The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-02-05
In Newspaperdom.

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that, the Rapid City Daily Republican
would shortly change hands. The change
took place Thursday. George Gird, one III
the publishers OF the Black Hills Stock
man, having secured the lease Of the
plant temporarily it is generally under
stood. This gentleman is a mechanical
printer, if not newspaper man and las
the additional recommendation of beng
a staunch Democrat. He had no COM
petition, because, thepaper, encountered
through being the organ OF a financial
institution, which it is forced to obey
implicitedly, together with being com.
PEELED to advocate the claims OF Senator
Moody, whenever he raised his finger,
had lost favor and had degenerated into
a sheet which woulddisgrace the smallest
town in the state. While failing to Com
mend his every act, in justice to a man
Of superior talents in the newspaper
business, it must be said that Mr.. Frank
2. Williams, the editor who has just
stepped down and out, could have done
better, very much better, had lie not
been handicapped in different ways, not
generally known to the public. The
prophecy is ventured that he will yet re-
trieye his reputation and prove himself
to be, what he really is, the best all
round writer Rapid City has ever
possessed. Had he not been a Demo-
craft, he might have succeeded with the
Republican, and in this particular the
new lessee will labor against odds also.
To an extent however this objection
may be lessened, should the publisher
engage a Republican editor, which. it is
said, Is within the probabilities.
The first law Of nature guided George
Grid into his new venture, which the
UNION hopes will succeed. The change,
however, demolishes the fond dreams OF
the Journal which, to the very last
moment, believed the Republican would
be permitted to fail into "innocuous
desuetude" and in such an event the
Journal might possibly have hccn de.
clared the official organ. But "No," in
that improbable contingency, there was
capital ready to start a new Republican
daily. SO the Journal loses nothing, OK.
cept what accruedirom imagination.
In this connection the UNION i%eelinsly
points to that pathetic appeal ''Tc
Stockmen'' which appeared in last weeks
issue OF The Black Hills Stockman
touching on its non-political tendencies
winding up with a frantic effort for sym.
pathy on the score OF having bought q
secondhand printing outfit for stock
mems especial benefit-now to be useC
in resuscitating the Republican, however
1t was clever. But will our esteemed
contemporary descant on the coup-d'e
tat OF the past few days and explain
why the publishers, in one issue show
forth the advantages OF it's non-pohti
cal character, while ere their next gets
circulated, they have leased the most
obnoxious political sheet IN the Hills
Truly, may it be sad this is an age o
subterfugc. Catering to stockmer
through a Republican paper published by
a Democrat. What Il conglomeration
But the lame may be changed.
With John BEGAN Ryan assisting or
the Republican, Frank P. Williams or
the Journal, which rumor says now
seeks Democratic favor, The UNION
fairly aches to enter the arena.