, 1880-05-03


orator and been under arrest for disturb
ing the peace in drunken debauchery.
and has crowned his brief but infamous
career by cowardly and brutal murder.
resulting from political feud emenating
from the lowest grade of party politics
in which the KalIochs were recognized
leaders and the most Gcd-detying elc-
ments of mob city their followers and
con.reres.
Charles Dc Young, the victim Ut this
assassination, was not the infamous char
acter he has been represented. OF tine
men who have achieved honorable dis
tinction, few possessed in greater de
gree those qualities which achieve sue
cess and popular plaudlts, and in lesser
degree those traits Of character which
lead only to infamous notoriety. We
are not aware that any stain rests upon
his private life for which he is rcspousi
BILE; that in his personal in,ercours.. he
has ever been gully of mean or dishon>
orabe act; that his personal habits ami
department have not been uneXceptiona>
Bile. His success ms IL journalitt has been
simply wonderful, evinring The highest
elements in the character of the heroes
and statesmen who have challenged the
adm ration of the world: ambition to
incite, ability to direct, uniteL with en-
terpIise, persever nee, indomitahe will
and dauntless courage. That Charles De
Young had all these qualifications in a
/ marked if not a marvellous degree, is
manifested in what he accomplished in
the short space of fifteen years in one OF
the most difficult and hazardous under
takings, in which there are II hundred
failures to every notable success, and brain
power lis chiet motor. A poor boy
working IN printing office, Sithout
other means than the suits OF his own
labor, without family associations or in
tluences to aid his advancement, under-
t"ok alone, upon field already occupied
by wealthy and powerful competitors, II
newspaper which has fairly distanced al!
competition and taken rank among the
most successful newspaper enterprises in
the land. His methods, it must be cons
moral tone of the newspaper press or
to command the appreciation of the bet.
Same means as were employed hy James
Gordan Bennett to achieve a prosperity
which enabled him to make the Herald
the leading journal of the world. second
to none in dignity and elevation of neral
tone. That immediate success in jnrr>
ualism is only to be achieved by pander-
ing to the popular taste, is demonstra--
ble fact. and the successful popular jours
nal is but a reflex Of popular sentiments
and tastes. II it IS sensational, personal,
scandalous. verging upon indecency to
the extreme limit of the law, 1t but shows
that the Journalist has exercised business
sagacity in adapting his wares to the
market demand: he did not create this
demand. he but supplied it. We have as
great an abhorrence Of that style of jour
nalism as any one, and never uttered a
word IN commentator of the Chronicle,
for that reason, though we regard 1t as
the foremost Journal on the coast in
newpaper ability and enterprise, and the
better nature and higher aspirations of
the publisher were being rapidly asserted
in the improved moral tone o. the paper.
1t had made greater advances IN respect
ability in fifteen years than the Herald
did in the first twenty five yeals Of its
existence.
Charles De Young was brave man,
and it is foul injustice to class him in the
same category with the Kallochs of inta>
nous notoriety, or to compare his attack
upon the elder Kallnch with his own as
sassination. Kalloch was candidate for
office and his record was proper SUBJ
ject of public discussion within the limits
of facts bearing upon his character for
honesty and capacity. Mr. De Young in
his commeuts upon Kalloch contine.l
himself strictly to the public records.
Kalloch, in retaliation, finding nothing by
which he could impeach De Young,
turned the whole battery of his wrath
upon his aged mother, who presided over
his household IN irreproachable and un-
pretending domestic privacy, publicly
proclalmlng her woman of most infa-
nous character and vocation, in language
too obscene for publication. Let any
man possessed of human sensibihties i'm.