Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-29

are thus p@tToniApg the democratic
dalles, whether conscious OF = OF
nots oY reason OF Dest0wIng such pat
fOEage up9a Their political zdysT-atrles
are indirectly paying lasI 50 much into
TIE aemocratle campaign fund, Nus
hestoNlng upon them the most furmid-
able weapon with which 10 ass4l those
prnc.p pas ali republicans most highly
CHERISH. NOW ] VII present L a. =
matter or fact. That without subscrlb-
ers the best newspaper plant ln TINS
country would not De worth One dollar.
ASK any progressive business. man what
tate for advertising ae would be Will
lag 10 pay 10 daily without
subscribers.
w!ll put Il a. "A very low estimate,
that any regular patron 10 any daily
newspaper ia THIS state or the United
states adds fifteen dollars 70 the value
Of It's plant. Thus my republican
friends of Michigan. you are con-
tT0nted with the startling fact, tnat
each and every one OF you, who are
taking = democratdally are contributing
ntteen dollars u the democratic cam
palgn fund and they are now publish
ing from day 10 day political literature
exactly opposite 10 your views, and
directly antagOusuc 10 every American
interest. PERHAPS bhndly, bat surely
though, yoI. are pursuing a policy
which tend directly TO dwarf and DIS
courage republican journalism. We
meet business man who thrusts IL
INTO our face. "Why don't you pub
llsh as good Il newspaper as the Free
Press" We answer, II we do not, II Is
because you are dividing your patron
age with the Free Press. whereas, were
you as Indifferent and blgOted as the
average democrat, We would count our
patrons by thousands more and their
party organs could starye TO death for
want of patronage.
Ask democrat 10 take THE HERALD
invariably the return comes back, II
wouldn't have the sheet IN my house.
Ii Is pack of republican les" The
| Free Press solicitor accosts republican,:
Take the Free Press. "Well, always
! like to read both sides, send 1t along"
| Then this Free Press solicitor turns,
| laughs IN his sleeve, goes IN Saturday
night, meets the boss and admonlshes
| INN not TO be too brash against the
republican party as half their subscrIb-
ers are republicans.
Fellow republicans this IS the great
year when the people of TINS country
will decide upon the public policy for
| four years to come. Ii behooves you
as republicans and Americans, not to
! lend aid nor comfort TO the enemies of
! the American doctrine. Think for a
! moment, all the combating elements
arrayed against you. The solid south,
| the vice and ignorance of the north.
and the fabulously wealthy British
empire. We will not ask our republi-
can friends to stop the Free Press, but
we do ask that they Will not take it at
| the expense of THE HERALD in great
presidential year. In conclusion we
most emphaticly deny that the Free
| Press or the Democrat Is the most COM
| prehensve and newsy sheet of the
times. AS 1t would be lung power mis-
spent to ask democrats to take The
HERALD, we ask all good justice-lov!ng
republicans 10 come TO the front in this
year of startling memories of the new
world, and subscribe for the great and
growing republican daily of the second
city, and thus by your liberal patron
age, make it even better than it is. We
have none but republicans TO appeal to.
Our enemy is averse TO facts-nothing
hits democrat so hard as to quote
| him few facts. THE HERALD is fast
gaining friends and is glowing. 1t has
done more for you than you have for
1t. Do your duty and THE HERALD will
not be slow in simplifying a grand
supplement TO reciprocity.
F. NJ. POTTER.