Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-26
President and Printer.

Ir-N TO.NI N TsETtTT..NCTN VEN III r7tV- I
THOR TO last June our relations were appar-
ntly, anlcabic. You seemed TO be friendly
D the grown and prosperity OF the time
Institution over which il Is my priv |
lege To preside.
But during M, recent suzanne canvass for
'uplis, III numerous Issues ol your paper
-ou sought 10 cripple my diligent efforts for
he advancement Of this prominent LeX1nS-
OH interest. And this for the avOwed reason
hat l declined to give you the printing OF my
.atalOgne.
For six years l nave given you the bulk Of
ny ordinary prln,ug. You demand " y
light the printing vi my catalogue also. -FOUR
Iii this matter Is certainly untenaOle,
md will not elevate you III the Estimation OF
our fellow-citizens. You would. l am sure,
10 credit to your better Judgment by publicly
your utterances on this subject ana
ipologiZlng for the wrong you have done In
rying to hinder q noble work. You know
uIi well that your office is not prepared 10
lie with the work of the printing establish
nents OF the larger cities. You know tnat
nat is the only reason why the printing OF my
catalogue has not been cOminltteu 10 your VI
ice. You ought to know that persons al y
distance VINO never see your paper, furnisn q
arge part of the support OF TINS SCHOOL, aho
Ire often influenced in their decisions Oy tue
style of the catalogues they receive from Inc
various schools throughout our state and adj
Ioluiug states. l therefore cannot put my
work in your hands,.
Your position is, in my opinion, unreason-
aole aud offensive. Unless your course Is al
cred essentially l shall be forced by ordinary
self Prospect TO %patrOniZe another once, rol
Inc present, ut least, you Will please oisc'h-
inue my standing advertisement III your
Please also render your account LOT
advertising and printing to date, and 1 Will
pay it.
you intend, by silence or otherwise, 10 con
tinue your unfriendly attitude toward tne
Baptist Female College, you Will greatly
Ubilge, Yours respectfully,
JOHN r. LANNEAU, President.
So far as the I%ntelligencer is concerned it
sees no reason why its relations with all the
schools should not continue to be amlcable.
We have always been, and we now are, very
friendly to the growth and prosperity'of the
-honored institution over which frofes-
svr Lanneau has the honor to preside. We
deny That last summer, or at any time, in
numerous, OF even in one issue Of the paper,
We sought 10 cripple the efforts, diligent or
otherwise, of the president for the advance
menL of this prominent Lexington Interest.
When Marshal Ney was %arraigned for trea-
son he was asked if he had anything to say IN
his own behalf, and he replied, that he had
fought a hundred battles for France and never
one against it. So we may say, that we have
written a hundred thousand words in behalf
of the Lexington Baptist Female College and
never one word against it. We have been
working for it longer than has Professor
Lanneau, and he ought to know, If he does
not, that the Intelligencer has, during the
last ten years, said more in behalf of the Bsp'
fist Female College than it has said for any
other school in the city, and has printed more
free advertising for it, than has any Other
newspaper in Missouri, for that or any othel
similar institution. We say free adverlis-
ing" adyisedly, because in publishing one
two and three column nonpareil reports o
school concerts, 1t went for beyond the de
msnd upon it for news regarding these events
at trouble and expense in disarranging thu
mechanical work of the paper to find place
for them, and against the protests of our gen
eral readers who would have preferred olhe
reading matter. These assertions are care
fully made, and If Prof. Lanneau doubt
them We are prepared to prove them to hun
from our files. We do not think, therefore
that we are amenable to the charge OF un
~frieudliness to the Baptist Female College.
St
We deny that we demand as a right tn
printing of his catalogue His right t
have his catalogue printed where he please
is unquestioned. His misstatement Of on
position renders his conclusion on this polr
at least nugatOry, and we are not at all I'm
easy as to its effect upon the estimation l
which our fellow citizens will hold us. Th
very best friends of his school in this cit
agree with us, and one of the best and mo-
J substantial Baptists in the city, a friend an
contributor to the welfare of the school, sal
to US only a day or two ago, lyon have nj
hit him a lick amiss;" and one of the boar
of trustees stopped us on the street. Wedne'
day, to dlsavow any responsibility on the pa
of the board for the letter which he prin
herewith.
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Having got the underbrush out of the W,
: let us discuss the question really at 1ssu
While we have not said one word of di
l arrangement of the school, or of its CLAN
upon parents tor confidence and patrOnag
, we hare criticised Prof. Lanneau for havil
, his catalogue printed abroad, which Is qui
, another thing. Under the circumstances :
have considered his action ungenerous al
ungrateful. OF course it is very easy, aft
: the service is rendered, to belittle 1t. That
the way of the world, and a newspaper m
0 sees about as much of that phase Of world
ness as any one living. Our articles we
It demanded of us by the public, as new
I'They dIdn't amount to much, anyhow
t Their influence only extended a mile or t'
from home.' We are used to all that. B.
e stop! If, when ~exhausting the Engli
vocabulary for laudatory adjectives, and t
the same purpose invading one or W. la
guages beside, our articles do so very lit
, good, how is it that a few lines Of criticism
something entirely apart from the merits
the school flinders and 'injuresH For, as
matter ot-fact, we have said very little
garding this subject, most Of what we hs
= printed being extracts from other new
papers.
~.~
le Though we refrain from making invidit
u comparisons against the school, Prof. Ls
u neau does not hesitate for a moment to as
that the Intelligencer Office lis not prepal
- to vie with the work of the printing est,
Ilishments of the larger cities" Suppose i
=, not. That Is no reason why it cannot pr
Il school catalogue. By reason of the cons
idation of the two large job offices of the
telIi9eHcer and Caucasian, our aSsOrtmen
job type, borders, furniture, &C., beca
re very large. Our job foreman is acknowledl
BY his cOnfreres all over the state to be In
IS front rank of his trade. We are, beside,
Of ways willing to purchase the very latest
signs in characterization or plain type. {
Il presses are as good as the ingenuity of II
Oh has been able TO design; and they are }
~ PEELED by steam.
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as
We have before us two catalogues. {
To was printed by US for Prof. kerdolff, the OF
by a Kansas City house for Prof. lame
Which one has the best cover is entirel
IN matter of taste. Prof. kerdOlff got
lie choice, and Prof. Lanneau secured what
wanted. The Intelligencer office, given 1
s. to procure type for the title line, twenty
tiers, costing from 80 cents to 81, eau dul
IL cate his cover, verv easily. There is moth
as q, oil ditHcuIt ,hout if. So far as the LEI
Id ,rau,
tween the two jobs. and the advantage i.
IN favor of Prof. Kerdolff's. We are SAT-
= saving that there are three times as m
~ bad letters IN Prof. Lanneau's as in 2