The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24
KENoSHI.A UNION
Gopperhead Origin.
CIRCULATION.
FALSE STATEMENT.


TIE editor and publisher Of the Kenosha
Union, in the last number of that paper
under the caption, Volume Ten, makes some
statements in relation to the origin of the
Union Of historic interest. 1t says "a little
more than nine years since we, with others,
felt that there " ere principles and ideas that
lshould find ali advocacy in this community
which they were not likely to receive
through the columns Of the Kenosha Te7e-
Igrapb the only paper then published in the
county. To this end we applied to Scheff
and Winneear, the publishers and proprie-
tors Of that paper. for permission to use one
or two columns ofthat paper through which
to advocate those principles and ideas, at
the same time assuring them, that in our
opinion, such an arrangement would increase
/ the circulation of the Telegraph. We re-
ceived the following laconic and emphatic
reply: we want no ID copperhead W rit-
| ingS in our paper Just twenty-one days
from that reply the Kenosha UNION was
/
fore sunrise on the morning ofJune 90, 1866 -
| 1.-THE foregoing statement is correct it is
very evident that Sohoff and Vinegar
thought the principles and ideas which the
now editor and publisher Of the Union, and
Others, thought should have an advocacy in
| this community, and for-whieh he applied to
them for the use of one or two columns a
week in the TELEGRAPH, were the principles
aud ideas of copperheadism. And there is
nothing said by the Uision' to show that
Schoff and Vinegar were-not right, or that
the Union was not established for the ex-
press purpose of advocating the principles
and ideas of copperheadism. And more :
The Ua5on claims that it has been successful
in their advocacy as its circulation and bu-
siness will show. The correctness of this
claim Is very questionable. We have heard
the remark frequently made, and are in
clined to agree with 1t, that, if the Republi-
can business men of Kenesha would with
| hold their patronage from the Union, it
| could not live year. And it is quite as
probable that the patronage of the Reproli-
can business men of Kenosha is extended to
the UfaSos as much to secure demands over
due as it is to support 1t In it's advocacy
Of the principles and ideas of copperhesdism.
This however is a matter for the Republican
patro&zers of the Union aHd the advocates
of the principles and ideas Of copperheadism
to settle between themselves. IT the former
desire TO support the latter they are con-
sistenb In bestowing their patronage. And
consis tency is Jewel
1t is the false statement made by the Un--
ION in relation to its circulation to which we
desire particularly TO calHattention. Imme.
diateJy following the preceding quotation it.
says: "From that morning TO this the
growth of the UNION. though conducted
without experience and under many diff
culties. has been constant. both as to cireula-
ton and business, and now it has not only
larger circulation than any other Demo
cratic or Opposition paper ever had in this
county, but is greater than that of any oS5aer
paper at this time"
The editor and publisher Of the UnSo@
knew very well when he was writing and
publishing the foregoing that he was writing
and publishing what was not true. So far
from the Union having greater circulation
than the TELEGRAPH the number of subserib-
ers who receive the. TELEGRAPH at the. print
ing Office, by carrier, and at the Kenosha
post office, is nearly as great as the whole
circulation of the Union, and much nearer
than the circulation of the Union is to the
whole circulation of the TELEGRAPH. And
in manyof the country offices there are from
FIVE TO twenty times as many copies Of the
TELEGRAPHreceiveda as there are Of the Union
1t is doubtful whether there are as many
copies of the Onion received at any Office in
the county as there are of the TRLEGRAPH.
If there is any we have yet to be informed
where it is. So much for the relative circu
lation of the Union and "any other paper at
this time" in the county or out of it. If
untrue statements of the editor and publish
er of the Union could give it "a greater cir
culation than any other paper it would be
easy for it to have it. but unfortunately for
the Union its circulation does not increase
with its untruthfulness