Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1899 — An Independent Editor. [ARTICLE]

An Independent Editor.

Rochester Republican. No sir. The proprietors of the Repuhlicon do not go about among the stores begging for advertizing patronage, and will not du it uutil it will be considered right and proper for the merchant to come to this office begging for our patronage at his store. If a newspaper cannot live on the patronage that comes to it naturally it ought to die and stay dead.