Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-14

He desired mo to be considered as his conf
dant in this matter before going further.
of the metropolitan dailies, 1 believe he
said, at a handsome salary. This. in connec-
ton with his wifes health, made the mat
ter all the more serious. But he could not
entertain the idea of parting with such
friends ana such paying business without
great concern.
1 thought this was my chance. Now, l
have quite a snug little sum-say, $1,000 and
can raise more on some property my wife
owns. Do you really think would be right
in buying his paper? | have never been a
because they never gave me any notice. He
will SELL and after talking the thing over
was given this inventory on piece OF pa
per. You can better tell whether the price
he asks-S3 ISIS all right:
One Washington hand press. mallet, l
shooting stick. ! box quoins, 100 pounds long
primer, fonts job type, l case head letter
type, 2 stands 6 type cases: 2 pair chases
and column rules, table, bucket, wash
pan, l case potash. Besides, he said he was
advertising piano, and next wear he would
get it. Two machines were cue him on ad-
vertising and clothes wrlnger and pa
tented churn. He mentioned lots about the
good will of the paper and said the legal
notices were great.
l will not longer take up your valuable
time, but hope soon to know your honest
advice as to whether it will be to my in
terest to buy this paper or not. am de-
sirous of having an organ. Yours truly,
Smith Struck the Right Party.
There could be no wiser thing done, Mr..
Smith, 1 opine, than to do just what you
have done, viz, to come for information
where information is made specially of.
You will do we'll not to wait too long for
a unanimous call from the people. You can
see how it has worked in my case. L have
been patient and pure in political sense
pure as the baking powder whose name
would have been put in here if check had
been received in time-and yet, although,
or although yet, L should say perhaps, not
withstanding the fact that I>have repeat
edly given the public to understand that my
health was good enough to Withstand the
strain of canvass, convention after con-
vention has gone by and my name has not
as yet been presented
You are sensitive of course. Your whole
nature recoils at the idea of announcing
yourself, and yet it 1 had my life to live
over again 1 would smother this shy feeling
and fire my brain with koumiss. Then I
could come forward and ask for the popular
suffrage. Possibly you might object to
firing your brain. Some do, but when d
brain shows signs of incapacity and lack OF
interest 1 claim it should be fired.
49, Political Platforms on Finance.
30 lar as plaIIorm IN concerneu, tnere lS,
as you say, no new one. Finance has always
offered good opportunity for the ingenious
capper to 60 out and green goods the
thoughtless and the ignorant, but this year
it will not do. The day has gone by tor
great fnancIer to borrow the money and
elect himself to Office. All the great ma
tional financiers have now exhausted their
credit I slated the last one several years
ago, but he was defeated and is playing
beanbag at the poor farm this summer with
a gent who has theory about an interna-
tional language, together with long stand
ing case of paresis.
Ever since the Mayor of Seattle said last
year that "the entire country has been this
year at what may be called the extreme
sinister point of commercial oscillation"
Just gave up and went to work by the week.
1 knew that 1 was that way myself, but I
had no idea that the country was such.
Yes, it would be we'll to subsidize the
press 1t would help you and at the same
time it would not offend the press Subsi-
dizing the press should be done in genteel
way OF course, not rudely or coarsely.
How Not to subsidize the Press.
Do not go into the Office while others are
present and in a loud voice seek to swap q
cigar with one warm, wet end to it for the
never dying love of paper that has come
to stay. You only give ofense and hurt
your cause Vulgarity is just as offensive
to an editor as it is to a man of refinement
Again, do not fancy because you are &C.
anainted with the man who writes the