The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-02
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Were it not that the readers of the
TELEGRAPH in the country may not
rightly understand the claim set up
for Republican newspaper organ,
the subject would be passed over in
silence. The story, however, is too
amusing to be serious. Most readers
in the county know there is a paper
published in this city called the Cou-
Tier; that paper has been in no
amiable mood for weeks past, because
it has not been better patronized. 1t
has of late been anxious to be styled
the organ of the Republican party of
the county. Last week a county con-
vention was held at the Court House
to choose delegates to Madison. The
Courier, by the aid Of friends, took
great pains before the convention to
influence the delegates to support
a resolution, declaring it the
organ of the party. Our information
of what transpired in the meeting is
derived from delegates and lookers-on.
A resolution was offered of the kind
labored for, and declared passed. Our
informants say many of the delegates
manifested Indifference, and allowed
the resolution to pass from a feeling of
sympathy for the Courier, which had
worked so hard to secure the recogni-
ton as leader. Objection was proper
ly raised that the resolution could
not be entertained, for the reason dele
gates were elected for only one sp celtic
purpose, and not to express the voice
of the Republicans of the county in
respect to newspaper organ. We
are not TO be understood as casting
reproach on the delegates; many Of
them we count among our best person
al friends. But what is the Courier
to gain by all this pains-taking pro-
cedure? Some of the delegates say
it will not help the paper. The TELE-
GRAPH will continue to move steadily
on, advocating the Republican cause,
and receiving what patronage honestly
comes to it. If the Courier is so in
tent on being considered the Republic
an organ, we think the suggestion of,
one of our correspondents a good one.
Its better course is, to make it, if posi-
BILE, the best, most talented and ably
conducted paper; that would give it
deserved success. g Brains will tell"
but convention cannot, by mere
resolution, infuse brains into a news
paper, any more than it can, by 4 re-
solution, make grass grow on a rock
where there is no soil. The TELE-
GRAPH does not set up claim to
superiority; it is content to submit its
merits to the Judgment of the intelli-
gent citizens in the county.
How has it come to pass that after
so many long years the Republicans of
Kenosha county now want an organ?
In this age of free thought all sensible
people do their own thinking, form
their own opinions, and do not care to
commit their political sentiments to
the keeping of any one man, though he
be styled an organ. The day of machine
politics has passed. But what is the
occasion of all this furry? One side of
the TELEGRAPH is printed in an Office
which prints Republican and Demo-
cratic paper One side of the Courier
is printed in an Office which prints
both kinds of papers-Republic can and
Democratic. The cases are not exact
ly parallel, but hardly worth making
so much ado about.
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