The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-31

DUH meant. We had not come
10 bill heads and "thirty days" We
were altogether happy. But that
was christian treatment compared
with what McClung afterwards re-
ceived from The N4ws boys.
Somehow he managed to got to
Ohio, where he made a raise He.
came back soon arrayed in ''gor-
geous APPAREL The 1illies would
have gone out of the clothing bu-
siness had they seen him. He was
joyfuIIy received in The News Of
flee when he returned. We took
him in and made a brother of him.
We were the gamers by the reIs-
tionship. We all "roomed" in the
printing Office, and on Invitation
he "put up" with us. The next
marning he had to go back to his old
clothes. We "parted his garments"
amone us one got a fine over
cost Or a vest, and the "boss"
for thetErst time for many months,
adorned himself in a new white
shirt. That performance was the
completest game of dead-beat we
eyer saw, and we only. mention it
here in this newspaper history to
show how "the boys" got along in
those early days. 1t was no won
der that McClung did not stay
around in Kansas long after this
experience. 1t was enough to dis
courage the Oldest man in the bn-
4 siness. He is at Xenia, Ohio, pros
porous and happy, and a regular
reader of The NEWS.
At the end of the first volume in
August, 1853. the writer took half
interest in the paper. 1t was pub
lished by Plumb & Stotler until the
following February, when Col.
Plumb determined to quit the
newspaper business and enter upon
the profession of law. We purchas-
ed his interest and assumed entire
control. The prospect was any
thing but flattering financially.
The present readers of the paper
can Judge of our qualifications fol-
the important trust when we tel
them that when we became sole edi
tor of The NEWS we had never writ
ten to exceed five consecutive lines
of editorial. We had a small elephan
and we proposed to make him use
full. The paper had attained, by
this time, bOnafide circulation OF
about 400 copies. During this and
the next year we were ably assisted
in the editorial work by Judge L
ID. Bailey, a New Hampshire alb.
clifton immigrant. The paper ant
every man connected with it glori
ed in being termed abolitionis Is
} THE NEWS was among the first, il
not the very first to urge the organ
J ization of the Redublican party il
the Territory. Judge Bailey
: ringing articles were copied by al
the leading papers in the Territory
The special field which the publish
: CIR began to cultivate was "local,
With this view he changed the namt
} from "Kanz1s News" to "EMPoRII
NEWS" 1t was then and has al
ways been one of the best loca
, papers,in Kansas. The next chang
} in ownership took place in the fal
, of 1859, when the paper was solC
T to Col Plumb and Dudley Randall
, The writer started for Ohio, wher
he expected to remain. He got a
far as Lawrence where he went t
work on the old Lawrence Repub
, lican, published by Norman Allen
/ and edited by T. Dwight Thacher
John SwintOn, now editor of tn
; New York Times, we bGlieye, wa
} foreman, and Ed Harris, the bes
, printer in the west, and who nov
, has charge of the State printing
establishment, held a pair of cases
We remained at Lawrence unit
/ May, when we returned and bough
: Plumb's interest in THE News
For a few months the firm wa
Stotler & Randall. The droutl
of go was too much for II. and h,
} sold us his interest and left in dis
gust. That was an ugly year fol
struggling prairie towns and
} newspapers. The war came on thu
next year. The newspaper bust
, ness began to look up. THE New
: favored the most radical measure
of the administration, and wa
among the first to advocate putting
! the colored folks to fighting, ant
: afterwards to urge negro suffrage
} The next change took place in DC
tober, 1864, when, contrary to al
expectations, j. II. Hunt bought il
After running it some nine months
he sold to Stotler and ID. S. Gil
more. In less than year after
wards, the writer became sole pro
prietor again. aud remained lsucl
until January 1870, when partnel
: was taken in the person OF a new
conner from Iowa named Williams
l This, in several respects, proved Il
3 be the most unfortunate change tn,
3 paper had ever undergone. W.
, soon found out the folly of labor
9 ing arduously for years to build uE
|, a valuable property, and then divid
A ing it with a person who was
Q dead weight to it. The blame wa
: our own, and that mis- take viii
/ probably not be duplicated very
3 soon. This gentleman continued
: in the paper a year and five months
f when his interest was transferred t.
the writer.
. In 1869, 1870 and 1871 the pape
5 enjoyed its greatest degree of pros
perity. What Stotler e Gilmor,
paid $500 for in Jaly 1865, haG
reached the value, the first of Jan
uary, 1870, of $4,000, and som'
months afterwards we refused /;
cash offer of $4,000. In 1867 ant
lS6S, before the advent of so many