The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-13
ANOTHER AND FINAL
CHANGE.

The proprietary announcement
made on another page Of this morn
,no,s EXAMINER may and doubles
will bring more or less of surpris,
IN the readers of the two journals
D for years honorable and active com
petitors, but which are hencefortl
TO unite their issues, resources ant
energies In combined eudeayor tt
serve the best purposes of society a:
well as progressive journalism and
legitimate business aspirations.
Changes, however, in this typi-
cal era of effort, energy
and combination should not
be SO surprising, especially when, as
i'll this case, it Is change SO thor
oughly in accordance with sound
business considerations and the real
interests OF the clientage to be
served by the combination. The
history OF the newspaper business in
Waco has not differed in any wise
from that III other towns, Of
moderate population and local re-
sources, where there were two active,
pushing papers-each waging an
eager, never relaxing competition.
Such struggles have not generally
proved advar tageous to the COM
petltors and it has been
found that when an ad-
vantageous and harmonious
combination could be effected the
result has been Il at the public
secured far more effective and val
liable newspaper service. In the
consolidation of lhe EXAMINER and
Telephone establishments, under
oae harmonious management pos
sessing alike the disposition and ca
pacity te push the surviving paper
to the desirable degree of usefulness,
we feel assured the public will be
the gamer as well as those who have
their capital invested in the consoli-
dated enterprise. We shall, in short,
be able to give the people OF Waco
and Texas a far superior
paper TO either EXAMINER or
Telephone as they were. We pledge |
the management TO do this. The
as elsewhere stated,
will consist of !. w. Downs, l.. S.
Ross, ID. r. Wallace and IL. w.
under the firm name of
Downs. Ross u Co. The EXAMINER
being the senior journal Of the two
will preserve its individuality, it
being purposed TO eventually dis
pense with the name of The Teie-
phone, mainly because lengthy hy-
phenated title, as would in all else,
De necessary, would be altogether too
Otherwise, however, il
S desired and purposed to preserve
what is best, in their varied
eatures and conduct, of the two
ournsls. The EXAMINER can
rankly say that it is gratified to con-
the arrangements, and We
believe Mr.. Hubby, ofthe Telephone,
will coincide with us IN the express
ZION of this sentiment In conclu-
ion we may state that the Telephone
will make its final appearance, as IL
Instinct paper, tomorrow morning
Dr.. w. h. Wilkes, one of the pro-
,rietOrs, having disposed OF his in
crest, will then retire, and we here
axe occasion to extend him the
most cordiali assurances of es-
VUrm and gUVu Wishes. Ills
Drief connection with journalism
las Been highly crcditable to him
nd he returns to field of labor
qually useful and honorable. The
onselidation will then be complete.
The EXAMINER will take the bright
nd vigorous Telephone to its en-
'race as it were, and we make bold
o say the union is one the readers
# the two papers will never regret.
With enlarged capacities for useful
the will to publish here
aper that shall subserve the highest
ocial, business and other material
interests of our city, section and
we not confidently an
cipatc the generous cooperation of
he general nnbiic2