The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-18
D0XY PIIT

/ p" Washington correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Commercial.
For some time past Donn has been
referring to the country press and
country editors in very uncompli-
mentAry ternfS 1t is evident that he
thinks but little Of them Individually
or collectively. He says every paper
will how. over the passage of the
bin asoIishing the frankiDg privilege.
Some may, bat many viii not, and
I'VE are sure we shall not, as we have
advocated the abOlishment Of it, ana
are perfectly willing TO stand small
loss that a huge syindle may be stop
ped.s rsa 7., ,-.ga5 d
We are a part of the country press
land we do not like to have 1t spoken
.llightI5 or jeeringly Of, and more es-
peciaIIy by Dom Piatt because iie Is
conneefed with metropolitan paper.
I Besides II rs in bad taste as we viii
sd6n show 90 t,-sel H'---ii is'
Dom Jon used to lie a member Of the
ceuntry press-was country editor.
l HepulJlished the Mae-a-cheek Press in
] west Liberty, starting it and
disseminating IFS publication divers
and, sundry times. He, however,
theaeht he was made for something
! greater, and his ambition rising, his
4 pent-up soul longed for wider and
more luxuriant fields in which to deal
out the opinions of the press, and as
pired to something metropolitan. He
removed the paper 10 Columbus. and
from that city, issued the 'Mac-a-
cheek - The paper fiourished there
/ in a way'tliat 'fwent DOWN. on Donn's
pocket. BE stopped the paper, "be-
cause lle could not get a general cir
citation IN the United States." His
reason for stopping the paper-''an
overdose of the New York Tribune,
1 the people liking that better''-we
never believed except as regarded tile
/ YrJaae. We Always thought it died,
metropolitan as if was, from an over
desc of Donn Piatt--that being about
all IT treated of. -
Buff diei, and Dnon sought for
other places 70 Conquer He saw Ur-
bana-he. Thought he scented green
pastures there, and there went the
/ ffSlae-a-cheek.n Distance had evi-
IDENTIFY lent enchantment to the view,
for when Dom reached the green past
ares they proved bat dried stubble.
Dom Piatt, or what was tho same,
the Mac-a-cheek-was published III
Urbann for a longer or shorter period,
wlienzlIke an Arab it 'tfolded its tents
and stole silently away 10 West Lib
e.rrty-7and the people of that unfortu-
nate place lifted up their voices and
wept. l-fl--i "
Thus it will be seen that, notwith-
standing Dom has failed twice as a
country editor and once as a metro
politan, he iscOffs at country editors.
1t is all well enough, perhaps, but we
know of numbers. of the country fel-
lows''-men claiming not One half the
smartness Donn efaiI4s-whO have done
well in publishing country papers
who have given their papers stand
ing and influence, and at the same
time made money;-but we do not
know of a single instance where
country editor has so signally failed
as Dnon Piatt did. .., 49,
Another great point with Dom is to
sneer at printers who have the county
patronage, and he sIways speaks of
them as tthe fellows who edit the
county printing! We never edited
tAe-eeGRty- printing, but really we
would like to, try our. hand at it. Dom
never did either, bun that he failed in
that was not his fault. He went to
Urbana, from Columbus, for that ex-
press purpose. That was the green
pastures he saw from afar, ard the in
ducement causing him TO drop the "me-
tropolitan" and assume the country"
style. Shortly after the Mac-a-chee k
'1ie' in Urbana, we met Dom, and al
ways feeling interested in the welfare
of the country press, we asked him
how his paper was fiourishing, and re-
garding its prospects. "Oh! it is do
ing WE'LL" said he. az have been there
but few weeks and it has become tho
official paper Of the county. You see,
-"referring to Mr. SaXton, of the
| Gdzette-ihas been there too long.and
the people are getting tired of him
they want something younger and
more spicy. 1 am getting a great
many of his subscribers from him.
Besides the county officers are tired of
his rule and are giving me the print
ing. Two or three have done so al
ready; and the others will follow
suit"
The above is but a partOf the conYer-
sation, but it is, sufficient for the pur-
p5se.l 1tRil1 &nPear evident TO all that
Donn only sneers at the country press
solely from jealousy, or because the
proprietors of it succeeded in what he
failed. He will do well toletth "cOun-
try fellows" and the fellows who edit
the county printing" alone. The pro-
priety of his attacks is questionable,
and besides it won'tpay. The country
press does not embOdy within itself
all the brains of the nation, as Dom
thinks he does, but it can take care of
itsgG nTN nHs
6ays Ehe eountrypress generally to
| D0nn nShoo fiY. don't bodder me.n