Show Publishers Announcement 1 The plans prepared by the owners of i the DEMOCRAT contemplated making it in every sense a newspaper full of local and general intelligence and discussing deliberately de-liberately the great issues of the day It takes not only newspaper writers and telegraphic dispatches to do this but a welltrained corps of printers pressmen messenger mailing clerks etc besides n vast amount of printing material a rapid press and a reliable engine As to the human forces employed our entire corps of employees have worked heartily to advance the interests and nothing is lacking but experience which another week of active work will furnish As to the material forces at our command com-mand we have not been so fortunate The Potter power press sent us by Palmer Key of San Francisco is a dead failure Ever since its arrival the best workmen in the city have endeavored to reconcile its irreconcilable parts but it was never properly in shape to leave Palmer Reys shops and our directors last night resolved to refuse to accept it and notify the owners of the fact This compels us to accept the exceedingly exceed-ingly courteous offers of our cotempora rics to help us out temporarily in the matter of presswork and our daily will continue to appear regularly but the time lost in moving type pages from our I office to another will admit of but one evening edition and that too late for evening trains We trust this disability will not continue over two weeks Our order for type was also filled so badly that from this source also we have been subjected to the greatest annoyance annoy-ance This will be remedied within five days we trust Our Westinghouse engine furnished by Park Lacy Co of this city is a splendid piece of mechanism and is doing I do-ing well The officers of the Eagle foun dary have worked night and day amidst our difficulties to help us out Our co temporaries of the daily press have been exceedingly generous and have done all that kindness could suggest Time and patience will soon bring all the rem dies and the DEMOCRAT will get to all we have promised The circulation and advertising patronage patron-age is more than our most sanguine anticipation an-ticipation We expected to run at a loss for six or ten monthsthe possibility now is that the paper will pay its own way in ninety days In time we hope to be able to say that we have the largest evening 1 paper between San Francisco and the Mississippi river with the largest circu lation enjoyed by any evening paper within the same district I |