, 1874-01-29
Seattle " Y. Jan. 80 1874

PuB11c ENEMY.-There is paper !
published occasionally-about once
month-at the Land Ring town OF ka-
lama. which receives almost its sole
support through Sprague and Smith, by
money drawn from the treasury OF the
Mp. Railroad, and not having probably
a hundred regular subscribers. is issued
for no other purpose than to defend all
the rascalities of the agents of the Land
Ring, in whose interest it is published,
and to aesaiI and misrepresent every
town, community and public interest of
the Territory which does not pay tribute
to these carpet-bag adventurers whose
chief business here has been to fleece
the settlers and destroy all the ests b.
lished towns and centres of trade for
the purpose of building up speculative
towns in their own interest and the in
terest of the gang of land-pirates they
represent. That we are made the spe-
sial object of attack by that paper, is no
more than we could reasonably expect
from the determined and independent
manner in which we have defended the
people against the outrages, actual and
intended. of its masters; but it is re-
markable fact that for the small consid-
Grafton of an occasional advertisement,
our city cotemporary furnishes amun1-
ton to the enemy. which they shoot
back at US in every issue. The last CO.
pies from the ptelligencer an article dis
crediting and denying the authenticity
Of the statement which appeared IN the
DISPATCH, that Gen. Cass had telegraph
ed to Mr.. Denny to open negotiations
for extending the railroad to Seattle,
and comments upon the same as fol-
lows:s
"An informant from Seattle explains
10 us how the story came to be started,
which was in this wise: 1t seems that
the funds paid to General Tilton about
cleaned the last 'scad' out of the Seat
tie and w. W. railroad exchequer; and
one of the directors of this simulated
company wishing to divide the hon
ers' at Washington, and his 'spondullX'
being scarce, the bogus dispatch story
was fabricated to induce the sorehead
greenies who have 'bled' so far as stock
takers in the bogus railroad, to come
cut again sufficient to put Mac IN
funds for 'splurge.' According to old
fashioned ethics, this mode OF raising
the wiud' by victimizing friends, has a
very ugly Saxon name, but at Seattle 1t
il called business"
Not less than three fourths of the pa
per from which we copy the above Is of
the same blackguard character, abusing
the people of Olympia as well as Seattle
and shamefully and maliciously misrep-
resenting their public and private enter
prises, and maligning the motives of all
engaged in them. No decent man would
ever condescend to hold controversy
with the vagabond who writes and prints
these articles; but the man who pro-
cures and pays for their publication
holds public position which makes
him amenabIe for the public and per-
Yonal outrage. Not number of that
paper has ever been issued but by the
material aid given by Gen. Sprague out
of the treasury of the Railroad Co., or
the Land Ring, both of which he was
representing as agent at the same time.
u is by his procurement that communi
ties are slandered aud private character
blackened by a characterless vagabond
with semi-officiai endorsement of the
n. P. Railroad.
As to the foundation matter of the
foregoing assault upon the managers OF
the Seattle and Walla Walla railroad.
the writer cf the paragraph in the Intel
IqenceY knew that the statement he was
attempting to discredit by indirection
was literally true, and if he had sense
enough to reason from cause to effect,
he knew that his implied denial was aid
and comfort to the enemies of Seattle.
If Gen. Sprague did not know that the
dispatch imputed to Gen. Cass was
literal verify, at the time he allowed his
man to assail the people of Seattle on
the ground that it was fabrication, he
is far less in the confidence of his en-
ployers than any man who ever before
held SO responsible a position; for co
pies of General Cass' dispatch and Mr..
Denny's reply were sent to Capt. Aims
worth, from headquarters, and have
been no secret to employees of the Co.
since. The fact is, Gen. Cass is doing
all that he. can to correct the wrongs
heretofore committed upon this division
Of the road, and these assaults upon the
people are merely the dying agonles OF
the ring of sharpeis whose vocation is
nearly ended on this beat.