The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-11
FORMER GARRIRS
And OLD Time Subscribers Have
Few Words.

nnents about the edition for sunday.
IN fact. no one but a few of the car
riers and several of the ministers seem
to want the Sunday edition discon-
tinued.
A few of the large number of min
listers in the city have expressed
themselves as opposed to the sunday
paper, generally. but the state Jour
nal has yet to learn of any of them
objecting to the Monday morning
paper OF the twenty pages in last
Sundays State Journal seventeen of
them were fully prepared and ready
for the press before midnight satur-
day night.
The work on any Monday morning
paper is practically all done on sun
day. Some of the ministers would
probably like a morning paper pub
Iished only i've mornings in the week.
SO far as we are concerned we think
one morning week is sufficient
Sunday morning.
we presume our readers are some
what tired Of this carrier question.
We can give them a page of inter-
views If they care to read them.
That petition which the carriers say
I they circulated has not yet reached
our eyes. We have received many
! requests to take off names, but how
can We take them off when we have
not the petition?
/ The subscribers apparently thought
they were sending Is 3pet1ton to us.
That seems to have been mistake
They were sending the petition to
Rossington & Smith and Troutman
& Stone, the attorneys for the car
! riers and the attorneys against us in
! most Of our libel suits.
Some of the incest letters and ex-
pressions we are receiving in connec-
ton with this carrier business are
from former state Journal carriers.
and we viii say that as a rule, the
carriers of the State Journal form
about the finest lot of young men that
I can be gathered together. They are
/ n1isled sometimes by MISGUIDED
f friends.
It has been twenty. years. under the
I present management, since carriers
were first dealt with in this town. The
state Journal carriers are now films
some of the highest positions in the
United States.
They are scattered over the entire
country The writer meets them in
Boston or st. Louis or wherever he
may be. Many of them are honorable
and prosperous men here in Topeka
There is a long list of them.sl One OF
the old carriers is John W. Newell
formerly with Rossing & Smith, when
that concern condt1ctes the Infamous
fannie Oakley case against tlaiss paper
but Mr.. Newell is no longer with that
firm He is now in business for him
self and has an Office at No. So Colum~
bian building. Fourteen years ago he
was one of our most valued carriers.
He was a carrier on the paper when
the price was reduced from fifteen
cents to the subscriber to ten cents
and the price for selling the paper to
the carriers was changed from one
and two-thirds cents to one cent. This
was in 1891. Mr.. Newell said yes
terday:
THE present carriers do not seem to
know when they areawelIb off. They
i have no case. Fourteen years ago wllen
I carried state Journals the price We s
/ reduced from fifteen cents. to ten cents
per week, and where we Formerly made
I'VE cents on a subscriber We were given
the paper at such a prize, under the
new rate, that we made only four cents
I was carrying eighty papers at the
time in my route and had been making
five cents per subscriber. which melted
me 81 per week. AS soon as the new
rate went into effect, I got out al d
hustled two days and got thirty-flve new
subscribers. So at the end Of the first
/ week instead of carrying eighty papers
I was carrying rs. and while was only
making sour cents on each subscriber
I was making sixty cents more per week
than was before, and it took me prac7
tically no longer to deliver my route
than it did when I had eighty.
J. S. West, who was partner in
the firm of Rossington, Smith & West,
at the time that firm conducted a most
unjust case against this paper (Annie
oakley, who, with the lawyers got a
thousand dollars of the State Journals
hard-earned money!, has withdrawn
from the firm, several weeks ago, be-
fore this latest attack on the state
Journal has been made by Rossington
& Smith. A statement in this paper
mixing up Judge West with the case
was a mistake. We are glad so good a
man and lawyer as West is not now
engaged in trying to kill of the Sunday
State Journal
Some of these letters from old car
riers and present successful business
men are too good to print. We will
give you tonight only a half dozen of
the scores of expressions that have
come to the paper on this question.
Here are the few out Of the many:
BY Long Odds.
DR.. w. H Righten: II consider
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