Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-11-22
FOOLISH RErORr.

A FOOLISH RErORr.
The editor of . Base Range newspaper,
smarting under some keen thrusts Of the
Stockton Mail, INDUCES in this retort:
The editor Of the Stockton Mail started
journalism as . hash-slinger ct Mineral
Hill, Eureka county, Nevada. The re-
spectacle army Of table walters are to be
congratulated that he 10 not one of them
any more.
The editor of the Stockton Mail, Mr..
Edwin Colnon, some years ago waited on
. table in Eureka county, IS he was out
of money, and willing to engage in any
honorable occupation to enable him to
live without sponging off his comrades,
or Sinking his honest debts. We knew
him when he was q night Waterman on
the Comstock, and nearly every man in
Nevada has known him as the editor of
the Virginia Chronicle. The Stockton
Mail, under his management, is n Of
the most fearlessly conducted and schol.
arly papers in California. Whatever oc-
cupation Mr.. Colnon may have followed,
he was always a well.bred gentleman,
and is now q credit to the profession OF
journalism. The man is weak indeed
who will attempt to taunt another with
having once followed an humble occupa-
ton. simply because he has since won
distinction in an profession in which his
would. be detractor has never risen above
the plane of mediocrity Carson Appeal.
The above article, as intimated, comes
from the Carson Appeal. The "keen
thrust" referred to was the use of the ep-
tibet ~"fool." applied to the editor OF the
SrNrIxEL-a convenient response when
argument fails. In this the Stockton
Mail showed 80 much good breeding"
and 90 much distinction" in journalism,
that it seemed to this paper eminently
proper to congratulate respectable table
walters that Mr.. Colnon had got out from
among them. Mr.. Colnon's biography
was referred to for the purpose of sharp
ly separating him from those who. vul-
carly speaking, ''sling hash," and in or
der to dignity their labor by excluding
him from the credit that respectable
table walters are entitled to. We have
to judge Of Mr.. Colnon by what we see
Of him in his newspaper, the Stockton
Mail. That it gives evidence Of his hav.
ing risen above the"plane Of mediocrity'
is the Judgment Of the Carson Appeal. 1t
is to be expected in due course of oon-
troversy that the recipient of this compli-
ment will retort and say that the editor
Of the Carson Appeal has risen above the
''plane of mediocrity." That will settle
it. When such gentlemen sit in judgment
upon each others merits it is not sur
prising that they both get advertised as
above the mediocre plane.
However, Notwithstanding the mutual
admiration that seems to exist be-
tween these gentlemen and the evident
relish they have in tickling each other,
we would warn Mr.. Colnon, Of whom we
know but little Except through his
..fearlessly conducted and scholarly
newspaper"), against Mr.. Davis, whom
we do know pretty thoroughly through
neighborhood revelations. He is a man
whose word his own father will not &C.
cept without extraordinary evidence to
support it. He may be sincere in his
published estimate Of Mr.. Colnon, but
as his father says, ''you never a tell
He sticks his nose into this coutro-
versy to crafty . grudge against the
editor Of the SENTINEL. The "taffy" he
holds out to the editor of the Stockton
Mail is only = by.play and . blind.
In tact, the editor of the Carson Ap'
peal is not by any means . mediocre.
He is simply q monster. By virtue oil
accidental newspaper opportunities he
has become. also. a public nuisance.
His journalism consists entirely in fish
stories" and scurrilous abuse of those
who are his superiors in every way, and
who, he coolly calculates beforehand, will
pass his scurrility by with silent con-
tempt. While thus endeavoring to poison
the air against those whose record courts
the light and il invulnerable, he
succeeds only ia fouling the air that
surrounds himself, and in causing those
who get . Whit Of him from . distance,
and who know the nature Of his filth, to
wonder what a kind Providence could
have had in view in placing him among
humans. He is . man who would be-
deck himself with the little articles oil
personal adornment worn by . dead
friend before his coffin had fairly settled
in the grave; . man who would stuff
himself with the funeral baked meats on
such an occasion, aud before digestion
get into the boots Of the departed or