The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-03-02
EDITORIAL CONVENTION.

met IN Akron on Thursday and Fri
day Of last week, in Convention-the
name being q synonym IF "a good
time" That they had It we have no
doubt, and we only regret that we
were unable to be present.
The Convention was held there at
the invitation Of the Council and eiti-
zens Of that live. manufacturing town I
andifreports are true they know how
to treat guests. Everything was done
70 make it pleasant for the visitors,
and all testify that it was pleasant.
In his welcoming address, the May
or Of Akron was very happy in his al
lusiOns, but the "bone and sinew" Of
the address suits Us, and we copy it to
show the benefits Of manufacturing to
a town. We premise it by wishing
that Tihin could boast ofas large man
ufaetories:
I'VE can welcome you indoors with
/ the music OF thousand merry ham
mers; the daily ring Of which has
I brought to those who WELD them q
! competence, and as each recurring
/ DAVIS labor comes TO a close you find
! these same hard-wOrking, intelligent,
] reading mechanics, making your ac-
/ quaintance around their own hearth
| stones, in the perusal Of the very pa
/ Ders your labOrs have sent out to us
I from some distant city. We shall
I greet you with the whirl Of half a
hundred millstones, the daily product
Of whirl would place in each Of If
I teen hundred families one barrel Of
the wherewilh to make the staff Of
life.
We can greet you with miles Of
STANDARD Reapers and Mowers
ready for the harvest fields Of 1871, for
the right to manufacture which the
world pays US tribute as originatOrs.-
Here we have wrought from the crude
ore, the iron composed in their struc-
ture. producing in all its perfectness
that polished sickle whose keen edge
In our own machines has cut its way
TO so many victories.
Here too we make the small chain
and the great cable; and to these we
shall add ere the flight Of many DAYS
our own rubber goods from the mas
sive belt to the useful car spring.
You viii pardon an AkrOnian, gen.
tlemen, for referring to our industries
in this brief welcome, when / add as
an apology, HThey are our sinews,"
furnishing food for the hungry, clothes /
for the naked, brain, muscle and NOR |
ais for the workers therein.
The general proceedings ofthe Con-
vention we can only give in con-
densed form. The welcoming address
was responded to by the Chairman, Mr.. I
Nichols, Of. the Springfield Republic. |
A letter from Horace Greeley was
sent up to the Secretary, J. NJ. Myers,
to beread. Itwas moved amid laughter
that it be referred to the Committee
on Agriculture, ,hyeroglyphies etc. The
Secretary "pitched in, read and got /
safely through the first two lines
halted, turned the letter over to see
how long it was and saw that some
one had TRANSLATED" in a fair hand
and the Secretary read it without
trouble. The following is the letter.
NEW YORK, Feb. u, II
DEAR SIR.-It will be difficult, in
fact impossible, for me to attend your
gathering. / will try to have the 4Fi-
bune represented thereat. I pray that
your meeting may result in great
good, and that it will hasten the tri-
umph of a much needed reform,
Editors shall be induced to
discuss each others positions and
principles rather than physical pscu-
iarities and personal history.
Yours,
HORACE GREELEY.
8. A. LANE, Esq,
Ed. BEACON, Akron, o.
The question of the publication of
avs in newspapers, the abolition OF
me entire franking privilege and the
Ise Of personalities in journalism, were
discussed. Toasts were also given and
to at the banquet, and
smusements were without number.
During the convention, numerous al
usiOns were made to Halstead, it !
by the reports that he was a
horn in the side of many Of the coun-
5ry editors. We were sorry to see it,
or it was the best advertisement Hal
Itead could have. Any one reading
these shafts hurled at Halstead would
have q curiosity to know what kind
Of a paper man who so irritated
the country editors published. Let
alone in convention and on
paper.
Akron has 81 manufacturing estab-
that manufacture each from
5000 to sl,OOO,OOe worth of goods
yearly. We give a few, namely:
Buckeye Reaper & Mower Works,
or 1870, 1000 machines, valued at
3, ,00O, 600; Excelsior Reaper d Mower (
Works, 800 machines, $500, 600; Akron
iron Works s6OO,OO0; Akron Knife
Works, 500, 900; Akron Chair Works,
so, 600; and so on without end.
We don't want TO give any more
for fear Of the Odiousness of compari-
sons between Tiffin and Akron. Push !
interests in 'riffin.