Daily Republican., 1879-04-01
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owing to its compactness and smallness
OF type. The advertisements We notice
are dressed up in ne~ suit OF type,
which together with publishing th'
paper for = peuny, exhibits co.nsnda-
BILE enterprise on the part of our neigh
Dor, but in these panicy times when
everything is run on fine points, wheth-
er the change will pay, will be for the
future to determine. Had the publi-
cation OF the "Every Evening" under
its varied changes a. a two cent paper,
not oonfessedly been a failure, we
would have more faith in its future
success, but having failed Of success in
every previous trial, beth as one cant
and two cent paper, the corporation
must have very little encouragement
in its new departure. We would how
ever lay nothing in the way ofour weak
and struggling contemporary, grasPing
at but one friendly straw amidst the
white capped waves where it ia tempest
tossed and storm driven into the friend
ly port of those "rasty cheap one cent
papers," which it formerly despised.
There cali be no doubt tha. the new de
parture will result in considerable in
crease of circulation, as one cent day
is only one half of two cents, a calcula-
ton which everybody has az their
tongues end these hard times.
The REPUBLICAN is calm and uncou-
cerned, though our boasting neighboI
ssys: ''We will take up this matter
of circulation, and probably make it a
less agreeable topic than it has been to
one establishment, which has been
great on vague boasting, but has never
given the figures to back up its claims.
And then it very significantly adds,
''There is gcing to be lively time
about this business Had our neigh
| hor not started out with boast and a
threat, We as well as the public would
| have had more confidence in its success.
| When it started as the mammoth two
cent daily of Wilmington, with the
combined circulation OF the "Every
Evening" and the Commercial -
reaching 1000, it treated us contempt
rously, as if unworthy Of notice, and
| With determination never to notice
US, and would have carried out that de
termination had not the despised, +,
''rastv one-cont paper grown into
such prominence that it compelled
notice, and at last saw Its rival hunili.
ated, and forced to take place in the
ranks of the one cent dailies, depleted
in circulation from 700Q down to :, 500
ly its own confession. We We're not
he attacking parties, but acting on tn,
lefense with our own individual capi
tai, against strong corporation, at tn,
back Of which stood such responsible,
men as Henry :. McCOmb, Samue
Bancroft, George II. Bates, and others
we went on in the even tenor of oul
ray, step by step, until we have
reached circulation of 5000, and oul
rival has not only decreased to the mum.
Der now claimed for it but with threat
against US it enters the one cent ranks
as if we alone were the cause of its mis-.
fortunes. We disregard its threats
and court not its smiles. We have
lived and proSpered without it for the
asst two years and We expect TO do the
same in the future, unless some un
foreseen contingency interyenes. W,
still expect to make the REPUBLICAN th'
beat local newspaper in the city, not
xithstanding the flourish of the trum
pets attending the every Evening
rs it resumes its place as a one cen
daily, and its threat to make it un
| pleasant for us. There is room for u,
all, and our motto is to "Live and le
live"