Telegram-herald., 1890-05-10
pws Oh IHE DEANglT.
An Agricultural Hercules Gives
Vent 70 HIS Disgust
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eaftsr.al artslsnlp % the Dssasefst.
F Tstst.sA 4 II EKALD reporter SOUGHT eut
tn. .-Farncr % bls snug sanctun al
~ Bridge street House 70 know
wherefore he lad bClted from the
+ I.soafs quill toroe, NhereuDon the
I la. .os.ag Characteristic interview trans
ft them, NeS-haye a cigar-I
/ hat 10 do b. Would you believe me.
th.t blurred, nllxed-op sheet, nach.ne-
I ruu. Aud that bY squad ot juveniles
+ turning tae crank, has yefllab.y Gagged
me fCr three mDnths
GA beng requested 10 explain, the
Farmer continued;
.lou see when sickness and death
came tg us IL belLOnt | VAS about 70
re-i u 3 paper ia anticipation of the
+ falI campaign; bat subsequently con
+ cludst on q suggestion OF Mr. Bal 10
/ identify myself Win the Dsssocrat-
Tie CAPACITY ot au editorial scribe. Ills
was Mith the understanding that 60o0
/ issue should be lnaugaIaltd Ot tuelr
I weekly Which, 10y the way Few people
ever see, and that / should run a
/ Farmers Department IN that publ ca
/ ton. OF three OF four columns Ia tle
meantime, Tor ten DAYS OF couple of
weeks. while Mr. FFeuch hauled IN the
advertising, Mr. Bali allowed that !
should send IN manuscript Tor a tenn
porsrv stipeudl and be would use what
he liked Tor las daily and tie obscure
weekv-as then run. Ana il has been
stipend and ohscurity ever snce!'
And the agricultural Hercules lighted
another olgar, while the reporter
quericd;
How is thatr
We'll. everybody knows that you
folks have made the eTELEGRAM-HERALD
pride of the Valley CITY, of late;
edltOnaliy, ,reportorially, IN rs makeup,
dress and every other way. The Eosl,
and Leqder have also blOssOmed out IN
vigorous and metropolitan style-all of
you running aggressive and sialwart
editorial matter-worthy OF your
parties. From my sanctum, l have
been battling back at you, as QlXote
warred at the wlndsmills; but the Demo
erat has enigmstially suppressed my
manuscript. 1t has allowed you folks
20 preliminarily boss the approaching
campaign (and you have done II IN
mastery manner), while II stood about
like school boy with a hole III hls
breeches and his ears boxed
OF course, under our contemplated
arrangement such pitlable, dish-cloth
attitude of our Democratic organ was
none of my business; but the SIX thou
md issues and my four columns, de
we'd Undertaking., while grumbled
Ike Cascade bear IN plt-fall. Even
my poems appeared in little, worn-Out
type in back corner, and the proof
reader was either blind or a burlesQue-
while neither Ball, Hopkins or Chan
cellor White (all of whom | understand
occasionally hang around the office
Illuminated editorials enough for a
crossroads semi-mOnthly; and what
political matter did appear was dish
water, dOset out by the spOOnfuls.
$50 ! got disgusted and told the
Democrat boys that their party would go
: back on them; that their type had got
so poor that nobody could read the
pa per; that your TELEGRAM-HERALDa and
the Eagle were taking the lead, and
that the Democrat was actually laugh
ing-stock on the streets! | even offered
10 set up editorial matter at my own
expense-If they were hard up; but
demanded that our 5000 issue plan
should be carried out, or myself re-
tired"
"And so it has gone on for three
months, you folks making votes all
over Western Mlchigan and Ball getting
married, or getting over IT; French
lodging about and getting all the adj
vertislng possible, st any rates he can
get il, and the Democrat politically
whistling around and blowing Is nasal
organ like a street gsminl"
"They asked me 10 'wait'-they were
arranging matters. They barely sent
me down TO my hotel board money
agreed upon for ten days or two weeks.
They got all the spring advertising
they could, usually in my paper. They
showed so little editorial backbone
that | was ashamed TO acknowledge
myself in any way on the sheet. If
wrote house they carefully printed II
horse-leaving letter or two OUT
ain my tribute 10 Judge Campbell
when | said: a crown Of glory Camp
bell wears, and freed from worldly
works and cares" of course they got It,
= and freed from worldly works and
sores, typographical grossness rank
I enough to knock a mule down.
$50 OF many other pOems-'Wash-
ingtons Birthday Watch and Wait,
etc: Ball or the proof reader would
volunteer words, actually stretching
the feet INTO yards In one hne OF
eight beats they coolly ran III "Grand
Rapids with us 80, 600 population Ir
1 one poem of seven verses. there were
, actually twenty-five blunders aud omit
ted letters.
= and finally, when | would stand
s1ch bsTbarous slaughteTlug 10 longer
: tnev threw up the 6,000issue altogether
and although had turned Of my best
manuscript, and enough to run the
; juvenile machine year, and 10 fault
bad been found, our little NJ. Bal
writes nc that be don't agree with me
on all issues. Good Heavens / sDpposf
he can read2 and bee seems 80 think a
] reporters stipend Is royal compensate
for tine best DOL teal mark Of nay life
for three months.
= "Heuce out the crowd. And any
body bar an IDIOT or = menial would dC
70 Democracy hss no organ in thH
CITY. TIE Democrat cares only for be
money ont Of adver sing-three times
what 5tis v0Tth-snd you Repub',Can'
have the only able and eortny p0ilt.cs
O. journals Iu the Cty-Of couTse eIcC pt
lngtae Ie71er. for what it "a worth.
"But there goes the dinner bell
Goodbye. oli boy. and tae Farmer
gave us n,s sampson shake and made
ot for the tarQget1ng hail.
II Tustic. Cour~s
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