Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-07

ttlC INtulUNNN lVNilpi''Ohi''s "''N
the National Prohibitionist.
Asto the place at which the
paper should be published as be-
tween Louisville and Lexington, |
should advise that that be decided
Nv stock vote Of the stockholders.
| think tina, could Individually
raise half the money that would be
necessary to run it, and would he
willing to undertake to raise it all
if my actual travelling expenses
were paid. | think | could raise
it inside of two months with a
travelling expense of two or three
hundred dollars.
Though | have been fairly sue
cessful in any business matters that
| have undertaken, have never,
in advance, been so sanguine OF the
success of any effort of my lite as
| now feel that | would be were |
entrusted with this enterprise.
1 believe that | could make it
political and financial success.
Letters from many different va
rieties of political complexion and
social caste have been published in
the Blade that have given the party
of the State an idea of the spirit in
which my essays in Prohibition
journalism have been received
no adverse criticism ever having
been suppressed-and yet ! would
not admit by any means that the
Blade has been the measure Of my
capability, except as to means OF
publication, and its patronage has,
without any solicitation further
than what its readers have seen in
its columns, been continually in
creasing at reasonably fair rate.
And yet the greater part OF my
time L have spent on my farm, and
the larger part of my time in the
city has been occupied with the
bookkeeping and correspondence
ofthe paper, its advertising and
mechanical gct-up.
My idea would be to have a
daily paper that we could sell for
80 cents a month, and weekly
that would contain nearly all the
matter of the dalies that would sell
for 81 year.
As a paper that would be valua-
BILE to the most advanced students
in Prohibition | do not think that
we could get up anything that
would equal the New York Voice,
because we probably would not
have the means to send agents to
get the very valuable information
that it does. But | could utilize
the information that it gets so as
to get it to our readers only a day
or two after the Voice gets to this
State.
But if my readers will pardon me
because business seems to demand
the statement, / will say that l be
lieve l can make more popular
paper than the Voice, in the sense
that it will attract readers from
among those who are not commit
ted to Prohibition, but who form
that class of intelligent and moral
society outside of the Prohibition
pale from whom we may most rea-
sonably hope to proselyte.
AS to the style of my paper |
think there would be a difference
of sentiment among the present
readers of the Blade as to whether
should remove the stamp of my
individuality, and remand my "big
first personal pronoun H. to its
! box in the upper case,' or assume
the conventional style of metropol-
itan journalism.
Under any circumstances !
should try to avoid the routine
chop logic of the "rural rooster"
Either of the above mentioned
styles are equally easy to me, and
any plan or policy that would
be likely to be suggested to me by
such a board of directors as we
would be likely to have, | could
easily follow without feeling the
temptation to individual sentiment
that would be stronger, of course,
in my individual paper.
My journalistic training has been
on a daily paper, and the knowl-
edge that what l write is going
to appear right away in print is an
incentive to journalistic energy
that l cannot feel when know
that my sentiments vii not appear
until some days after they are
written.
/ think | am probably the only
ProhibitiOnist in the State who has
had experience in daily journalism.
Such a paper as | describe would
be my ideal of the only journal
that would give free scope to the
impress l have for years longed to
try to make upon my State, and
would be to me the contamination
of my highest ambition; so that l
am very free to say that ] covet the
position of its editor, if the party
think ] am competent to fiji the
position.