Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-08-06
Jur-handIe Tndenendence.

We spoke the other day Of the Cbmmercia'
being considerably exercised about the tele
graphic reports Of DororAs nseiingsshrongh
out the country while it I'D bot SEEN 70 5,
worried about the reports Of 1aStoLS tieet
ings The printer by buAglipg i Y Cdr aAs
made US say erorcised, ard the prookteade,
permitted the error to go TO the public II
was. hoNeger, 50 -Uapiiestly q, .typogrpphical
error that we did not suppose any one, unless
hopeless Shplcton would mistake il for
anything else -bat the-. .Ceasaersiai, in snarl,
ing at our just structure upon its foolish parii-
zan prejadlee, tiespitblsl,e PLAIN s1hSe Of the
sentence, pretended 70 cutieise our use ofthe
word, and-sRj'& hP dnS gi,orsriet of termsl
" our Giuciunbti contemporary can bring mo
mrre sincerity 10 the denial Of a VERY childish
ipeopsiatcBcS, il had better cease is hblt-
finding, and devote It's paragraphs to subjects
which prorhisnlbotier tosultss, OOu
The Commgeial published the telegraph
report Of the Republican meeting at Knights
town, la where about 1900 men, women and
children who belonged to the place and sur
ropuding country, we're magnifed into about
l5,00O souls and il had not word to say
about what every journalist in the wes. knew
to be a Wrapper although the telegraph news
reporters had been taken severely to task by
that Journal for putting up the number at
DoUoLAs gatherings to pretty high figures. II
is not strange under the circumstances, that
we should notice this neglect Of the C5hnler-
ciai, and it should have taken the expose in
betterJ bk6 mSA a6I hate answered. Sith
sneer. Mep.who have tho advantage of fact
or argument do not dos9 and our cotemporai
ry win find il advantageous to remember
this as long he can"
The published estimates OF mass meetings
by telegraph do not often mislqad people Of
ordinary Intelligence; they never kill any
body that we can hear of The only bad effect
we have been notified Of has been visited up,
on the Commercial, whose independence q
seems to have been aiall tattefed and torn" by
these electric eFPPlsiOHS,4 .Tp whom are, We
to look for fair statements Of political occur
ences at different points 1t would be diff.
cult to find people after the manner of the
Commgciafi indeed, we do not believe men
after 50 severe a style Of undergraduates can be
secured outside of that institutidni The pub
lie demand political information Of every
kind, and .asg all men are politicians, and ma
turdlly Subject g fie 'prejudices 'of their Sew
eral PARTIES We don tsee how we Eerto- get
Information Rom otifer'thah political sources:
Like the detectedtscohhd Iwhoraises the
hue-and-cry of "stop theft for the purpose
of directing pursuit from himself those who
are the most unscrupulously partizan make
the strongest claims to independence 1t is
not our intention TO interfere with the little
ruse Of our neighbor in his occasional depar-
lures from the beaten path of partizan journal
ism, wherein he cnts and whacks at men of
straw and fancied bug bears, to make his un-
sophisticated readers credit his boast Of indie
pendenee Z lie mdypbinttp these occasional
items Of sharp practice in proof of his diFe-
gard Of partizanism, but he will mislead no
one who posted in political matters. When
men are to be supported for ofice--ifw we may
except the few against whom it has person
al spite, or with whom il is safe to settle a
grudge--the C9y,mTeiak will be found trail
ing itsihdependeh6e' in the dust lof the Re-
publican camp. 1t never makes the mistake
of supporting Democrats for Office, whetherat
local or general elections pruuu,a "a lrr q.