Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-07-20
LEADING SALESMAN. ON THE MAKE
A New Way to Advertise and Collect Old
Accounts.

| Accounts.
Our readers will remember that in our ac-
count of last Saturdays Greeley meeting, we
described the futile efforts of leading sales
man" of one of our Wholesale houses, to manu-
facture enthusiasm for the fasc0 out OF squad
| of small boys.
Now it appears that this is not the first effort
! of a LEADING salesman in this direction, as
| the following letter will explain
| KNOXVILLE, July 10, 1872.
Messrs. Rule g. Ricks:
| SIRs: Enclosed please find a bill that has
been standing some length of time, for services
rendered your party toward promoting "enthu-
sidsnl " in 1868
Youwill render favor by referrngth is to the
proper committee of the Grant party of 1872
for payment
Should they fail to get UP sufficient "enthu-
SiGSne" to pay this by Saturday next, July 10th,
1872, will not let such good opportunity fo-
using it escape me.
Your friend,
f. S. SHEPPARD.
Leading Salesman"
The bill enclosed was the following:
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
To E. S. Sheppard, DR..
To lettering campaign transparencies.......~.. $50
Credit by cash, per 10
Balance ue.....:.............:.;.... ....... Slo
the pluck and desperation displayed in enthus-
ing that squad of gGn1ins last Saturday night or
the dodge by which our friend Sheppard tries
to advertise his new trade. What we have to
imagine. Sheppard might just as well ask US
to pay his washerwoman's bills as to pay this.
But to save leading salesman" any trouble
of referring this account to Messrs. --, and
to give the public some new ideas about adver-
Using and collecting old accounts, we make this
letter and account public.
This letter partly explains the way Sheppard
got into theI' Enthusiasm business. We thought
he worked to poor purpose on the last Occa-
sion but then we never blamed him for 1T.
Fleming long, prosy, opening speech IN which
he moralized on the ''forgiving' disposition of
the dear people, and the entire absence of every
inducement to enthusiasm in the elements COM
posing the meetng-the cause, candidates, &c,
was enough to kill any meeting. When, there
fore. we consider all these disadvantages we
think Leading Salesman did very we'll. We
understand now that the boys say they will
know next time just when the cheer comes in
But Sheppard needn't worry about his bills.
It's good. The Grant party are good for four
years more anyhow and he evidently thinks
so or he would have collected il long ago. He
needn't be ashamed of the work he did, either.
Lettering Campaign Transparencies' for
Grant meetings is good deal better than driv-
ing pack of small boys about the streets, tell
ing then when to holler, who to holler for and
all that sort of side work for Greeley meetings.
Leading Statesmen ought to get good pay for
such work. and as his friends, we advise him to
collect his bill at once, for it won't do to wait
four years on that crowd.
Our friend Sheppard, we know, will appreciate
our kind offices in this matter As he appears to
want "a good opportunity" to advertise that he
manufactures enthusiasm" to order for Greeley
meetings we will give him the benefit of doing it
in the CHRONICLE which has a far wider and
larger circulation in Knoxville and elsewhere
(IPpplpV
advertisement with our endorsement as to the
energy and zeal of the enthuSer. If he could on
ly get chance with his small boys at Grant
meeting he would cover himself with glory and
could afford to collect his old accounts in the
customary way and pay for advertising his bus
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