The Book of Perry County, Page 4

Mr. Chas. D. Elder resurrected the Union and soon afterwards removed it to new Lexington. In the mean- time, and before, for more than a quarter of a century, the county seat question was paramount and persistent, dominating all parties and political factions. Mr. Elder was a Somerset man. His removal to New Lexington was regarded as a betrayal of the North. The South did not accept him cordially as one of their own, and, realizing this condition which con- fronted him, he cheerfully disposed of the plant when the gentlemen we have named offered to purchase. And thus over much of rugged ground, in trial and travail of journalistic maternity, the Herald was born and the party was glad. Mr. Green was a Somerset man, Mr. Duffy a Southern man, and Mr. Meloy had been a citizen of both New Lexington and Somerset, and was cos- mopolitan, as all good printers are, and so the Herald, with this com- bination of publishers, became for the first time in the history of the county a county Democratic organ. This prestige was strengthened the next year, in 1869, when Mr. Green, of Somerset, was nominated and elected Representative, and Mr. Duffy, of Chapel Hill, nominated and elected County Clerk, thus identifying the pa- per and the ticket and establishing that happy condition, which has ever since existed, of a truly Democratic organ of a united Democratic party. The paper continued under this man- agement until May 27, 1870, when Mr. George Hendricks became proprietor, continuing until November 18, 1870, when the old firm resumed the publi- cation. This continued until Mr. Green bought Mr. Duffy's interest, and the publication, under the name of Green and Meloy, continued until No- vember 1, 1881, when Mr. Green sold

to a foremost rank among the county papers of the State, and has a home patronage and a popular support which few newspapers outside of the largest cities can boast . The office equipment now embraces the latest improved presses and machinery, and does every kind of commercial job work from a gutter snipe to a certificate of oil stock. Mr. Cullinan, when a boy, was a pu- pil in Mr. Green's school in Zanesville. When yet quite young he engaged as "devil" in the office of the Zanesville Signal. Here, under the advice and direction of that unrivaled editor and most successful business manager, James T. Irvine, the "devil" advanced to foreman, local editor and business manager, and in each step of the as- cent maintained himself and acquired the qualities which have made him one of the most popular and most success- ful newspaper publishers of the State. He is a Democrat in politics, in all that is good, which that name implies. He is not erratic, following fads and fancies. He is not so slow as not to keep in touch with the impetuous and in line with the foremost. He is con- siderate, sensible, impartial. His pa- per, as a Democratic organ, knows no man, no faction; has no prejudice, no preference, but "hews to the line, let the chips fall where they may." The writer, who knows Mr. Cullinan, and knows him well, would only be too glad to make mention of his per- sonal merits as well as his editorial qualifications, but he knows full well that mention of these matters would be "blue-penciled" by the critical eye of the Herald, regardless of the feel- ings and wishes of the author. Let it be said---the Herald is an established fact. It is a successful business enterprise. It is a newspaper which can be read in every home. It has an identity with all the splendid development of its town and of its

On November 21, 1867, the first copy of the Weekly New Lexington Herald was published in a little dingy room in the Marsh Building, with space only for hand-press, three cases, a table and two chairs. The proud publishers of the new-born adventure on the un- certain sea of journalism were Messrs.

campaign was on, the candidates and the well-disposed contributed enough money to pay for a campaign paper, and when the election was over, the editor continued the paper only as long as the supplies of tanbark, cord- wood and flitches of bacon came to the editoral larder and wood-house.

P. M. CULLINAN, EDITOR OF HERALD

Reuben Butler, Peter Duffy and John R. Meloy. Mr. Butler was a lawyer. coming from Virginia; Mr. Duffy, a clerk recently from Chapel Hill, and Mr. Meloy, of New Lexington, a prac- tical printer who had learned the "trade" when a boy from Walter Hood, in Somerset. Mr. Butler soon tired of the task, and after eight weeks in service sold his interests to Mr. Lewis Green, a school-teacher from near Somerset; the publishing firm was then announced as Duffy, Green and Meloy: and now for the first time in the history of Perry County journalism this paper, the Democratic Herald, became the organ of the party of all of Perry County. In the early days Perry County---es- pecially that portion drawn from good old Mother Fairfield, and settled mostly by sturdy Pennsylvania Dutchmen- was Democratic, and for many years the Lancaster Eagle, published both in English and German, was the po- litical Bible of the pioneer. In time, with the increase of popula- tion, Somerset, the early accepted county seat, aspired to ownership of a newspaper. In that dim and distant day a news- paper was held much the same, we might say, in a commercial sense, with the preacher: the editor was maintained on gratuities from the po- liticians, as was the preacher from the charities of the religions. When a

