The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-08-09
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ORCESTER:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1915.

One of the Publishers of the Gazette requests us 10
copy the entire article from that paper the latter para
graph OF which has been the subject of comment in This
paper We comply with the request 1t is as follows
DAILY Spy. new Daily with this cognomen has
made its appearance in Worcester haiIng from The Of
nee OF the Massachusetts Spy Its appearance is verv
neat and its colums are well filed Veriv tho C1a,o,to
no longer among the junior members of the newspaner
family The claimants for public patronage are almost
as numerous in the heart Of the Commonwealth as Al the
White House, though not we trust, so obstreperous =
Competition IS the life of business. Live and let live
II allowed 10 express opinion we should saw that
nnt Worcester can sustain daily paper for each polt.
zeal party, the interests ofthe community aoould be better
serued By neutral paper.
Having complied with the request, we now copy with.
out being requested TO do it, another paragraph from
the same number of the Gazette. Ii followed directly
after the above, and is in these words
The ADVANTAGES OF A DAILY Not TO the week.
les but to business and newsmc myers generally we
mean. The news BY the last Liverpool steamship was
served to the readers of the Daily Transcript in an
Extra, twenty -four hours earlier than they would have
got the same from the Boston daies. full accoua, of
the great fire in New York, also given in the Franz
script Monday morning IN odrance Of oil Others When
the proposition was first made, doubted whether a
Daily could live in little village but we are no
longer among the douhtes The enterprise, promptness
and business tact of Mr. Clarke will sustain it,
An examination of these two articles we believe would
uStD US IOi every NOIu we nave SdlU, III Inc OPINION
every impartial man, without another word of comment
We would however ask the attention of the reader TO the
juxta-poson of the articles, by which il is intended TO
bring The Spy and Transcript in contrast and then to
the particular recommendation of the Transcript after
having decided that the interest of the Commonwealth
would be better served by neutral paper than by the
Daily Spy. When is said that the account of the great
fire in Nev York, given in the Transcript Monday
morning. IN adrdnce Of all others, what would be the
natural inference of person acquainted with the
facts, who did trouble himself to recall them 10
mind Would not be, that there Others IN the
place, at the time, fom whom the publication of the
account of the fire expected, and particularly the
Daily Spy, the fourth number of which was published
on the Monday preceding the publication of the above
article in the Gazette? Yet, the fact is, that the publ
cation Of the account ofthe fire, in the Transcript was
Monday Of The areek preceding, and was three days
before the commencement oft Daily Spy
Here we leave this matter 1t will be understood that
do not call in question, the absolute right of the Ga
zee, to recommend any other paperit chooses in pre-
ference to the Spy We only claim The right if ii doe,
show the motive that induces it, and inquire whether
the pretence which it founded has any existence
in fact oil We hope readers will excuse us for
troubling them thus far and assure them that we should
not have REQUIRED the subject but for the request Of
the publisher ofthe Gazeue.