Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-08-26
DE YOUNG'S LAST COUP.

tacks and the absence of any of the manly
traits which should distinguish, at least, aspi-
rants for public Office Foremost in bitter
invective and personal abuse has been the
San Francisco Chronicle, and close on its
heels, Kearney. By degrees Kalloch, goaded
to madness and stung to bitter retort, dropped
into the vortex and now lies PROSTATE from
wounds inflicted by cowardly, would DE
sassin-cowardly hardly characterizes the
attack-on Saturday morning last. Opinion is
somewhat divided i'll regard to the act, and
those defending it usually base their defense
upon the ground that while Kalloch's attack
was made on De Youngs mother, De Young
only attacked his father That is distinction
with difference, but the difference is very
small 1t is probable there is not a man on
the coast who believes that if De Young had
had the same weapon with which to attack
Kalloch, he would not have used it unspair
ingly, and no man run over the files OF
the Chronicle for month back, without the
conviction that he deserved all that kalloch
said especially as it was matter of previous
publication and notoriety, which De Young
had never resented. The comparison between
the characters of the men means nothing IN
the present Issue the great question is In
regard to public morals and the condition of
political parties as represented by such men.
There is one phase of this issue which one
can not contemplate without feeling of sor
row: the use of public journals as vehicles of
the kind of filth which has graced the columns
of the Chronicle for weeks Mr. Perkins,
who it is conceded is an upright and honorable
man, has been dragged before the world as
though just escaped from the ordeal of a
Reno tar bucket. Denis Kearney who was
a few short months ago their patron saint,
(St. Dens) has been held up as the embodi
ment of cruelty, cowardice, blackguardism
and ignorance and kalloch, who was IN !
all conscience black enough, has been |
painted as the incarnation of lechery, |
peeulation, hypocrisy, land grabbing, horse
stealing and every other sin against the cologue, |
and to carry bitterness further, the mem
DRY of a dead father dragged from the
the grave and the denunciations of the second |
commandment brought to bear on his devoted
head. To this last, Kalloch replied in kind,
and the high toned De Young avenged the
assault from behind the blinds of a covered
coupe We have looked for such a denOue-
meat from the beginning of the struggle, but
never from De Young. We never supposed
that he, of all others, could muster pluck
enough to even resent kick. There was one
episode of the excitement attendant upon the
shooting which exhibited one of those opportu-
mites of chance, or providence, which now and
then are thrown in the way of men; we refer
to the action of Dennis Kearney. Those who
head mob which would lay city in ruins {
and revenge itself on Capital, must have been
agreeably disappointed at his course on Satur-
day. 1t wanted but Dennis to say the word,
and no prison walls would have saved De
Young, and that prison would have fallen like 7
the Bastile; but he used his power over that
seething mob in manner which no mere l
demagogue would, and as but few men-cer-
tainly none of his class-ever did before. 1t !
was an act worthy of Roman and never ex- !
celled, and Dennis can afford to drop his old
style and assume a better and higher tone J.
While we write, the condition of the wounded !,
man is not known here, but he probably lives; ~
which for the sake of law and order we trust
he will continue to do His death would I'M d
be the signal for an outbreak, and h
result in scenes of blood, as the authorities are
prepared for such emergency. If he lives, he =,
will undoubtedly be Mayor and the Working
mems party throughout the State will receive
arge additions. The prospects of the FL. Bs. o.
lave been lessened down very materially F
within two days and the effect must be disas- tt
rous, if it ever had hope. Whatever the re- sc
ult may be, it is to be hoped that candidates al
md journalists have learned a lesson which lii
hould not be sighted that personal abuse lie
viii be abandoned, and our political conflicts W
70 carried on without disgusting the public 81
nth personalities, and devoting our journals 1t
o bitter vituperation, and obscene epithets 81
hitch render them unfit to enter our houses 81
We look with anxiety for the result of Mr..
lalloch's wounds for much hangs upon that -,
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