Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-18
That First Number.

dependent, did not like the first number
of the Forum. He couldn't stand its
wit. He threw it on the floor, where
he not only stamped it In Office dust,
but actually eXpectorated on it. More
over, he says if he had not been an
Irishman he would have cussed it. 1t
is evident Finan knows chunk of
counterfeit fun when he sees it. 1t is
the Forum that Finau's ALDERMAN piety
restraints him from infuration.
Johnston, the erudite and wise editor
of the Courier, same city observes that
The Frostburg Forum appeared for the
first time last week. 1t starts off with the
one thought uppermost, viz: to scare up a
scrap with the exclusively great Oder, and it
will find it much easier to scare it up than it
will be to conduct it with profit and credit to
itself. The Forum is republican. because it
likes protection, tho free trade is the cor
rect economic theory if things were different.
If Johnston will come up here and
discover what ''things different" make
the protection of the electric light
company 1.-THE correct economic
theory" he will do the public genuine
service. And the JOURNAL would
like to ascertain-why a republican
paper should be subsidized by a re-
publican electric light company partly
to enable democratic mayor to ''get
event. with a republican gas company?
The Baltimore Ne,rs records the
latest advent as follows:
Hon. Lee Fairchld, the California orator,
who was much in evidence in the presidential
campaign last year, has recently settled at
Frostburg, and is to become editor of the
Frostburg Ners. The exchange of pleas
antries and philosophy between editor Fair
child and J. Benson Oder, the pride of the
Big Savage will make Frostburg a greater
intellectual centre than ever.
Yes-according to the PHILOSOPHY"
of "A Paper that is a Forum" it will
now take the files of two papers to
prove that the town is still without"
IA paper.-Matt. xviii, l6.
Here is the Piedmont Herald with a
complaint
To the Frostburg MINING JOURNAL: Please
correct your oft-expressed opinion as to Pied
mont being the 'graveyard' of journalism.
Yea, more, please write an epitaph for Frost
burg! 1t fits, now don't it?
Tho TnIrDN,T l,
will be written.
But the Herald must first come to
Frostburg ard buy an arc-light tomb
stone, nominally 2,000-candIe power,
and endowed with that 'correct
economic theory" which inclines it to
shine only when it feels like it.
The Baltimore Meas again notices
the venture:
A new paper has been started at Frostburg,
with the Hon. Lee Fairchild formerly of the
Pacific slope, a lecturer and orator, who
made frequent appearances on the stump for
Mckinley last year, as editor, and MIR. j. B.
Williams as business manager Mr.. Fair
child has settled at Frostburg under the adj
vice of physicians, who recommended noun
tain air for a bronchial trouble, with which
he suffers. The paper is called the Forun.
Mr.. Fairchild says in his first issue:
The editor Of the Forum wishes to thank
the good people of FrOstburg for their Arab
ian:hospitality. Many of the leading citizens
begged him to start paper here, saying that
the town had been without one for about 20
years, and that they could show him the files
OF the MINING JOURNAL to prove it.
The amenities between the Hon. ]. Benson
Oder and the Hon. Lee Fairchild promise to
be amusing and pungent. Every year or two
an opposition paper to the JOURNAL is started,
and the graveyard of t'rostburg journalism is
well filled. 1t is to be hoped that there is
room for both the Forum and the JOURNAL.
Frostburg is fortunate in possessing two such
editors as Oder and Falrchlld, and it ought to
give them both a good living.
The intention of the new candidate
for the graveyard to absorb the bigger
end Of "a good living" that belongs
not only to the JOURNAL, but to terra
Gotta dealers, the gas company. B. T.
Schotield & Sons, and perhaps others,
does not seem to warrant the Neacs' I'M
partial suggestion. In fact, the "pro-
lection" which the Forum regime seems
to favor is Of that sort which in its
own case has degenerated into the
hoggishness which has its feet as well
as Its nose in the trough.