The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-25
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.


MUOH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
We are in receipt of. communication
from correspondent at WaTahachie, emit
tied 1.-THE. Globg-Democrst and the reunion
of the Missouri exc Oonfederates." 1t is for the
most part criticism of the HERALD on it
lack Of enterprise in no. reporting in full the
proceedings had by that reunion on the l0Gt
instant, after the fashion ofthe Globe Demo-
crat and for omitting, we suppose, the long
address on that day made by our cores
pondent. Our editorial of last Sun
day in reply 10 the Globe-Demo-
Gratis editorial, was published about the time
our correspondent wrote bis communication,
or else no might have been disposed 10 DO u
little loas waspish. We pursued the course
We thought, from a long experience in such
matters, to be in the surest interest of our
! people. So far rs concerns the noticing Of
Mr.. Grigsby's remarks, viz that Of silence
until tho attack should be made when We
were ready fer the bombastes furioso charge
of the malignant foe, which when made wai
pronptly responded to. MIR. Grigsby't
speech was harmless little diversion
as amongst ourselves here, and would, as il
should have fallen stillborn without thu
least comment for its swsddling feebleness
except when its quality was strained ant
rated by such as the Globe-Democrat. WheI
used against us, however, it was duly at
tended to. And this without the aid of {
single correspondent, but by this paper alone
and of its own motion, at its own rick and a
It's own cost. vsporing complainant! now
wrote q line then or raised note of high OF
lower key to denounce the misrepresentation
when effort alone would have niched the
only cast AS for the "lsck Of enterprise on
the part of the press of Dallas" in not more
fully reporting the proceedings referred to,
the HERALD speaking for itself will now
state what it had purposed aud
would have preferred to have re-
manned unsaid, unhonored and UNI
sung, viz: tha! it largely and cheerfully
noticed, without actual or prospective re-
Enumeration, in its local columns for days in
advanco,yery much concerning the proposed
meeting of the exoconfederaie Mssourisns,
and that leading parties here having the
matter in charge we're often sp psaled to for
full and complete data that all possible
nigh. be said and without price, but that
many, indeed all of them were 80 busy they
coul ] not even furnish ii to the reporter,
that on the night preceding, by dint of great
effort, one of the proprietors of this journal
did himself succeed in securing portion Of
the time of Col. Thos. II. Murray, W o
hands and mind were also much busted with
work for the occasion, to furnish US with
some reporterial notes that others had agreed
to supply, but had not the time to do 80.
The HERALD would likewise state that in
its own columns, the report of the Globe.
Democrat would have occupied some five
columns, or nearly an entire page of matter,
which would have excluded the mis-
cellaneous news which our subscribers
pay for and desire, and the omission
of which would have brought much COM
plant upon us. Indeed, our city circula-
tor was not able to secure suficen!
amount of extra sales Of his papers Of the
morning after the first day of the reunion
10 pay the cost of composition of the pro,
ceedings even as published; nor could he
obtain the agreement to take an adequate
number TO justify a report of the speeches
and proceedings in full. Hence, the
"lsck Of enterprise" must be placed
where it properly belongs and not
to the debit of journal tina. did all it could
in the premises without any compensation
whatever for its special reports, save that
which comes from Its subscribers, whose
wants the proprietors are supposed to best
know. If the Globe-Dsmocrat is so much
better patronizsd in Texas than are our own
home papers as 10 warrant 1t in being 80 much
fuller in its reports of Texas affairs, tina n
is the Texas press, especially when it comes
into our midst 10 play the hawk to some-
bodY's dove, it lies no! in the mouths Of
those who take i! and from them, il GENES
with ill-becoming grace, to toss, and AFRO,
gantly toss criticism into the teeth Of such
home papers that vsinly sought the patron.
age to justify tho outlay for the enterprise.
Az for the argumen! of our correspondent
that a"fall publication of the transactions Of
the association, etc, would have been worth
dozen editorials now set up against the viru-
lence of tho Globe.D Democrat" the life of
this statement bears the sting which begets It's
own death, for as no wrote that scarcely
cold was the breath that announced that the
GID. had indeed published the full proceed
ings, shaving thus more enterprise than the
Dallas p'oss Wherefore then the com,
plaintl since the report Of the CD. mus
have been worth q dozen cd
itorials" that II or others furnished.
In the MISTER of "ihe reports Of the pre-
ceedipgs on tho 18th inst.," our correspon-
dent is entirely of, for the condemnatory
resolution was published in full by the HER
AID, and every document that couli DO CO.
cured on that day bearing on the subject
matters Of Its work was secured and publish