Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-03-24
IAN ASSAULT AND ITS MOTIVE

Under this heading the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer of yesterday prints
the following exceedingly brilliant ar
ticle:
The Fairhaven HERALD has for the mo.
ment diverted its editorial view from the
realm Of Bohemia with its stale anec-
dotes and second-cass wit, to bray two
columns of abuse against the Post Intelli-
gencer. The motive of this assault IS
found In the condemnation by this Jour
nal Of Acting Governor Laughton for his
veto OF the anti Pinkertou bill, the Was
son railroad bill ana the several Other
measures demanded by the people and
objected to by the corporations Among
other false charges 1t Is asserted that the
Post-lntelligencer proceeded to berate
the acting governor without having re-
printed the acting governors messages or
without Ing forth a y other argument
than simple carping and growing" The
monstrous falsity and absurdity Of this
statement may be seen by anybody who
viii examine the flies of This
paper. The hot partiSanship Of
the HERALD no doubt draws
its inspiration from the fact that the
editor Of the HERALD was recently ap-
pointed by Acting Governor LaughiOn as
one OF the tide land appraisers over re-
monstranee from Whatcom county and
over the protest OF Representative Miller.
of Fairhaven; and from the further fact
that the president Of the HERALD company
and It's chief manager, was at the same
hands recently appointed member OF the
agricultural college commission. II is
natural that those thus indebted to Act
Ing Governor Laughton should be forced
to fight his battles, even though they be
In a bad cause; but the acting governor
really exaeis too much when he requires
them to utter positive falsehoods In a vain
attempt to protect him from public odum
Great goodness, what a gum But
like all the guns OF the P.-T., what a
load of mush.
Such stuff In a geat newspaper is
positively pitiful. 1t is another
evidence, however, that Mr.. Hunts
money, while it is remarkably potent
In the establishment Of great news
paper plant, with perfecting presses,
news service, and all that, with capa-
Bile men in its minor departments, has
failed TO place, in the place OF the man
who wrote that lot Of trash one pos
sessed of the kind Of ability appro-
pirate to the surroundings. The edi-
torial not only lacks in logic, but fails
in its intended vituperation and is
also utterly false throughout.
To make hurried dissection OF IT,:
1t intimates that the HERALD edi-
tor is a Bohemian. This was intended
TO be misleading. 1t Is not. however.
to those whounderstand that there are
and have been Bohemians who live in
their own homes and who are only
Bohemians in their love Of freedom,
liberality, unconvcntionality and the
arts. The editor OF that paper
is not Bohemian for he
has said, "no gentleman will work in
an editorial room with his coat off.
No Bohemian of any class. would say
that. He speaks OF this editors
'stale anecdotes and second-class
wit" From time TO time the P.-I.
has reprinted from the HERALD's col
nuns that "second-class wit" and
from eastern periodicals-unwittingly
{ must be confessed-many Of his
stale anecdotes" This, however, has
been done by the P-I. edi-
.or's superior subordinates, and he