The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-03
THE COMMERCIAL GAZETTE.
The First Number of the New Paper to Ap-
pear To-Morrow Morning-Reasons
for the Cons olidation.

CINCINNATI Jan. 2-Mr. Halstead who
has not hitherto consented to say anything
about the merging of the Commercial and
the Gazette, will print the following i'll the
Commercial tomorrow:
another step in the consolidation of the
cincinnati Commercial and the Cincinnati
Gazette newspapers will take place to-mor-
row morning. The Commercial Gazette will
be issued from Potter's building, at Fourth
and Race streets, by NJ Halstead q Co. and
the Cincinnati Gazette Company. We
do not hazard anything in say
ing that the newspaper will be
superior, in many respects, TO either the
Cincinnati Commercial or the Gazette and
we could not promise more than that 1t is
our judgment that we can combine the men
and material of the two papers to the advan-
tage of all concerned. 1t is the purpose and
expectation TO satisfy both constituencies
and to enlarge the circulation and influence
beyond that which the two pauers have pos
seSsed. There has been something OF humor
and more of serious hostility in the suggest
ions that have been made that the CONNER
cal and Gazette We're irreconciable. Both
have, as rule, been Republican, ana each
has found occasion to revolt
, against zip party discipline; Combined,
the spirit, independence, nor principles of
Republicansm. When the Commercial and
the Gazette have differed as to men and meas
ures, it has generally happened that in ways
that varied they have sought the same ends
To go back as far the war of the rebellion
they differed as to the merits of commanders
and the expediency of certain lines of policy,
but unitedly urged the overthrow OF the an
tagonists of the law and the restoration of the
Union. Coming own as late as the temper
ance question, the serious truth is that the
Gazette was not for prohibition and the Com
mercial was not for free whisky. On the
Sunday question we have differed, not as
to the fact that the day should be
respected but as to the forms in which respect
could and should be shown, with malice
toward none and charity for ALL That
which is remarkable in the long history of
the two papers-the Commercial, the junior
is forty years old, and the Gazette. the oldest
newspaper inhabitant Of the Vests that
they have, in essentials of public policy
touching large affairs, so constantly agreed
Our friends may put aside all that
is said of our inability to
get along in consolidated form as
frivolous. We of the Commercial and the
Gazette understand ourselves and know each
other, and there need not be the slightest
misgiving as to going on together
1T is nonsense to say that necessity COM
pels this union. We believe that neither of
the consolidated papers ever had a larger in
come than during the year just closed. We
have had sound business reasons for the
combination which has been made. Each
has been for many years spending SO,
600 a month in doing substantially
the same that the other was doing. In the
evidence of this immense duplication we can
give greater variety to the one paper and yet
save a sum of money in year that will cut
up into a splendid dividend, and it has
seemed to us that here. in the chief city of
an October State, in the central city of the
xr.al1 and ha Natin Aautr hla
that there should be one Re-
publican newspaper of commanding
strength and influence. That, we believe,
has been secured and we recommend to our
fellow-citzens of the Republican persuasion
who have been divided and differing and
weakened through vain competition and
harassed by improbable controversy, to put
aside those minor matters that are so apt to
be magniied by personal ambition, pride of
opinion, and irrelevant conceits, and, like
the Commercial and the Gazette, unite for
the common good"