Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-13
eureka Dailp Sentinel.
SHANE.

IL will be remembered that the Sen
r1NEL called attention several times to
the suspicious and singular behavior OF
the Associated Press in sending out its
reports OF the election. At the time it
may have appeared to some persons,
perhaps, that we were merely prejudiced
against the institution. 1t now tran
spires, however, that our apprehensions
of u~nfairness on the part of the Associ-
ated Press were well grounded. 1t is
stated upon positive information that
jay Gould, who owns the agency,
controlled it for about two days
in his own interests, and that the dis
patches it sent throughout the country,
claiming to be news, were nothing more
nor less than cooked up reports to suit
him and Steve Elkins and other trick
sters of that ilk who were in collision
with him. The principal aim was, of
course, if possible, to destroy the ire
sistible impression that was growing up
in the minds of the people that Cleve-
land had been elected. Forty-eight
hours of delay might be of great import
ance. 1t might give the manipulators a
chance to collect their wits and perfect
some desperate scheme to seat Mr.. Blaine
whether righteously elected or not.
And how much would such a project be
helped out by the conviction, if it could
be manufactured by perverting the
news, that Cleveland's election was only
a Democratic lie! The plot, with such
deeply biased and unscrupulously parti-
san papers as the New York Tribune and
San Francisco Chronicle to flesh it up
and blow a little life into its n~ostrils,
has already even assumed a plausible
shape, and is deceiving many fair, honest
citizens who are led to hope for Presi-
Dental success by the lying figures put
forward by their crafty party chiefs and
the desperate newspaper organs of their
party. There is a wide scope for apol-
ogy in politics. 1t is a kind Of warfare
in which the sort of weapons or tactics
used cannot be criticised according to
the letter Of Scripture, but the line must
be drawn somewhere. We cannot adj
NIT of absolute prostitution in politics,
for through this medium alone can the
voice OF the people be heard. We AN.
not afford to have the source of news for
the country fouled. The community
may take stones for bread, but they cam
not accept lies for truth. One of the
most wholesome results that ought to
come from a change of administration is
reform in the dissemination of news.
We shall sturdily hope that with the in
auguration Of Cleveland the Associated
Press will rise high enough to become, at
least, half.w a decent.
Apropos of this the New York Times
of the 9th inst. says:
The fears of a count out" in this
State are, we believe, entirely groundless.
The app~rehensions OF a possible count
ing out" which were entertained yester-
day by persons to whom such a design
was the only explanation that presented
itself of the alarming claims made by
Gould may be safely dismissed, and We
can afford to smile at the last desperate
struggles Of a beaten gang of conspira-
ter is that a stock jobber should have
been able to use for the purpose of mud
ding the public mind the chief of the
agencies on which the people of this
country depend for their news. That
the Western Union Company should
have been exclusively employed for a
day as the %mouthpiece of Gould's lies is
a national scandal which really indicates