Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-02
The journal quietly "Caves'' on
CIrcuIatiOn.-~O what a Fali
was there INV COuntrymen."


was there my COuntrymen."
Our readers will bear us out in the asser-
tion that we never boasted of the circula-
ton of the STATESMAN. until after the
Journal had repeatedly charged that it was
small, and boasted that its own was large.
This it did for purpose. The paper haV-
ing the largest circulation is the best
one in which to advertise. Tired OF this
contemplate mode of catching transient
custom, we proposed to test the matter in
manner that would settle the matter beyond
cavil or dispute. 1t was to take any single
past week during the month, and to show
by the affidavit of the Pressman the num-
Der of copies of the Daily, Tri- Weekly and
Weekly STATESMAN printed. The Journal
establishment to procure similar aftida-
Wit of its Pressman, as to the number OF
copies of that sheet printed for the same
week, these affidavits to be published In
the Daily, Tfi- Weekly and Weekly editions
of both the Journal and the STATESMAN.
Knowing that if this fair proposition was
accepted, the Journal would be badly
beaten, that sheet boasted that the pub
lication of the List of Letters remaining
in the Columbus Post Office was, accord
ing to law, awarded to the paper having
the largest circulation nearest the Post
Office. This, too, we have shown to be
false. The List of Letters was not awarded
to the Journal according to law, but was
given to that paper because it was the or
gan of the Postmaster and of the negro
equality party tn which he belongs.
Bearing these facts in mind, and with it
the other fact that we denounced the state
ment that the Journal had as large a list of
subscribers as the STATESMAN as false, and
that we placed at the head of our columns
the fact that "The OHIO STATEsMAN-Daily,
Tri-Weekly and Weekly-has at this time
the largest aggregate circulation of any
paper in Columbus or in central Ohio,'
the following from the Journal of Monday
Is the coolest get off we have lately seen: !:
"We have no present reason for making
publication of our circulation, and do not
consider the idle boasting of the STATES
MAN any inducement to do So"
No reason for making publication of itS
circulation? Why there is every reason
that operates upon an honorable man to de
so. If the editor does not make publica-
tion of his circulation, he stands branded
and proven guilty of falsehood. The
STATESMAN makes no idle boast-it says
that, and that alone, it is able and willing
to prove. Driven, on being detected in one
falsehood, to another, the Journal now
boasts that its Daily edition has larger
circulation than The STATESMAN. We are
willing to compare either of our editions
Daily, Tri-Weekly or Weekly during the
month of June past, with any similar edi-
tion of the Journal, and make publication
of the fact in both papers, and unless that
sheet agrees to this, we charge that it has
again stated that which its editor knew ts
be untrue.
Unless we knew the safe ground upon
which we stand, we would mot make the
banter. Within the last three months THE
STATESMAN has largely increased its circu-
tation, and in the same ratio the Journal
has diminished. In circulation, as in all
that constitutes the neaos paper, The
STATESMAN is far ahead of the Journal, and
we intend to keep there.