Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-07-26
SENATOR FAIR.
his Troubles With the SacrQ.
mentO Bee.

| Inc regular hepuOncaDS OF TIL:
State must have noticed few year:
ago the utter look of aggressiveness
manifested by the Republican
| journals of this State, in relation
to Col. Fair who was running fol
the U. S. Senate. Some peculia,
influence seemed to pervade the
atmosphere, which kept the Repub-
lican journals of Nevada from
expressing any opinion relative to
his fitness for the place. The same
binding haze is in the atmosphere
| now and the APPEAL is astonished
TO find two leading Republican
journals giving a quasi endorse
ment to Fair. Not long ago a let
ter appeared is the Sacramento
Bee from Fair, which the Enter
prise and the Reno Journal copied.
The letter was as follows:
OFFICE OF JAMES G.. FAIR,
A, b, T., No. go MONTG'Y ST, :
SAN FRANCISCO, july II, 1885. }
Messrs. McClatchey d Co., Editors
a"a pror,'ietors sacramento Bee. >
GENTLEMEN In your PAPER there
has. at various times during the
past two months. appeared several
references to me Of an offensive
personal character. | have no OBJ
lection to offer to any criticism,
however severe. Of my actions as
punlic servant. but the attacks to
which l now direct your attention
are devoted entirely to scandalous
aspersions upon my private charac-
ter, and upon my family affairs.
These things l certainly do object
to. They are utterances Of a man
with whom l have never had bust
ness or personal relations, and
whom / am not conscious Of hav-
ing given any PROPAGATION to in
splre his malicious writing. From
what, after careful inquiry, l have
learned IS TO the character Of the
Bee and its publishers, I am sur
prised that such a journal should
have become the medium for the
publication Of such grossly exag-
gerated or utterly groundless do
mestic scandal, as your San Fran
cisco correspondent has been fur
nishlng to your readers. / am
seeking no controversy with news
papers, nor thrusting my private
business or family affairs upon the
public, and therefore trust that,
without further discussion between
rs. you viii see the justice Of this
protest against the continuance Of
the attacks | refer to.
Yours very respectfully,
JAMES G FAIR.
The average man on peruslng
the above cunning epistle would
imagine that the Senator had been
greatly injured by certain strict
ures Of Arthur McEwen the San
Francisco correspondent Of the Bee
1t would have been fairness to both
parties to have printed both the
letter and reply, which the APPEAL
has done.
The reply was as follows: "Sena-
TOR Fair writes very fairly, indeed,
but if he will take the trouble to
look oyer the Bee, he will find that
our San Francisco correspondent
has not written one single word in
reference to him since the 9th day
Of last June. On that day there
was little joke upon him pub
lished. The only other mention
made of the Senator by our CORE
spondent was on May Both, when
an entire letter was devoted to him.
No domestic scandal purely Of
his own, was published in that, nor
has there been any such in the let
ters referred to at any time. There
was nothing in that particular let
ter, either, that any newspaper has
not perfect right to publish about
any public servant. 1t certainly
takes Senator Fair very lcns tine
to find out how badly he has been
treated. The trouble, we opine,
however, is not with any Of the
referred to. The domestic
scandal to which objection is
made is most likely the fact that |
James G. Fair, Jr., went down to
Santa Cruz, got drunk and made
contemplate hound of himself by |
abusing his own mother, in Ian
nuoUA too vi1o ~ hn ,eoI IN .o,,