The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-01-30
NUMBER TwENTY-FoUB.

Tke oath Newspaper Death ih Deniphan
C0untT@S0me Facts About the Late
Troy Bulletin, and Funeral
Sermon on the Deceased.
Il Is not brave act to kick q man when he
is down nor to write against him, when he has
no means of answering back. Bat when man
starts ont for the purpose of knocking you down,
and bends every effort to accomplish that end,
you cannot he blamed for feeling just little
elsted when you see him sprswling in the mud;
and when you have to contend against . COM
petitor who disregards all honorable business
rules, you are under no obligations to observe .
business respect for him when he fails. There
are few who have wondered why we punched
mp the editor of the late defunct relentlessly,
and even those who, aided by his pitiful sp-
peals, have immagined that We were persecut-
ing him, with eye single to preventing him
from making living for those dependent upon
him for support. For the benefit Of such per-
sons, we shall now state some facts, leaving the
public to Judge as to whether we had cause to
charge home upon him, on every occasion.
As preliminary, we shall say the We have
no exclusive privilege or right over any other
man. But there should be q difference in mems
claims for public patronage, founded upon solid
grounds. workman, who has learned and un-
derstsnds his trade, and relies upon it for life
support should be given the preference over
one who adopts it as the best present means to
accomplish a purpose, without understanding
the business but who is compelled to pick up
men here and there to do his work. And q man
who settles down in a community, with the de-
termination of staying there, sharing its good
and bad fortunes alike, and bearing the brunt
with others, is entitled to patronage in prefer
ence to one who is first here aud then there, al
ways on hand when the rich cream is ready to
he skinned off, and off somewhere else when
the cream is gone. I'VE served years of appren
ticeship at the printing business. There is no
part of it,, from the smallest item to the largest
that we do not understand. We are capable of
carrying it on experimenting it, and doing the
work, in every department. 1t is all the trade
we know for thirty-one years We have labored
at it without intermission, aud doubt whether
we could earn living at any other calling. We
came to Doniphan County to make our home
here, when there was in manner nobody to
support newspaper. We brought along all we
had in the world-little to be sure, but it was
all. We came to aid in building up this part of
Kansas, aud to share in the privations of the
people, expecting, Of course, to share the fat,
whenever it came. We found privation the
principal part of it, for o number of years. We
worked hard-how hard, q good many think
they know, but they don't. But Of all the
crimes we have ever been accused of, our worst
enemy has never charged us with laziness We
were determined to keep the Chief going, and
We did it3 Every man who ever subscribed got
his full number of papers, although there were
periods when newspapers were dying as If by
pestience. At one time, there was not news
paper that survived, outside of Leavenworth
and Atchison, north of the Kansas River, except
the Ckief-and it would have died with the rest
of them, if we had permitted it to. We stuck
to Donipnan County, and kept the paper going
right along. We think we have demonstrated
that the Chief is permanent institution, and
that we came to Doniphan County to stickl
On the other hand, how is it with our late
competitor In the first place, he knows moth
ing at all of the printing business and could
not carry on a newspaper for a single day with
out the assistance of others. He came to Kan
sas, as he had to other places, because he thought
he saw an opening for lucrative business
holding himself in readiness to go elsewhere,
when better opening offered. He had been
merchant, speculator, insurance agent, drum
mer, newspaper publisher-anything that offer
ed an open field, except work-not plotting,
blowing, or exercise of cheek but manual labor.
In his efforts to support his family, he has never
tried labor. He entrenched himself behind his
constitutional right to engage in whatever bus
iness he chose, in order to make living for his
family. On the same principle, he could have
opened q carpenters shop, or a lawyers or a
doctors office, and hired cheap botches, petit
foggers or quacks to do the work, while he went
about on his cheek, drumming up custom. He
might have had legal right to do this; yet We
think that legitimate carpenters, lawyers and
doctors, who had spent years fitting themselves
for their business, would have had q right to CON-
plain, and to claim that they were better euti-
tied to the patronage of the community. This
is the way we felt
We long ago discovered that small country
town was no place for newspaper, except it
were q County Seat, and We were strongly in
clned to change our location accordingly, if we
could do so without going into another County.
An unfortunate division existed in the Republ-
can party of the County. and another paper was
published in Troy. We were strongly urged TO
come here. The foremost in urging Us. was the
late publisher of the BxlletiR He wanted to see
good paper here, but had determined never to
60 into the business again himself. He argued
that Doniphan County could not afford COM
Portable living for more than one paper, and
that if We were at the County Seat, the Chief
would eventually be that paper. 1t would in o
year or two have clear field, and would then
receive such support that newspaper ought to
have. Well, we came. For about three years
afterward, there o regular quarrel between
the two papers here, in which the game of cut
throat figured, and the division in the Republi-
can party was kept as wide rs ever. We be-
came tired of it. The matters that caused the
division had been Of the past long enough to
cease quarreling over them. We thought the
party could afford to pull together, and that it
was much better for one newspaper to make
living than for two to try to cut each others
throats. An amicable arrangement was made
between the two papers, by which we bought
out the other one a fair sale, satisfactory to
all parties. But in order to do so, and to put in
other improvements that the change made nee
essary, We incurred heavy debt. No one knew
that better than the late publisher of the Bslle
o.. Cor ts tnaw the vhole arrancemenf Ha