Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-01-28
Dailp 5entinel.
JANUARY %. 1888
SUNDAY
tNDIRECTION.

1t is prima facie evidence OF a small
and Of a mean spirit, to resort to
Misrepresentation or indirection in order
to crafty personal pique or spite. This
sort of Justification is bad enough IN
mere n~eighborhood gossip, but 1t is worse
when practiced in public print. 10 say
nothing Of its effects, which are IRENE
disblv harmful, it is u~njournalistic,
mean and contemplate. The Morning
Appeal. published at Carson City, under
its present editorial management, DIS
played its cloven foot during the last
political campaign so often and with such
utter disregard of truth, to say nothing
OF journalistic propriety, that the SENrI-
MEL did not hesitate to brand 1t as a
constituencies newspaper. The hlthy
Recommendations that it made during
those times of political heat, and the
shameless personal scandals that 1t rolled
under its tongue as toothsome morsels,
were of a nature that sharply defined
the character of their author and pub
Usher. The remaining friends OF that
once highly respectable and splendidly
edited journal may plead the excitement
Of that period in extenuation OF Its I'M
proprieties and indecencies, but there IS
nothing to be said, now, when no DIS
turbing influence exists, in apology Tor
it's continued prostitution. In its issue
of last Thursday the Morning Appeal
published the following article, which
calls forth the above criticism, almost a
repetition of what we have had to say Of
that journal on previous occasions
''Relative to the report that Governor
Adams will appoint Garrard as his Pri-
vate Secretary # he loses the Warden
ship OF the State Prison, the Leader says
'.Governor Adams, we know, is too
reliable a gentleman to offer any induce
ments to Major Garrard, after having
appointed already ex-Speaker Merrill as
his Private Secretary, causing the latter
to leave his home and practice at Eureka
to assume the duties Of his new position"
"And their organ, the SENTINEL, re-
marks: 1t is generally understood that
VIM. Garrard is to be Governor Adams
Private Secretary after the adjournment
of the present Legislature. 1t may be
even stated right here, on authority, that
this is a fact. The statement is not
made for the sake Of a newspaper item,
but in order rather to set speculation at
rest as to the tenure Of office Of the
present incumbent"
If there were evidence wanting to
prove that the writer OF the above lacks
a conscience, this little piece OF indirec-
ton would supply it. The Appeal en-
deavors, in this contemplate republics-
ton, to daub Governor Adams and the
SENTINEL, with the slime Of which it
has evidently a copious supply left from
the recent political campaign. 1t first
revamps the slur upon Mr.. Adams in its
quotation from the Leader. Then it quotes
a selection OF sentences that pleased its
prejudices from a SENTINEL article, re-
published in such a way as to give the
impression among its readers that the
SENTINEL confirmed what the Leader
had said-which is the very opposite
of the truth. The sentiment which
the Appeal aims to manufacture is that
Gov. Adams has gone and done a dirty
thing and the SENTINEL has said; "Yes,
he has done so, and we uphold him in
it," Had the Morning Appeal been man
full and honest it would have done Gov.
Adams and the SENTINEL plain justice;
it would not nave contorted and misap-
piled the expression OF this paper.
Nothing but an utter lack of moral
sense in the profession hindered it from
giving, as follows, the u~tteranoes of the
SENTINEL with their legitimate bearing
and force. In order that our bilious
contemporary may not keep the SENTI-
Sci in the false position which it is
forced to temporarily occupy relative to
Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Merrill, we repro
duoe what the SENTINEL did say, which
is a statement of the facts in the case:
lit was known to the editor of the
SENTINEL before the appointment of
Hon. George W. Merrill had been an
nounced that his incumbency would be
for the session OF the Legislature only,
or until the expiration of Mr.. Garrard's
term as Prison Warden. We know that
when Mr.. Merrill accepted the engage
ment it was with an explicit understand
ing Of the conditions as announced in
this article"
We shall demand of the Carson APP
peal that if, hereafter, it makes quota
from this paper, it shall do so with
out indirection or Of purpose.