Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-06
ACCOUNTABLE JOURNALISM.

| On Wednesday morning the Enterprise
turned its guns loose upon two Republican
State officers, demanding their impeachment.
Speaking of Jasper Babcock, it said:
From the minute he entered Office his ca
reer has been series of receptions. The
Legislature was in constant conflict with his
exorbitant bills; he appointed a deputy on a
condition that the deputy should divide his
salary with him; he has just appointed an in
competent man to the position of Supacin-
tendent of State Printing, because, he
stated to the writer, he was afraid Of the
Senator whose friend is the appointee.
Yesterday morning the same pen wrote:
As for Mr.. Babcock, the Enterprise owes
him an apology for connecting him with an
evident job which he tried to prevent being
consummated. We have information that,
SO far as the accounts Of his Office are concern
ed, he courts investigation, and we are also
informed that everything connected with the
Office Of Secretary of State is as straight as a
string
This is the second time that tho Enterprise
has beleaguered Babcock, and the second
time that it has crawled on its belly IN apol-
~
tack considered Mr. Babcock disgrace to
his Office, simply, because he did not appoint
printer in the Enterprise Office az the State
Printer. On Thursday night the editor of
the Eat.'priss, having ascertnined that Bab
cock voted for his choice, Immediately Mr..
Babceck changes from designing scoundrel
to e strictly honorable gentleman. We sub
hit that this style OF journalism is simply
a5oIninable. The man who wrote the per
sonal stack and who penned the humble apol-
egg really reasoned in this wise: If hir.
Babcock did not vote for my man for State
Printer he is clearly guilty OF swindling Dir.
McFadden, his former deputy, and should be
impeached." Next day he reasoned in this
wise "Nr. Babceck having voted for my man
is entirely innocent of having swiadled his
deputy and should net be impeached The
course Of the Enterprise during the campaign
has been q continued series of APOLOGIZE 1t
abused Babccck (twice) and apolssized (twice)
Il abused Col. Fair and apologized next day.
1t next charged the APPEAL with being an
accessory to blackmail and then apelosized.
In fact the editor is daily standing it an atti
tude of apology and his paper is standing
apology for daily Journal Having thrown
mud in all directions and arslosized to every
enc who was hit, he new proceeds to de-
nounce the appointment of State Printer as
an outrage Oh the taxpayers of tho State
In to-merrow's issue we will begin to show
how the State has been swindlel during the
past two years by the most infamous kind of
a State printing job, and that man now en-
ploysd in the Enterprise office was at the bot
tom of the job Ii we do not prove it by facts,
documents and figures, We will present our
apologies to Marshall Robinson, State Printer
and c. A.E. Putnam, the accessory expert.
CALIFORNIA UNCERTA1N.-The latest dis.
patch from San Francisco Q1:30 last mighty,
states that the State will not 80 more than
200 either way for Garfield or Hancock, and |
the result is undecided.
SHARoNs flesh and bones are strewn all |
over the field. He must have swallowed |
hell which axplOded few minutas later