Arizona republican., 1920-12-28
MANY HARD HILLS ID
 CLIMB IN EARLY DAYS
 0F THE REPUBLICAN

The Republicans experience in the firut two years of its existence was somewhat like that of the squab. It was bigger when it was matched than it was a little later. In a frontier town of between 5000 and 4.000 1t was al- most of metropolitan proportions. It had a managing editor, an assistant, a news or city editor and a corps of re- porters and a business manager. It also had a sovcalled full A. P. report, consisting of 5000 words. That ran into money fast for telegraph tolls over the Western Union were high and they were approximately higher on Masten's line between Phoenix and Maricopa- This report made an ex- elusive telegraph editor necessary.
 Within less than two years the paper had considerably dwindled. The news editor, the telegraph editor and the whole repertorial force might have been found under the hat of single person. He was also the proofreader and copyholder--of ad copy as well as reading matter. It made little differ snce what errors crept into the adver- tisements. The advertisers never read them and probably they presumed that nobody else did They paid for them, not because they supposed that they were of any value to them. They were merely donating to an institution. That attitude of the merchant toward the newspaper obtained until the advent of c. c. Randolph, who instituted a campaign of education that put the newspaper in its proper place. But there will be moro of that later.
 The advertising rates were ridicu- ieusly low considering the papers need of sustenance, but 1t must be ad- mitted that they were ridiculously high considering the essential basis of cir culation.
 In the latter part of 1893 and through the following year money was scarce in Phoenix as it was everywhere else It appeared to the members of The Republican force to. have been with drawn from circulation entirely. Sal aries were paid by orders on adver- tisers. It was in that era that the mea ticket became legal tender in Phoenix The restaurant keepers had very lit tie money, so that they issued mea tickets to the butcher, the grocer anC other purveyors. They paid their ad vertising bills with meal tickets. Tn butcher paid his in that way and s did the grocer. The salaries of tn members of tho force were so paid and thus these evidences of indebted ness found their way back to the res taurants, completing what has sine come to be known as a vicious circle AuynOWb IneIe was HO IStI OL SlctA V eg tion. And as for drinks, it is we known that though one could get noth ing else, there was always a Goo Samaritan who would stand betwee the impoverished one and the barten der. During this trying period it ma be said to the credit of the hospitalit of Phoenix that no printer or reporte perished of thirst.
 The first year or part of the fir;
 h say.Fer ffV1r there was a plethora of money. Goo salaries were paid and they were reall paid in cash, for there was a fund ( about 35,000 to draw upon. Th paper may be said to have been inst gated by Governor Lewis Wolfley brief occupancy of the office. Terr torial appointees became more or le: reluctant contributors to the fund, ar several of the federal appointees be Y came stockholders in the enterprise.
 On the retirement of Govern' wolfley from office at the suggestiC of his friend and former comrade
 arms, Secretary of the Interior Mile because the latter thought that u governor was trying to control u general policy of his department, mo of the territorial appointees withdre their support. A few hung on in t vafn hope that the money they hi already invested would be repaid by
 ~oing concern. But the paper nev became a going concern under t
 Wolfley management