Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1878 — A Proposition to the Democratic Sentinel. [ARTICLE]

A Proposition to the Democratic Sentinel.

For pome time past the .publisher of rtfl Democratic Sentinel has shown an ovfl neighborly interest in the purely prlrafl buainoss affairs of Tnr. Union. ll* haa bet® exceedingly solicitous to learn the numbJ of copies tioil. wero t«»ned, whether anil wore circulated gratuitously, und other kM dred fuels, which ere usually consider*® office secrets. Verity to stimulate the g*H tiemnii to more vigorous efforts in j<niriiulism by revealing to him the health® condition of a paper that stands entire!] upon its own merits, partly to gratify hfl diarmlos* though impertinent curiosity atna enjoy Tils astonishment, and partly for tb] snko of sweet charily, the following propoil sitions are made, to-wit: I The proprietor of Thk. Unw will deposii with A. McCoy & Thompson, hankers, any! sum of money, not to exceed SIOO, equal Ul any like deposit to be made hy the proprM ctor of the Democratic Sentinel, subject tyij the order of the prpsi.fcnl of any benevolent] society at the South that Mr. McEwen maw name, for the relief of people suffering froiitj yejlow fever, upon and subject to tiieae] conditions: lfihe editions of Thk Union each Week since and including tho dale of July 2-nh, 1878, havj been double the »ixe| of the editions of the said Democratic Seti-l tincl foi ouch week during that time then] the sum of money deposited by Mr. McEwcr to be forfeit to the purpose set forth above ; but if the number of copies of Tub Union for each week, of that time shall not have been double the number of copies of the Democratic Sentinel, then the sum deposited by the proprietor of Tun Union to be .forfeited for that purpose. This to he determined by u comparison of the- paper hills of the two e*tahli*|uvenlß for the time named, by a court of ihrco, one to be named by each of the two proprietors and lb- se to namo the third. '7

A like sum to bo deposited by the same persons, for a like purpose, subject to forfeiture cn these conditions : If Tub Union has more lhan twice the circulation of the Democratic Sentinel within Jasper county nnd state i f Indiana, the snm deposited by Mr. McEwen to bo forfeit f otherwise the" sum deposited by this office shull be forfeit.. This to be determined by comparison of,' 3 pertinent affidavits filed with iho auditor of Jasper county aforesaid, September f), 1878. The truth is that at ho time has the Democratic Sejitinei ever had the circulation, either home or abroad, tlint.Tnr Union has enjoyed. Not a single publication tholwis ever made in that paper by the an litor or any otber poison of a notice wlii-dr the law makes provision shall be published in the newspaper of largest circulation in Thw county, was a legal notice. Unadulterated cheek, false pretentions, dirty scorriHity, base insinuation.'', tow personal villification, fonl slander of the dead, and downr'ght maliciousajid indiscriminate lying, together with blasphemy and obscenity, one or several, have been prominent characteristics of that paper from almost the first number.