Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-30
THE CHRONICLE AND THE GRAND
JURY SYSTEM OF CALIFORNIA


have shared very common, and as We be
leve, a justifable suspicion of the utility OF
the Grand Jury system. We have thought 1t
a relic of the Dark Ages, an awkward mherl-
lance from the past-awkward, because we do
not know how to get rid of it, nor how to utilize
it, We have sympathised with the very gen
eral notion that as medium and vehicle Of
movements preliminary to criminal
prosecutions-it is an incumbrance and a
piece of machinery which occupies much
room, causes a good deal of expense, Is OF
doubtful service, is i'll no sense ornamental
and in every sense mcomely, and that 1t had
better be dispensed with This is, perhaps,
the callow wisdom or the utter unwisdom
which comes of a superficial knowledge Of
things, and therefore an impertinence. But
We have entertained it. We are perfectly
willing to incur the Odium of the confession.
We are also quite as willing to be convinced
of our folly Indeed, what this is all prelimi-
nary to is this, as follows namely; That as
an instrument for the injection of sub-cuta-
neous irritants under the leathery hide OF the
Chronicle (of San Francisco.), the gland-jmy
system as maintained amid the law machinery
of California counties, seems to come III
play. That paper has elected itself blister
plaster Upon the surface of popular sensitive
ness We suspect it has been, like an apOthe-
carys leech, ready for service, to order, upon
any cuticIe, for pay 1--WE are aware we are
advertising that paper in all this; but one
must illustrate ones philosophy by the actual
presence. as it were) When the bonanzan-
aires squirmed under the Chronicle canthal1-
DIES, the stock shutting press smarted to the
very ends of its sensitive eXtremites. The
Chronicle, like any other leech, stuck the
harder and bit the deeper, the more the blood
flowed Capital is timid. The bigger and
burlier it is, the more helpless and sensitive it
seems. The fatter the man, the more the an
noyance of the mosquito, his bite. Thewider
the back the more difficult the effective
scratching But tough hide battles any flea. |
The itch never posters your tanned COW s-hlde. |
The slow, dull, insensitive grand jury system |
is too much for the nip of the Chronicle. So |
it bewails its prosecutions The MORNING |
APPEAL has faith in Sargent for his honesty, |
in Page for his practical tenacites and in Carr
for his judgment, organizing force and long
headedness This helps us to sympathise
with Sargents use of California Grand Juries
to retaliate upon the Chronicle. That paper
is like assafedita. 1t is ill-smelling and yet
it is useful. 1t is like some enterprising news
BOYS who carry it-dirty and thievish but 4
clever and quick vehicle of news. But it has
apparently taken a political contract Demo
cratic or otherwise), to beat out of sight and re
spectacle burial the Republican party in the
State of California 1t would, doubtless, have /
pinned Pinney on Boruck's back if it had
thought that illustrOus statesman III the way
of the king-row. But the game has not been
so far as the objective points t
are concerned. But while the floating of the {
Pinney scandal upon the newspaper reading {
public has involved the extension of the q
Chronicles circulation among the friends of a
the conspiracy i'll the counties of our sister '
State it is to be remembered that if Senator |
Sargent is running for the Senate, at all, he i
is running in each of these Chronicle-invaded h
counties. Hence the utility of the rusty ma h
;hinery of the grand jury system. In this j
Ease it will doubtless be shown to be adnira- il
bic. If the Chronicles fulminations are JUS d
.ifed they will be doubly so after a successful h
lefense following any indictments on account G.
If what it has said in derogation of Sargent is
md Page and Carr. After all, there is a good il
leai in what the old books call mems SjGi | Or
OnScia Tectj. These public men, being at h
acked, chivalrously invite the Chronicle to a D
,roof of its charges. There are fifty counties Il
n California. That paper goes into each of Il
hem and tells the people that Senator Sar- ID
,ent and Congressman Page and William B. fir
arr are rogues and political and business bt
artners with George NJ. Pinney With great II
ourage those gentlemen invite the Grand In E
uisition to examine into the truth of these af
harges The Chronicle Will have glorious vi
eputation for truth if they are proved true an
Ieantime the law must protect the citizen. m
here seems to be something more valuable fin
| character than in stocks. When the Chron- lot
lie began doing the bidding of the bears nj
reat was the cutlery along all the line where of
he roots of the bonanzas grow. We have las
,ldom seen more general explosion of III alb
gnation than followed the assaults of that co