The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-15
THE SURVIVAL OF MORNING JOURN-
AIS IN KANSAS

Says the Kansas City Times: The Atchi
son Patriot has made itself very popular
| by declaring that in short time there will
be but two morning papers in the state.
Every morning paper has plumed It's
feathers and declared confidentially that
the Topeka Capital is one and we are the
other. Topeka Capital.
Which for reliability is on par with
the average originality and aspirations of
the Kansas City Times, where sensation
and startling denouments are preferred
to the truth. The EAGLE for one has
not editorially alluded to. much less
plumed its feathers, cOnfdentially or
otherwise, over the mere guess of an
evening paper published in the very
! northeast corner of the state.
We believe that at least four or FIVE
| morning newspapers viii survive in
Kansas, but whether the Capital will be
one Of them depends on two things,
viz: how quickly the metropolitan
journals of Kansas City shall be laid on
the breakfast tables of Topeka in the fu-
ture, and whether the prohibition eIe-
ment Of the state will continue to dOmin-
ate the Republican party. granting that
the Republican party will continue to
rule the state
Further, as the Times seems by its
''plumed feathers DESTROYS Of calling
out an expression, we will say for its
better information that by either the law
of environment, or by the rule of the
survival of the fittest, the WICHITA
DAILY EAGLE will continue to .be a
morning paper in the state though Kan
sas was cut down to a single morning
paper, and though every man connected
with the EAGLE should sever his connec-
ton.
The Times is further informed that the
EAGLE is worth, as estimated byany con-
ceivable rule, twice as much money as
any daily in Kansas, morning or even
ing. 1t has not only more than twice the
circulation of any other daily in the
state, but has more than four times the
material in the way of types and presses
and modern appliances, Of any daily in
Kansas-mOre in these last particulars
than has any paper in Kansas City, for
that matter-and, which is most import
ant Of all, is backed and sustained by
the business Of a city whose business is
twice the volume Of any other city in
Kansas, and the only city in Kansas that
really and honestly aspires to, or that has
any chances or expectations Of metro
politan greatness.
And finally, Mr.. Times, if you will but
drop note of inquiry to your own spe-
cial agent in New York City. whose adj
dress we will furnish if you have mislaid
it, you will find out, if you don't already
know it, that the EAGLE, next to the
Times and next to three other papers,
neither Of which three are in Kansas,
commands for its advertising space
based on the certificate of the paper mills !
as to the amount of white paper used by
the EAGLE-a higher price than any
other daily west of the Mississippi river
This is not all. by any means, of what |
we know touching the question of morn /
ing journalism in Kansas, but is enough /
to settle the questions of bottom and /
longevity, unless somebody desires the /.
risk Of a wager Of such a sum as will .
warrant the employment of three disin- /
terested experts, living outside of Kansas /
and Missouri, to pass upon the matter. /
Which wager the EAGLE is prepared to |
make with the Times or with anybody |
else, the money put up to be the only |
guarantee Of good faith asked or de- |
manded.