The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-18
A ONE DAY STAND
DAILY NEWSPAPER

"DAILY" NEWSPAPER
Thearhost audaclous newspaper or nod
crn days is ole thu. 1nn,lc Its appearance
in Greensboro n. c., yesterday morning
under the EDITORIAL management or that
wonderful Scri,ts.t.tl. Fairbr6thcr Mr.
Tnfrbrother lis already the ownetnnd
sole editor Of q unl1ue scinl.inonthly pui-
lcntion. which goes by the appropriate
nnfpe Of "Eyerything.. But running
monthly, atlongf, 1t Is everything,
/ does not keep Mr.. r irhrother& busy. And
so he has gotten out u daily with d dou- /
-barrecd name and 81 purpose, which I
purpose being accomplished GSin a day.
and tho wonderful paper having no other !
purpose in view died Of It's own accord
on the day of its birth 1t was born for /
that end. All this needs explanation. and \
ms tho DAILY Tar Heel and Industrial
News" born yesterday and dcnd today.
! is not here to furnish the same. It may
be appreciated by the friends OF the de-
ceased II The TImcs-Dispatch would do
so.
The Republican party In North Carolina
small In membership though 1t he, 10
divided into two warning factions. Each
faction has been telling the people OF the
State for many weeks past that 1t ia
very soon to have a first-class daily paper
at Greensboro, TO be strictly Republican
Inv politics. The factions have gone 70
far as to nanlc their papers. aud each
claims to have agents In New York buy
ing first-class plants and arranging for
up-to-date Geographic news service. The
name OF one or the promised f1rst-clnss
dailics Is announced to be the Daily
Tar Heel" by Congressman Blackburn,
and the other is to be the Industrial
News. by ex-senator Marion Butler
The alleged owners and the friends OF
the two promised papers have been
threatening for so long to bring the sheets
/ out and have SO long failed to keep
their promises, the people Of Greensboro
and all that part of North Carolina, who
have been anxious to see the fight be-
tween the two factions get into their re-
spective papers. had lost their patience
md were growing nightly. lairbrother
came taSthe rescue and undertook to re-
lieve tho wrought up feelings OF the
populace for ono day by producing the
promised papers rs siamese twins, and 4
tho one and only Issue OF the Daily S
Tar Heel" and Industrial News" canle
out even before promise yesterday morn
Ing. g as
With this explanation. the readers at
tentIon Is asked to n few extracts from
this one-day stand attraction. In his
salutatory. after explaining as best he
could why he was there. Editor Fair
brother says:
..As to our mission: We come in re-
sponse to ten thousand Invitations. Our
policy will be all things all men,
always with n weather eye as to where
the chips fall. We have ample capital
to prod uce the paper--in fact, have paid "
for It's production-and as II is a child "
OF the night ike Jonah's gourd. after
to-day It will be no more.
To the citizens OF Greensboro, who
have subscribed for the single edition, and
to the business men who bought all the
space we asked them to buy, we return
thanks. and make this bow, which Is s
double header answering for our cn- q
trance and exit"
In another part Of the tatory the 4
editor says:
FL While we did not so to New York to
sec II there were any type on the mar ss
ket: while we did not journey to Wash
ington and other places to secure a
stelegraphic report. 1t will be seen that
we this morning hand you d paper as
neat geographically as newspapers can "A
be constructed. and as to tcegraphic
Information our front page is pano-#5
rama OF the entire world. We do not
want to boast. but we will suggest that
we are willing that our telegraphic re-g
port. for fullncss, for completeness and
general interest, compares with any Re-
port OF any newsga tlering agency in $s
the world. and We assure our readers
that It didn't take a franchise to secure
It," n
The salutatory writer might have added
that his telegraph reports did not TO
quire wire either. YEA ,5a5
I In another part Of the short-lived 10 ur-
nal is to be found this statement:
..As announced on the editorial pa ges
OF this paper. we have not come TO
stay. we Just play a one-day stand as
tho show people put it-but be It known s.
II necessary we can print some more.
All we are doing is relieving the great Z.
pre- ssure which was on in our midst
"If any one tries to start a paper and
fails, we may again come to the rescue.
All we have done in this case has been
purely labor of loye-thc advertisers
nobly contributing the net cost OF pro.
ductlon.''
The one-day paper was spicy from bot.
tom to top, and five thousand copies
sold like hot cakes. The ten columns
Of live advertisements were paid for at
high rates, and that was the only TEA
Sture about the enterprise that was not
a joke. The people enjoyed the Joke and &
H9airbrothcr made good thing out OF IL
for one day,
The Cotton Outlook.