The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-19
AHEGR.PRIChD DOCUMENT.
The Last Presidents Message Dis
posed Of for $1,000.


Philadelphia Record Washington Special
Again did the presidonts message creep
into tho paperS before it was presented to
congress. This is the second time the thing
has occurred, and there promise. to be the
usual seven days row a"out it, and the inves-
tigation will end in smoke or in the discharge
of some poor compositor, 81 wa: the ease las,
year. II was tho. same combination of cor.
rHpondenm.thst cgpturediL this year, except
that the New York Herald wGs lel ia SO az
to reducs expenses. All documents of this
sort are printed in the western end Of til q
treasury building in private Office, Of which
Captain z. A. Rodlor is the head The great
est precautions wero taken to keep tho con.
tents ofthe message secret. Watchmon stood
over the presses, and each sheet was counted
bslore it was given 80 the girls and % it cane
from the press. Then the bundles were sss,
to the Washington postoilico to be mailed
over tho country aud recountsd, The queer
part OF 1t was that those sont to the Chicapo
pOstoilics were lost, and for hours could moi
BIO found. AT last they were discovered in q
room among waste paper. Last INLAY tia
Chicago Times offered $500 for the MESSAGE.
and increased it to 500 by Saturday. 0p
Sunday agood synopsis WAS offered for ST.
600, snd this wss snapped up in an instant
The. result was tia. four correspondents had
the satisfaction of seeing it in their Journals
on Monday. These we're Major Csnon.
New York Times; w. O. MaeBrids. Gin.
cianau Enquirer T. G. Crawford, Ciicago
Times; aud nj. V. Preston, New York
Herald. THO rest Of the correspondents
got Nh mixing OF what was going on, and
there was some wild telegrSphing done Sun
day night to learn where the message Yss
being sent from. One western paper tt.
lluged Norfolk with dispatches, because il
heard that 1t was being sent from that
point. Another fired into Chicago. and the
Chicsgo folks were filling the New Workers
fall OF 1nlerrogatorieS. But the message
came out all thessme. Last year the CHI
cage Tribune heard that the message was
at the Times Office in New York. They
waited for the frst copy 10 appear, gathered
II IN and cut 1t up, so SIS TO make short tel
egrams. 1t was put on tho streets of
Chicago about an hour after lis rival
appeared. The psol then WAS $1,000,
divided in thirds. This Chicago Times
protested against the paying, and the
otther, two journals were compelled TO make
up the difference. This year the Tribune
SUGGESTED in obtaining synopsis on Friday.
and thus got ahead of ita conpstitofs.
While Gen. Grant WIS president, the mes.
sages were nsver published beforehand, be-
cause no always sent them in manuscript 10
Congress. But President Hsy,s has not been
so careful, and, willis he may DO nettlsd DO,
cause they got out, he does not show il
much. Capt Rsdsr kept the printers locked
up for forty eight heurs, so no inkling of tho
message wsuid bscoms public, and allowed
none OF the employees but the proof-rsade-s
portions. just how il rot out will hardly Ina
known, because it would he giving awsy tae
secrets OF the profession, and some one might
get into serious trouble.