The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-01
NEwsPAPER vENTUREs.

The CANTON DAILY DEMOCRAT which
made its appearance on September 10th,
| departed this life on November 10th,
| aged a little over nine weeks. The pub
| fishers, Messrs. A. & j. McGregOr, an
nounce that it is much against theirwlll
| that they are compelled to suspend the
publication, and only do so because their
circumstances will not allow them to go
on. The cause of the suspension was
the lack of enough capital to continue
its publication until such time as the
paper would pay its own expenses. Ehe
publishers say: cit will probably be
long time before we make similar at
TEMPT again." The Alessrs. McGregOr
have our sympathy. They made aprals-
worthy attempt to give the Democrats of
Canton good daily paper, and find
themselves considerably out of pocket as
their only reward.
There seems to be prevailing opinion
that it is one of the easiest things i'll the
world to publish a paper, and that there
Is fame, and millions III IL. Wen,
perhaps it is an easy matter to start
paper, but to keep the thing started IS
where the rub comes. A few enterpris-
ing men started the Cleveland Globe.
1t started all right, but its obituary was
written in a short few weeks, and the
publishers found themselves out OF
pocket some 7,OOO-nearly $1,000
week for their short experience. Ihey
are not so rich as they were, but they
know more.
Editor ]. T. Irvine of the Signal, at
GAINESVILLE, has also had some experience
in starting a daily, and with the same
results as the above mentioned. And
now it appears that some OF the enter
prising Democrats of that city have been
urging him to make another attempt
In response he says that Just as soon as
the possibility of making both ends
meet, or of paying expenses, Is open 10
view, will make ready at once to launch
the craft for regular dlurnal Jrlps.
Having formerly encountered myself
with heavy Indebtedness (between 81
900 and $4,000, by a three years effort
-perseyering or persistent, as one or
another may choose to call ito estab-
lish Democratic daily i'll this clty;
having printed the Daily Democrat i'll
1879 at a loss to myself of some $1,000;
and having before me the more recent
experiments of the Daily Era, the type
of which / bought at the Assignee's sale,
perhaps l may be excused Tor not having
the ardOr Of an untried courser in this
sort of venture. Let impatient and ur-
gent friends consider that "A burnt
child breads the fire." and that whole
lots of constant business, with plenu-
full supplies of ready money, are most
absolutely essential to the success OF a
respectable daily journal"
But this experience is not confined to
Democratic papers. Others are i'll the
same Oat
The Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati,
is generally supposed by outsiders TO be
good paying investment. Well, Rev.
Father Callaghan, who has been con-
nected with that paper for the past II
years as editor and publisher. has just
retired, and in his YaledictOTy he says:
"And now we have a word to say of
the pecuniary advantage we reaped
from these years of jOurn llistic toll. 1t
is very easy summed up-it amounts
during twelve years, to NOTHING. rms
may be surprising information TO some,
but truth is very often surprising. When
our connection with the Telegraph be-
gan, Very Rev. E. Purcell promised US
for our services a salary of 81 900 year.
1t was never paid, because neither he
nor the paper could pay it. We never
asked for it. After twelve years of SER
vice, in lieu of this salary, he transfer
red to us the prOprietOrship of the paper.
The burden of prOprietOrship we had
always borne"
In addition to his working for moth
ing he had given "$1 900 0OutOf his salary
as pastor to meet the debts of the
paper"
The Enterprise, of Hudson, Ohio, of
the 10Th, announces that that will be the
last issue of that paper. The publisher
SAYS: eve have staggered under the
weight of a nOn-Sustaining enterprise
too long, and succumb at last when
necessity strikes the blow"
The Enquirer is authority for the
statement that negotiations are in pro-
gress for the consolidation of the Gin
cinnati Gazette and Commercial. 1t
states that lit is no longer matter Of
private Information that both concerns
have found life rather burdensOme."
Before the war the Gazette was nOtori-
Ous for being a sink-hOle for money, but
during and for time after the war 1t
made considerable money for its pub
| fishers.
The Gazette states that Democratic
| paper is to be started i'll Cincinnati, In
opposition to the Enquirer, with capl-
| tai of some 100000 to $5OO,OOO. whether
| this statement is made as an offset to the
Enouirer's article we know not, but if
aoy ambitious individuals have such a
| project in contemplation it would be
advisable to think not only twice but
| several times before buying their type
While $5OO,OO0 is good round sum, ye1
| after paving the expenses OF a meIrO-
politan daily for year the projectors
will be glad to disposed of their stock a.
greatly reduced figures. Memory recalls
the starting of the Cincinnati Chronlclt
in 1859 1t was with a grand flourish o.
tTumpets: but the flourish didn't last anC
even the trumpet gave out ere long.
But why multiply cases, they do no
deter others, who are anxious to i'm
mOrtalize Observation-Disclosures County
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