Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-02-11
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Our esteemed cofemp potafy, the Cleveland
Leader, takes G column to show what It Is
accomplishing in the way Of special dispatch
es from WashinRton. These advance re-
ports, labelled especial Dispatches 70 the
Cleveland Leader," are paraded side BY aide
With the regular reports Of the succeeding
day, to show that they give nearly the iden-
teal news in advance. This is ali sound as
far e Il gOsl, but q little examination shows
that the special dispatches Of the Leader and
those Of the Cincinaad Gazette, Cincinnati
Commercial, and We presume all the other
Western papers taking special dispatches At
all, are literal iraRseripts Of each other. If
this does not show the Especial dispatches"
Utelegra ,hed expressly for some particular
paper, as having about run ont, we know not
what would. At the present rate of pro-
grass, the end of It would be the saddling OF
sn Additional load upon newspapers, without
a particle Of benefit to the patrons Of them.
More than this, II the Leaders expedition Is
correct, there is some trickery at the bottom,
whereby a certain small modicum of news
Is withheld from the regular reports, 10 con-
stitue the eenterprise' Of number Of com
bining papers, which pay an extra tariff
We donot see in II, as at present carried on,
any public spirited enterprise, but the rather
an attempted side door arrangement, ealcu-
lated in the end both to damage the papers
engaged in II and the whole newspaper press
It is on the face sham, ioF that which is
''spsciRl" 70 one particular paper cannot be
special 70 half dozen others at the same
time.-kaRdusky Register. ..-r.--
THERE'S fine specimen Of logic for yod.
Because the Cincinnati Gazette, Cincinnati
Commercial and Chicago Tribune also take
special reports from Washington, therefore
the special dispatches to the LEADER are not
special at all. Pray what are they then,
worthy brothers of the Register They are
not Irregular reports" They are not "Asso-
ciated Press reports, for we get them, as we
abundantly showed, hours in advance of the
Associated Press YoU don't get them as
soon IS we do; our evening contemporaries
don't get them; no paper in Northern Ohio
gets them in advance of the regular reports,
except the MoRENs LEADER. By what pos
sihle reasoning then, are they not Especial
Dispatcher We said distinctly that the
Cincinnati and Chicago papers received spe-
cial dispatches but that outside Of those cities
the LRADIR was the only paper in the West
thar received special reports from Washing
ton. We do not claim any more enterprise
than those papers, but do both claim and pos
ssss the advantage over them in Northern
Ohio, of placing those special reports before
the people hours before those papers could
reach them. Anybody living within fifty
miles. of Cincinnati or Chicago would be
a fool to take the LEADER for the sake of thess
dispatches, while on the other hand anybody
living in Northern Ohio would be equally
foolish to wait for those papers for them.
We repeat what we said before; that the
Morning LEADER has important daily news
from Washington, in adVdnes ofa1 other pa.
psrs n Northern Ohio, and we can easily
prove our assertion. For instance, we place
below in parallel columns, items Of news pub
lished in our specials Of yesterday morning
and the same items, as published in the
evening papers, twelve hours later.
From special to Morn From regular tc