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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 1953 • 1959
NEWSPAPERS (Cont'd)
1953 • L Jan. 28:2/1 - The Columbus papers have almost ceased to furnish
readers with reports of legislat ive proceedings. They want the legislature
to pay them for good reports and furnish reporters besides. "If
the legislature held its sessions in either Cincinnati or Cleveland,
the papers would furnish full reports and ask no legislative appropriation.
" (2)
1954 - L Jan. 31; ed: 2/1 - The HERALD thinks the ruffian, Rust, was in
the right in striking Mr. Greeley. "We knew, very well, on whose sides
the sympathies of the HERALD were, but we were not prepared to see so
open an avowal." (2)
1955 - L Feb. 1: 3/2 - Every day complaints are received that subscribers
are missing their morning papers.
Cut out the end of an old oyster can and nail it to the fence as a
receptacle for the paper. It keeps out the rain and prevents the wind
from blowing the paper away.
"We believe no one who has adopted this plan, has yet missed his
paper, and we would recommend it to everybody." (2)
1956 - L Feb. 2; ed: 2/1 - The HERALD tries in vain to avoid saying yes
or no in regard to the assault on Mr. Greeley.
Greeley told the truth for which a ruffian knocked him down. The
HERALD says he should expect to be knocked down.
If an editor is knod:ed down by any ruffian who takes offence at
what he writes, where is the freedom of the press? "Are we this time
right in our interpretation?" (2)
1957 - L Feb. 4; ed:2/l - "The HERALD has 'taken back' what it said In
regard to Mr. Greeley. It confesses that Rust was a coward, and that
Greeley was not. The people of the Western Reserve care very little
for either the good or bad opinion of men who are always ready, on any
pretext whatever, to tread on those who are foremost in the anti-slavery
ranks; still, it is a good indication to see the Cleveland HERALD
driven to the necessity of doing justice to the character of Horace
Greeley. We hail it as one of the hopeful signs of the times." (2)
1958 - L Feb. 7; ed:2/1 - No steps have been taken to arrest Mr. Rust
of Arkansas for the cowardly assault upon Horace Greeley.
"This bare-faced attempt to control the press, for the sake of the
District of Columbia, we yet hope to see sharply rebuked." (2)
1959 - L Feb. 20; ed: 2/1 - "One would naturally suppose that printers
and newspaper editors were all thoroughly acquainted with the early
traditions of their profession; but the truth is, few of them know anything
about the condition of the business before their connection with
it ....