Nevada County picayune., 1889-07-31
Good Democracy---Sound Logic

Good emocracy---Sound Logic.
 While we were absent in Georgia, last week, the Arkansas Democrat undertook to read Us lesson and msreprcscnted us. Before getting the last issue of the Washington , Press. we had answered the article ] 1t appears on opposite page-else we might have taken the manly defense of Us by Bro. Eakin, which we copy below anyway, as an answer. Col. Eakin is one of the ablest and strong est writers in the state. and young man like ourself. We thank him for his coming to our rescue, copying the Democrats unjust article and answering it so nicely, while we were away last week:
 How easily advice flows from the pen of the veteran editor Mitchell to young men of the craft in the state. There are several young men" who have given Bro. Mitchell some good and wholesome advice, which. had he followed it, would have put him in better flavor with the people to-day. We sympathise with Bro. Gardner in the sad and tired' feeling that he experiences, and say for him that he has been as i forward as the Democrat in denounc- ing all kinds of frauds in the Demo- cratic party. He has been even more Jealous in denouncing them when committed by the Democratic party than the Democrat has when committed by the Republican party. Bro. Mitchell has got the idea into his head that he is the one and only great Democratic fraud condemner and denouncer. He is afraid that the public will lose sight of this one idea, his pet and only idea, and he parades it constantly, sometimes in new costume and stepping to different music, but it is there in all of its unadulterated originality He seems afraid that somebody will ac- cuse him of being red hot politi- elan, and he keeps up steam, ad- vertsing blood on the moon" and writes ''red hot politics on the oth CT extreme in every issue. This is what makes us weary, and our weari- ness develops into state of lassi- tude when we see him dishing out 1 doses of advice. wholesome advice' as he calls it, to the young men who edit newspapers throughout the state.
 Bro. Mitchell is a sage, seer, po- litical philosopher He has been ed iting a newspaper long time and it is said financially has had the best luck of any newspaper man in the state. He probably feels in a posi- ton to give advice to these young men, but from our personal abserva- tion and persual of the writings of these young men as compared with those of the Democrats editor we would say that stranger to all par l ties would have some difficulty in de- termining the relative ages and ex- i periences of the several editors. The grey hair of the veteran sage would in imagination assume the glossy hue of young and immature manhood.
 We are sorry to say it, but Bro. Mitchell's one idea is a delusion. He is not the sole and only denounc- CT of Democratic frauds. Every Democratic paper of any respecta- bility in the state has been forward in denouncng frauds of whatever kind with impartiality and without fear or favor. They have had the good sense not to run the thing into the ground, and there is the only difference. The Democrat is all right if it ever knew when to let up on thing. Extremes are generally to be found at both ends of string if followed long enough.