Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-15
/ VERY QUESTIONABLE TRANSACTION.


The disturbance in the Baptist denomi.
nation over the Kallochs still continues.
The factional fight at times assumes the
character of a sort of religious guerrillaism.
The following, from the Yolo Democrat,
details the capture of derominational or
gan by the Kalloch clans:
From the Eeangel of September 22d we
learn that Rev. j. T. Prior has retired from
the editorial control of said paper, and
from all connection with it, he having sold
it to other parties. Mr.. Prior is well
known in this county, as he resided here
OF the Erdngel. His many friends will re-
| greet the necessity which compelled him to
dissolve his connection with the Baptist
organ of this State. When he took charge
of the Ecdngel he promised our Baptist
friends to make them strictly denomina-
tional Journal, free from partisanship and
all personalities. This promise he kept, as
his readers well know, with unfiinching in.
tegrity. But this meant death to all par
ties-K allochism as well as anti kallochism.
Consequently the Abbott faction first drew
off from his support and started a monthly
with five hundred 50-cent subscribers as a
rival sheet, with the avowed design of
supplanting the Erangel under Mr. Prior's
management. Finally, this policy of the
Euaagel led Mr.. Prior to criticise DR.. Kali
loch and his church. Mr.. P. was bound to
recognize Kalloch in his official standing as
Baptist minister, so long as he was fellow
shipped by the Baptists. This he did, even
to his own injury, from loyalty to Baptist
principles. Yet these criticisms of Mr.. K.
and his church were not palatable. Kali
loch threatened to start a rival paper, and
thus biased the mind of the foreman in
Mr.. P.'s absence. With the same loyalty
to the Baptist cause he ever dealt heavy
blows upon partisans and schismatics.
Now, it viii probably be denied by the
Kalloch clique that all this had anything
to do with their capture of the EcangeL from
Mr.. Prior. But facts speak louder than
words. Through an easily frightened or
which is more likely true, an easily in
Auenced foreman, who had advanced Mr.
Prior some type on time, and whom Mr..
Prior owed about five or six bundled dol
lars, they succeeded in gaining their much
coveted prize. From our personal knowi-
edge of him, we are able to state that Mr.
Prior proved most interchangeable worker
nearly doubling his subscription list in
sixteen months. The common sense of
mankind will brand the foreman as a
traitor to Mr.. Prior, unless he can explain
why he attached his office during his ab-
sence, and while Mr.. Prior was doing such
effective work on the paper. We opine
that people will look behind the thin pre-
text, and see in this action the master
hand of the sharper thai accom-
plished this unexpected result. Why
else should set of Baptist preachers
either scare or urge foreman into
sale of his account 4; and on Mr.. Prior's
refusing to sell to party or clique, why
should they refuse to buy the said fore
mans account and attach themselves
Manifestly, because they wished the odium
of breaking down brother editor, and Of
striking a death. blow to the denomina-
tional organ, to rest on the simple hearted
foreman. Rev. A. J. Frost and Winfield
Scott have in this transaction given evil
dence that they are at least meddlesome
and capable of very mean and contempti-
bic business. And back of these. is seen
the deep schemer, kalloch, though he was
together with his Boswelite. Rev. G. a.
DuChDcS, hcSuDt, GIpot anu haltuCu, tHcSt
four and no more Alas When men
who should have stood by Mr..
Prior, because they so often in
dorsed him in public, have apparently
copspirea to crush him, even in SO doing
they must destroy the Baptist organ in this
State! Mr.. 2. has perhaps lost his time,
labor and some money in having to make
forced sale of the paper; but he scars far
above such men and their contemplate lit
tlsness. The Baptists of this State should
arise and put down factIonists. They
should clamor for strictly denominational
journal; and more, they should set Mr..
Prior up in an independent Office in San
Francisco and tell him {" to fight it out on
the line assumed in the face of Kalloch-
ties and anti Kallochites. His old sub.
scribers, If they are made of the stuff we
think they are. win rally to him almost to
a man. 1t will remain burning shame if
the Baptists suffer their temporarily de-
feated leader to be crushed by this appa-
rently premeditated blow. They cannot
find one truer, to their best interests.