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332 in the Willamette valley, employed to rustle for the Daily Campaign. Give him your hand, your items, and your subscription. The Campaign is not started in opposition to any other paper, especially the Reporter, from whose hands we have received many kind favors. This county needs the Reporter, and we want it to thrive. In the meantime we shall scamper through this campaign, ask for a little business, boom our county, elect the entire Republican ticket, and quit."

And the Campaign did just about that. The paper was good-humored throughout. Incidentally, this live-and-let-live spirit was usually evident in Yamhill county journalism, one exception being a certain bitterness, such as usually accompanies such things, between Lafayette and McMinnville during the county seat fight about this time. And even that was not long-lived.

So the Campaign ran just 57 issues, carrying two or three columns of short local matter every day in addition to the advertising and the political editorial. So on June 11, with election successfully over, Mr. Cooper (with Mr. Snyder) patted the Campaign on the back for the "most complete Republican victory in the county in 16 years," lamented the election of Sylvester Pennoyer, Democrat, as governor, and smilingly gave up the ghost.

Commenting on its short but successful career, the Salem Statesman said:

"The Daily Campaign laughed itself to death over the result of the election, and a semi-weekly paper (101) has risen up out of its ruins."

Now we can pick up the Telephone.

The departure of the little Daily Campaign seemed to leave a hole in Yamhill journalism almost instantly filled by the Twice-a-Week West Side Telephone of McMinnville, which made its appearance Tuesday, June 15, 1886.

The publishers were Talmadge & Turner, who asked $2 a year for the 104 issues of a four-page six-column paper. Of this paper, only the two outside pages were printed in McMinnville, the rest coming from Palmer & Rey's ready-print shop at Portland, with the inside open for McMinnville news, editorials, and miscellany.

The salutatory was unusually modest. Under the heading "Our Howdy," the publishers said, in part:

"To our mind the average newspaper salutatory is a platitude most unbearable, composed of glowing promises. . . . Yamhill county has two excellent newspapers. (102). That much is cheerfully conceded, to the credit of all concerned. And our observation leads us to believe that there is room for another journal as nearly as good as the present ones as it is possible to make it."