The herald., 1895-12-08
THE TIMES

prentice hand-whO has been driven
from the open into corne- for want OF
goou ground of defense. forgess himself
and INDUCES in sneers, insinuatlons and
threats which he knows himself lncapa-
BILE of proving, making good or CARRYING
out, he is simply guilty of unwarranted
editorial and personal conduct-conduct
unworthy vi him self and OF the Journal
which he mismanages for the time being.
Such facts are not honorable or manly,
and have no terrors for ybody.-L Los
Angeles Times.
The foregoing querulous outburst was
presumably called forth py the follow
nc editorial utterance in Tbs Herald OF
Friday morning:
Upon the course of the Times The Her
aid feiicitates Itself. 1t makes manifest
to the public that somebody is getting
hurt. In this connection we take occas-
ion to remark, for the benefit OF the null
titude OF friends the Times has made in
its nigh handed and belligerent career,
that if they will keep sharp lookout, fo'
a few short weeks, they will recognize signs
trouble in the eyIie of the 0roIde eagle
bird.
The construction placed on The Her
AIDS remarks BY the Times in the para
graph we have quoted will suggest in
the minds OF multitude of people the
suspicion that the editor of our falsify-
ing and impudent conte mporary is DOS
sesse5 of a conscience not altogether
guiltless. In the parlance of the street.
she gives himself away The HeraId's
editorial cap was not of the shape that
his fevered and fearful imagination gave
it, however gra csfully one of that style
might adorn his Uranium. The point of
the words that seem to have elevated his
susceptible choler was not one of personal
derogation. The Herald has not yet
reached that bridge. The trouble in the
eyrie OF the oroide eagle bird" to which
reference was had will not be OF the per-
sonal kind, except incidentally. But if
the supersensitive and self-yalued editor
who apparently and appropriately deem $
himself in the ''sere and yellow leaf" of
journalism aches for the other pattern Of
neadgear. The Herald may readily fur
nish it at a trifling cost.
The indecent, malicious and untruth
full treatment which the Times has ao-
corded the matter of The Herald 8
Thanksgiving edition is inspired by the
selfish intolerance with which it view S
every act or deed OF a rival which is cal
culated to increase the popularity OF that
rival. Its course has but one merit--that
of consistency. 1t is in complete bar
mony with the long established policy of
the paper. No consideration of public
good or private right has avaIled to pre-
vent unreasonable, vicious and SANDER
Gus assaults by the Times whenever it
discerned the possible success OF another
IN fold With tbis
fact the residents of Los Angeles are
familiar, and with our assertion of it
they wall concur. In order to accomplish
the ends OF thi, journal with the porcine
instincts and the vulture-like proclivities,
motives of persons and corporations have
been mlsrepresented, characters villain
ously assaled and the ample res eivoiI
of m endacity that is the most conspiou-
Gus feature OF the Times editorial equip
ment repeatedly exhausted.
The advocacy of any important cause
by any other paper, no matter nDw mefi-
torious or how intimately related to the
welfare of the community from which
the Times draws its sustenance. has been
considered all sufficient reason by the
Times foi opposing the pro ect advocated.
The attitude adopted by it regarding the
contest to secure the next National Re-
publican convention for California,
affords striking illustration of the ex-
tent to which its gnoble characteristics
will lead it. Elsewhere The Herald of
today places the issue of veracity between
itself and the Times in q form that will
compel the latter journal to substautiate
Nd havonI ka f,,f,
of its utterances regarding the Than ks
giving edition OF The Herald, or stand
before the community as wanting in the
first essentials OF a newspaper, honor,
reliability an Il fairness.