Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-17
AN KEN NJ ONEY
ABERDEEN TO BE AFFLICTED BY
ANOTHER NEWSPAPER.
The Arrival Of a Newspaper Press Leads to
the Discovery that Ankeny will Blow Part
Of His Barrel in Aberdeen. A Grand Field
Opened Up for the Grafters.

A cylinder printing press, such as is
used to print a newspaper, arrived on
the freight train Tuesday evening, and,
Of course, the fact put the newspaper
men on the qui vive to learn what it
meant. At first it was surmised that
the press was for the Comment, but, j.
A. Hood, who is doing the angel act for
this paper, denied the allegation, and,
further investigation revealed that there
was to be new paper establishedO
AS near as can be learned. the old
HERALD office, on G street, has been
leased to j. p. Sullivan and VIM. Irvine
two excellent gentlemen who have fully
demonstrated their incapacity in the
newspaper business in this city. 1t is
current rumor that the new paper is to
be for the campaign only, in the interest
OF Levi Ankeny for United States sena.
tor, and the fact that the press is sold by
the American Type Founders Co., and
shipped to itself, inclines to the belief
that but small sum has been paid
down, and that the adventures simply
mean to graft the businessmen of Aber-
deem for the support of sheet in which
the grafters will elongate the pedal ex-
tremity Of the Walla Walla aspirant to
the kings taste.
1t is also rumored that w. H. Abel, of
Montesano, will be distributor in
chief for the Ankeny sack in this
neighborhood, and, if he is the push
behind the new journal, we will ex.
pect hot sheet. While that gentle.
man is now trifle touchy about news
paper criticisms, many old timers will
recoltec the skinning Friend Abel used
to give them few years ago. This was
when he was running the Econmist, and
posed as the ne plus ultra of honesty
and reform, and before he discovered
devious methods of making money in
the profession of the law.
1t remains for the business people OF
Aberdeen to say whether they will allow
Mr.. Ankeny to bear the cost of this ven.
ture, in behalf of his senatorial aspira.
tons. or whether they will contribute to
Uncle Lewis cause by their patronage Of
paper, for which there has been no de.
mand, and as to the establishment Of
which they have not been consulted.
With the assistance of Aberdeen ad.
vertisers the new sheet will be cheaper
to our uncle; without it, it will die the
death suggested in the following:
A Dirse for Papers Dead.
And ever the papers come,
And ever the papers go,
The little papers born to die,
When we have loved them 60!
Some are the highest art,
Some are the broadcast fun,
But each comes to FILL long felt want"
Each and every one.
Some are brutally frank,
1ibelous, personal, smart.
Some with pictures and prose and verse
Are-well, we will call it Start"
Some of them eight for the right"
Say they will never yield,
Some follow fad, good one or bad,
But each has "a particular field"
Some have an CANCEL" behind them,
Some one with "money to burn"
But most are born with nothing but nerve
And the hopes of what they will earn.
Some are quite unpretentious,
And begin in the most modest way;
Some clang their cymbals and beat their
And shout "We have come to stay!"
Some, in their second issue,
Boast of the power they WELD,
But, cheap ones or dear, there's not one
will appear
But has its "particular field"
Poor little things, their requiem sings
In the words, "Our particular field"
And ever the papers come,
And ever the papers 60,
Those little papers born to die
When we have loved them so.
Always the unsold copies
Fall in the fakir's hands,
Down to Park Row at last they go
10 be sold on barrOws and stands.
BOmbast, Abuse and Praise,
Poetry, Prose and Art,
Here they are for penny apiece
For sale on hucKster's cart!
"Here for penny apiece ="
Say it under your breath.
They're all on common level now
AS mortals after death.
Those that had "come to stay"
Those with "power to wield,"
The stupid, the smart, tire vapid, the tart,
In Park Rows Potter's Field
The solemn, the staid, the gay,
The aggressive that never would yield,
You're all of you dead, and it's true, as
you said,
You "fill your particular field"
Roy l.. McCardell, in Criterion.