The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18

ing that he hoped metropolitan papers
would hear of it and write him up"
He wanted the world to know how one
great newspaper proprietor started
from the bottom and worked upward,
but a week of this was enough.
There have been two strikes OF en-
ployes of the paper, one suspension OF
publication and one receivership APP
pointed by the courts and subsequent
ly suspended pending trial, during the
past few months of Jones' activity.
During the same period he has had no
end of city editors, managing editors,
business managers and other function
aries. He has tried to nonunionize the
plant and signally failed.
"A few days ago the following ap-
peared under big headlines:
THE editor of the Press-Post was
astonished and deeply panied yester-
day morning upon glancing through
the news columns of his paper to dis
cover vicious. insulting article there
in under the scare head entitled Some
Gum Shoe Moves in Vicinity of City
Board of Equalization" We first ten
der to each worthy member of the city
board of equalization an abject apollo
gy for the inexcusable publication of
such an outrageous article.
An investigation shows that the
above mentioned article was written
by the Press-Post court house reporter,
f. s. Webbing, and passed through
the hands of the acting city editor,
David Marshall, without any reference
to the management of the paper.
Mr.. Marshall, acting city editor, was
asked for an explanation and he fatty
disavowed responsibility, laying it to
the door OF the court house reporter,
Mr.. Webbing, over whom we, the
Press-Post management, can have no
control or authority owing to the reg
ulations recently forced upon us by the
organization known as Newswriters'
Union, No. 2.
Not being able to obtain any salts
faction whatever from Mr.. Marshall,
our city editor, and preferring to have
no city editor at all rather than one
so wholly incompetent Mr.. Marshall
was politely requested to resign. He
refused point blank. We do not know
how long we shall be obliged to suffer
Mr.. Marshalrs damaging incumbency
as acting city editor. but we shall try
to accomplish his removal without
much delay, and meanwhile we hum
bly, beg and pray for the charitable
indulgence of our long suffering and
patient readers"
Reporters Don't Stay "Fired."
AIler tnlS SnoC Marshall resigned
and as Jones insisted on taking the city
desk himself and not being a union man
the newswriters turned him down and
elected one of their own number city
editor. Jones then sent a letter to the
new city editor ordering him to reduce
the staff to five members. This was
done and a letter sent to Jones in
forming him that his wishes had been
respected. Then Jones, seated in an
adjoining room to the local staff,
seized his pen and wrote another letter
declaring that the five survivors were
incompetent and hereafter the Press
Post would not carry any incompetent
men on its pay rolls"
This was equivalent to a discharge.
But Jones did not discharge the re-
porters outright for that would have
been a violation of his agreement with
the union.
Arrange an Armistice.
Thursday morning Mr.. Jones sent a
letter to Chapel Chairman Parrish ask
ing for an audience. When Parrish
called Jones introduced Miss Edith
Hale, who he said would take the place
of Miss Markeson as society editor
Parrish said he guessed not. where
upon Jones remarked that it was fun
ny if he could not have something to
say as to who should work on his pa
per. Parrish said there was no OBJ
lection as long as union reporters were
selected, but if Miss Hale were sub
stituted for Miss Markeson the print
ers would refuse to set up her copy.
Jones did not return to the office I'M
til Friday morning, when he came TO
confer with Harry Ogden of Cincin-
natl, who was sent here to represent
President Lynch of the International
typographical Union. The two patch
ed up an armistice, which is suppos ed
to last until after the meeting of the
typographical union which convenes
Monday at Birmingham, Ala.