The times., 1894-04-20

that it has right to demand its own
when its party is triumphant, Legal
publications, tax lists, probate notices,
city, county and town proceedings, are
generally considered as legitimate party
patronage
"ln general way this may be con-,
ceded. However think decided ex-
ception should be made in the matter
of city and county proceedings. / do
not believe-in their publication in one
paper, either as result of party control
or the bid system Think they should
be published in at least one paper of
each party at fair price. Generally,
legal rates should be adhered to, and
they are not too high. do not believe
party support of papers or paper sup
port of party should be inimical to the
real interests of any community at
large. A factor that is continually
coming up, to the annoyance of honest
publishers and to the temptation and
too often downfall of the very few dis
honest ones who will creep into our
profession in spite of us, is the schem-
/ ing politician who is forever trying to
subvert the newspaper to his own ends,
to the exclusion of both party and pub
lie welfare, / need not remark here
that the intuitive foresight aided by the
conscience of the man who is really fit
to print newspaper will always die
tate the proper policy to pursue with
these individuals. They should be re-
pulsed. their money spurned, and their
Vaccinations made public, property
No matter how small paper may be, it
should be far too great to debase itself
by being the tool of any single person,
who holds in-its gaze the glitter of paltry
dollars. This alleged support is the
essence of what is illegitimate 1t should
be the proud and honest boast of every
publisher, when gray hairs and the night
of life come on that he never colored any
article in his journal or changed an
opinion for financial consideration
CAMPAIGN FUNDS.
However, if fund is raised in
community or state, to be distributed
among party papers, in order to enable
them to give more space to political
matter or to pay for an increase of cir
culation. during campaign, that mon
ey can be as legitimately accepted as
any that comes over the counter of the
business office. / do not say it can be
demanded, but it can be expected and
accepted. But the person who is sent
out over the state to do what scheming
candidates call working the press, is
! to be carefully watched. Nine times in
ten he means no good and does no good
to press, party or public. His support
is generally not only dishonorable but
dangerous as well. Legitimate party
support is theme that has been a
fruitful cause of thought in the brain of
every publisher of party paper and
during its consideration there has been
always veritable cris-cross of conflict
ing ideas. Even in this enlightened age
of reason and progress, there are party
| publishers who look upon any support
they can get, by hook or crook, as being
| legitimate. 1t is such as these who dis
grace the party and their profession,
and if not read out of both, they sooner
or later, fortunately, peter out. Meth
DDS that will not stand the test of years
in the conduct of any legitimate busi-
ness will fail as great per centage of
times when applied to the management
of party paper
| 1.-THE party paper is not an orchid
and hence cannot subsist on air. 1t is
today the greatest weapon with which
political battles are waged. However
it must not relapse into a political barn
acle, seeking only to fasten itself onto
the party's keel and to be nourished
there without giving proper returns.
The day of the stump speaker is still
here but like the influence of that genus
homo, it is rapidly waning. The party
paper devotes three hundred sixty-five
days, or fifty-two weeks as the case may
be to the legitimate support and extern
sion of the principles of its party. For
this it has a right to expect, in return
that it shall not be forgotten The duty
of party members to the party press
should be made plain and it should then
be exacted at the point of demand.
LEGITIMATE PATRONAGE.
"Ex-Congressman S. G. Fisher is
quoted as saying the other day that he
thinks all democrat editors who want
post offices, should have them if there
are|enough to go around. If this were
true of democratic publishers. it would
hold good of republican editors as well,
when their party is in power. But do
not agree entirely with the gentleman.
There is a difference between legiti.
mate party patronage and more or less
questionable party patronage.
"The republican press has, | believe,
felt the force of what Mr.. Clarkson said.
If il has not been as much of factor in