The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-21
. PERSONAL MATTERS.

Uur attention has been called TO q
strange editorial last week in the Cou-
rier newspaper of this city. We desire
no controversy with the Courier.
d uring the whole time we have had
editorial charge of the TELEGRAPH
W do not recOllect of abiding to that
paper but once--many months ago.
We have avoided in all conversations
to speak unfriendly of the Courier, be-
lieving that if it gave evidence of SUI
perior talent, or a lack thereof, an i'm
telligent public would determine its
standing without any word from us.
The only reason mention is now made
Of the Courier will appear from what is
here said.
OF the strange statements in the
Courier the following is a sample: " If
Republicans would prefer to have
their party organ owned and control
led by a Democrat, it is all right for
them to support the TELEGRAPH"
This statement, implying that the edit
or Of the TELEGRAPH is controlled by
Democrat, is too extrayaganty silly to
entitle it to serious notice. No Demo-
crat has attempted to control or adj
wise line or word of editorial in this
paper since the present editor took
charge of it. As it respects "party
organ" we beg to inform the editor of
Courier that the TELEGRAPH became
the accepted "0rgan of the Republi-
can party" in this county probably be-
fore he was born, and has continued
in the interest of the Republican party
ever since The Courier says: " There
is certainly not field for two Repub-
liean papers in the county," Very
likely that is So but it is perhaps un-
fortunate that the projectors of the
Courier did not recognize that fact be-
fore that paper was established here.
But the burden of our good neigh
bOrs' complaint appears to be that the
office in which the TELEGRAPH is
printed is owned by Il Democrat. 1t
is true the owner of the press is a
Democrat, and some persons would
doubtless be better satisfied il it were
not so. The stock of one of the
leading and influential Republican
journals in New York has been owned
by Democrats. The patent inside of the
Courier is said to be printed in Chica-
go, in an establishment that prints pa.
pers for both the political parties;
but no one will find fault with the
Courier for having one side Of the pa.
per printed in an Office patTonized by
both Republicans and Democrats.
Many Republican newspapers in Wis
consin are gotten up in the same way.
The editor of the Courier could hard
~ have been IN the best of temper
when he wrote the following: We
have submitted to the division of the
Republican patronage heretofore, but
in future we wish it distinctly under
St0od9that we stand by our friends,
and those who are not for us will he
considered as against us" That is a
little severe; if by patronage it is in
tended to include both newspaper and
business patronage, then it is hoped
the Courier will relent little. To
send adrift small army Of old vete-
ran Republicans, simply because they
stick to their old party organ" of
more than forty years standing, would
he unkind. Now will the patrons Of
the TELEGRAPH, after hearing this
solemn manifesto of the Courier,
seriously consider the alternative of
surrendering, or of standing out and
taking the consequences? If the C0I-
sier and the proprietor of the TELE-
GRAPH printing Office have contrOver-
sy, we have not been party of it, nor
do we intend to be.
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