Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-07-20
Filling the Bill.

The editor of the Gazette has returned to his post, with renovated health and his usual aimiability of disposition. In the last num- Der of his paper he favors the public with some remarkable articles, two of which, occupying parrellel columns, if taken in connection, contain very good suggeHtion- Under the title of "Our Name' the editor goes on to show that he was once demo- crat, a Jackson dcmocrat-opposed to a national bank, internal Improvements by the general government, tariffs, and all that sort of thing He asserts that he holds to his first political principles; that the party abandoned him and not he the party; that the earth has stood still while the sun re- volved around it. Though he repudates the name he does it because, he says, others have misappropriated it. He stands man fully by the old lines and having never changed, of course is Simon Pure old liner. Having established this point to his intense satisfaction and made it clear to the dullest comprehension he next proceeds to discourse concerning the new paper to be started here. After denying that the Ga zette is in anyway connected with the es- tablishment of the new paper, which deni- al was unnecessary as it is well known they will be rivals, he predicts that 1t will be a failure unless its founders have cash cap tal of S10,00O and will place it under good editorial and financial management. Of the editorship of the new paper he thus sug- gests:
 "As to who will edit the new 'Old Line Demo crat' we entirely without information-not having an intmation from any quarter. The edi- tor, to succeed, must combine three qualifications: First-he must be able to outwrite the True Demo crat that will not be hard to do. SecOad-he must be a man that the conductors and strikers of that paper can not frighten from the course he has marked out: this will also be an easy job-a stltf upper lip being the only weapon necessary. Third he must be man that they can not buy or swerve from his course by nsiduous promises-and such man may be hard to find, and harder to procure, after he is found.'
 "The premises being seen and fully un- derstood," 1t is as clear as the full moon that the very man to edit the new paper is "the gallant Captain" See how admira- bly, he fills the bill First, he demonstrates that he is an old liner. That fills one re- quisite The next qualification is to be able to out write the True Democrat, which he tells us is not hard to do In fact just as easy as falling off log-as lying, or talk ing drink of-iced water. The next thing to be required of the new editor is also very easy; simply to have a stiff upper lip Perhaps, mustache would answer. In default of the hirsute appendage the lip must be stiff. Finally he must be a man who cannot be bought or swerved, and such he tells them may be hard to find and harder to procure when found. Let the owner of the new concern ponder this. A lady be- ing asked why so many belles put up at last with indifferent husbands, illustratedit 1t by citing the case of man who went in the cane-brake to cut a perfectly straight and smooth cane. Upon fist entering the brake he found many nearly straight and smooth, but went on in the hope of finding others more perfect, until, having rejected many, before coming out, he was forced to take one that was crooked and rough, or no cane at all Let the old liners look to 1t that