Daily Republican., 1878-11-02

tion to him. II must b q usrs love Of
falsshood for IL own sake that prompts
. pap~r 70 VI such obvisus and I'M
necessary uSbuths . thls. Wa sup
pose it gets b shind q Disease with
such people.'
/ 0foourss " hss to our dlss 70 see
whslhsr W had said anything like
what We arc charged with and after
. dilligsnt search We had to Civ. It up,
nothing Of the kind nor nothing ap-
proximAting such thing could We ind
though We searched Thursdays paper
back q week and forward again. Oi
course We wondered whether the phrase
'easy as lying was not applia hle to
more papers than the REPUBLICAN, but We
wosld not intimate even indirectly that
such q pure immaculate being As the
editor OF the Il. +. would "lie." No,
perish the thought, We would only say
he was mistaken; he could mt tell lie.
Wondering why such an attack should
be made upon us and the question b..
ing settled that there wasn't a bit OF
malieiousness In 1t, We drew the veil Of
charity around the unfortunate editor
as We thought Of the near approach Of
"ull moon once more.
Looking within our calendar ".
found that the planet referred to would
be really full In about week hence, and
conssq uently the present attack was
but the incipisnt stage Of this strsng-
mental mAlady. "Mor- To follow ~
Oh, Heavens no, one attack is enough.
Mercy spare the poor victim from the
dreadful attack which must ensus II
the Republicans are successful in the
elections next Tuesday, and especially
il there should happen to be R.pub-
lican elected from South Carolina or
Louisiana. We doubt very much
whether he would be abl. TO survive a
Repn nblican triumph and a full moon at
the same time. But enough Of this,
and We will proceed to notice another
moonlight ray. The bright, the blaz.
ing, the brilliant, the wise, the witty
the learned, the profound editor Of the
Every Eren,ng refers by name to re-
porter Of the REPUBLICAN and says he is
not the right kind Of man To he edito,
OF newspaper, or any other impossi
Bile thing. The reporter referred TO IL
not nor never claimed to be an editor,
and II it requires An attack of some ter
rible mental malady every time the
moon fulls to make the right sort Of
man to be an editor, he never wants TO
t.e one.
A little comparison here on the stand.
ing and respective merits Of the Erery
Epening and the REPUBLICAN. as shown
by the circulation Of each, ma, not br
unintsr-sting. Since the reporter who
the "E. f." calls an editor, WAS EN-
ployed upon the REPUBLICAN, it has
steadily increased in its circulation, un.
til ii now reaches 4,3O0 daily, and VT
have been compelled to purchase a new
and faster press, while the az. f."
combination started at the same time
with toasted circulation of 1000 with |
Just the man fit to be an editor, has
dwindled down to $500 and is"still
going down so fast that were it not for
the financial props underneath, it would
drop so suddenly out Of sight that but
few would recollect that there had ev,
er been an Erery Erening. If then All
editor Of such signal ability and Just
the man fit to be an editor, has reduced
the circulation Of the "E. f." from
1000 down to 2, 500 in 20 months W..
think it will he generally admitted
that the REPUBLICAN which the az. E."
says is edited by man not fit to be all
editor, shows a remarkable degree of
prosperity, and We think We shall fight
It out on this line awhile longer.