, 1844-05-04
70 liz Editor Of h Radical:

ing press established in your town; but
/. the motives which have prompted this
movement, have net been explained
Does the l]Ourishing condition of the far
famed Iowling Green, call for an add
tional press, for its business purposes?
Larger fowls get along very well with
out any.
Has the Radical been unaccommodat-
ing to the public? From the abundance
Of political, religious, temperance and al
most every description of notices and dis
cussions with which your columns are
often lrcightcd, | should infer that you
had been Mr.. Public's very humble and
most obedient servant.
Is the printing husinessi in Pike coun-
ty, so lucrative as 10 excite the c~upidity
ofthc ayaricioua?
From the divers mutations and owner
ships through which the old salt River
Journal has passed, | am convinced
that it has becu but badly sustained.
But the new paper, they say, Is TO be
Wing. Why SO? Are the Wings a
frid to contend, ever handed, with the
broken and divided ranks Of the Demo
Gratis?
l had thought the Radical was whig-
gish enough in all conscience. If mis-
take moi, You have published decidedly
more original and selected matter for the
interest of the wing than for democratic
party. Nay, morc-you have allowed
your paper to be the instrument of abuse
TO the party TO which you belong, and
nave allowed yourself to be severely
reprimandeI by Wing correspondents
through your own columns, to keep
, down, IS suppose, the jealousy that
| would naturally arise, from your being
l Democrat.
What then can be the object of the
S~etterS up Of this new establishment?
Are the woulI-bc or sclf-constitutedlea-
dcrs Of the great Wig party of this
county, afraid to have Democratic and
Wing principles, 90 before the public on
the same sheet, lest the deformitv O
Whiggery should be made more appa-
rent by contrast? | have a motion"
that such is the fact. But here is the
grand secret, apprehend, after all. You
are Il Locot0co, and Wing prescription
and intolerance aims to put you down.
VIII the Democracy of old Pike submit
to this? We shall sec.
Party leaders, aristocrats, and specu-
lators may buy up presses with their
money, but to buy the honest yeomanry
of the country, Of either political party,
or to make the 'i~ndependent Wing" in
strumental in crushing an industrious
mechanic, by Withholding his patronage,
will prove to be a more difficult task
and especially SO, if shouH appear thai
The lore Of money making. has hqd more
agency IN bringing cboh this opposition TO
yOUr interest, then a regard for the main
]taiuancs of Whig principles.
On the whole, whatever may have
been the motives which has forced
(forccd, I say, for it is evident that the
interest Of the county did not call for it.
and | cannot learn that one Wing out of
a hundred is even gratiicd with the
movemcnt) this new instrument of dis
cord into the county, it cannot but be re-
gardcd as thc most fortunate event that
could have happened for the interest Of
the Democratic party. Union will now
be their watch-word. Clique and libcr-
al, hard and soft, friend and foe, will now
be seen taking sweet counsel together;
and Old Pike, at the ensuing election,
will have the honor Of again returning.
contrary TO our late expectations, a clean
Democratic delegation, to our State Lee
gislature. a DEMOCRAT.
The author Of the above communica-
ton is in error when he charges the
establishment Of the new press to Wing
prOscriptiona and intolerance. The press
was not purchased by a combination of
the wings of this county. We therefore
feel called upon to disabuse our cores
pondcnt of the impression that it was
purchased by a combination Of the wings
If tho county rpurraUv cr cvan by tho