The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-24
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The News Leader Withdraws.%
N III q ews lender has withdrawn from rom
VI It's controversy with this paper In rega lu
II rs the comparative figures OF Its own WI
daily circulation with that Of the Sunday sunday
Times d ispat ch. III It advances as It's req e.
son for this withdra wal the assertion y
II that ~ thought that the Times -spattc a
& statements meant something or other
"a N 1olly different from what they fatty,
explicitly ana nnmstnkabl yGasserted. j
HI SIt was the News Lender that began TINS
optrovcrsy. With a confidence and a as
sSisnrance Il trlfe amusing IN tho II lght
81 ofSlater developments, It started IN u TO
s y drnoljsl The Times Dispatches statement
sftfat It's Sunday circulation IS grenter tha IN
II any other newspape circulation IN Inc
KS 81 y ia nf Virginia. III It's somewhat head
lo,l 4 challenge to this paper was taken en-"
3 /, h an alacrlty4 that our neigh g p
sSSSS parently found most disconcertlng.
Expressing full approval. 3 however, OF q;
L our suggestion for an Impartial com mis- m
N sicn&t to 60 right to the bottom #of this his
IN matter and get at tho facts, Whc : y =
s sg characterized MS entirely satisfactory,
S$tilo News Leader stipulated th l5< It's Is
"only.' requirement was that both news
8 pers shall print5the results conspcuto US
&BsSS II. That was its own sole condit ion.i
Sg We we're treated to no bubble and halr-7
IL spllttings just then. But yesterday when en-
matters had progressed III to the q mere l1e.s
naming Of investigators, our neighbor
; became iarassed with sudden doubts,
unexpressed, and declined 1 To-
81 continue negotiations, except on condi-
ss4 lions altogether different from those those
& witch it had already, ut least Implicitly
H 4 accepted s $g FIX b II
Hi IN the unlucky article, with Which St tn,
ews Leader opened this discusssion.8liitt
&$f3 asked: y IS sSss 5s53 ,is.
Does Tho Times Dispatch mean 70 as q
54 sert that 1t sells more of Its own ISSUE
5on Sunday than Il he NC VS. Leader, sells el
81 Of its own issue on any week day or the
4. e average week day? This Is all there was
Ito tile News Leaders, 'cha ll lt 's5slt
is noteworthy that our neiglibor inquiries Ire
Il whether Tho Times -Dispntch { sells SO
y many papers, not whether 1t has solu
v that number for II year, or for some other
arbitrarily fixed period in the past. The.
reader finds no demand for years cir
EQUATION figures here. Tho question en-
\ bodied ali that the News Leader 4 wanted
to know at that time. Yet, obviously,
this was the moment forSthe definition of.
terms and Tic xplanation Of any special 'f'ltl
Views regard6s item. The News Leader Lead 's
unfortunately neglected athe opportunity.
Presumably 1t did not'just then feel the
need of explanations. 1t asked plain
5ques ton, 1t said, and believed that It.
was entitled to a plain answer II got
ss one. Everything progressed thereafter.
: TO its express satisfaction. Yesterday,
quite Unexpectedly, 1t threw up the
sponge and retired behind the assertion
4 that the whole business had been q mis-
understanding.
The condition Of The Times Dispatch Is
not. as The News Leader seems until
81 very recently to have complacenty as
33s sumed. either; stagnant or moribund. The
circulation Of Its Sunday Issue has been
growing by Ioaps and bounds, 1t has
jumped up n considerable number Of
thousands In the course OF single twelve
month. we have been gratihed by this
growth, and arc proud OF 1t. but have
not accompanied 1t by any loud blowlngs
u OF horns The News Leader, for example.
knew nothing about It II II had. we FEST
\ reasonably safe in stating tint2it would
never have involved itself In the present
controversy. 1t was not until that con-
itroyersy WAS far under way that the truth
sSi suddenly brooks upon our startled con-
q Temporary that, In a straightforward
s showdown on the sole. explicit and per-
III fectly ineligible proposition at issue. It
must find Itself inevitably worstcd.
il The News Leader is now thoroughly
4S satisfied. We infer OF the entire accuracy
Of The Times Dispatches statement that
ts31is its sunday circulation is greater than the
Il News Leaders, daily circulation. TiAs
II was the statement, It's readers VIII re-
cali which our nelghbor SO precipitately
.'challengedn only few days ago. II
has been an easy and bloodless victory.
We are unwilling, however, TO let tbs
matter rest here On Monday Of this
s week the News Leader said OF The
Times Dispatch:
HIf II means that--(i e.. that Ths
M Times Dispatch sells more OF It's owl
Sunday ISSUE than the News Leader doe.
+. Y Of lis daily iihsue)--we cnallehse ana aen!
the truth Of the assertion. and demand
and OFFER evidence to prove pr dsrrove,'
The Times pispalch now calls upol
tho News leader to produce it'' 'esi
4 aence. L " s
Oar nslghbor has raised question a.
10 the meaning OF tho word circulation
4 81 ia II grave question, aud one that VII
s a not down. IT would be interesting an'
= Instructive tp hear In the News Leaders