The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-02-27

The last issne Of the Highland Seztisei, (and
herhaps the last for keeps,) Is ia . very unhsp-
| Py mood, and vents the most nf its spleen upon
the Chief. 1t says its editor has not changed bis
politics; that the Chief is bitterly opposed to
any other paper being published in the County
that the Chief receives all the public patronage
| OF the County, and is unfair towards those who
| fail because they have no County printing!; and
finally wonders whether the time will ever come
when the County patronage will be divided
among the papers of the County. We suppose
we are required to plead to these charges.
To begin; when we first knew the editor of
the Sentinel, and for some years afterwards, he
professed to be most radical Republican. The
late Bslletis Published extracts from letters
written by him, in which he said he always lad
been Democrat. For the past two or three
years, he has been sailing under the Greenback
flag. Has he changed his politics, or is he try
ing to straddle too much'
Secondly: The Chief has never exhibited a
particle Of enmity or unfairness towards the
Sentinel either under its founder or its present
publisher. We have done nothing against it,
either publicly or privately, and have never in
terfered to deprive it of dollars worth Of pat
ronage that belonged to it. country newspa-
per in Kansas needs all the patronage that it
can get; and if gladly accepting all the work
that We could secure was unfair toward the
Seatinel or any other paper, then we may have
been unfair, and must continue to be SO. We
have even done job work for the Sentinel Office,
that it had not the facilities to do, and put our
charges very low, in order to allow the Sentinel
good profit by charging regular rates.
Then comes the County printing bugboo. The
Chief lived for years without dollar of County
printing. For other years, the printing was d.
vided, and yet all the other papers except the
Chief have died. Yet, year after year, little pa
pers are started where there is no demand for
them-papers the size of sheet of foolscap, and
patent outsides, at that. good printer could
work ont by the day, and get those papers out
by working between times; and yet they col
lapse, and complain that they are crushed out
because they have no County printing. If such
is the fact, it proves conclusiveiy that there is
not room in Doniphan County for more than one
paper. We here assert it as n fact, no matter
who may claim to the contrary, or how many
ventures may be made in the newspaper line,
that there is not legitimate comfortable sup
port in Doniphan County for more than one
newspaper, iuciuuing the county printing IN
the r patronage, and the sooner the people ap-
preciate the fact, and try TO give one paper q
good support, the sooner they will escape being
imposed upon by transient ventures We do
not say that the Chiefs the paper that should
he SO supported. We shall do our best to make
paper that the people will accept as the one,
and leave the decision to them.
The object of County printing, is to inform the
people on subjects that is necessary for them to
know. The paper that reaches the greatest
number of people, is the one that should have
the printing. The Chief has larger circulation
in the County where published, than any other
paper in Kansas, outside of those containing
large cities. Therefore, more people are served
by having the Chief do the County printing,
than could have been done by publishing in any
three other papers ever issued in the County.
And finally, if this County printing were plac-
ed upon purely personal grounds, paper that
is constantly abusing the County Board, with
out the slightest cause, and never saying a
pleasant word for them, no matter how hard
they labor for the public welfare, is the last one
to squeal about not getting a divide.