
!e.s Of the SRA. and it was reported that
they would get ont an extra edition
printed in Oakland.
The article which provoked the Sun to
attack the De Ioungs in the manner in
dicated appeared in Saturdays Chronicle
and reads as follows:
BIRps OF \ FEATHER
y
complaint that an effort has been made
70 biacbmail the firm in which he Is a
partner. The persons making the at
tempt are ostensibly responsible for the
existence of vulgar little sheet, which
has. during few weeks past. been
brought into existence and maintained
by --levies' OF this nature He asks
what be had better do about Il. We
reply. DO not give them a cent. and. If
they annoy you, hand them over to the
police and send thea to San Quentin.
where they of right belong. Fitzgerald.
the publisher Of the sheet in question,
is. by his own confession. thief, a liar
n bisamist. aud, on general principles
outside OF these classiiicatIons of his
peculiar abilities, is scOundrel. s. 7.
Nipth Nv. the nominal editor, IS grad
uate Of the industrial School. a profess
sionaI blackmailer. a hanger-on OF the
lowest gambling houses and dens of
prostitution. and. generally, one OF the
most degraded specimens O. hcodiun-
ism.
Nothing that either of the pair can
say or do against the character Of any
person can have any weight whatever in
the estimation Of respectable members
u the community.
We find nothing in the Sunday edition
e.. the CL..oricis concerning the above
narrated episode in the Francis x Val
entiue printing hou,e: 50 we conclude
tina, for once the De youngs have been
sized with q sense Of proaIIcty-or
what they regard as such. (Ihey would
never hesitate, save for an equivalent, to
give painful publicity to the matter, if
it related to anybody but themselves
After Safeguarding the town and being
guilty Of q long continued series of the
most questionable practices toward PHI
yate persons and transactions, it is not
exactly admissible that the De Young
Brothers should take it upon themselves
70 do what their own conduct, and that
of their paper. in the past. has tempted
others to do to theIn-unless, indeed,
they are prepared to withstand the con-
sequences of their own uiischlevous eX-
ample And this leads US to say that
We regard the influence anu eAdupie VI
the Chronicle as OF the most pernicious
sort. Itself has invited AMI encouraged
inst such publications as the SIN, 1.-THE |
S,r, is any worse than the Chronicle it is |
worse in degree merely. The quality of /
evil is the same in each. As to the ter |
rnina.ion of the matters of difference be-
tween the fellows who have been and
those who have not been through the
course of studies prescribed at the Re
form School, the public is not interested.
save as with regard to matter of curl
osity. 1t may as well be added, how
ever, that the San Francisco iHa says !
that Napthaly. who Is graduate of the