Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-11-22
gB-At the request of Mr., shupe we pub
lish the following statement:

B-At the request of Mr., Shupe We pub
lish the following statement:
CLEVELAND, Nov. 2Oth, 1850.
ED. LEADER:-In your daily paper of yes
terday noticed an article headed ''The
Gleaner-Where is itI'' The facts set forth
in the article are untrue-as follows:
1st. That the "Gleaner run well for sea-
son and finally fizzled." Instead of this be-
ing true the issue of the paper has only been
transferred to New York, and will be regu-
arly issued from 500 Broadway, from and
after the first week in December next, and
every engagement to send it to subscribers
even TO those who have paid fifty cents for
it till Douglas is elected President, will be re-
ligiously filled.
I'd. dHe (the undersigned) started some
three or four papers in Cleveland in less than
year, proposing them for about half what
it cost to print them, got his pay in advance
and then let them slide" Now this is Who'll
ly untrue-I have never started any paper
in my life anywhere, except the Western
Cleaner IN Cleveland, in 1859. Have never
been interested in any besides it except the
Daily Review-whieh paper I honOrably
bought, successfully conducted nine months
and proftably disposed Of on the 1st day Of
last October.
If you or any other person know of any
other paper than the Cleaner and Review
that have started, owned, controlled, or
been in any manner interested in here or
elsewhere, please name it. I, without any
reserve or qualification make the above de-
claration and can disproUe any statement to the
contrary.
The appearance of the New York Cleaner
in Decent Der has been advertised for the last
two months in a daily and weekly paper in
this city-and a. circular has been sent to
every Post Office where the Cleaner is due,
notifying the Post Master, that every en-
gagement will be filled as made
Sd. You caution the public against these
cheap papers, and say that the only way in
which the publishers of them can make
money is to get pay IN adUGnce and stop. l,
answering for myself and the Cleaner de-
clare this to be untrue, and as a proof point
to the fact that 70 10eHt through l0hOle year in
Cleveland, and that it is simply a penny
weekly paper.
Now, if the Cincinnati Press, Pittsburgh
Dispatch, the Cleveland Review and n. Y.
World and Sun can print a paper every day
! for one cent a copy, cannot person with
/ greater ease and less comparative expense
furnish one once a 1oeek at one cent c0py?-
You and all other newspaper men know that
Il LLOusduu COBl65 VI u udlly paper COSb uOEB
than the same number of fweeklies do, of the
same size and same matter.
Feeling assured that you have no cause to,
and do not desire to do me injury or wrong,
I respectfully ask you to give me the benefit
of the foregoing in the several editions of
your paper in which the article above re-
ferred to has appeared.
am, sir, truly yours,
WALTER Il. SHUPE,
Proprietor ofthe New York Cleaner.
It will be seen from the above that Mr..
shupe does not deny sending circulars to
Democratic Post Masters throughout the
county, last winter, requesting them TO can
vass for subscribers for the Cleaner as a neu-
traL paper, assuring them that as soon as the
Charleston nomination was made the Clean
er would come out and support the nominee
of that Convention.
He does not deny hosting Douglas name
for the Presidency after obtaining hundreds,
perhaps thousands of dollars Of Republicans
throughout the county under the pretence Of
giving them neutral paper.