Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-01
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF MEIGs

a word with you if you, please. You
believe, as We do, that the best interests
OF our country are bound up in the sue
cess OF the principles we all profess
Those principles appeal directly to the
Judgement and conscience of the people
and can emily be carried into practical
eject as the people are convinced of their
truth and Importance. To this end tn.
circulation Of facts and arguments, in
documents, and addresses, are of the first
Importance, And of all other forms in
which the facts and arguments can be
presented to the public, mono is so
cheap and effective as the circula.
ton Of good newspapers. The week
" visits of a paper cannot fail to
have a powerful and lasting influence.
We present to your consideration
the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph, as an
lnStrnalentality which you can use
eheaply, and, We believe, to the product
ion of far more good than can be realized
with the same amount of means and la
bor in any other way, Will you look
the matter fully in the face! Examine
the Telegraph in its new and improved
form. We invite your scrutiny. We
have no apologies to make for it. We
claim that it is lntrinsically worthits sub
scription price We challenge com
larison of it with any other county pa
per In the State. Out of Cincinnati and
cleveland we believe there is not a larger
paper published in the State. There can
be no complaints therefore that it does
not contain enough of reading matter
to compensate for the pittancc charged
for subscription.
We know that we have readino and
Intelligent community, and believe they
will appreciate the efforts we have made
to- give them good paper asisoon as they
arc made acquainted with its merits
We have spent large sum of money in
getting up paper which We design shall
DC an honor to the county, and the pride
of the Republicans therein. We have
done this, in the faith that it would
eventually work its way into general cir
tplatlon, We are happy to state that it
Is gradually doing so. Our subscription
list has more than doubled since we took
charge of the Office But there is no
reason why it should not be doubled
again. 1t wiW be, and the only question
is one of time. On it's own merits it is
working its way into every reading fam
lily in the county. But it will take time
to do this. Scores, and even hundreds
OF, intelligent Democrats now take the
Telegraph, not because they assent to its
political doctrines, but because it is an
H1nstitution'' of their county, and is in
other respects of interest and use to them
and their families. We thank them for
their liberality, and will make the paper
in its literary and miscellaneous char
actcr, necessity to them and all others,
aside from its politics. saa-'t
But to our Republican friends we now
aPEeal with special earnestness, to aid
in the Immediate increase of its cireula-
tion.s We are just entering upon one of
the most important, as it will doubtless
be one of the most exciting, Presidential
campaigns ever witnessed in this coun-
try. In this campaign the Telegraph
will be no neutral At least we hope
for such action at the Chicago Conven
tion next month, as will make it both
the duty and pleasure of the editor to en-
ter the list with whatever force he NAV
possess. r.sr
Now we do not believe there is a neigh
borhood in the county in which re-
spectacle list of subscribers could not be
obtained if the proper effort was made al
once. If some good, earnest, live Re
publican in each neighborhood will take
it upon him to see his neighbors, show
them the Telegraph, and invite them tc
subscribe, we haveno doubt very large
addition would be secured to it's cireu-
lation, and corresponding influence be
giyento the Republican cause.
8 IT may be said that this will take time
and trouble. SO it will. But it takes
time and trouble to accomplish any good
work. We hare spent great deal o.
time and labor and money in making the
Telegraph what it is, and are willing te
spend more to build up and make sue
cessful the great principles of the party
it sustains. And We trust there are
others in all the townships willing to ait
In the same cause.
Win you, when you have read this
determine at once to act on itssuggestion'
With the increasedssize of the paper ane
observation-disclosures of its publication
we cannot afford to offer large pecuniary
inducements to our friends for the co
operationwe ask. But, as a slight in
dueement, we will, with every club o
eight new subscribers, give an additiona
copy.
We do not ask this aid so much fo
our advantage, as for. the advancement
of the cause we advocate. It is the jo1
work and advertising which sustains tn
office, and not the subscription list, a
any one can see that there can be bu
little if any profit on years subscriptio
to such paper at S1.50. ",.T
et Let us haze at least fre hundred add