Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-04-23
THE SNAKE SCOTCHED.


APPEAL office, kissing and rattlmg incessenty
In this harmless diversion he was not inter
rupted. Three days ago he took the liberty
of crawling into our doorway Feeling that
there ought to be some limit placed npon the
reptiles intrusiveness, we temporarily turned
aside from the duties of editing respectable
family newspaper and mashed the head Of the
snake with the first brick bat that came to
hand. 1t required three rather substantial
blows to effect the ouietus. Even new the
body wrigglss a little as will be seer in the
Tribune of last night:
A personal warfare having been forced on
the Tribune, the which must be entirely unin
teresting to its readers, it is proposed TO take
no heed to anything of that nature which'the
malevolence and vimdictiveness of the APPEAL
editors may pnbIish; at least not in print.
The altamatum of the Tribune senior editor
appears in Wednesday issue, by which dirt
throwing was left in the competent hands OF
the APPEAL staff
Just so long as this wrigLllng is kept up we
propose to pound away with the club. Expe-
rience has taught US that there are certain
duties which are never in danger of being over
done The squecl ing of the Carson Tribune
is one of them. Although this warfare may
not be interesting to the readers of the Trib-
uite, it is decidedly interesting TO the readers
Of the APPEAL. We warned our contempt
rary that the controversy would not subside
at any bidding but our own. We propose to
make our word good rs we are in the habit of
Ia haS made he oh \ p
PEAL has been kept alive by charity and that
if the Tribune had been SO sustained its edi
tor would not have bit the hand that fed it
Some years ago r. r. Parkinson, the senior
editor of that sheet, borrowed $500 of Gov
ernor l.. r. Bradley and gave his note for the
amount. At the time of borrowing the money
he had ne idea of paying it, as subsequent
events show. When Gov Bradley finally de-
manded payment on the note Parkinson de-
clined to settle, holding that in some mystic
rious way he had given HIM. value received.
The Governor, deeming that his position as
Chief Executive Of Nevada would be compro-
missed by legal squabble with r. r. Parkln-
son, transferred his claim to Senator Thomp-
son, of Washoe, who brought suit for the
money and attached the press, Parkinson
fearing this turn of affairs, sent to the APPEAL
office and begged to be allowed to print his
paper with us. Sheriff Swift served the at
tachment, and it was his business to have re-
moved the press from the building the law
directed. Plying the dilemma of the poor old
man, and receiving his solemn word of honor
that the debt would be paid that day, he al
lowed the press to remain and gave the totter
ing sheet another lease of life. About this
time Yerington, Rice, Helm and others went
on a replevin bond, and saved the paper from
suspension. As natural consequence the
bsndsmen were obliged to settle with the
plaintiff for the Bradley note. So much for
the charity proposition. Now let us see if
Parkinson ever 90 bit the hand that fed him.
Swift, the man who went out of his way as
an officer to save the old man from ruin be-
cause he pittied his condition, was covered
with abuse by the Tribune in the Dolly Var
den campaign, while Hill was supported, that
the paper mig Int live another year on sheriff 5
advertising, and Governor Bradley was hound
to his grave by Parkinson, who bites any hand
the instant it ceases TO feed him. The Virginia |
and Truckee Railroad Company Is the hand |
that now doles out the hog and hominy to The |
Tribune, and the fangs are ready to bite the |
day the food allowance is not forthcoming |
The Tribune wants this controversy stopped. |
Hardly. We have laid in six months sup
DIV of ammunition and we propose to exhaust |
it We have ransacked two continents for |
evidence, and we did not go to all that trouble
for three days amusement. We propose to
80 regulate the affairs of the Tribune that no
man will be bulied int advertising in it, or
browbsaten into subscribing fer it, through |
fear Of the editors malice. We propose to
stand between it and helpless community.
The only flag of truce which can be raised
over the ruins of the Tribune office is an
apology thorough it's columns to Henry R.
Mighels, whose memory it has SO ghoulishly
assaulted. As for the assault on our own
character, the winds of Spring could not fan
our cheeks with less effect. The threat that
this warfare will be carried on in some other
way is intended, doubtless, to convey the idea
that it will be shifted from the columns Of the
papers into the open street. If ever any rep
resentative of the Tribune tumbles into that
FIRE, the manner in which he will long for the
cnol ratraat Of 10 frvino NON |