Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-23
AN UNLUCKY NEWSPAPER.

1t is not the highest praise that can
be bestowed upon a newspaper to say
that it is always on the winning side;but
certainly journal which is never sue
cessful in any of its undertakings must
be very often in the wrong and invari-
ably unfortunate. When a newspa-
per is possessed of the peculiar faculty
OF running every cause which it
adoess--forwarding the ends of its enc
mics and overturning the fortunes of
its friends-public men should avoid
an alliance with it as cautiously as
Rothschild has ever avoided a partner
ship with an unlucky man.
Without doubt the most unlucky
newspaper in the United States, per-
haps in the world, is the Cincinnati
Enquirer, and its last fiasco in regard
to the contest for the Speakership,
while enjoying, too, the partnership OF
the New York Herald, IN opposing
Speaker Kerr. is of piece with its whole
career. That journal never advocates
q measure that is not defeated. 1t
never favors a candidate who is not
beaten. It's enmiiy is the passport to
success and its support the death
knell of political ambition. The per-
verse ingenuity with which it selects
verse instinct 10y which it assumes the
championship Of All indefensible char
acter, are without parallel. In this
tickle and inconstant world all things
have their vicissitudes; the green leaf
withers, the roses fade, fortunes melt
away like the snow and are heaped
up like the harvest, the face of beauty
changes and the fires of love and
hatred shoulder or burn brightly; but
in the continuous fiux and flow OF ma
lure and society the Enquirer's Ill luck
remains constant. 1t is the one thing
in an unstable universe that Gems un
alterable. The Sun may turn aside
and cease to follow after the good
Deacon Richard Smith; Grant may
win back by speech making the popu
larity he gained by silence and lost by
neglect of duty; honesty may be re
stored to private enterprise and public
service; we may live to gather figs
from thistles and grapes from thorns,
but it seems 90 much to ex-
pect that the Enquirer should
ever, even by accident, deviate
into success. It's editor has achieved
= proud PIE eminence as a blum
derer, from the top of which he
can look back upon an unbroken cha n
of failures such as never stretched be
hind another human being.
: In 1850 the Enquirer was the enthus-
iastic advocate OF Douglas, and the for.
tunes of the Little Giant withered un.
der its evil influence. AT a later day il
made Vallanoigl am its hero, and the
people of Ohio covered him with
storm of adverse ballots that came
drifting like wintry Snow fakes. Pen.
dletOn became its favorite, and wenl
forth under its announcements an6
encomiums to meet with disastrous de.
feat. 1t clasped the White Coated Phi
losOpher In its fond embrace, and ths
tall tower is his monument. 1t looked
coldly upon the rising up of William
Allen, and he became Governor o
Ohio, and the people in other State'
listened with delight TO the sound o
his clarion voice. 1t then covered him
with caresses. and promised him thu
Presidency, and behold he is resting
quie ly in his comfortable farmhouse
careless OF the destiny OF the nttiol
busted only with the rotation of crop'
or The population of cattle. When The
greenback wfs triumphant. the En-
quirer would have nothing but gold
When there Is now a prospect of the
restoration of gold to its old honors, il
will have nothing but greenbacks. II
opposed reconstruction when opposi.
ton was useless, and when the people
of Louisiana were just ready to fling
VII ioFt 90 io JOoO VI N't B'b-
government it counseled meek sub
mission. In 1868, when the Democracy
of Ohio was deadly sick, this strange
newspaper was full of hope; but in
1873, when the party was recovering
health and strength, the Enquirer held
q hasty ante norton funeral with the
assistance of the Commercial, and COW
ering up the organization hastily
jumped upon its grave and chante1 "A
Requiem aeteradm dona Ell Domino.
And it has never forgiven Allen q.
Thurman for restoring the victim to
light and victory.
IL is related of one of the ablest and
most avaricious Of Mahomet's success.
sors that his breath was so foul that in
scots which came near him fell cead