Smyrna times., 1884-07-23
Finale.

Inc editor of the REGARD charges us
with talschood in every statement in
/ regard to its business methods. This
I Is what We expected: he is always on
/ lhe denial, and We presume will even
/ deny that in his canvass he said that
/ ne was starting new paper 10 break
/ the SMYRNA TINES down. 1t IS nm
/ necessary Tor Us 10 reiterate the charges
that he gathered his list rs with DRAG
/ net, sending wherever he could get the
address OF possible subscriber. and
men whose business takes them into
the country pOStoflices, sav they see the
Hecord lying around ina very promiscu-
Gus manner. These are the names in
| part sworn TO rs b0aa fde subscribers
tnat ne wants To compare lists with.
The man that he tackled six times. and
VINO yielded because he said he couldn't
stand the bull doing any longer a
representative of many others is
properly claimed, hat those 70 whom
the paper was sent without authoriza-
tlOn are not subscribers We know no
men TO whom the TIMES has been sent
without authority and we pass this bv
as we do the statement DENYING what
the agent of Walton. Whaua K Co said
in this office. The charge that we paid
20 cents to an agent for obtaining Sub.
scrlbers Is false; we have never maid
such sum, and in making the charge
the editor finds it eutirely oonvcnient
10 pass by his own agents. The figures
OF our circulation given from y. W.
Aver x Sons Newspaper Annual which
We're gathered for print wear and a
half ago, were as incorrect as those of
the Record.
The TINES has never Daraded it,
business before the public and announ-
ced IKE cacIiing hen, every time a
new subscriber has been obtained.
Persons having hGsinvvs with our paper
can have special and precise informa-
ton on the above subject Our sub .
scrlption list is larger than it ever was. .
and over hundred copies larger than
II was "a year ago, and the statement
from the prcSsman or the paper dealers /
Will hardly require an affidavit to be /
believed, and as before said, we have
no conscript subscribers.
As tho editor denies everything il
was very natural that he should DENY I.
running the paper on the Imitation .
principle from the first, while the fact .
stands out patent that the Record had I
Oeen issued but y short time when .
tRe eGItot cut at the head of his paper. /
IN black distinctive letters -" Home /
circulation larger than anv paper on
the Peninsula "a direct challenge TO
the DetdCdreda, Sentinel, Middletown
Transcript and other old and well es-
tablished papers on tho Peninsula
Ihls assertlQp accOrds with the Others
10 has made, yet he expects the people
to believe it.
We took no notice Of the renoated
attacks Of the Hooord because we knew
nom the style of the man that he
hadht the instincts To appreciate uoWs-
percOurtesles, but whenat last we did
warm him by the fire that he had kept
burning for Us, he descended as is his
nature, into scurrillous and hbelous
statements 1t is ia the man, and he
can't help IT, IN his tOrmatlan nature
gave him aupelahundauco of check
and not much else. Such men are
made for shoWmen where they can
have now audience and new scenes
ayery week, The settled, ploddinp
life of an editor, where he has to 90 In
ana out before a community is not
adapted to the born Snowman. The
business calls for something besides
eheek-it calls for conyietions and
principles. The pontlctiObs of the
sq'IaF OF the Rfrord are fixed like the
jploF o! TIE ohAmeleOn-trOmt the shade
y hls surroundings Thus, when In
MASSACHUSETTS, his opinions We're con
esSedly those that most largely pre-
Vailed there, just as here they are the
If the circumstances were