The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-12-14
The Breaking mp Of tho Minnesotian's
Scheme to Defraud the Public OF
Telegraphic News. Z

Telegraphlc NeWss
We are very far from proposing to enter
into controversy with the other papers Of
this city in justification of the enterprise Of
this Office in furnishing the public, in adj
vance Of them, with the latest and freshest
intelligence. This is directly in the line Of
our business, and has been, for these six
years, our unvarying custom. So fixed has
this habit become, that, were we to allow
it to be made subject of controversy with
those whose lack of enterprise and news
paper tact and talent subjects them to the
modification Of inferiority, we should be
perpetuatly pestered with personal alterca-
lions. Such course is forbidden both by
self-respect, and just appreciation of pro.
fessional propriety.
We will, however, notice so much of the
Misnesotian's statement as impugns the
good faith of one of the gentlemen connect
ed with this establishment. That gentle
man informs US that bis conversations with
the editor of the Minnesot.an have been ut
terly misrepresented. The several offices
never took the telegraphic dispatches in
common ; but each one, from the first,
made its independent arrangement with the
Telegraph: Company. The card published
by the three Offices was simply intended to
inform the public Of the grounds on which
the offices had decided to drop the dis
patches, and it. was prepared and signed
by all, that there might be uniformity
in the statement of reasons for the step
taken. The idea that this Office would
make its receipt and use Of telegraphic or
other news hinge upon the whims of any
other office, and thus, 80 far as newspaper
enterprise is concerned, transfer its manage.
ment to an outside and competing party, is,
on the face of it, ridiculous. We havn't
been 10 the habit OF conducting this paper
on any such basis, and we are certain that
the gentleman whose conduct is impugned
by the Minnesotian, never proposed to COM
NIT us to such an absurdity.
If, however, the editor of the Minneso-
tiam labored under such an impression when
the card was signed, his mind must have
been disabused, at an interview had at our
residence, after its publication. At that
interview, we distinctly repudiated the card,
so far as it presumed to interfere with the
business arrangements Of Mr.. W1NsLow, by
making the discharge of Mr.. GALLUP
condition precedent to the receipt of further
dispatches. We then also distinctly stated
that our only objection to the taking of the
dispatches, was, that they had not been
complete and continuous; leaving it as the
necessary inference, that, whenever arrange
ments could be made for full reports, this
office would be ready and anxious to receive
them. s
The construction placed by the Minneso-
tian upon the card in question, together
with its course since it was published,
shows that the design of that paper was to
prevent further dispatches being taken by
any member Of the press in St. Paul and
that its action was, therefore, in the nature
of conspiracy to defraud the public of
what it is entitled to receive from newspa.
reliable intelligence at the earliest
possible moment. 1t pretends that the
agreement was, that Geographic dispatches
should not be received by either of the papers
here, except by the concerted action of all /;
while, at the same time, and nearly every
day, it was publishing abusive articles about
the telegraph line and its proprietor, the
necessary effect of which was to prevent
Mr.. W1NsLow from entering into any ar
rangement for their resumption. twill be
seen that the Minnesotian had it's scheme
very ingeniously laid. 1t assumed that we
could not honorably take further dispatches
without its cooperation; and, by its per.
sistent and unwarranted abuse of Mr..
W1NsLow, it placed itself where it could
have no negotiations with him. 1t, there
fore, follows that there could be no further
telegraphic dispatches, according to the
Minnesotian's scheme and logic.
And it further followed,-and that was
the pith of the whole matter,-that the
Minnesotian would thus be relieved from the
weekly expenditure Of the cost Of the dis
patches. We have no wish to allude to the
sensitive point of our contemporaries finan.
ces, but it seems to US, that, by the exercise
Of common prudence, the Minnesotian might
have saved enough from its last winters
printing to pay the trifing sum of ten
dollars week for dispatches, and have thus
relieved itself from the necessity of initia-
ting conspiracy to deprive the public Of
news, and from its impudent attempt to
connect us with such a conspiracy.
And, recurring to last winters print>
ing, did our friend, the Doctor, ever hear
Of the adage, It's long lane that knows
no turning 2" s. so SOL. Is
Which is all we have to say.
r - L.