The Placer herald., 1874-04-04
THE THREE CHAPTERS.

Since the irresponsible, carpet-bag, double
salared wanderer, who is now making IN
abortive atterpt to run the Slanfoid-Paee,
monopoly chick, in this town, in the interest
of its godfather first took charge, he has, ,
in connection with his Court House prompir
been wstchi 6 with an intense degree Of
eagerness for an opportunity to implica'e
the Independent members of the Legislature
in some disgraceful proceeding. The session
was rapidly drawing to Il close, and MS the
Independent members had been SO far con-
sistent, and were likely to continue so, our
c,rpet- bag editor conceived the idea of
making a case against them, and AS a ground
work for his charges, selected the bill which
provided for compensating the State Printer
'or work done, and which a majority Of the
Independents supported. lie set out 10
write up the whole story in two chapters
Fiction was crowded in for facts to such III,
,xtravagant degree that we ielt it our duty
to expose the whole fabrication, especially
as it reflected disrepute on the best men in
the Legislative and executive depar; mens
Of our State government. Accordingly, We
took the same subject, stripped it Of ali
f.sehood, and placed it in its true light be-
fore the people. When tru'hfuly told, The
ory presented a different phase indeed
was rather fattering to the Independents
This WAS sharp cut on the liliputian braire |
Argus chick. His pet ambition, to display
to his employers how aptly he could draw
his adversaries into dsrepute without foun-
.larion, was knocked into y cooked hat, h,
story of two chapters was turned to act
against him. TO get out of the mudde,
third chapter was written; but. like an
more he mires. His entire base Of act on
rests on corruption, and if he don't stop
snoring and kicking about so when he is
pricked with the brad of truth and good
sense, some of these times his bottom will
fall out altogether, and he will fall into tie
cesspoo of his filth. We. politely. for his
.ake, asked him to stop this matter, as b,
continuation he was only making the thing
worse. But no, no! we had destroyed his
pretty story Of two chapters, on which ST.
much of his future depended. and like II
clild with its play kicked over, he
was boz nd to have revenge if only in call
ing us bad names. So he flew into rage,
.aid we lied, CHATS the way all fools do
when they lack argument) heaved. spewed
stopped over with nasty words. until the
whole moral atmosphere of the town where
The argus goes) was tainted with its i'm
purities. 1t snapped like an enraged cur
at us, the cause Of all its woe, called us all
the bad names its diminutive mind could
conceive-why, it even accused us of once
being a school teacher.
Now, we would just say to the reader,
he facts pertaining to the passage of the
State Printers claims were fully set forth
by us, two weeks ago, and further argn-
ment is unnecessary. And as for the har I'd
names which he applied to us, we don't care
snip. Our record from our boy-hood days
to the present, in whatever capacity we
may have acted, we are proud Of, and we
scornfuy spit upon any purile attempt Of
IN idiotic, sn lng falsifer to injure it. The
poor, depraved creature showed his breeding
md lack of knowledge, and the true courteaes
Of journalism, when he began a TRADE Of
personalities. Since he has begun it, though.
we welcome all he can say; we delight to
expose hypocritical sycophants, and If our
contemporary should prove such. these per-
sonal attacks Of his opens the gate for us to
walk in. But for the present we are con.
tent to 60 on defending the truth, and are
perfectly willing that the Argus, and, its
picked up editor. should go on in ito whining
way, weakly attempting 10 defend IL thiev-
ling Grant and monopoly minions.