The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-16
VOL. %.
AN 1RArE sCR1BBLER.

| EDITORS NEMS.-IS IL III accordance
with your idea of editorial propriety or
| even 81 gentlemanly courtesy, after ac-
! ceptlng an article in its crude state, and
thereby subjecting your correspondent,
to the trouble Of rewriting il, for him 10
find il, on the appearance of your paper,
| without note or comment-contemptu
ously rejected? / should not have
noticed this, 10 say the least, uncalled
for and ungentlemanly behaviour, had
/ not been subjected to the same kind of
treatment from you twice before within
| the last few weeks.
/ have been for the last thirty five years
more or less correspondent of newspa
pers published in the cities of Ann Ar
Dor and Detroit, Michigan; of Camden
and Trenton, in New Jersey, and of
Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, and can
truthfully say that have never had, out
of hundreds of articles so contributed,
u single one rejected. 1t may be that the
editors in these comparatively insignif-
cant cities, were unable to discriminate
| between a good and bad article. If so,
it was their misfortune, and am
sorry that their readers suf-
fered the infiiction. II appears to
be left for the great solon Oi the ESIPoRIA
| DAILY NEWS, with its few score of sub
| scribers, either from constitutional tim
| idity, or from what has never yet been dis
covered in him, far-reaching sagacity,
\ to first receive an article with the prom
Use of printing, and then, after coming
/ il over in his massive brain, to suddenly
discover, like flash of lightning in
| clear sky, hidden cunninglY under the
meal, a mighty big mares nest. But
| such is the fate of all great intellects; for
awhile they may lay in an adolescent
| state, but, upon reflection are sure To rise
| equal To the occasion.
You Will excuse me gentlemen for new
| er before being able to discover the great
ness of the mighty intellect laying dor
/ mant in the cerebellum region of your
senior editor, but in this | am only one
| Of the sufferers, among all who have the
| happiness OF his acquaintance. | shall
| be most certainly very careful in future
| To trusting my poor illusions to the ac-
cute criticism of his very astutc mind |
In conclusion, nothing but fear of
having Ia meet the mighty opposi-
I ton of his heretofore dormant Webster
| ian brain, has deferred me from starting
n daily and weekly journal in this city,
where articles holding up to the detesta-
| ton of all good citizens, sins against the
/ laws, and crimes against the community,
could he published without an editorial
| fear of offending the vicious, or the
criminal. Very Respectfully,
WILLIAM JAY.
The immediate cause of the above out
break from Mr.. Jay was the setting aside
of one of his whitening pieces of sar-
casm O.. The old gent called it funny
lie is great on kicking a man after he is
| dcad-of writing anathcmas on Il subject
after il is finished This article of ms
was turn at the liquor dealers, and it
was oh, so whitening! Ii was equal To
one of Micawbcr's productions. 1t was
Il pointless, flat tumble of adiectives, and
its publication would have done no good.
The liquor men were beaten, and THE
News, the day after election, had said
all that was necessary To say, and said il
pOintedly and well. In his article Mr.
Jay, as usual, made free use of other
peoples names, dragging them in and
mixing them up with liquor sellers in an
offensive and ungentlemanly manner.
One or two of these are rs good temper
ance men as he is, and we know do not
like Jays jokes, brilliant as he
thinks them. We really did not intend
to offend the amiable old gentleman.
He had been over. town, as usual when
he matches one of his ponderous pro-
auctions, and read it TO everybody, and
split his sides with cackling at his own
immensely, and we supposed he did not
care much about its publication in
paper having only a "few score of sub
scribers." 1t is mystery TO us why
such big man as Mr.. Jay makes him.
self should get into passion over any
treatment from u paper so insignificant. |
We supposed him more magnanimOus.
Mr.. Jay is mistaken in the outstart in
saying his article was accepted. We
probably did not tell him out and out
that we would not publish 1t. We OBJ
jected to it. Is it in accordance with
his idea of gentlemanly propriety, or
even of common decency and courtesy,
to insist on the publication of his soft
communications when he knows, if he
could take hint at all, the editor does
not want them.
This paper is the sole property of its
owners. They have ms much right to
look out for its interests and to protect
them as Mr.. Jay has to protect the inter
ests of his lumber yard. And it would
be just us ungentlemanly and impudcnt
for us to go and dictate TO him how he
shall run his business, and to abuse him
and kguard him because he did not
do rs we dictated, rs it is for him to prac-
| tice such tactics on us. He never, in
his communications, for moment con-
| siders the interests of our business or the
duty we owe to our subscribers, which
| duty VIC are endcayoring TO perform con
scientiously. He thinks of somebody
he wants 10 hit, for his communications
are all of personal nature, and
never have anything in them beneficial
to the community. He at once seiZes
| his pen and scratches. His next step is
TO rush over town, communication in
hat, and read it to all who will listen.
The boys wink at each other and say
chats good" Then the old gent breaks
for The NEWS office. II the article is
not at once put in type, italics, capitals,
exclamation points and all, the editor is
Il coward and u bastard, and afraid to
say his soul is his own. lie reminds us
of the boarding house keeper, who,
when the boardcrs began TO smile on
the appearance ofthe usual dish of hash,
flew Off the handle and exclaimed:
The man who don't like hash is
a liar" Mr.. Jay, we have always
thought, had some good points, but we
never considered him n great newspa-
per writer. He may have been so in
New Jersey and even in Michigan, bnt
in the two or three hundred columns
of his productions which have appear
| ell ia the NEWS, since his advent
here, there has been nothing that in
creased the sale of the paper single
copy above what he purchased himself
| We are inclined to the opinion that
his great efforts on eastern journals
have drained him, and that we are get
ting the tailings. If he ever said any
thing smart, even by accident, we do not
now remember it.
Mr.. Jay is a man who sees ether peo-
pies inconsistencies, and holds TO the
opinion that il is the peculiar field of the
| newspaper 10 lay them bare To the public
through his caustic o. pen. His ego
tism covers all his own faults. Take
case in point: Though a great moralist,
he admits to his hall low-down exhibi
tons, those calculated to corrupt the
public morals worse than any saloon
would do. If any whisky shop in the city
had admitted an exhibition such as is said
to have taken place at Jays hall Friday
evening, he would have filled u column
of platitudes over it. How he would