Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-04
VALE INDEPENDENT

After just one year of hard struggling
to establish newspaper in field al
ready oyerfilled the energetic founder
of our late local contemporary, the In
dependent, has "folded his tent like an
Arab and silently stolen away" to "a
greener field and an older pasture. He
began here without reason but has had
reason enough to leave off, by finally
perceiving that he had no reason to
begin. OF course the move occasions a
good deal of surprise, and not IA little
regret among the partisans of the paper
and personal friends of the publishers.
But to anyone at all familiar with eX-
isting newspaper conditions here the
only wonder is that the step was not
taken months ago 1t is well known,
however, that the publishers
were encouraged TO chang on" by
visions of city printing kept floating
before them by few worthy friends
and certain other gentlemen who have
private axes, now somewhat nicked
and rusty, which are likely to remain
unground without newspaper ala.
Finally the great day came when bids
for the much coveted city printing were
to be opened. The manager of the In
dependent had counseled with some OF
the most competent printers on the
Bay, and submitted to the council a
proposition to do both the advertising
and job printing at prices much below
the ordinary legal and commercial
rates for such work, and which would
yield only fair margin of profit. But
the HERALD's bid was even more
closely calculated, and when the two
were opened, the latter was found to be
clearly the lower in every essential
feature, and an award to the indie
pendent was therefore out of the ques
ton, no matter now many friends tina
paper might have among the member
of the council. Since then it has beef
noticed that the editor and manager o
the Independent have made frequen
trips to Whatcom, presumably to con
suit with the Democratic leaders
among whom Bre'r Strong is prim
favorite, as a political philosopher an
Interpreter of the scripture, and VIII
have long been anxious for the estal
lishment of party organ at the count
seat. The presumption seems wa
ranted that they received some fiatte
ing assurances of support and perhal
some yellow coin, and so they stot
not upon the order of going but wen
These are mere assumptions ON Of
part of course and it is immaterial to
whether our late contemporary affirm
or denies them. 1t is our candid OPT
ion that they have made a good NOV
Notwithstanding the fact that there
no great popular demand or nece
sity for another newspaper in Ne
Whatcom. "Sam" Is a rustler al
hard worker and the chances are tn
he will scare up considerable bushes
His democracy is little green yet, I
that doesn't matter, as Strong's is We
ripe and he has enough for both.
Probably some bigger chump tn
Sam was when he started the Den
crat with the irrepressible Edwal
will come along bye and bye and
agine he sees great field here
another paper. He will look upon
mirage and with great expectatiC
and abundant assurances of moral s.
port from various and sundry pers'
from whom no other kind of supp
could safely be expected, he will g
little outfit, carefully covered wit
chattel mortgage, and jump into
'opening" and splurge around "
considerable gusto for time, until
realizes the full force of the fable Of
frog in the well.