The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-04-24
AN INDEPENDENT PRESS

ll'- itlt pllICStl ullplctASanrneSS
found the RepUbijcGH prepared for anv
emergency. The gentlemen of the I'm
ion had put the office in the most seru-
pul1usIy neat condition before they said
farewell and if forever. to the Repub-
licdH. So that when certain of our edi-
torial staff determined to keep the pot
bilin, " they had nothing to do except to
take off their coats and assume the COM
posing stick We felt just pride in
this. There We're Americans prepared
for any need. They could write editOri-
al and stick il. or, like the late Mr.. Gree
lev. could stick it out of their own heads
without writing it at ALL 1t was a
splendid sight. these gentlemen under
the flaming gas. picking among the low
er case and small caps. 1t was early and
and informally agreed that each editor
should get up his own matter. Our local
led off in a stick and half, in which he
apOlogized for the brevity of his work by
the effect of the lake air, said to make
reporters drowsy. Our river reporter
made sensation by announcing that
the Crescent City, from New Orleans,
blew To atoms MORtezTHld island yeSteT-
day, and six barges burned" This ex-
plosion of an island, and of the preeed-
ing day, il was supposed, would be cop
led extensively. Still the work did not
20 on as rapidly as was desirable, and
the suggestion was made that it would
be better TO put on a few more hands, if
they were to be had. At this juneture
there came an old friend, connected with
the country press, who, knowing the inl-
pOrtance to the Republican cause of the
unintermitted publication of its central
organ, came to announce that he had Sc
cured the services of swift and sure
compositOr. Every amateur straighten-
ed himself as this old typo was an
nOupced, and wished he had headed a
squad of the same sort. The newcomer
was received with all the hOnors. Our
distinguished chief of the staff, who had
been bothered with the hicks, and who
selected his type with the utmost delib-
Grafton, promptly laid bown his compOs-
ing stick to welcome this outlaw of the
Union. We do not think we have seen
more impressment of manner than when
our chief grasped the hand of the new
printer, and actually gave up his own |
composing stick. The new printer was
introduced as a gentleman from Acadia.
lie was dark and shadowy type of |
the Gallic race, and, having taken off his |
coat, advanced to one of several cases, !
which were vacated with alacrity by the |
gentlemen editors, and offered him with |
demonstrations of uncommon politeness.
Our chief, who regarded the Arcadian |
gentleman as his special sub" pointed |
out all the facilities of the Office, and |
went so far as to present him with the |
editorial copy then in his hand, for com
position He even read over three times |
this editorial paragraph to the gentle
man from Arcadia. As ultimately cor
rected and published, it read as follows:
''OUR MAGNANINIITY"
I'VE shall magnanimously fOrbear to
assail our pugnaciOus antagonist, the
Pic, while it is down and unable for the
moment to resist. When, however. like
the great original, it shall have got its
wind again, we will fight IAN hour by |
Shrewsbury clock" Till then we re-
press our martial ardor, but heartily |
hope our fraetious contemporary may !
soon be in fighting trim again"
As it came to the galley, after the ma
nipulatiOns of him from of Acadia, it ap-
peared thus:
''OUR MoGRANULY.
1--WE shall magnanimously forbear to
assail our prograne and great the Pic,
while it is down and unable for the mo-
ment tOnoist. When honorable its great /
original it should have got its wind again,
we will project an hour by the shreau-
berry lo0le. Well then we repren our
war bal and or, but heartily hope our
practism colum for any may torn be in
fighting trim allure"
The countenance of the chief as he
perused this astonishing perversiOn, at
tracted the attention of all. He COM
menced whistling in a low tone a frag-
ment of one of DIR. Watts best hymns,
intended for the prevention of profanity.
Turning to his first assistant foreman, he
This fellow has been snaked
in by the UniOn;" and turning, remark
ed TO his expectant sub: "Cut" That
was all he said, but the gentleman from
Acadia either suspected his rates would
be cut still lower, or had been so much
in the habit of being turned out of print
ing offices, that without word of expla-
nation, or demand that his work should /
be measured from the hook, ne put ON
his long and flowing robes and departed.
Our chief resumed his inspection of type |
without another word. and there was no
more hilarity in that office. Each man
felt that his hour had come, and bent
himself silently to the task. Ere the
cock had crowed thrice, the Daily Re
publican was in the hands of the press
man, and in a short time thereafter, the /
fancy compOsitors were awakened to /
breakfast We proudly cite the two
numbers as a specimen of Independent |
journalism, which was much relieved by /
the adjustment of all difficulties between
proprietors and printers.-BeIC Orleans
Republican.
PARsON BEECHER is witty as well as |