Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-19
SOMETHING MORE OF PINNEY.

structures by her late husband organ, the San
Francisco Chronicle, Mrs. Pinney has written
aletter explanatory of her relations with that
notorious person dnring the years of her con-
iugal experience There is one thing to be
admitted in favor of the Chroncle 1t never
bushes. When it undertakes any especially
villainous OF unclean work it never minces
matters or goes hating to the half way station,
there to stop and recant or repent its sins.
Perhaps the bad and bitter courses in which
it is SO often found are more to its tastes. At
all events it never hesitates. 1t began it's
attacks upon Sargent, Page and their
associates in con Injunction with Pinney with a
sort of frantic glee. Here was chance to
s1nutch the reputation of some public men
who had stood fair in the eyes of the country
The opportunity to perform the part of hired
defamer and at tho same time to crafty q
native inclination to villify the names of gen
tlemen who were too self-respectful to notice
them or to recognize the legitimacy of their
journalistic pretensions was too much to be
resisted So they made their bed with Pin
ney-did the conductors of the Chronicle.
We think the alliance perfectly natural one.
As between any one of the Chronicle concern,
past or present, and Pinney, our preference
would be for the latter. There are degrees of
depravity and scales of badness. One prefers
the bold highwayman to his skulking fence.
We should respect Pixley more if he had ex
hbited the practical audacity to do what be
applauds Pinney for doing. The DeYoungs
are regarded only as the willing instruments of
their bold associate and prompter. Blackmail
and vituperation run riot in San Francisco.
Pinney beats his wife and blackens her eyes
and kicks her down stairs, and the most wide
ly circulated paper on the Pacific Coast justi-
fies the acts 1t is very humilating, very de-
grading, very demoralizing that SO shameless,
bold and bad man should have so persistent,
influential and public an upholding. 1t is
very, very bad that as bad man as George
NJ. Pinney shonld be made not only SO con-
spicuous an object, but that any press uphold
ing such an audacious scoundrel should be
tolerated But we are becoming warm. We
intended to be more philosophical. What we
say some words introducing in a truthful way,
the subjoined comments by the Sacramento
Record Union. We feel greatly obliged that
that cleverly edited paper should do this cud-
Ceiling etfectually. 1t is like having ones
swearing done with effectiveness and junction.
Says that paper: "Mrs. Pinney has been
compelled to write a letter explaining her re-
lations to her late husband and after reading
it we are of the opinion that her enemies
wonld have done wisely to refrain from max
ugly disclosure The character of Pinney, as
drawn by his late wife, is indeed not incon
sistent with anything known concerning him
by the public at large. That a reckless crimi-
nal, forger, conspirator, liar, and generally
depraved and CONSCIOUSNESS creature should |
turn out to be ruffian and brute is his do
mestic relations, ought to surprise nobody. |
Nor is it at all difficult to understand that
good woman married to such wretch might,
between personal fear and shame, be pur-
suaded to bear her cross with patience and
silence for long time. Such marital ex-
periences are unfortunately anything but rare,
however painful, cannot be regarded as out of
nature It is interesting to note that the
San Francisco Chronicle, Pinney's organ and
attorney, has entered with evident relish upon
the work of bounding poor Mrs. Pinney
That its sympathies are with the cowardly
ruffian, its client, is clear. 1t complains
bitterly, and with a sort of puzzled wonder
which is perhaps genuine, that after having
been abused and beaten by Pinney all these
years, and having borne his violence patiently
for so long, she should at last have revolted
against it, and taken steps to free herself
The Pinney organ further tries its hand at the
sentimental, with general effect suggesting
the efforts of professional pigsticker to write
poetry. 1t seeks to draw a picture of its I
woman whipping client as the victim of con- t
jugal treason and desertion. 1t bitterly de- {
clares that after all the thrashings he has S
given her, she ought to have made better t
'eturn for his considerate kindness In can t
lot understand how woman, who once con- c
ented to live with Pinney, Notwithstanding 7
lis brutal treatment to her, could have altered i
Ter mind. 1t pretends that she has lowered C
erself and injured her reputation by declin- t
ag longer to obey the behests of its unsavory
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