The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-06-27
PIxIEY ON THE CHRONICLE"
IE THINKS IT HAS BIT OFF MORE THAN
1T CAN CHEW.
From the Argonaut, June 18th.

| From the Argonaut, June 18th
| The Chronicle over-estimates it's power
snd influence. It all the time forgets the
character Of those who compose the follow
ing Of the Republican party. It under
rates their intelligence, and it under-esti-
mates their courage. 1t fails to observe
Iheir Independence, manliness, and patriot
im, md miserably deceives itself when it
thinks the crack of the lash of its unknown
walteis carries any terror to party that has
vithssood the shock of civil wal, and looked
with snflinching gaze upon rebellion that
| threatened the dissolution of the American
Union and the destruction of free govern
ment The Chronicle makes another mis-
takewhen it thinks to impose its sounding
phrases, and its passionate, denunciatory
ad|scSives upon intelligent men as argu-
ment. 1t has somehow, of late, fallen into
o Chinese mode of warfare-of stinkpots
and gongs, loud smells and reverberating
brass. It seems impressed with the idea
that somehow. or other it is charged with
the thunderbolts of Olympian Joye, and
that it is sitting up aloft, among the gods,
to rule the world I; that its mission is to
reform mankind, or at least that part of
it that lives in California and so we find
it assaulting with it's shameless TRADE of
abuse everybody and everything that does
fall down and worship it. Except itself,
all the press is vile. Country papers are
"chickadees.". Having been deserted by
Kearney, he is the embodiment of every
thing that is contemptible. His followers
are poodle dogs and curs." Quar-
reling with the Bonanza kings and losing
m ,ney at stocks, at once the Nevada
banking and mining firm is denounced
with vitnperatiye vigor, and the Chronieb
halls great, slanderous expletives on the
members of the firm. Breaking with the
railroad magnates-whose friend in Goat
Island time it was-the journalistic at
mosphere is blue with sulphurous invec-
tive and personal denunciation. 1t howls
like hungry wolf, and snaps it's gleam-
ing fangs at everything it does. The Re-
publican party, under the leadership of
men who are both intelligent and honor
able, refuses to follow the Chronicle away
from its national organization, and to take
service under the generalship of Cenfed
crate brigadier, duelist, and Northern Sc
cessionist, and the Chronicle raius down
upon the party and Its leaders tempest of
ixyn oil no
time that abuse is not argument, and that
SANDER is not persuasion. It forgets, also,
that rich men and corporations, railroads
and bonanza mines, stock brokers and mer-
chants, those who favor and those who op-
pose constitutions, Democrats and Repnbli-
cans, are neither altogether good nor alto
gether bad that the Central Pacific Rail-
road is not an unmixed evil that men who
deal in stocks are not necessarily thieves !;
and that Republicans OF Democrats may be
good citizens, even if they refuse to be
It's abdsive and usntnrfaseFJ Jbeusyax
The Chronicle is sam--Seaboughized, and
mistakes SANDER for argument. II over-es-
Inmates its power, and deceiyes itself as to
it's political influence. A newspaper has
very little influence over the actions
of intelligent and thinking men.
1t has none when it ceases to be honest,
dignifed and argumentative. The jour-
nalistic proprietor, or newspaper writer,
who mistakes epithets for arguments, and
thinks to impose upon its readers passion
ate and angry words instead of weIl-con-
sidered opinions, IS simply an unreasoniog
idiot. The Chronicle will not destroy the
Republican party. nor induce it to swerve
one hairs breadth from the line of Its we'll
defined policy. The Republican organiza-
tion will-with the exception of non-par-
'tizan judicial ticket--move steadily for
ward, mindiag it's own business. The
Democracy will, if it is not debauched and
demorallzed by the detection of its alien and
aessian contingent, do the same thing
and let consequences take care of them
selves.