The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-19

he mas Deen Tor u NUMBER Oh years con
nected with different papers in this city. it has al
ways been in the fnancaerang department and
uerer in the editorial that his peculiar talents have
themselves. Hence, notwithstanding
we see, uuder the editorial head of the Times, u.
A. Butts, Editor" we knOw that we are not talk
ing to Mr.. Butts when we reply to anything that
appears in his editorial columns. The name OF j.
H. Tracy, also appears as Editor but for the two
past weeks that the Times has been venting its
spleen and spite against us I'VE know that Mr. Ira
cy has been out of town, and, further, we kp'
that he has too much regard tor truth and CO
sense to write such lying nonsense W no o.,
has Mr.. Butts employed to do his ,rtv T,nnl'
Whoever it may be, we have de- .er,oinod g.. ~
'nce to show up his mendaci'.y ", and then lat LIS
lest. To show the provccation we have for +hia
course, we make some extracts from the 7;aoes
Week before last, we find the following in tbs !,
cal column of that sheet.
Our business, we are pleased r.
points Is increasing, we do OBJ -. =, saw at all
t ia sho''"" ,ns--arr, that thew annreciste
."n Dy our incres Sc in business we know
we are continually drawing business from the
but we do 1t openly and honorably they
feel it, hence their ouse OF US. Their business is
rapidly decreasing, hence the idea that the job
printing in the county is not sufficient even for
decent jobbing establishment. We feel different,
our business is increasing, we need more help and
more capitalize help We expect to hire the cap
ital, if our adv ertisement be not answered. we ex
pect to find for ourselves.
In regard to the above, we are glad to hear that
the business of the Times is increasing at all
points" If the writer had stopped there,al would
have been well enough, but when he goes on to
say that our g business is rapidly decreasing"
consequence, he simply speaks falsehood, and
what Mr.. Butts knows to his sorrow s false, wheth
er the to u he employed to write it knew it not
The writer says I'VE do our best to give satisfac
ton 10 our patrons" If that is the case, it is an
admission of how very little they can do in that
line, and that they have any patrons to please is
an evidence of the good nature of the people of
KenoshG.
We paid no attention to that lying article and
should not had it not been followed by still
worse one in last we ek's Times. In the regular
editorial columns this time, and following the
leader 80 as to give it all the sanction of 9th Mr.
Butts, Editor and proprietor and Mr. Tracy. Sen
Edtor,is this eusion of falsehood and FOOLS l.
ness The article commences with quantity of
cradle, low lived abuse of Horace Greeley, and
win DIS offwith the following choice sentences:
s. Error can be tolerated as long as reason is
left to combat it, was the language of Thomas
Jefferson; but when q newspaper like the Tele
graph deliberately and Intentionally supports a
man that all the leading journals of the country
agree in pronouncing as unit, incompetent AMI
corrupt, with the exception ofthe New \ ork Trib-
une-Simon Cameron, Secretary OF War-lt is
Al,,kk
posed. Probably the Telegraph, of this city, like
General Horace Greeley, is in Cameron's pay
The Telegraph lets no opportunity slide to injure
both this city and y-misrepresents as to the
number of inhabitants in the county; no public
nee ting of the farmers of the county but some
"mare's nest' is found either the officers are ig
norant or dishonest; according to that sheets talk
the city is going fast to God knows where; and
even at the last Agricultural Fair IN this County,
the presiding officers lit recollect rightly were
insnuated to be anything but competent judges
i'll their disposition of premiums. In fact, the
whole tenor ftheir doctrine is TO abuse every one
who does not take their paper, and believing just
as they do, their natural malice rendered more
virulent by the constant decrease of their crula-
ton and the corresponding increase of that Os the
Times The days of the Telegraph are numbered
and when its decease occurs, we will give them
the best obituary notice we can in our conscience"
The " middle" in which the brain of the writer
of the above has been befogged can be better ap-
preciated by recolecting that the New York Iri6-
une was the first paper that proposed a change in
the Cabinet insisted especially upon the discharge
of Mr.. Cameron, which proposition the Kenosha
Times two or three weeks ago seconded and urg-
ed, with whatever OF force it had.
We appealed to the patriotism and good sense
of all friends of the Administration to trust to the
honesty wisdom and good judgment OF President
Lincoln, believing that if Mr.. Cameron was the
incompetent and dishonest politician he was
represented to be by a few newspaper writers, Mr..
Lincoln would be the first to know it, and the
one to act upon that knowledge
The other lying assertions are just as devoid of
truth and honesty. The idea that we let no op-
portunity slide to inure both this city and county
is worthy of the invention and veracity of the wri-
ter of that article.
This graphic and heightened writer says that
our "nutural malice" is rendered more virulent''
by the constant decrease of our circulation" and
the corresponding increase of that the Times
&C The days of the Telegraph" says he, "are num-
bered,' &c. Now the object of this is very evil
dent. If one person can be made to believe such
trash, he would very naturally transfer his pat
ronage from such rotten concern to hourishing
institution like the Times for even rats they say,
will leave sinking ship. We have no wish to
lay straw in the way of the Times but truth
compels to say that there is no foundation at all
either for the self graduation of this writer for
that sheet, for the assertion of the decrease of
our circulation the prediction that the 'days of
the Telegraph are numbered" We speak advi-
sedly when we say that the entire circulation Of
the Kenosha Times in this county outside of this
city and post office is less than rs. If that is re-
suit of the "rapd increase" of that sheet, we know
not what it could have been the start. We
have no pleasure in this kind of recriminaton and
we shall not repeat it, but it is more than jus
tce to ourselves and friends that this repetition
of fslsehood by the Times should be exposed, and
that it should be known that the Telegraph is in
as prosperous q condition the times will admit
OF. We are doing our best to furnish our friends
with paper that they will not be ashamed to
send out of town; hundreds Of our friends frequent
ly assure us that we are making better paper
than was ever before published in Kenosha We
are trying 10 do that, and must say the repeated
assurances we have of our success is more graft
flying to US than words can express
In conclusion we have only to say that we
shall continue our efforts to merit the patronage
and good will of our fellow citizens, and SO long
as our labors are so well appreciated they have
cen in the past, we shall not complain.
Bank Comptroller.
MessrS. Editors:-While in Milwaukee, the
other day. heard LEVI BURNELL of that city,
spoken of very favorably, as Candidate for
Bank Comptroller of this State. From nv
knowledge of this gentleman, 1 should think
no one in the State would fill that Office more
efficiently, or acceptably. With view of turn
ing the public mind little in that direction,