Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-04-20
REGARDING THE TRIBUNE.

During the six wears in which the Carson
Tribune has maintained precar us and dis
graceful existence, the MORNING. APPEAL has
never, in any shape or under any pretext con-
descended to engage IN discussion with H..
The late proprietor of the APPEAL ana not
consider the owners on editors of the Tribune
establishment AS liz persons with whom to en-
gage in the discussions which gentlemen fol-
lowing the profession of journalism are in
the habit of indulging. Subsequent develop
,nents in the United States Circuit Court
proyed the correctness of the theory nsld by
the late Honorable Henry h. Mighels For
years the Tribune has heaped abuse and defa-
nation upon he APPEAL and all connected with
it. This paper has, however, adhered to its
old policy of silence, deeming that any contre-
yersy with the parties above alluded to could
not, from the nature of things, be confined to
the proper limits of journalistic del e. The
present editor Of this paper has taken every
pains to avoid replying to the personal attacks
which have been made upon himself, believing
that a man Just trembling upon the verge OF
the penitentiary and standing before the peo-
pie of Carson convicted Of felony, would
have the common sense to drop personalities.
1t was the determination of the editor to al
low tais inconsiderate opponent to quietly
slip into the oblivion provided for him by the
law He is not content with this arrange
ment but taking advantage of the fact that
the APPEAL has remained silent SO long, con-
tinues his malignant course fancying himself
by this paper to pursue policy of silence.
There is IA limit to patience and that limit has
been reached. Last night the Tribu3ts reiter-
ates its lying assertion that the APPEAL has
received pecuniary assistance from the Y. &
T. r. r. Company, and that it is kept alive
by charity. The veracity OF Mr.. Mighels was
above question even by his enenlies during
his life; it is far above discussion by his
friends at this time. The Trt6~,ta referring
to itself says:
Its success has been owing to steadfast laber,
and 1t has not been kept alive by charity If
it had it's editors wOuld net have turned
around and bit the hand which fed them.
If it has been successful, why has it for
years past been wholly unable to pay its
debts and why is it that its editor is obliged
to resort to petty swindling in order to travel
about the country, as we propose to show he
has done. Some weeks ago the San Jose
Mercury come out i'll defense of the present
editor of the Tribune, to which the Santa
Cruz Sentinel of April 81 replies as follows
Somehow the Mercury has a way of defend
ing about every fraud and convict it mentions
in its columns. Atherton, the murderer of
May, it defended as it did Colby, the muir
derer of Williams, and who was executed |
here few weeks ago. We know nothing of
the case of Parkinson, who has been con-
victed of illegal voting, bat We know some
thing of the man and his acts while here. h e |
came to Santa Cruz daring the month OF June,
1879, and this fac old d" Deacon" he was
sure to call himself, borrowed SO at this
office, which he has failed to pay. He left an
unpaid board bill at the Ocean House, where
a gold headed cane "a gltO Is In soak. He
swallowed medicine, drank medicated whisky
and borrowed $40 at ChristaPs drug store, all
of which he failed to pay, and if he is not
very much injured man he borrowed money,
$40 at a time, from railroad contractors, which
he has failed to pay up to date We consider
him disgrace to journalism. The newspaper
man who will ineratiate himself into the good
graces of business men by writing pufs, and
then commit blackmail under the guise of
loan, should be in stripes and behind bars
From what we know Of Parkinson we believe
he is guilty of illegal voting, and We trust he
will get the full measure OF the law. He is
an alien Englishman, and as he used his sheet
to abuse native born Americans whose election
he opposed, let him squira, and cease slobber
ing over J. J. Owen when the latter again
lectures in Carson.
The above is but marker of the facts we
have in eur possession regarding one who
for years past has been putting decent men
upon the filthy pillory of his abuse, antil he
has begun to imagine himself walking terror
to the community. He has for months past
sought personal controversy with this paper.
He shall have it to his hearts content. We
simply apologize to our readers for the rev we
are about to engage in, and assure them that
the mess will soon be cleared away, as we shall
make our wsrk short and decisive.