Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1916-01-21
MUCH TOO ONES|DED
National And State Committees
Disregard Country Papers.
We Kick High.

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practice of the National Com
mittees of all parties to give
publicity to their party plans and
specifications thru patent inside
and boiler plate" for which they
pay enormous sums and which
they get to the people thru the
medium of the country weekly.
The editors of country papers
use the dope sent out by the
printing establishments getting
the cash, either as filters or as
an assumed duty, and the party
adherents of whichever party it
is doing the publicity act get
what some highly paid writer
chooses to say on political ques-
tions and situations. The country
editor gets not so much as glory
for his liberality, unless the ex-
ception now and then of a post
mastership to sustain him in the
publication of a paper which has
been barely earning its way and
a poor living for its editor.
This thing is all wrong. Not
right in the first place because
it is a rotten imposition and the
worst sort of mismanagement of
party affairs, in that the patent
and plate stuff is read by not
one out of a thousand copies
printed and sent to subscribers,
and in the second place, worse
than wrong, because it hands
over to certain printers who care
not a ding whether this, that or
the other party wins out so long
as they get the business and
the cash.
The country editor must keep
up the running after the fellows
with the money for campaign ad-
vertising and literature have
gone on a junket, practically at
their expense.
Why country editors have
been willing to stand for this
state of things for so long is be-
yond us. We have never yet,
nor will we ever, run in this
sheet, a line, much less a dozen
columns, of such stuff sent out
by the national or state bodies
in charge of party politics
nor will we print a word of the
by-product in the form of letters,
pamphlets or any other graft on
country papers, coming from
such sources. They get the West
ern Newspaper Union to print
what there is pay in. Let them
also try the complimentary"
stuff on them, and depend on
that concern to boost parties as
the country editor is asked, at
his own expense, to do.
Party allegiance does not mean
that the country editor should
pay the expense of local propaga-
ton of party principles pertain
ing to the prospects of any candi-
date for Office, nor carrying the
bag for contributions to the W.
N. U. Co. In proportion to the
use of the stuff sent out by that
gigantic concern, is the certainty
of its being considered the only
medium for political purposes.
The country paper has given it
the reputation it has and is boil
stering up the idea obtaining
among political committees that
thru that medium alone can the
great majority of the American
people be reached. Why not stop
it? Support the party your own
way, in your own language and
refuse to use an inch of the
plate paid for by your own
party committee. which is no
good if you do not print it, and
will be so regarded in short time.
It is the only way country news
papers will ever come into their
own.
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