Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-19
Our Clubmakers.

The club system Of The Yorkville
Enquirer has long been a subject OF
much interest, not to say wonder, to
our brother newspaper publishers
throughout the state, and not a few
Of them have made trips to Yorkville
for the especial purpose Of getting de.
tailed information as to how it works;
but so far as we know, no other news.
paper in all these years, has been able
to make a great deal Of Roadway In
building up a similar system along
the same line.
There are those who have made the
mistake of confusing The Enquirer's
system with the modern voting con-
test operated by outside profession.
ais; but there is absolutely no SINH
larity either In motive, operation OF
results. One is merely a transient
ring-'em-around and whoop-'em-up
and gather-'em-in, regardless Of who
they are, where they come from OIL
whether they can read, and the other
is a steadily developed organization
of long standing friendship, working
together to the common end of trying
to up-build a useful newspaper fol
the promotion of the public welfare
Among the clubmakers of The
Yorkville Enquirer are many children
| grandchildren and ever g~reat-grand-
children of some of those who made
the first clubs. We can take the list
Of clubmakers as published and point
out more than twenty who come in
this class. There are others who have
been making clubs from twenty tc
thirty years, and others that have
dropped in from time to time. and OF
the whole list more than ninety pei
cent are personal friends Of the pub
fishers, and we'll wishers of The En-,
quirer, who though Notwithstanding
the premiums offered, are really more
concerned about extending the circu.
lation of The Enquirer than they are
about any reward we could offer.
Those who know the publishers OF
The Enquirer best can very we'll un-
derstard that If we had looked upon
our clubmakers as merely a lot OF
hungry suckers, waiting to swallow
any bait that might be thrown out tC
them, we would never have dared tc
publish their names to the world, fol
the benefit of other people who are
always on the lookout for canvaSsers
Not nlnNh tVa know pvarv one nj
these friends personally, many OF
them intimately and we understand
their exact attitude in the matter. We
are aware that they are constantly be-
ing beseiged by others who would try
to tempt them, sometimes to foregO
The Enquirer entirely; but generally
only to undertake similar work for
other papers; but as a rule The En-
quirer has never suffered as the result
of such solicitation, for it has been
only rarely that one of our good
friends has ever been willing to take
up c~anvassing work that Is in any way
intended to embarrass The Enquirer.
AS f~earfully eXacting as is the work
of making a newspaper, that work
has its compensations, and of these
the publishers Of The Enquirer enjoy
| not a few. One Is the long and hon
| orable record Of the paper before the
responsibility of it's conduct fell upon
present shoulders. Another is the fact
that we have never consciously done
! anything to compromise or throw re-
proach on that record: another is the
confidence and esteem of our sub
scribers, and still another is the self
denying faithfulncss with which oul
splendid list Of clubmakers has Away.
backed Jul efforts.