Daily Republican., 1882-07-18
TUESDAY, JULY IS. 1889.
A Word for Ourselv es.


1t really looks as if the flood gates o
persecution were opened simultaneous
ly by all the other daily papers in the
city, and the floods of vituperation, per
spnality and abuse were concentrated
upon the REPUBLICAN, with the vair
expectation of circumscribing it's intiu
ence and destroyinga circulation which
is the envy of its cotemporaries. Vail
effort indeed The REPUBLICAN was
in existence before any of those now
hawking and tearing at it, except one,
was thought of, and it will live from
present appearances after Its defamers
shall only be remembered as stupendous
failures. Papers that in the enmity OF
their feelings depart from the common
principles of justice and right in max
ing personal attacks must lose the re-
sPect of the community, andthey neednot
wonder why they do not succeed. We
never pretended to publish any thing
else than good local paper, giving the
local news specially, and such of the
general news as we thought would be
appreciated by our readers. In this
We have succeeded, as will be seen by
the unprecedented circulation of our
paper. We have not been taking tele-
grams regularly, because it is too ex-
pensive. For declining to do so we
have been denounced by those papers
that do take them. $4,000 year is no
small matter for kilograms for Will
mington paper. We have not been tax
ing them because the income of our
paper would not afford it. By not TAX
ing them we keep out of debt and to
make up for telegraphic news we try to
give a greater variety of local news,
which after all is what makes local
paper popular. We have been accused
in broad terms of the theft of articles
from other papers. If we are guilty
then all the papers in the city are gull
ty. 1t is common thing to see local
items taken from other papers and pub
elished in all the papers without credit
being given. The first edition of the
afternoon papers are eagerly scanned
by reporters, to see If any thing has
been missed, and if there has, the arti.
Giles are appropriated and published in
the last editions, but the most of them
rewritten to destroy the identity of the
article. We presume there will be no
denial of this, though sometimes an
effort is made, if time permits, to gather
additional information.
New word more in regard to the ar
4icle in the Morning News, relating to
the death of Bishop Scott, which we are
accused of stealing from that paper.
The News admits that it had the Bish-
ops diary, from which it was not diff.
cult 10 write an obituary. How it got
the diary we do not know, nor is it any
of our business. The sketch of his life |
and death appears. There could be no
doubt of its correctness for it was taken |
from the diary. Under the circum.
stances what would any paper have
done but make up an article from the
report authenticated by the Bishops
diary? But to make sure that the ar
tiCle was correct, we dispatched mes.
senger to Rey. Charles Hill, with the
request that he would read over the ar.
9icle in the News and see if it was cor.
rect, for Mr.. Hill is an elderly gentle
IMAM and was on very close and init
mate relations to the Bishop. Mr., Hill
did verify that the report was correct
and called to his mind several incidents
lbs himself knew in the life of Bishop
Scott, to prove the correctness of his
judgment. In this shape the article
came back to us, and we wrote from it
Odd not copy it) what we did and
the immaculate saints of the Morning
News and the Gazette hold up their
hands in hypOcritical horror, as if they
had never appropriated articles from
other Papers. This is a plain and
truthful statement of the case, and we
are content to leave 1t with the iudg-
mem of our readers.