OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAISLD.
 

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CHAPTER XXX
 

^ N 1873 was begun the publication of the first
^1 daily newspaper in Washington County. Its
^ publisher was AI. Emmert Fechtig who is¬
sued on the 1st of February, the first copy
of the Hagerstown Daily News from the office of
the Free Press, published by A. G. Boyd. It was
a feeble beginning, but it has lasted, with a
change of name, down to the piresent time. Short¬
ly after the first issue, the paper was removed
from the Free Press office to an office on the Pub¬
lic Square and George H. Nock became a partner
with Fechtig. In the meantime Boyd started
an opposition called the Hagerstov\n Daily, which
however, did not last more than a few weeks. In
June, 1873, Fechtig retired from the News, and
the publication w-as continued by Nock and John
U. Adams. In July 1875 Nock sold out to \A'ni.
S. Plerbert, a descendant of the publisher of the
AVashington Spy, the first newspaper west of the
Blue Ridge in this State, d'he firm of Adams and
Herbert, continued to publish the News until
1881 when Plerbert sold his interest to Peter A.
Witmer. The news was then made a Democratic
paper and its publication by Adams & Witmer
was continued for many years. Later after brief
ownership by others it was purchased, after Air.
AAdtmer's death, by the Hagerstown Herald, and
since that time has been a Republican paper
known as the Alorning Herald, published by a
corporation. It is now the Republican organ of
Washington County. The editor is Air. A^ernon
N. Simmons, and the paper is bright, able and
newsy.

d'he  Hagerstown Evening  Globe was estab¬
lished in 1879 by the present proprietor, Mr. Ira
 

AV. Hays. From the first it was a business suc¬
cess and distinctly a newspaper, strictly non-par¬
tisan. It has gradually expanded in its circula¬
tion, its facilities have increased, and it has not
only been a profitable business venture, but has
gained for itself a high reputation for honesty
and accuracy of statement. The Globe is a strik¬
ing object lesson in the publication of County pa¬
pers. Its success shows that politics is not an es¬
sential to a newspaper and that it can succeed
without political patronage. . The Globe has been
content to give the political news along with other
news fairly and dispassionately without the expres¬
sion of opinions. It began in a small way and
increased its size and facilities along with the de¬
mands of business. It is now one of the best equip¬
ped and most successful • papers in AIar3dand.
Its success is not due alone to the sagacity of Mr.
Hays, the proprietor, but a share is due to the ex¬
cellent work of Afr. Leslie C. Beard, associate ed¬
itor.

In 1890 the third one of the daily papers of
Hagerstown, namely the Daily Alail, was estab¬
hshed liy Edwin Bell and T. J. C. Williams.
The Daily Alail was established as the afternoon
edition of the Plagerstown Alail, one of the oldest
papers published continuously under one name,
in the State. In 1828 a .majority of the people
of AVashington County were in favor of Andrew-
Jackson for President and there was no newspa¬
per in the County to advocate his cause, d'here-
ujion a number of leading Democrats got together
and raised money to publish The Alail. James
Alaxwell of Alartinsburg", Va., was appointed edi¬
tor and the first issue was sent out on the fourth