The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-03-02
Ir rHE' TELEGRAM ISN'T BLUFF

ING.
Our esteemed contem orary ths Paw
tuoket Times offers TO our discredited
contemporary the Evening Telegram a
glorious opportunity 10 demonstrate It's
circulation figures, providing the Tels-
gram hasn't been blufilng all these
months and years.
We make extracts from the Fair and
Open Proposition for Any Providence
Publication to Take Exceptions to" as
announced by the Pawtucket Times as
follows:
There Is a publication issued I'm Providence
which claims about three times the circulation
IL really has. Its attempts in this direction
are for the purpose Of bolstering up its bust
ness by Misrepresentation 10 the business
community. It's utterances are false and can
be proven so IL an invest gat ion be permitted,
and even as IL Is its claims are generally dis.
puted and disbeieved by many. II owes IL to
itself and 10 advertisers 10 show up the basis
for its claims or stand i'm the light CT "a falsi-
ter.
Every business man knows that the Even.
ing Bulletin has tho largest circulation Of any
daily paper published i'm the State. and what
the publishers of that paper claim is generally
believed The Evening Times Of Pawtucket
claims ana 10 is generally believed, that il
has the next largest circulation OF any daily
paper published in the State. The Times
stands ready 20 prove its claim by the ap-
pointment Of a committee composed of large
advertisers of Pawtucket and Providence
Everything will be cheerfully placed nj the
disposal OF the committee for "A complete and
thorough investigation into the actual sales
of papers.
-.
lhe Times does not care what is asserted
by any publication in Providence, but stands
ready to prove its own assertion To business
men, who pay their money for circulation,
that the Times circulation is next to that Of
the Bulletin and much larger than the crcu-
lation OF any other publication In tho state
NO paper that has made such extravagant and
false statements To the business public as has
been done by Providence publication can
ahord, IN Justice TO itself and its advertisers
TO let an investigation go 10y default but
should promptly assent to IA thorough inquiry
Tor the benefit Of the business community
which 1t may have deceived by its false
claims"
We don't know what the circulation
claim OF our contemporary Of Pawtucket
Is, but we guess it isn't more than one.
half of the circulation claimed by the
Evening Telegram. II this is so. the
proposition made by the Times TO prove
that its circulation is next to that of the
Evening Bulletin would seem to be highly
audacious the Telegram claiming to
| have an even greater circulation than
the Bulletin.
But we have no doubt that our Paw
tucket contemporary knows its own bus
iness best.
And we haven't any reason to bslieye
that it's cordial invitation to put up or
shut up" will be accepted, unless, to he
sure, those advertisers that uss both the
Providence and Fawtucket papers and
are anxious to really learn what value
they receive for their advertising expen-
diture compel a sho~ of hands.
AS to that. It Is TO their interest to do
so. we should saw. It's their money
that's being spent.
In connection with this matter. we a-s
moved to remark, from last nights issue
the absence OF the kilograms ponderous
circulation statement which has, for so
long, occupied sizable space on its
editorial page. Whether this omission Is
Cue to the proverbial ''press of other
matter, to hitherto upsuspected sens,
of modesty, or just to a growing anxiety
to be allowed to crawl into its hole and
hide i,sslf we are unable to inform our
readers
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