The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-03-04
The WheelOck. Brown lmbrOgliO-.-
The Cat Out Of the Bag Mt Last.


The public have perhaps by this time
been made somewhat aware that the St.
Paul Press and the Faribault Republican
have been waging ''cruel war" of wordy
vituperation against each other for period
exceeding the duration of the great re-
belliOn.
The Saltwater Messenger seems to think
it has discovered method in their mad
ness, and suggests the following as the
key to this Little Peddlington newspaper
conflict upon the hypothesis that it is all
warlike public sham for peaceful private
ends: -
MERELY BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT.-''J Joe
Wheelock +" is well known as the responsible
editor of the st Paul Press newspaper, and ..
Brown is equally well known by the readers
of the st. Paul Press. as the editor and pro-
county Minnesota" Both of these gentlemen
have good qualities - excellent qualities
Among their many virtues, their friends are
accustomed to reckon their ertreme aaOdesty
as perhaps the most remarkable. Of course
neither the Press nor Repubhicdm-So notorious
ting on airs" when they assume to be the
great apostles of Republicanism, and the
way, the truth and the light" OF newspaper
dom. but Caesar was ambitious; $50 is
Wheelock, and SO is Brown. They have each
certain good points which they wish to keep
before the people and, matter of course,
they must ADVERTISE, and the consummate
skill which they exhibit in this art is worthy
of imitation. Evcy week the columns of
the Republican team with the recital OF
the remarkable sayings and doings of
'I' "wc,' and ''Joc WheelOck," and to
reclprocate almost every issue OF the Press
advertises me Gus" and ''Old Brown"
As this is merely business arrangement be-
tween the two editors, their patrons can not
complain so long as they get their moneys
wortl, of reading matter beside the auVer-
lisements which-it will be noticed, are always
inserted rs editorial Ia chemical salcratuS
SO we will not call the attention Of the writers
to The case of the clergyman who preached all
his conereua ion out of the house and then
bored away at the sexton till he was con-
strained 10 deliver the key TO the Ola fellow
requesting him at the same time, to lock the
door when he got through.
We cannot agree however with our
neighbor, the Messenger, that our friends
JOSEPH OF the Press and ORvILLE of the
Repubiicms could ''agree TO disagree" for
so long time upon any amicable under
standing even for the object of gain Ger
tain it is that if advertising was their OBJ
iect they are both too good and too
shrewd economists net to have saved
themselves all this fuss and feathers and
all this wracking of brains for epithets and
vindicaiion rotorts by having simply adj
ves..sed at once their relative claims to
public notice in the only metropolitan me-
dunn OF advertising-the St. Paul PIONEER.
But we are inclined to think, notwith~
standing however ambitious these paper
armed gIadiatOrs may be of notoriety,
they still have what they consider real
bone of contention to pick between them.
which grows out of past and present con-
alterations touching the public printing of
the state. This patriotic rage to serve
the public has so seized upon the hearts
and faculties of these our editorial broth
ers, that the sweet temper of their minds
and courteous bearing of their conduct