in 1851, Jim Sheward started the Democratic Union. He was followed in 1854 by Martin Kagay. In the same year, Mr. F. S. Colborn, of New Lexington, a professed Democrat. began the publication in Somerset of the Perry County American, the organ of the Know-nothings, and in the floodtide which followed, the election the party was swept out of place, the paper out of existence. The next year, in l856,. Mr. George M Dittoe re- vived the old Democratic Union and continued its publication until 1863, when the soldiers mobbed and wrecked the office, and the Union, the paper, had a period of masterly inactivity. During these tumultuous times the Democratic heart was kept hopeful, and, although often without a paper, was never without light-houses dis- pensing hope and encouragement in the darkest hours. Old General Joe Bell and Scott Moore, in Thornville; Sop Lidey and old Tom Ritchey and Peter Overmyer, in Somerset; Bob Houston, Doc. Flowers, and Mike Forquer, in New Lexington; George Thompson, in Chapel Hill; Pat McCormick in Jack- son---and we could go on with a length- ened list, if space permitted, of those gallant men who, while they fought valiantly for the current local issue of the times, kept ever alive the spirit in the hope and success of Democratic principles.

RESIDENCE OF MR. CULLINAN

his half-interest to Mr. P. M. Cullinan. After the death of Mr. Meloy, Mr. Cullinan, in July, 1894, bought the Me- loy interest and has been editor and sole proprietor ever since. Under his management the Herald has attained

county. It is, as it always has been, and as it will be, as its name implies, the Herald of the true political faith, the chanticleer of the early coming of a better and a brighter morn. LEWIS GREEN.

