Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-02-15


As hare been misrepresented by the
Tsma City paper, by falsehoods and long
wiudsd editorials, l desire to say . word or
two in vindication Of myself. Since issuing
the Advocate Prospectus the Ciazes editor,
-yclept Grandmother Cambridge,-has
used his utmost skin at falsity to kill out
the enterprise.
l never contemplated starting q paper in
lama City for the purpose of running the
Citizen out. My motto is, ''Livs, and let
live" and it was only because l was out
OF. steady employment that | proposed start
ing . new paper. Hundreds Of dollars
worth Of jcb-work for lama City is done at
foreign Offices annually, that might be done
at home if the publisher there possessed the
sense and enterprise that he ought to have.
And less than o third Of the business men
Of the place advertise in his paper, because
the advertisements printed on the lama
City side Of that Milwaukee sheet are US
ually . jumbled mass, so that the adver-
tiser derives no benefit. The above facts,
together with that Of his rapidly increasing
u%npopularity and the certainty that . new
office would eventual y be started sometime
this year BY another party, convinced me
that the Adroeate enterprise weuld be . fea-
sib lie undertaking.
In an article headed "New Paper At Tama
City" he gave what he considered my
newspaper career" wherein he made sew
eral emphatic falseh pods. Ny newspaper
career has been honorable in every re-
spect, As I can prove by those who are COM
peteat to Judge.
He says Am devoid Of 'business capac>
ity." A man that will pay $4,000 for q
rickety old Office worth only 500, a. he
did, is not capable Of knowing what good bus
mess capacity is.
In regard to material proposed buying
Of the REPUBLICAN editor, tho Citizen says,
1.-The editorIof EEpuDLnAS knew that if
he did not furnish . press, Mr., Yarham
could not start . paper here" Mr.. True
knows nothing about my p~ecuniary affairs,
nor does the Citizen editor. although he may
think 50. He further says the editor Of
REPUBLICAN proposed to leld Mr.. Yarham a
press to start a paper here .r agreed to-
Subsequently he preferred te SELL and de-
mandel fifty dollars on taking possession Of
the press, and William could not rails. the
money" 1 have never asked Mr.. Tru. to
lend ne . press, nor has lie offered to
loan me one, but having q press AID more
type than he has use for, he offered to seG
the material, knowing l would buy Of other
parties if l didn't of him. Furthermore, l
can start ON Office in Tama County when>
ever I desire to without the aid Of either Of
the above named editors.
In another sentence he has the following
Mr.. Yarham wanted us to sell him two
cases of type, and let him work for US until
he paid for it, but suspecting that he had
his eye on Toledo or some other town in tina
county, We gave him no encouragement :
Now, the fact is, I merely asked him
how much he would take for . case or two
Of type and take pay in work, when he
provided he could raise funds to get new
type, which he thought he could do soon,
when he would like to nave me buy the old
type. I never told hlm I wanted to buy It.
In another place, he urges me to ~'locate
at the county seat Of one Of the small coun-
ties and grow up with it," There is . bet.
ter opening At Tama City than at any UNI
occupied county seat in Iowa! do no
propose to 60 into the wilderness TO start q
newspaper after having earned the right to
publisA a paper in This county for if prior.
ity 10 . claim, | I'm several years ahead Of
Mr.. Cambridge as regards the newspaper
business here. And, moreover, we're l to
publish a paper in Tama City, I would pr;n,
it there, as we'll as do all job-printing that
will otherwise be sent out to eastern oficest
II lama City is never to have a home pa
per because q Milwaukee paper is simply
published there, with on old fogy editor to
run down enterprise and abuse individuals
when they propose to earn . livelihood ct
their trade, then, indeed, the place is in q
bad plight!
But why does Cambridge howl so against
the idea Of starting q new paper in Tama
City, or Taus County, or, l might say, in
Iowa? Because he knows his unpopular
ity, and total inability to publish q respect
able local sheet, would beggar him, where
. live, wide.awake, sensible home journal
was printed If he were now publishing
3 home paper Of the right sort, he would
have no fear Of competition. But as it is,
he sits in his chair all day long, Whining
growing. and splitting out his wrath at me,
because I was going to earn my living at
printing,-an art he don't know the first
rudiments Of. Whether or not l will start
y paper in Tama City within three months,
depends on circumstance; but, suffice it to
ssy, l have not wholly abandoned the idea
Should the editor Of the Citizen continue his
warfare against me, l will start the enter
prise COR the purp Sc Of learning him tc
mind his orn business.
w. W. YARHAM.
! %CHILDREN'S CORNER.