Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-02-12
The Eaton EcInocrat.


We regret to learn that that sterling
Democratic paper, The E.stom (Preble
county, Ohio,) Democrat, is to be discon-
ucd The Editor, Mr.. Gould, states that
a want of sufficient patronage is the
cause. The editor reads the good people
of Preble county lesson which they
ought to profit by. He says that Preble
county has Democratic voting popula
ton of sixteen hundred and that only
five hundred OF eaese could ever be in
duced to take their county paper. This
is all wrong-ruinously wrong. The
idea is preposterous that not more than
one out of every four of the voters of any
county can afford to take a county paper
This failure on the part of the Demo
Gratis of Preble county to support and
sustain their organ, is suicidal to their
best interests, and will result to their
great injury.
The Democrat has been ably conducted,
and was an efficient paper-every way
worthy the patronage and support OF the
people of Preble county.
We regret exceedingly, that there is
such universal disposition with Demo
Gratis to take foreign papers, to the ex-
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Democrat should first take his os0R county
paper, and afterwards take as many for
eign papers as he sees fit. We are sat
isfed that more than one half of the
Democrats of Clermont county take for
eign newspapers, to the exclusion and neg
Eect of their o,on county papers. This
policy cripples county paper, and
makes it burthen upon the publisher.
1t discourages his efforts, weakens his
energies and paralyzes his hand of its
power to make the paper what it should
be, and would be, if properly sustained.
About one out ofevery three Democrat
ic voters of Clermont takes The iSun.-
The other two of each three takes some
foreign papers. While they thus are
supporting foreign papers, they leave
their home paper to bear the blunt and
do the fighting for the party unaided
and unassisted by them. Each county
paper has its distinctive duties to per-
form to its own county-it has to bear
the blunt of the county conflicts and
sustain the whole party locally.
Support your county papers, first, and
sustain the hands that are engaged in
doing battle for the cause of Democracy,
= ClermOnt CO., 'Sun.
R~The "Eaton Democrat has been
suspended for want of adequate support.
There are a number of noble-hearted
Democrats in old Preble, who will feel
deeply the loss of their county organ
The mass of those belonging to the party
in that. county, like their brethren in
most other counties, did not attach suf-
ficient importance to their home paper
and preferred dollar paper published
at distance, vainly imagining that theil
county paper could be published with
out material aid, and that the editor
could subsist upon the ucind, and at the
same time conduct, and incur the ex
pcnses of long campaign. There are
many of those who should support thei1
county paper, who send their money of
for a paper printed in some city, anC
don't even contribute II dollar towards
paving for the tickets they vote, nor an,
of the other expenses incidental to
campaign. Until Democrats pursue
different course in regard to their loco
papers, they must expect them to live i
but a precarious state of existence, Will
the opposition, appreciating the powe
and influence ofthe Press, rally in thou
sands in support of their county paper
and maintain their supremacy over tn
minds of the people and the politics
the county, by industriously circulatin
their papers, and literally supportln
their editors, thereby giving them Il