The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-05-07

RDxxOBAAk XCU8UIO0g.
The Kansas Editorial Convention, which
meets 1t Fort Scott on the 18Th inA, will
make IN excursiou to this city after adjourn
ment. arriving here on the morning Of the
28,b, w. Z. Spoooer, Of the Garnet Plain
dealer. vas in the city Saturday and yester-
dav. making arrangements for the accom-
modatiou Of his editorial friends. The con-
ven,ion desires il to be distinctly understood
that thev come With the intention Of paying
their own bille, and will not submit to any
charity from the generous people OF St.
Loud. They propose to inaugurafe new
nolicv in this respect, and foot their own
bilk.-S. Lonis Globe.
A. for an excursion to St. Louis or else-
vhere We hope, for the good name and req
ut.tion of the fraternity that a one % decid-
81 unoo. the disrsputable and disagreeable
fe.tnre Of dead-headism will Nc longer be
oountenapced.-E. Scott Monitor.
We publish the foregoing paragraphs
merely a. Q text for iew remarks on edito-
rial excursions. From q reading Of the
.hove one might infer that Kansas editors
had been going from one point 10 another in
the Ruise Of e1cursionists to ''dead-bear
their rsy at hotels.
We attended the editorial excursion to
Colorado, three years ago, in company with
q large throng Of editors, and ':no. that the
Newspaper men Of the party paid their hotel
hills at Denver the same rs other guests,
without a.k,ng for or receiving reduction
in price. At Central City, Idaho Springs,
and Georgetown the editors also paid their
bills. At the springs mentioned they not
only paid for meals and lodging, but for
baths, something which their censors would
not take free Of charge, much less pay for.
Moreover, they paid the usual rates OF
transportation over the stage routes or hired
private conveysnees. The recollection
Of bill rendered. by the keeper of 4 livery
stable in Golden City, still fingers in our
memory, and II we mistake not the memory
of Mr.. Taylor, Of the Wyandotte Gazste,
runneth back TO bill "hWich" he paid for
liyery 20 serve the uses of the excursion in.
Two year..sgo last fall, thirty or forty ed
itou of the excursion which left Lawrence for
Sedalia, via Parsons and Fort Scott, pro-
lopeed the trip to St. Louis and Chicago
We know % fact that the editors compris.
e that party paid their bills at the Ia
;lede hotel, st. Loui,, without suggesting OF
receiving q reduction. They hired their
own hacks to WRIT Sbaw's Garden and Other
points of interest. They kept away from
the newspaper Offices, and conducted them
selves in q quiet, unottrusive manner, with
out claiming the charity or inviting the ILL.,
diligence of any resident Of that city. They
solicited neither notice or patronage, and
only received Whist they paid for. In Chi
caeo they did just the same. Hackmen re-
celved just what they were entitled to unlel
the ordinance..snd TO more. The editor
saw the ruins Of Chicago, and returned to
Kansas dead broke-ruined financially, and
presenting spectacle of embarrassment 81
deplorahle as Jay Cookies Northern Pacific
railroad.
In view Of these facts the announcemen nj
of the Globe ''that the editors that visit 81.
Louis this month propose to inaugurate
new policy in this respect and foot their OWE
bills" is to say the least cheeky if not i'm
pudent. Mr.. Spooner Of the Garnet Plain
dealer may be inaugurating q new policy fol
himeelf and his paper, but certainly he il
not devising any new plan for q majority Of
the Kansas editors. ~ Col. Martin. of the At.
:hison Champion, Bro. Taylor, of the Wy.
andotte Gazette. Albert Griffin, of the Man.
haitian Nationalist, Mr.. Crane. of the Tope.
Ia Commonwealth, and scores Of other news.
paper men Of this State can testify. Most Of
this talk about the disagreeable ard dis.
graceful features of deadheadism comes from
those who habitually abandon excursions
when they find no provision made for zen.
terisining the journalistic guests."
When the Kansas editors visited Chicago,
in October, 1871, that city presented q scene
of emouldering desolation which no pen can
describe. In the two years and a half that
have elareed since then, Chicago has erected
magnificent blocks, palatial hotels, and, in q
word, constructed the finest city of the CONT
nent on the very debris of her great disaster.
1t would seem TO Us eminently appropriate,
and in the highest degree pleasant for Kan.
~ editors to visit Chicago this month, and
contemplate the wonderful achievements OF
American enterprise 20 profusely displayed
in all parts Of that city. We hope it is not
too late::for the executive committee of the
~.aoo;>t;on "a msko q ckanue in tho mr. .
gramme.