Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-11-06

SAN Francisco. Nov. S, 1883.
SENTINEL: Ny action prompted by your
Nov. /. Much regret circum-
stances but feel cannot overlook it.
A: RICHARDSON.
We will quote the article referred to and
tell what caused it to be written. We will
say first, however. that this dispatch from
Mr.. Richardson was quite q surprise in
every way. In the first place we had
never fiattered ourselves that anything the
might say would be considered
of sufficient importance to occupy the
minds Of people in San Francisco at all.
We had Hattered ourself that we might say
the meanest and bitterest things in the
world and they would never be felt beyond
the limits Of our own small journalistic
field. But 10! We are magnifed into
such an importance that our sayings are
against US, and on account Of
them we are no to have the privilege
hitherto held to be common to all news
papers who pay for it. We are to be cut
off entirely from u kilograms because Of
article criticising. the Associated Press.
The fattery thus indirectly thrown out is
the only balm to the wound that Mr..
Richardson ~inflicts.
We shall reproduce the cause Of offense
and the cause Of that cause.
But does IL not appear remarkable that
the Associated Press of California should
single ont this paper On which to wreak its
vengeance? Have not all the papers Of
the Coast which are moi Republican (these
have no occasion for adverse criticism)
scored the Associated Press of the East
and Of the West for the prostitution Of
itself to partisan purposes? Certainly.
Such structures are so common in the long
suffering Democratic journals throughout
the United States that they have come to
be looked upon rather ss 3 necessity, and
rs uttered in pure self-defense. The As
ISOLATED Press is universally looked upon
as a political ally Of the Republican party,
and it is freely criticised by every Demo-
cratic newspaper which feels that its party
gets a black eye on account Of it. Strange,
then. that the patient telsgraphic monopo-
ly should take the lash 80 long without re.
sentiment and, at last, seek put the Eureka
SENTINEL, a little obscure sheet, as the
martyr Of its choicel
The right Of newspapers to discuss the
acts Of the Associated Press will hardly be
denied. It il an agent of the public, .
public servant, and as such it is amenab]s
to the bar of public opinion. 1t should be
clean-handed and fair, but if it will be
partisan and unjust it will hear Of it from
the organs of the party which its studied
efforts are directed to injure and defeat.
It is known by everybody how the coun-
try has been flooded with one-sided dis
patches in favor of the Republican party;
how news favorable to the Democratic side
of the house has been kept back; and how
q partisan toni has been impaired to all its
news of . political nature. And yet all
this when Democratic journals pay the
same as their Republican contemporaries
for their dispatches, and have every other
right to demand square DEAL"
Particular instances Of this could be
given to fill . book bigger than anybody
would ever wade through. But there is
no need to do more than suggest this.
The article which has brought us under
the wrath of Mr.. Richardson, whom and
the Associated Press, we have to consider
IS one, is simply this:
GREAT GOD!
We call upon . being supposed to be
omniponent. II he is not that he ia not
anything. Great insuperable and all COM
prehensive Being, what does that agent Of
the Republican party, the Associated Press,
mean by its telegram in this mornings
SENTINEL? unprecedented demand for
Republican campaign documents" Are we
daft and senseless, or is the agent referred
to Q liar? We seem to have q wholesome
use Of the five senses. and we have an sbid-
ing confidence that we are not lunatic
or idiotic. We have warned an honest and
unsuspicious public against the Asso-
ciated Press-an insidious foe OF the
Commonwealth. an ally Of the bad in the
Republican party. That il is q liar goes
without saying. II would sell itself for
less than q mess of pottage. 1t may tell
the truth, but if SO it does it by accident,
and because it means the contrary. 1t
would rather lie (for the Republican party
for g~reenbacks at q discount than tell the
truth for the Democratic party for gold
held at par the world over. One almost
gets to feel that lying is human and truth
a monstrosity; that is, that to be honora-
bic is monstrous. II success (bury the
term as q prostitute) means the crown Of
fortunate filth, brand it in our vocabulary,
and say that it crystallizes original sin and
the ignobility of this small race Of animals
that we belong to. Demand for Repub-
lican campaign documents I" II this were
true we would warm up to despots. We
would lick the boots Of the Gear OF Russia,
Better the heel Of the brute than the poison