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		Mr. Chas. D. Elder resurrected the Union and soon afterwards removed it to new Lexington. In the mean- time, and before, for more than a quarter of a century, the county seat question was paramount and persistent, dominating all parties and political factions. Mr. Elder was a Somerset man. His removal to New Lexington was regarded as a betrayal of the North. The South did not accept him cordially as one of their own, and, realizing this condition which con- fronted him, he cheerfully disposed of the plant when the gentlemen we have named offered to purchase. And thus over much of rugged ground, in trial and travail of journalistic maternity, the Herald was born and the party was glad. Mr. Green was a Somerset man, Mr. Duffy a Southern man, and Mr. Meloy had been a citizen of both New Lexington and Somerset, and was cos- mopolitan, as all good printers are, and so the Herald, with this com- bination of publishers, became for the first time in the history of the county a county Democratic organ. This prestige was strengthened the next year, in 1869, when Mr. Green, of Somerset, was nominated and elected Representative, and Mr. Duffy, of Chapel Hill, nominated and elected County Clerk, thus identifying the pa- per and the ticket and establishing that happy condition, which has ever since existed, of a truly Democratic organ of a united Democratic party. The paper continued under this man- agement until May 27, 1870, when Mr. George Hendricks became proprietor, continuing until November 18, 1870, when the old firm resumed the publi- cation. This continued until Mr. Green bought Mr. Duffy's interest, and the publication, under the name of Green and Meloy, continued until No- vember 1, 1881, when Mr. Green sold	to a foremost rank among the county papers of the State, and has a home patronage and a popular support which few newspapers outside of the largest cities can boast . The office equipment now embraces the latest improved presses and machinery, and does every kind of commercial job work from a gutter snipe to a certificate of oil stock. Mr. Cullinan, when a boy, was a pu- pil in Mr. Green's school in Zanesville. When yet quite young he engaged as "devil" in the office of the Zanesville Signal. Here, under the advice and direction of that unrivaled editor and most successful business manager, James T. Irvine, the "devil" advanced to foreman, local editor and business manager, and in each step of the as- cent maintained himself and acquired the qualities which have made him one of the most popular and most success- ful newspaper publishers of the State. He is a Democrat in politics, in all that is good, which that name implies. He is not erratic, following fads and fancies. He is not so slow as not to keep in touch with the impetuous and in line with the foremost. He is con- siderate, sensible, impartial. His pa- per, as a Democratic organ, knows no man, no faction; has no prejudice, no preference, but "hews to the line, let the chips fall where they may." The writer, who knows Mr. Cullinan, and knows him well, would only be too glad to make mention of his per- sonal merits as well as his editorial qualifications, but he knows full well that mention of these matters would be "blue-penciled" by the critical eye of the Herald, regardless of the feel- ings and wishes of the author. Let it be said---the Herald is an established fact. It is a successful business enterprise. It is a newspaper which can be read in every home. It has an identity with all the splendid development of its town and of its
On November 21, 1867, the first copy of the Weekly New Lexington Herald was published in a little dingy room in the Marsh Building, with space only for hand-press, three cases, a table and two chairs. The proud publishers of the new-born adventure on the un- certain sea of journalism were Messrs.	campaign was on, the candidates and the well-disposed contributed enough money to pay for a campaign paper, and when the election was over, the editor continued the paper only as long as the supplies of tanbark, cord- wood and flitches of bacon came to the editoral larder and wood-house.
P. M. CULLINAN, EDITOR OF HERALD
Reuben Butler, Peter Duffy and John R. Meloy. Mr. Butler was a lawyer. coming from Virginia; Mr. Duffy, a clerk recently from Chapel Hill, and Mr. Meloy, of New Lexington, a prac- tical printer who had learned the "trade" when a boy from Walter Hood, in Somerset. Mr. Butler soon tired of the task, and after eight weeks in service sold his interests to Mr. Lewis Green, a school-teacher from near Somerset; the publishing firm was then announced as Duffy, Green and Meloy: and now for the first time in the history of Perry County journalism this paper, the Democratic Herald, became the organ of the party of all of Perry County. In the early days Perry County---es- pecially that portion drawn from good old Mother Fairfield, and settled mostly by sturdy Pennsylvania Dutchmen- was Democratic, and for many years the Lancaster Eagle, published both in English and German, was the po- litical Bible of the pioneer. In time, with the increase of popula- tion, Somerset, the early accepted county seat, aspired to ownership of a newspaper. In that dim and distant day a news- paper was held much the same, we might say, in a commercial sense, with the preacher: the editor was maintained on gratuities from the po- liticians, as was the preacher from the charities of the religions. When a	in 1851, Jim Sheward started the Democratic Union. He was followed in 1854 by Martin Kagay. In the same year, Mr. F. S. Colborn, of New Lexington, a professed Democrat. began the publication in Somerset of the Perry County American, the organ of the Know-nothings, and in the floodtide which followed, the election the party was swept out of place, the paper out of existence. The next year, in l856,. Mr. George M Dittoe re- vived the old Democratic Union and continued its publication until 1863, when the soldiers mobbed and wrecked the office, and the Union, the paper, had a period of masterly inactivity. During these tumultuous times the Democratic heart was kept hopeful, and, although often without a paper, was never without light-houses dis- pensing hope and encouragement in the darkest hours. Old General Joe Bell and Scott Moore, in Thornville; Sop Lidey and old Tom Ritchey and Peter Overmyer, in Somerset; Bob Houston, Doc. Flowers, and Mike Forquer, in New Lexington; George Thompson, in Chapel Hill; Pat McCormick in Jack- son---and we could go on with a length- ened list, if space permitted, of those gallant men who, while they fought valiantly for the current local issue of the times, kept ever alive the spirit in the hope and success of Democratic principles.
		RESIDENCE OF MR. CULLINAN
		his half-interest to Mr. P. M. Cullinan. After the death of Mr. Meloy, Mr. Cullinan, in July, 1894, bought the Me- loy interest and has been editor and sole proprietor ever since. Under his management the Herald has attained	county. It is, as it always has been, and as it will be, as its name implies, the Herald of the true political faith, the chanticleer of the early coming of a better and a brighter morn. LEWIS GREEN.