New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-05
4 DOLLAR FOR A TRIBUNE.
THE SUPPLY EXHAUSTED EARLY YES
TERDAY
DEALERS AND READERS ANXIOUS FOR MORE
DEMOCRATS BUY UP ALL THE COPIES
THEY CAN FIND

THEY CAN FIND.
u want The Tribunei Give me. Tribune III
give twenty i've cents for copy Of to-dayS
Tribune These and many neutrality-suspicious.
we're heard yesterday morning ir all parts Of this
city and In neIghboring cities but after 10 o'clock
IL was almost impossible to satisfy thsse demands af
any price. Tho great Republican parade of satur-
hay and Mr. Blalne's speeches in Brooklyn had MADE
all Republicans happy in the rainty that Harri-
son is all right and that NewYofk Is safe for the
Republican ticket Naturally, therefore, everybody
want TO read the story Of the parade and the great
Brooklyn meetings. Besides, everybody wanted 10
see the fac-simile OF the famous sackville letter
which appeared in the supplement. Tbs inevitable
result followed, and although every dealer In the
city had doubled his usual order. and an unusually
large edition had been printed, the supply was ez-
hsustcd long before noon, and copies Of the paper
eagerly sought al many times the usual price,
AT The Tribune counting-room the supply gave
out before 10 O'Clock, and the CLERKS there TALKED
themselves hoarse in explaining to tho crowds who
poured in all day that the papers were all sold out,
but that they would have moro today. From all
parts Of the city they came, and many from ncshbor
ing cities also came in the hope Of getting what they
could not obtain from their home
dealers One man came in from Passaic,
n J.. and said that the supply there
did not half I'll the demand, while hundreds came
from far uptown, even from the Harlem River
and from Brooklyn. AS high price as 81 was
paid for a copy of the paper In several instances
while sales at 25 and 80 cents were Of frequent oc-
currence.
The revelation contained In the paper filled the
hearts of the Democrats with dismay, and In the
vain endeavor 10 keep them from the people they
purchased all they could lay their hands In some
parts OF the city, particularly the East Side, and
them UP, rather than have them circulated and
read by voters. Word received last night from
Newark and other cities that the Democrats there
had followed the tactics, and had purchased
and destroyed all the copies Of The Tribune that they
could get hold Of They well knew that II the truths
contained in the paper were circulated among the
voters II would cost the Democracy many votes, and
in their desperation they willing to 60 to any
extreme to get The Tribune out of the way little
newsboy early in the day hit upon plan for making
his papers hold out and pay him good price besides
He came into The Tribune office In the early morning
and displaying a number Of Trbunes said that he had
Of an agent s9d had sn no sp'm S
them and went away. Soon after he
returned with another lot without supplements, and
soon returned FOR the third time With the same tale
This aroused suspicion and investigation showed tn he
had been selling the supplements alone, calling them
" extras TO those who asked for the rest OF tho
paper The supplement contained the sankvllle let
ter and he found no difficulty IN disposing OF all ne
could get at the full price Of the paper
OF the largest dealers in Brooklyn, who has stand
AT Montague and Court sts said that he usually sold
eighty Tbunes on SUNDAY but Yesterday yu 9e h so
sold 200 more. All the copies were sold by a. IN
" They all wanted the Blaine speeches and me sack
the same story, and al! said that In Brooh the
papers were bought singy, to be read, ana not IN
large numbers by Democrats TO be destroyed.
At the hotels, the ferries, and tho Bridge the same
story was told AN sold out early In the morning.
and could have sold twice many II had had them'