St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09
THE wINSLOw TELEGRAPH.
The Pioneer and Democrat or yesterday
morning contains the following article:

No RETURNS FROM THE EAsr.--The Tele-
graph Operator in this city declined yester-
day evening to furnish the Press with the
Election Returns and that the Press here
were not entitled to them without an extra
payment being made. The payment was
fixed at fifty dollars. The publishers of
the H0neor and Democrat deeming this
price an extortion, and any proposed extra
charge violation Of the implied contract for
newspaper dispatches, declined to pay the
extra demand.
We have ever been willing to be at any
reasonable expense, in furnishing late news
and expected to pay the Telegraph Com
pany all reasonable demands but il extra
charges are to be proposed on every occa-
sion Of important news, we will be obliged
to have recourse again to the mails and we
are confident our subscribers will justify
the change, as being proper for us in a bu-
siness point Of view.
We concur entirely in the remarks of
our contemporary. Ii is evident, that the
news facilities Of st. Paul are in the hands
of an insolent monopoly, who are without
conscience, nor imbned scarcely with com
mon honesty. This telegraph line was
built mainly by the free contributions of
the citizens of est. Paul The object of
those contributions was to establish with
the East speedy intelligence,an while it
should contribute to the pockets of its
managers and operators to a reasonable
extent, should afford US an opportunity Of
obtaining news on public matters speedier
than we did the old way. And when the
line was opened, the public Press of st.
Paul yielded to the demand of the tele-
graph managers to pay them at the rate Of
$1,000 per year for daily dispatches, which
we were given to to understand should be
equal in amount, and as full, as the in Mil
waukee morning pepers.
Our readers are aware that this contract
has not been kept with us; that the dis
patches received have been meagre, unsat
isfactory and laundering. The press have
demonstrated. Superciliousness, AFRO
gsnce, indifference, ard all the points
which mark. the. conduct of men
without honor or principle, actuated only
by the idea Of money grabbing, under the
further idea that that we were ut their
mercy and couldn't help ourselves, has
characterized the conduct of this Telegraph
Company. throughout.
But the manner in which the Operator
and Mansger Of the Winslow Line treated
the citizens of St. Paul and the Press yes
terday, capped the climax Of a series of in
tollerable conduct The least to be ex--
pected from line constructed by the
charity ofSt Paul, as g slight return,
would have been to have kept the wires
open during Tuesday night and Wednes-
day morning, asis usual East, and given
US news Of the important Presidential
Election just dec ided---an election preg-
nant with more far reaching consequences
than any decided since this was Union.
But no" said this Line" no. said !
its Operator, : person by the name of
q gentleman Of highly aristocratic |
airs and grasping cupidity. want"
said he, I" the press to give me fifty dollars
extra, and then the Republicans to make
ne up fifty dollars extra. and tho Demo-
rats to give me Fifty dollars extra, and
han you shall know what the news is--
lown with yonr dost--I have got you IN
ny there is no other Line and I
'oa have get TO oome 70 time
Such, 10 substance, Is the insolent and |