The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-02-13
Berfah Brown on the Herald.

ocfdftc Ircss, entitled, "My Connect IN
with the Herald" 70 give the entire
article would trespass too much on our
space. Brown says:
''The paper was started in March, 1866,
by Mr.. Abbott, on money furnished by
j. V. Butler, Esq, Of Polk county. Mr..
Abbott was an old and successful, pub
fisher Of a country weekly paper in Hi
nois, but had 10 e1 IeI.cuec or knowledge
of the magnitude or expense of conduct
ing a city daily, which he, as we'll as the
supporters of the paper were but a very
short time in hndins out. Within a
month after the paper was started, l was
urgently solicited to come to its rescue
from impending failure. After urgent
appeals to my sense of duty to the cause
OF Democracy, and against my personal
inclination, l accepted the situation on
trial Three weeks before the general
election, and in the midst OF the canvass,
! took the principal editorial charge of
the paper. rs =
Immediately after the election, and
without any previous intimation of his
intention, Mir. Abbott showed me a writ
ten valedietory, announcing the suspen-
sion of the paper, which WAS to appear
IN the next issue Of the paper en- the fol
lowing day. x [ tried in vain to
dissuade Mr.. Abbott from his purpose
he was immoyable : / proposed
to Nir. Abbott to assume the entire res
possibility of keeping up the publication
of the paper until other arrangements
could be made. lie accepted the propo-
sition, and thus I cut off all other re-
sources and s:akcd everything upon the
uncertain hazard. Before relief came it
was the most desperate financial struggle
which it had ever been my fortune to
engage in, the results of each day leav
ing the publication Of the next issue Of
the paper of doubtful calculation"
Brown then states that Il stock compa-
ny was foraled--capitaI stock, $4,000.
The whole amount OF stock was taken,
but less than $1,000, in addition to what
had already been expended: was paid in.
This amount being insufficient to place
the concern on paying basis, the D-
rcetors, instead Of enforcing the payment
of stock, made a loan of S6 900 to meet
current expenses, each Director becoming
responsible for 81 900 of the loan. After
the paper began TO show signs Of ulti-
mately becoming a paying concern, DIR.
Weatherford, one OF the Directors, com
menced buying up the stock, some of
which he obtained at twcuty five cents on
the dollar. He then bought up the notes
of the Directors given for the $4,000
loan, and took mortgage on the office
to secure it. Being then the sole cred-
tor and principal stockholdcr in the paper,
editorial control of the paper, giving as
his reason that he wanted a paper like
the La Crosse Democrat. Failing to Get
the consent of the other Director to this
change, he threatened to foreclose his
mortgage. And to sum up, he did fore
close, buying the Office in under the
mortgage for $4,000, and immediately
thereafter turned poor old Brown adrift,
as he expresses it, without dollar for
the support of my family, my vocation
suspended, and my professional character
inpeachs d."
Referring to the fact that he (Drown)
has been successfully" kicked out of
every Office he has had anything to do
with on this coast, he feelingly says
''Twice Since I have been upon this coast
| have been made the victim of mob vio-
lence on account of my advocacy of Dem
ccratic principles, but the insensate mobs
actuated by partisan hatred instigated by
the spirit of he'll, did not fiud it in their
power to infict upon ME so cruel
wrong as that perpetrated by Weather
ford and his willing tool Pennoyer, under
professions Of Democracy, from no mo-
tive but greed in one and personal vanity
in the other"
That brilliant wart, Pennoyer, who as
sumed editorial control of the Herald
after the sudden "taking off" Of B. B.,
is truthfully described, and all the "vir-
tues" necessary to fit him for first class
Democratic ink-slinger ascribed to him,
in the following paragraph-the most
brilliant comnosition that ever emanotad